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Admin Reminders and Reliability Improvements – Augst 2025 myTurn Updates
This release introduces Admin Check In, Check Out, and Build Order Reminders, to help administrators know what they need to check/confirm when items are being checked out or returned. It also includes a broad set of fixes and refinements across reservations, maintenance reporting, memberships, and validation logic—improving accuracy, consistency, and edge-case handling throughout the system. New Feature Admin Check In,
Minimum reservation length, API and other improvements – July 2025 myTurn Updates
This release introduces a new minimum reservation length option and delivers a broad set of fixes across reservations, self-checkout, transfers, memberships, and admin workflows. Several subtle edge cases—especially around buffers, same-day reservations, and future availability—are now handled more predictably, improving accuracy and reducing admin intervention. New & Updated Configuration Added a new minimum reservation length option. Improved buffer calculations: when
Set Maximum Total Value for Checked Out Items by Membership Type – June 2025 myTurn Updates
This release adds a powerful new feature to limit the total value of items a user can check out, plus a range of usability enhancements and behind‑the‑scenes updates. Limit Total Value of Items Checked Out Organizations with high-value inventory items, or tiered memberships, or just the desire to enforce fair access can now limit the total value of items that
New Transfer Automation Options & Multi-Location Improvements – May 2025 myTurn Updates
Release Highlights This release introduces a powerful new Advanced Transfer Workflow system for organizations with multiple locations, offering fine-grained control over how and when items move between locations: New Transfer Options: Automate or manually confirm each step in the logistics process: Automatically receive transferred items Automatically mark items as ready for fulfillment when received Automatically transfer items on check-in Always
Rich Text Warnings & Other Improvements – April 2025 myTurn Updates
Release Highlights This release introduces enhanced user warnings and continues improving reservation accuracy and reliability: Rich Text User Warnings: User warnings now support formatting, including links and lists—making them clearer and more actionable. Smarter Reservation Logic: Further refinements to item selection and optimization ensure more accurate fulfillment, especially when reservations are close or buffers differ across items. Important Fixes: Duplicate
Smarter Search & Reservation Item Selection – March 2025 myTurn Updates
This release improves search capabilities and makes item selection for reservations more reliable and efficient: Advanced Search: Use Boolean operators (AND, OR), plus/minus symbols (+term, -term), and get better, more relevant results in both public and admin search. Improved Item Selection for Reservations: We’ve revamped how items are selected for reservations. This includes prioritizes items that are available, not in
Improved SIP SSO Support, Privacy & Notifications – February 2025 myTurn Updates
This release adds new privacy options, better control over reservation emails, and clearer maintenance notifications: SSO/SIP Enhancements: You can now block syncing specific personal data via SIP and improve SSO integration behavior. Better handling of users that no longer exist in main ILS (expire them in myTurn) Sync data from main ILS via SIP in more places Email Controls: New
Smarter Report Filtering & Faster Performance – January 2025 myTurn Updates
This release includes major improvements to reporting, performance, and admin workflows. Transaction Report Filters: You can now filter transactions by type, payment method, and more—making getting important financial information easier. Other Loan Report Improvements: Loan reports now handle multi-location data better, support filtering by expired members, and more consistent exports. Performance Improvements: Pages using the item type hierarchy are significantly
Search, Reporting, and Self-Renewal Improvements – November 2024 myTurn Updates
This release introduces powerful substring, include/exclude, and boolean logic search capabilities for public inventory. Reporting enhancements include new export fields for the last use report and additional filters for loan reports. Improvements to self-renewals allow free memberships to renew without Stripe, alongside expanded audit logging and better translation support in the admin cart. Other highlights include performance boosts for key
More reservation improvements and other enhancements – October 2024 Updates
This release brings additional improvements reservation workflows and other admin fucntionality including: Reservations: Export reservations and the items on each reservation: This can be done from the Reservation report or List Reservations Link from a reservation to the transaction that fulflled that reservation and vice versa Allow a short comma separated list of multiple email addresses on the reservation email