Borrowdesk – Equipment Lending, Check-Out & Due Dates
Lend out boats, books, tools, cameras or laptops and always know who has what and when it’s due back. Borrowdesk is a companion plugin for WP Inventory Manager . Your items stay in WP Inventory; Borrowdesk adds check-out, returns and due dates. The free WP Inventory Manager is all you need. Built fo
Lend out boats, books, tools, cameras or laptops and always know who has what and when it’s due back.
Borrowdesk is a companion plugin for WP Inventory Manager . Your items stay in WP Inventory; Borrowdesk adds check-out, returns and due dates. The free WP Inventory Manager is all you need.
Built for sailing and sports clubs, libraries of things, schools, churches, makerspaces, IT departments and tool rooms.
What you can do for free
- Check out one or many items to a borrower, with a due date. Borrowers do not need a WordPress login.
- Return everything in one click, or part of a loan, and record the condition.
- Track individual units (asset tag, serial number) or lend by quantity.
- See what is on loan, due today and overdue; see everything one person has.
- Email an overdue reminder automatically.
- Show “Available 3 of 5” or “On loan, due back 3 Nov” on your public item pages. Borrower names are never shown.
- Export loans to CSV; import borrowers from CSV.
Lending never changes your WP Inventory stock quantities: what you own stays what you own.
Premium
The free plugin is a complete lending desk. Premium adds self-service and booking ahead:
- Bookings for future dates, with clashes blocked automatically; “Collect” turns a booking into a loan.
- An availability calendar.
- Member self-service: logged-in members request items for dates and see their own loans and bookings.
- Approval queue or auto-approval by role, plus limits (items at once, longest loan, how far ahead).
- Emails for requests, approvals, “due soon” and repeat overdue reminders.
External services
This plugin uses the Freemius SDK for licensing and optional usage data.
