Borrowdesk – Equipment Lending, Check-Out & Due Dates

Lend out boats, books, tools, cameras or laptops and always know who has what and when it’s due back.

Borrowdesk is a companion plugin for WP Inventory Manager. Your items stay in WP Inventory; Borrowdesk adds check-out, returns and due dates. The free WP Inventory Manager is all you need.

Built for sailing and sports clubs, libraries of things, schools, churches, makerspaces, IT departments and tool rooms.

What you can do for free

• Check out one or many items to a borrower, with a due date. Borrowers do not need a WordPress login.
• Return everything in one click, or part of a loan, and record the condition.
• Track individual units (asset tag, serial number) or lend by quantity.
• See what is on loan, due today and overdue; see everything one person has.
• Email an overdue reminder automatically.
• Show “Available 3 of 5” or “On loan, due back 3 Nov” on your public item pages. Borrower names are never shown.
• Export loans to CSV; import borrowers from CSV.

Lending never changes your WP Inventory stock quantities: what you own stays what you own.

Premium

The free plugin is a complete lending desk. Premium adds self-service and booking ahead:

• Bookings for future dates, with clashes blocked automatically; “Collect” turns a booking into a loan.
• An availability calendar.
• Member self-service: logged-in members request items for dates and see their own loans and bookings.
• Approval queue or auto-approval by role, plus limits (items at once, longest loan, how far ahead).
• Emails for requests, approvals, “due soon” and repeat overdue reminders.

External services

This plugin uses the Freemius SDK for licensing and optional usage data.

• Usage data (opt-in only). On activation you can choose to share basic site and plugin data (site URL, WordPress and PHP versions, plugin version, admin email) with Freemius to receive updates and security notices. Nothing is sent if you skip.
• Licensing (Premium only). When you activate a Premium licence, the licence key and site URL are sent to Freemius to validate it, and the plugin checks for Premium updates.

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