It is designed for museums, but may be used by various institutions including libraries, archives, and natural history collections.
PastPerfect allows for the database storage of artifacts, documents, photographs, and library books.
[5] PastPerfect operates with four basic catalogs for sorting collections material.
[7] It also stores donor information, and automatically generates Deed of Gift forms and thank you letters upon completing certain steps of the accessioning process.
[8] Certain extensions allow for the inclusion of Oral History records and transcripts[9] and there is an additional online function that allows institutions to digitize their collections and make them free to browse on the internet.