Expires June 30: Get 30% off monthly (for 6 months), annual, or lifetime Aftervault plans! Use this link and coupon code “MMMANUAL” for a 30% off military discount!

AfterVault offers an online, secure, and affordable storage solution for your most important documents. If you are in the military or any other high risk profession, you have to think about the legacy you may leave for your family.

Consider the hardship and difficulty your family would have trying to locate all your essential medical, legal, and financial documents if you were incapacitated or died. Now think about if they had all those documents easily and securely accessible online and organized by category.

Everyone in the military has access to free legal document preparation: wills, power of attorneys, advanced medical directives, etc. However, once these documents are prepared, you need to store them in a secure and readily accessible place for them to be useful. The constant moving around and PCSing that the military requires means it's often difficult to hang on to important documents safely.

While you should definitely keep the paper copies somewhere safe, scanning and uploading your documents to the cloud means that your family can access them anywhere and anytime.

How AfterVault Works

AfterVault gives you 100GB of space, secured with SSL bank-level encryption for access and encrypted on their servers so that even their staff cannot access your information. You can create different folders or “vaults” where you can store your important information. The company recommends categories for you such as:

• Will and Testament
• Website passwords
• Safes and storage codes
• Retirement plans and financial accounts
• Real estate titles
• Insurance
• Pet information
• Life insurance and investments
• Health directives
• Funeral arrangements
• Important family videos and photographs
• Collectibles
• Social media login information

One thing I asked myself when I created an account on AfterVault was “How is this different than Google Drive?” I can put all of my files in organized folders in Google Drive and buy 100GB of space for only $20/year. For me, the real selling point of AfterVault for me is the automated “are you still alive?” check that the system performs.

Based on rules that you set up, AfterVault pings you periodically with emails and text messages to ensure that you are still alive and responding. Also if you login into the site, the system will assume you're still alive.

If you fail to check in several times, missing multiple phone calls, emails, and texts or whatever rules you set up, the vault will open for those whom you designate. A link will be sent to your designated beneficary so they can access your documents that you previously uploaded. It's a very easy to use system, exactly what you want in case the unthinkable happens.

Try AfterVault Free

I signed up for the free 30 day trial with AfterVault. I uploaded a few test PDFs and created some rules to see how it pings you. I also gave my wife instant access to one of the vaults to see how it displays information for beneficaries.

It's a very easy interface and the security seems robust. SSL encyption between you and AfterVault servers means your personal information is never publicly available. The information is stored encypted on AfterVault servers so employees of AfterVault can't even view your information.

I spoke via email with Ric Parks, the founder and CEO of AfterVault. He seems like a very smart guy who has recognized a gap in the market at the moment. His experience at Wells Fargo online bank and his background in IT security make him well suited to developing this product. I'm looking forward to see how AfterVault grows.

The best value plan for AfterVault is their lifetime product at $299. It pays for itself after 30 months of service at $9.99/month. They also offer plans monthly for $9.99 or annually for $69. This can be a good way to trial the product and see if it's right for you.

A simple concept, AfterVault organizes all of you important documents and delivers them to your loved ones if you unexpectedly pass away. It's a great solution for those of us in high risk professions like law enforcement, homeland security, border patrol, aviation, military, special operations, or explosive ordance disposal (EOD). If you need a secure way to safely store your documents and deliver them to your loved ones, give AfterVault a try.

Expires June 30: Get 30% off monthly (for 6 months), annual, or lifetime Aftervault plans! Use this link and coupon code “MMMANUAL” for a 30% off military discount!