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Set loan lengths, renewals, and overdue fines

A 60-second screen recording of a real school doing exactly this — and the same 8 steps written out below, in the labels you'll see on screen.

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How to set loan lengths, renewals, and overdue fines

  1. 1Click Settings under Administration in the sidebar
  2. 2Open the Library & barcodes section
  3. 3Click Edit rules next to Circulation rules
  4. 4Click Add rule
  5. 5Set Applies to, Borrower, and Category
  6. 6Set Loan days, Renewals allowed, and Max items out
  7. 7Set Grace days, Fine per day ($), and Maximum fine ($)
  8. 8Click Save rule

Part of Library, resources & reservations

Barcode labels you print yourself, a scan station for checkout, holds families place from home, shared equipment reserved with dates instead of arguments — and the textbooks, shelf counts, and supply cupboard that come with all of it.

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Do it yourself in the live demo

Follow these steps in a real sandbox school — admin, teacher, family, and student views. Sample data resets daily.

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