Allstate Household Inventory Worksheet Template

Allstate, like most major insurers, recommends keeping a documented household inventory to make filing a claim faster and less stressful if you ever need to. Their published guidance describes what a household inventory should cover — but building one by hand, in a spreadsheet or on paper, is exactly the kind of task that's easy to put off until it's too late.

This guide covers what to include, and gives you a free way to build it online — room by room, with photos and current values attached — then export it in a format matching Allstate's own worksheet structure.

What Allstate's worksheet format covers

• Item description and category
• Original purchase price and year purchased
• Serial number, where applicable
• Current estimated replacement value
• Room-by-room organization, with category totals

Photos matter more than the spreadsheet

A worksheet full of numbers is useful, but a photo of the actual item — ideally showing a visible serial number or model tag — does more to support a claim than a description alone. If you're building this by hand in a spreadsheet, there's usually no good place to attach photos per item, which is exactly the gap this kind of tool solves. See our guide on attaching photos and receipts for more on how this works.

Build it online, free, formatted for Allstate

Contents Proof lets you build this by dragging rooms and items onto a visual canvas, attaching a photo (and receipt, if you have one) to each item as you go, then exporting a PDF formatted to match Allstate's published Household Inventory structure — room breakdown and category totals included.

Register to keep it safe long-term

A household inventory only helps if it survives whatever happened to your home. Register a free account (still no cost) and your inventory is kept for a year and reachable from any device — not just the one it was built on.

Contents Proof is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Allstate®. This guide and the associated export format are based on Allstate's publicly published customer inventory guidance.