Configurable Temporary Card Holds (Pre-Authorizations), Improved Search, and More – August 2026, myTurn Updates

myTurn now supports placing a temporary hold on a member’s card (pre-authorize the card) to confirm that it can cover potential costs before checkout or payment.

In Finacial > Card Security settings, you can:

  • Choose the hold basis: Use the value of the items being checked out to verify that the card can cover their replacement value, or use the usage cost and amount being charged.
  • Set a minimum hold: Verify that the card can cover at least a specified amount, even when the calculated amount is lower.
  • Set a maximum hold: Limit holds based on item value. The maximum does not reduce a hold below the amount actually being charged.
  • Set a default item value: Use a specified value when an item has no value recorded.
  • Choose how to handle free or zero-value checkouts: Skip the hold or use the minimum hold amount.
  • Customize the messages shown to members and admins.

A temporary hold is not an extra charge or a deposit kept throughout the loan. Any amount owed is collected, and the remainder should be released right away. Temporary holds require Stripe card payments to beenabled.

Improvements

  • Improved inventory search filtering and category item counts.
  • Clearer reputation and borrowing-limits (beta)
  • Improved translation lists, corrected row counts, and made CSV imports more reliable.
  • More reliably show when items are on an order on the inventory view for admins
  • Order links now show a clear message and return you to the reservations list when an order cannot be found.
  • Restored full-width dropdowns address fields
  • Fixed SIP2 user synchronization failures during user searches.
  • Admins can now override the Between Buffer for same-day reservations.
  • Returning from an order no longer unnecessarily triggers the reservation-item reminder in rare cases
  • Fixed account balances that did not always refresh after changes.
  • Fixed an incorrect unsaved-changes warning when saving maintenance information in Firefox.