Loan desk
Fast QR-based borrowing and returns, designed around a phone at a busy session desk.
Product
Everything a toy library needs to run the desk and shrink the admin
ToyHive covers the whole job — loans, toys, members, money, volunteers, and compliance — in one place, designed so the busiest moment of your Saturday session stays calm.
Loan desk
Saturday session
Scan member
Phone camera ready
Household
Rivera family
2 active loans
Toy
Wooden market stall
Due in 14 days
Payment
Renewal ready
Online checkout
Catalogue
Roster
Reports
Inventory
Toy copies, statuses, storage locations, labels, missing pieces, and safety notes.
Shared catalogue
One toy database built by every ToyHive library — no one enters the same LEGO set twice.
Members
Households, adults, memberships, renewals, member QR codes, and self-service workflows.
Payments
Online payments, manual cash recording, balances, receipts, and fee tracking.
Compliance
Waivers, recall visibility, safety prompts, and room for jurisdiction-specific checks.
Volunteers
Roster, shift workflows, invitations, and plain-English operational screens.
Public presence
A public toy catalogue and library pages that stay current because they pull from your data.
Workflow
Built around the session desk
ToyHive is organised around the jobs a library actually does: add a toy, loan a toy, return a toy, renew a member, check a waiver, invite a volunteer, report to the committee. Each one is a guided, step-by-step flow — never a blank form — so a brand-new volunteer can run the desk on their first shift.
The everyday jobs, timed in seconds
- Process a loan in seconds: scan member, scan toy, done.
- Add a new toy from its barcode — AI fills in the details.
- Return with a piece check against the toy’s piece list.
- Renew a membership online without a committee member involved.
- See waiver and safety warnings at loan time, automatically.
See it, don’t take our word for it
The public catalogue is live and the demo library is fully stocked — wander through both before you sign up for anything.