Import your item inventory
Open Add an item → Import CSV, or Garage → Import CSV. Export your spreadsheet as a comma-separated UTF-8 CSV, or download the template. Use one physical item per row. Only the item name is required. Choose your columns, review the rows, fix highlighted details, then import the selected items.
Files may contain up to 500 items, 50 columns and 2 MiB. Excel workbooks, semicolon/tab-separated files, image archives and quantities are not supported. Blank rows are ignored. Quoted commas and line breaks are supported.
Supported columns: name, description, brand, model, serial_number, category, condition, purchase_date, purchase_price, daily_rate, weekly_rate, monthly_rate, deposit_required, location_notes and usage_instructions. Unneeded columns can be ignored. Conditions are excellent, good, fair or needs_repair; a blank condition becomes good. Dates use YYYY-MM-DD. Prices use plain nonnegative numbers with at most two decimal places; a purchase price, when supplied, must be positive. Blank daily rates and deposits become zero. Serial numbers preserve leading zeros.
Possible duplicates start unselected. Skip a duplicate or confirm it is a separate physical copy. Import never updates an existing item. Reuploading the identical file with the same destination and mapping returns the previous import. Editing or reordering a file starts a new review, with duplicate checks.
Imported items are private, unavailable for borrowing and have no photos. Use Add photos & review to finish each item and deliberately choose sharing. Serial numbers, purchase records and storage notes remain owner-only even after sharing.
If saving is interrupted, reopen the import from the Garage import page. Saved rows are retained and will not be added twice. Once saving starts, the selection is fixed; unresolved selected rows can still be corrected. Finish now and skip remaining rows keeps already-created items.
Reviews normally expire after seven days. Editing a review extends this up to 30 days from its creation; completed imports keep source material for seven days after completion. The cleanup job deletes private CSV bytes and review details after expiry and retains minimal row outcomes for recovery. Discarding a review schedules cleanup immediately. An upload that never reaches review is removed after one day. If new imports are temporarily disabled, existing receipts remain readable.
Need more help?
Contact support from the BorrowHive app or email support@borrowhive.com. For your security, don't include ID photos, tax IDs, payment credentials, or other sensitive documents in an email. We'll tell you how to share anything else we need.