Features
Every library management feature, in one place.
Library software has a habit of hiding what it actually does behind a demo call. Here is our whole toolbox: cataloguing, circulation, members, discovery, reports, and the trust underneath it all. Every feature below ships on every plan unless the pricing page says otherwise.
Cataloguing software
Cataloguing that does the typing for you
Scan an ISBN barcode and a complete record lands in about two seconds: cover, subjects, publisher summary, a suggested shelf. Photograph the cover when a book has no barcode. Import a CSV or MARC file when there's a whole system to move.
- Barcode scanning with a phone camera or any USB scanner
- Cover-photo lookup for barcode-less and older books
- A shared record cache: once any BeeShelf library has catalogued a book, yours gets it instantly
- Optional AI gap-fill for missing summaries and messy subjects, always labelled, never overwriting
- Printable Code-128 spine and barcode labels
- Collections, shelf locations and call numbers, no MARC training required
Circulation
Circulation built for the four-minute rush
The queue at the desk is the real test of library software. Check out by member name and book title, or scan a card and a spine. Confirmation is instant either way, and the reminders send themselves.
- Check-out and check-in from any phone, tablet or desk
- Holds with fair queues and automatic hold-shelf expiry
- Renewals with rule-aware limits per member category
- Due-soon and overdue emails, sent automatically
- Fines are optional. Fine-free is a setting, not a workaround
- Reader self-checkout by barcode, if you allow it
Members
Members without the admin
Bring borrowers in from a roster CSV, let them sign themselves up under rules you set, or both. Every staff account is a borrower too, so your team always sees what readers see.
- Roster CSV import, dedup-safe and re-runnable
- Join policies: open, librarian approval, email-domain allowlist, or staff-only
- Email verification gates borrowing, never browsing
- Sign in with Google for readers
- Member categories, cards, and full borrowing history
Reader requests
Reader requests you can take to the budget-holder
When a reader's search comes up empty, BeeShelf asks if they'd like the library to get the book. Duplicate asks collapse into one ranked entry, so you see demand instead of noise. Mark a title acquired and everyone who asked gets an email with a hold waiting.
- Requests ranked by how many readers want the same title
- Staff can log requests made in person, at the desk
- Acquired titles notify every requester automatically
Stocktake
Stocktake: the yearly count, done in an afternoon
Walk the shelves and sweep a phone along the spines. Anything the system expects but doesn't see gets flagged. You end the day with a clean list of what's missing and what's mis-shelved, instead of a week you keep postponing.
- Scan with the phone already in your pocket
- Missing, mis-shelved and found-again lists, ready to act on
- Fix a wrong lost flag right from the report
Reports
Reports a budget-holder actually reads
Loans, growth, demand and overdues in one view. And when the question isn't on a dashboard, ask it in plain English: BeeShelf answers from your library's live numbers, not a canned template.
- Dashboards for circulation, collection growth and demand
- Ask your library: natural-language questions, grounded answers
- Every report reflects the desk as it is right now
- Your whole dataset exports any day you ask
Privacy
Reading is private. We built the system that way.
A taste profile makes discovery better, and it belongs to the member, not to us. They can see exactly what it knows. A school can switch personalisation off entirely and run on popularity alone. Nothing is ever sold.
Make it yours
Your brand on the front door
Readers see your library's name, your colours, and your own address on the web. Pick a colour below and watch the whole app follow it.
Pick a colour
One colour and a logo re-skin every screen your members see. The yellow Borrow button never moves. The colour that means "do it" stays constant, on purpose.
See it with your own books.
The free tier is a real library, not a trial clock. Catalogue a shelf this afternoon and judge for yourself.