Sign-out board for shared laptops
Lend Shelf keeps the clipboard for the laptops your office, club or household lends: who has which one, when it is due, whether the charger came back, and a hand-back checklist so the next person never lands in someone else's email.
Open a shelf, free The hand-back checklist
No account and no email address. Free for 3 laptops; the Shelf Pass is $1.95/month. Free during preview.
How a shelf is set up
Manager link
Keep this one private: it is the only key to the shelf.
Counter link
Share it, pin it, print it. It cannot change the shelf's settings.
What gets recorded
The name, the number of days, the kit going out and any scratch already there, stamped with the time. The laptop leaves the shelf on the board.
The board counts down: Out, then Due today, then Overdue with the days late. No emails and no texts: the board simply says so.
Kit ticked back, works or not, the hand-back steps done. All good and it is on the shelf again; anything missing puts it On hold with the reason written down.
Kit
Choose what travels with each laptop. At the counter every item is ticked out and ticked back, so the missing charger turns up the same day, not three borrowers later.
The hand-back
A borrowed laptop remembers whoever used it last. Six steps at the counter, written by Lend Shelf, keep the next person out of your accounts. Skip one and the laptop waits On hold until someone checks it.
Prices
$0
A few spare laptops
Shelf Pass
$1.95/month
or $19.50/year (two months free)
A cart, a closet, a training room
$1.00/7 days
one payment, no renewal
A workshop, a conference, a training week
Free during preview. Payments are not switched on yet, so every shelf gets the Shelf Pass limits at no charge. These are the prices that will apply, paid through PayPal, cancel any time; nothing is charged until checkout opens and you choose a plan.
Anyone who lends a few laptops to adults: a front office with spares, a nonprofit or library corner, a club, a coworking room, a training room, a household with one laptop the kids' grandparents borrow. It is made for adults lending to adults; please do not use it to record children.
No. Lend Shelf records what people type at the counter, nothing more. It cannot see where a laptop is, lock it, or erase it. For a lost laptop, use the maker's own locate service.
No email and no texts, to anyone. The board shows Due today and Overdue with the days late; the person who looks after the shelf decides how to follow up.
Anyone with the counter link sees who has each laptop, unless the shelf is set to hide names at the counter; the manager board always shows them. Use first names and an initial. Names refuse email addresses and phone numbers.
Print the paper sign-out sheet from the manager board and keep it by the shelf. It asks for the same things as the counter page: who, when, the kit, anything already wrong, and the hand-back steps.
Loans are kept for two years, then deleted. A shelf nobody opens for 400 days is deleted with everything in it. You can delete a shelf yourself at any time.