Below is the detailed but not exhaustive list of the features provided by FlipShelf.
Catalog Management
- Around a million product descriptions available with cover images.
- Add items to your library by searching in existing product descriptions.
- Add multiple items in one go through serial numbers.
- Add items by manually entering product description. Only minimal information needs to be entered, rest should automatically get populated.
- Copy items from other users library.
- Unique Asset tag numbers for asset tracking.
- Due date reminders for all your lendings and borrowings.
- Ability to divide your catolog into separate collections.
- An item can belong to multiple collections.
- Collections can be marked public or private.
- Ability to restrict visibility of an item by placing it in a private collection.
- Ability to create storage locations.
- An Item can be associated with storage location for easy retrieval.
- Ability to track all your lendings form one place.
- Ability to check-out items to non members for tracking.
- Ability to specify what all purpose an item is available for i.e. lend/rent/sell/exchange or a combination of these.
- Ability to share you FlipShelf catalog with your friends that are not FlipShelf members.
- Specify informaiton like purchase price, purchase store, date, condition etc with your items.
Social Networking
- Create/Join communities for your school, college, business, neighborhood etc.
- Communities with moderated or open membership.
- Search items in a user's or community's catalog.
- Search in all items that are accessible to you.
- Browse a users's or community's library by type or offering.
- Make requests to borrow, lend, buy, sell, rent products from members of your communities.
- Accept/Decline incoming requests with comments.
- Recommend products to others or ask for recommendations.
- Selectively assign your collections to your communities.
- Conduct opinion polls among community members.
- Unmoderated Community forums for dicussing your favorite book or movie or just to get recommendations.
- User Profile management.
- User to user private messaging.
- Ability to add friends as connections.
- Ability to review your lending/borrowing experience with others.
- Rate and review products.
