Viewing Your Loan History

Every loan you’ve borrowed or lent is kept in your loan history once it’s finished.

Finding Your Loan History

Tap Loans in the navigation
Tap Past loans (the button above the loan list — past loans are not one of the tabs)

The All, Borrowing, and Lending tabs show active loans. Past loans shows everything that’s finished — completed returns, declined requests, cancelled loans, and pickups that expired without anyone collecting the book. Tap Active loans to go back.

How active loans are grouped

Active loans are sorted into sections so you can tell what needs your attention:

Section	Badge?	Meaning
Urgent	Yes	Time-critical — your overdue borrowed book, a missed dropoff commitment, an expiring pickup window, a dispute, or your turn on a waitlist in its last few hours
Act now	Yes	Required actions — approve or decline a request, confirm a return, respond to a renewal (even on an overdue book), pick up a book, drop off a book today, or borrow a book when it’s your turn on a waitlist
Follow up	No	A book you lent is overdue — you can message the borrower, give more time, or record it if you already have it back
Coming up	No	Scheduled — a dropoff you committed to on a future day, a book you lent that is due today, a borrowed book due within a week, or one the lender asked for back early
Waiting on others	No	Awareness only — e.g. your request is pending approval, or a book is on its way to you
On the waitlist / Active	No	Waitlist entries and calm in-progress loans

The number on the Loans tab in the bottom navigation counts only Urgent and Act now items (plus unread loan messages on visible rows).

Each active loan shows one line that says who acts next and by when — “Pick up by Wed, Sep 30 · 3 days left”, “Ruth drops it off by Tue, Sep 29”, “Due back Sat, Oct 17”. Its first button is the same step the loan itself offers first.

Your Home page lists the same Urgent and Act now items at the top (on a computer, in the right-hand column), under Needs you. Each one has its main button — the same one it has here, like Mark delivered, Confirm pickup, or Return book. Everything else stays on Loans.

Requests for books the library owns are not listed here. Library admins handle those on the library’s Lending page (Manage → Lending), and a request notification for one of them opens that page. See Handling borrow requests as a library admin.

What’s in an Entry

Each loan row shows:

Book details
The other person and which library the loan went through
The dates that matter (when it was requested, picked up, and how it ended)
A status chip above the title showing how the loan closed (Returned, Cancelled, etc.), with an icon for that status. Its colour means the same thing everywhere in the app: sage for returned, grey for closed without a loan
A Lending to line with the other person’s avatar and name for books you lent, or Borrowing from for books you borrowed — that line is how you tell which side you were on

Past loans look just like active ones: the status above the title is what tells you the loan is over.

Loan Details

Tap any entry to open the full loan details, which include:

The lifecycle timeline, which opens on the current step (or how the loan ended). Expand the earlier steps row to see request, approval, dropoff, pickup, and return events with timestamps and who took each action
Any proof photos that were uploaded during dropoff, pickup, or return
The book, library, due date, and other party

To open the book’s own page from a loan, tap the book’s title at the top of the loan details.

If the loan was renewed, the lender asked for it back early, or a dispute opened, it’s reflected in the same timeline.

Tips

Close out lent books — if a member returned one of your books but you haven’t tapped I got it back yet, the loan still sits in your active Lending tab (not history) until it’s confirmed or auto-confirms after 7 days

Still Need Help?

If you have questions about your loan history, contact support.