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Inventory List View, Category Groups, Improved Reservation Buffers, Maintenance Plans (beta), and much more!

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

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Transfer and receive items, transfer buffers, improved pickup location support, SIP2 SSO support and more!

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

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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

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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

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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 disrupting

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September 2018: Reservation Pick Up Locations & More

Need more control over reservations across multiple locations? You can now specify that all items on a reservation must come from the same location, require picking a “pick up” location, or the old “pandemonium” (as we like to call it) option where there is really only one location that people can pick up but they may be reserving items from

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August 2018: Reservation Reminders & Reporting Improvements

This month’s updates bring the ability to send a reminder to customers that they are scheduled to pick up (or have shipped to them) a reservation. In beta testing, this option has improved pick up of reserved items significantly. There is also a new option to allow customers to communicate to you that they want the items on a reservation

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July 2018 Release: Monthly Statements

The big feature in this release is the ability to use post-paid product subscription with monthly statements that can be sent to subscribers or members. These allow you to offer a post-paid service by putting all fees “On Account” during the month and then customers will get a monthly bill to pay. Just like a credit card… only better, because

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June 2018 Release

This release featured a ton of bug fixes and improvements to help the platform accessibility (ensure people with disabilities can view and interact with your myTurn site). We’re aiming for WCAG2.0 AA and soon WCAG2.1.   Read on to learn more! [LEND-4718] – Improve color contrast – aiming for WCAG 2.0 AA (of course 2.1 is coming out soon) [LEND-4835]

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