Five steps to preserve what you treasure
Get your custom stickers, tell the story… legacy preserved.
Step One
Choose your pack
Pick the sticker count that fits your collection. Every plan includes the same full registry, billed once a year, and you can move up at any time.
Step Two
Open your registry
Your registry is live the moment you sign up. Name your collection, set up your categories, and start adding items right away — you don’t have to wait for anything to arrive.
Custom-printed stickers arrive in 5–14 business days.
Step Three
Place a sticker
When your pack arrives, put a sticker somewhere discreet — the back of a frame, the underside of a bowl, inside a jewelry box lid. For rings, coins, and delicate pieces, use the small-item sticker pages included in every order.
Step Four
Scan and document
Scan the sticker with your phone and it opens that item’s page. Add photographs, write down where it came from, note what it’s worth, upload a receipt if you have one.
One item at a time, at whatever pace suits you.
Step Five
Name who inherits it
List up to three people who can inherit, in order of preference, with a note explaining why. Mark anything private if you’d rather it stay between you and the registry.
The thinking behind every step.
Why we designed it this way
Most people who mean to catalog their family’s things never do. Not because they don’t care — because it feels like a project, and projects wait for a free weekend that doesn’t come. So we built it to be done one item at a time, in the ten minutes you have, with no expectation that you’ll ever finish.
We also didn’t want to build another app. An app is something you have to remember to open, and a record nobody opens isn’t much of a record. Your grandchildren aren’t going to think to check a website for the history of the bowl on the shelf.
That’s why there’s a sticker. The physical label is what makes the digital record findable years from now — someone picks up the object, sees the label, and the story is right there. Neither half works alone. Digital storage without the label is a file nobody finds. A label without the registry is just a number.
Together, they keep the story attached to the thing it belongs to.
About the stickers themselves
They’re printed on luxury matte stock in cream, with gold detail and the Grandma’s Registry mark. We wanted something that looks at home on a jewelry box or the back of a frame — not an inventory tag.
Each pack is printed for your account specifically. Your account number appears on every sticker, and the stickers are numbered in sequence so you always know which is which. The QR codes are generated and linked to your registry at signup, before the stickers are printed — so they work the moment they arrive, with nothing to activate.
The adhesive is designed to hold on wood, glass, metal, fabric backing, and paper. We recommend refreshing labels roughly every three years on items that are handled often; on pieces that sit undisturbed, they’ll last considerably longer.
For items you shouldn’t label at all — rings, coins, small or delicate pieces — every order includes small-item sticker pages. You place the sticker on the page with a short description beside it, and keep the page with the collection. The sticker scans exactly the same way.
Documenting an item, in your own words
There’s no right way to do this, and no minimum. A title and one photograph is a complete entry. Everything else you can add later, or never.
But if you want to know what makes an entry worth reading twenty years from now, it’s usually this: where it came from, who had it before you, and why it mattered. The appraisal value is useful for insurance. The story is what your granddaughter will actually read.
Each item page holds up to six photographs — worth taking one of any maker’s mark, hallmark, or engraving, since those are hard to photograph later and easy to lose track of. There’s a field for when you acquired it and who you got it from, an estimated value, and space to upload a receipt or appraisal if you have one.
Then there’s the inheritance section, where you name who you’d like to have it, in order of preference, with room for a note explaining why. You can mark any item private, or keep the inheritance notes private while leaving the rest visible.
Nothing is locked. Come back and change any of it whenever you like — values change, plans change, and you’ll remember things later that you didn’t think of the first time.
What happens later
While you’re living, the registry earns its keep quietly. It’s the documentation your insurer wants if something is lost or stolen — photographs, values, receipts, all dated and in one place. It’s what you hand your attorney when you’re writing a will, so the conversation starts from a list instead of from memory. And it’s a straightforward answer when someone asks who’s getting what.
Then there’s the day it actually does its work.
When a member passes, a family member submits a certified death certificate and the account is memorialized. It locks to read-only, exactly as it was left. The family receives a PDF of the whole registry. Item pages can be printed for executors or anyone who wants them on paper.
And for a year afterward, the QR codes open to the public — so a granddaughter who picks up a ring and scans the little cream label finds the answer waiting for her. Where it came from. Who wore it. That it was always meant to be hers.
That’s the whole point of the stickers. Not the cataloging. That moment.