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Sierra Club features myTurn on how the demand for durability supports radical reuse
Sierra Club. Welcome to the Library of Things, by Amanda Castleman Our CEO, Gene Homicki, is featured in this article as a leader in the effort to promote reuse of durable goods. Interestingly, they point out that 80% of U.S. consumers say they would spend more on durable products designed to be used collectively. We have ample public support to
More Flexible Reservations and Reservation/Loan “Buffers” | April 2019 Updates
In this release we’ve enabled Administrative users to override all buffers and other restrictions on reservations, have a number of new and changed features, and completed many bug fixes. We’ve also revamped the myTurn reservation “buffer” system to makes things clearer and more flexible. There are now two buffers you can set: Now Buffer: how many days from “now” can
New Support Videos!
We’ve started to add a number of “How To” videos to our Support site and will continue to add more to help make myTurn either to use for our customers and their customers. If there are specific topics you’d like us to explain via a video, please contact us.
Closed Days & Holidays, Hide Address by Location, Embedded Site Improvements | March 2019 Updates
We’ve added a number of new features to the platform to make managing your myTurn sites easier. The highlights include being able to specify the days your organization is closed (reservations can’t start or end on those days), hiding address and contact information by location (for organizations using our multiple location support), a number of improvements to how myTurn works
Start Reservations for Users, Pick Self-Renew Date, Additional Pickup Options | February 2019
Our February 2019 release brings a number f new features and fixes. Admins can now create a reservation for a user directly by clicking “reserve” on the User Details page. Users can now pick their return date when they self-renew items. There are a number of new pickup options and improvements! The full list is below: [LEND-5604] – Allow users
Parent Categories, Maintenance Plans, Reservation Buffers Account for Closed Days | January 2019
Our January 2019 release is just packed full of updates including our new Maintenance Plans (for items) are now in beta testing, categories can have parents so you can group similar product categories together, you can account for closed days in loan/reservation buffers, and much more! [LEND-5223] – Apply membership discount to kiosk api [LEND-5423] – Add ability to self-renew
New Features: Pickup Location and Transfers | December 2018
We have a number of new features for our customers that work with multiple locations. Specifically, this releases builds upon our recent work to specify and control how pickup locations are handled, and allows you to transfer items between locations. New features allow your users to specify where they want to pick up a reservation and myTurn will help ensure
Early November 2018: Limit Users to Specific Locations & More
myTurn has added a number of important features to help give you more power in how you limit who can see what inventory, made improvements to our Self Service Kiosk mode, and released a number of minor fixes and changes. If you have groups of users that should only be able to see (and reserve) inventory from some Locations, you
October 2018: Per Day Pricing & Expanded Self Service Kiosk API
We’re excited to announce that myTurn now supports per day pricing structures and will soon be supporting additional and more flexible rental fee schedules. Keep an eye out for more soon! To set a “Per Day” amount, change the dropdown on the Amount / Fee field when editing an item or editing Item Default Values from “per loan” to “per
Radical Reuse @ the Disruptive Innovation Festival
The 5th annual Disruptive Innovation Festival curated by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation is the place where new conversations are sparked together with a global audience on accelerating the transition to the Circular Economy. Join Gene Homicki CEO & Co-founder of myTurn.com, pbc, Cynthia Reynolds of myTurn Premier Partner SmartUse.global, and Babette Porcelijn, author of The Hidden Impact for a session on “Radical Reuse: Impacts, Technology and Opportunities.” Technology is