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myTurn Late Summer 2023 Updates
We’re thrilled to announce the latest updates to the myTurn platform, designed to make managing your resources smoother, smarter, and more intuitive. This update is packed with new features and improvements that we believe will make a big difference in your day-to-day operations. Streamlined Reservation Conflict Resolution: A new intuitive pop-up appears when checking out items that might conflict with
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and myTurn
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent a universal call to action to end poverty, protect our planet, and ensure prosperity for all by 2030. At myTurn, we deeply resonate with these goals, understanding their profound significance in shaping a sustainable and equitable future. While our primary focus lies in Goals 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production), 13 (Climate Action), and 11
User experience and other improvements – myTurn Updates June 2023
This month’s updates bring a myriad of refined features to the forefront. We’ve improved the Gift Certificate redemption process, and completely revamped transaction receipts to make them clearer for admins and customers/members. A new option (enabled by default for new sites) allows you to display items and their quantities rather than listing each item separately on receipts and intelligently displays
Tool Libraries and Libraries of Things: Shared Access as Community Infrastructure
This post is adapted from a talk originally given by Gene Homicki at the Library 2.0 conference, for a public library audience on how Tool Libraries and Libraries of Things can support affordability, reuse, climate action, and community resilience. Communities are facing a set of overlapping challenges: rising costs, climate change, waste, inequity, supply chain disruption, and the need to
myTurn CEO Gene Homicki Featured on the Circular Economy Podcast
We are thrilled to share that our CEO, Gene Homicki, was recently featured on the Circular Economy Podcast hosted by Catherine Weetman. The episode, titled “105 Gene Homicki – getting more from less with MyTurn,” delves into the transformative power of the myTurn platform and its role in advancing the circular economy. Key Takeaways from the Podcast: Getting More from
myTurn Updates for April 2023
Out latest enhancements focus on implementing under-the-hood improvements to streamline reservations and several other features and to rectify outstanding issues. Key updates include: We sped up the ad-hoc check out pricess by preventing the loading of all users while navigating to the admin Cart. Our user registration API for App integration is now in early beta To avoid mishaps, we
Embedded site improvements and reducing duplicate reservations – March 2023 myTurn Updates
Our new release includes some sought after improvements including one to reduce multiple resrvations for the same person starting on the same day. Users will now be prompted to edit existing reservations if they attempt to reserve the same equipment for the same time period. This will help reduce duplicate reservations, streamline the reservation process, and improve overall user experience.
Sort Categories and only require a card on file for some membership types – February 2023 myTurn updates
myTurn’s latest update introduces the ability to sort and delete Categories, as well as the option to require a card on file to place reservations for some but not all membership types (e.g. staff, members who may be unbanked, etc.). We have also improved Sierra ILS support and made it easier to customize your public myTurn site with additional CSS
Performance updates, report improvements, and user interface refinements – January 2023 myTurn updates
Our team has been hard at work improving the platform. Highlights of our latest update include: Reservation Performance: Does your organization process many or large reservations? Performance of the reservation list and other reservation options has been greatly improved. We’ve also added the ability to filter our new membership report Admin check in/out tweaks and improvements The ability to filter
New membership reports allow you to watch your membership grow! December 2022 myTurn updates
This month’s updates are all about members and memberships. Improvements include our new membership reports that show new, expired, renewed, and other membership active by month. Track how your membership is growing with myTurn! We’ve also made approving new users easier, and provided new filtering options when viewing your users. Other updates and improvements include: LEND-7864 Membership reports: New memberships