Loans & reservations
Loans
Check gear out to a member of your organization, a contact (lightweight external borrowers — a name, an email), or a freetext borrower. A loan covers a serialized item or a quantity of stock; checking out a container takes its contents along by default, and every stock checkout writes the movement ledger.
- Due dates are optional; overdue loans surface on the dashboard.
- Overdue reminders email the org admins once per loan per day, and the loans list filters to
overdue. - Condition out / condition in is recorded on both ends of the loan.
- The batch-scan tray checks whole cart-loads out or in, one scan per item.
Reservations
Reservations book an item or a quantity for a date range — "these twelve movers are held for Peer Gynt, October 3–19". Conflict detection checks overlapping reservations and open loans.
Conflicts are advisory by default: they warn everywhere but never block. An organization can switch to strict mode (Admin), where a conflicted reservation cannot be confirmed until the overlap is resolved.
The availability view answers the planning question directly: what of this product is free between these dates?