Host Snipe-IT without installing anything
Who holds which laptop, since when, under what warranty and with which licence: the four questions a tracking spreadsheet never answers for long.
Starting at €8.99/month
Introduction
Snipe-IT installed, updated and backed up by us, on a machine in France. Hardware and licence inventory, with assignment to staff, barcodes, accounting depreciation and warranty expiry alerts. You install nothing and configure no server: the application is online a few minutes after you order, under your own name.
The plan that suits it is App Confort at €8.99/month incl. VAT — 4 GB of memory. Snipe-IT is a Laravel application on top of MySQL, frugal when you are just browsing. What needs room arrives in waves: generating label sheets, which builds a PDF with one barcode per asset; the initial import of a file with several thousand rows, parsed before being written; and sending warranty or licence expiry alerts, which walks the whole estate. The 4 GB are for those three moments.
What gets replaced here is a shared workbook, and sometimes a sticky note under a laptop. Migration goes through the importer: separate CSV files for users, models, assets, licences and accessories, with column mapping and automatic creation of missing manufacturers and categories. After that, everything entering the estate gets a printed label, barcode or QR, tying the physical object to its record. Accounts can come from the company directory, and a REST API lets another tool feed information in.
What managed hosting changes
Check-out and check-in, with a trace
An asset is assigned to a person, a location or another asset — a monitor attached to a workstation. Check-out can require an online signed acceptance, with the usage policy. Six months later you know who signed for what, which no list will tell you.
Labels and periodic audits
Snipe-IT produces label sheets with barcodes or QR codes, sized to your paper. A physical inventory then becomes a pass with a scanner: every audited asset is dated, and the list of what was not seen appears by itself.
Licences with their seats
A licence carries its seat count, its assignments and its expiry date. You see immediately whether seats are free, and the alert arrives before the deadline. Alongside, accessories, consumables and components follow their own quantity logic.
Depreciation and warranty expiry
A depreciation rule per category gives the residual value of the estate at a date, which feeds a budget discussion with actual figures. Warranty end dates trigger reminders, so repairs happen while the warranty still runs.
Why hand it over rather than install it
A school lending 400 laptops
Each machine goes out in a pupil's name, with a signed acceptance of the policy, and comes back at the end of the year. Missing units appear in a list instead of being discovered the following September.
A firm that has lost track of its licences
Twenty keys bought, fifteen used, five nowhere to be found, and a renewal coming up. Licences filed with their seats and deadlines make the audit possible, and stop you buying what you already own.
An IT department preparing a refresh
Residual value per category and the average age of the estate make a case with numbers. You replace what needs replacing, not what complains loudest.
A club lending equipment
Projector, PA system, marquee: the loan is dated, assigned, and a reminder goes out when the return is late. The treasurer also knows what the equipment is still worth if something is lost.
An annual audit done in a day
You walk the offices with a phone, scan the QR codes, and the application marks each asset as seen. At the end, the gap between records and reality is on screen rather than waiting to be reconstructed.
Hosted in France
An asset inventory says who works where, with which serial number and which hardware address. Yours stays in our own datacentre in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, which we operate ourselves.
Frequently asked questions
Through the built-in importer, in several passes and in this order: users, then hardware models, then assets, then licences and accessories. Each pass works from a CSV whose columns you map; missing manufacturers and categories are created along the way. Two tips: create your custom fields first — serial number, hardware address, asset number — so you do not have to import twice, and test on thirty rows before running the three thousand.
No, and that is the point to know before choosing. Snipe-IT is a register: it deploys no agent and scans no network. Information comes in by hand, by import, or through the REST API — that last route is what people use when they already own a discovery tool and want Snipe-IT to stay the reference for assignments. If automatic inventory is your main need, look instead at a tool with agents.
It is not a ticketing tool: a fault is reported elsewhere, even though Snipe-IT keeps the history of repairs and their cost. Nor is it commercial stock management — it counts equipment you own, not goods to sell. Depreciation helps with budgeting but does not replace fixed-asset accounting. And warranty or licence alerts depend on the email relay you configure.
App Confort, at €8.99/month incl. VAT. It provides 4 GB of memory where the application asks for 1.5 GB at minimum: the headroom serves the system, not the decor. You can change plan later without reinstalling.
Yes. Snipe-IT is free software: we host it, we do not own it. Every list exports to CSV, the API lets you read everything back, and the MySQL database reinstalls elsewhere as it is.