Photo Gear Lending Log and Shoot Packing List

Photo Gear Lending Log and Shoot Packing List is an offline app (one HTML file in a zip) for a photographer or small studio. You list every item with its serial number and replacement value. When an item is lent or rented out you log who has it and when it is due back; the app stops you lending an item that is already out and shows what is overdue. You build kits for each shoot type, add your jobs, and print a packing list that shows which items are not available today.

The problem it removes: Gear is forgotten at a shoot, or lent to a friend or second shooter and not returned, and nobody remembers who has the second lens. Serial numbers are needed for insurance and for repairs and are never at hand. This app keeps one register, one lending log and one packing list per job, so you know before you leave what is missing.

What is inside:

• Gear register with category, serial number, replacement value, service due date and a status of Available, In repair or Retired
• Lending log with borrower, phone, dates out and due back, condition on return and a rule that stops an item being lent while it is already out
• Where each item is today: Available, Lent out, In repair or Retired, and the days overdue for late returns
• Kits for each shoot type (wedding, portrait, corporate, product) with the items and quantities, and a count of items not available
• Jobs with a kit, and a printable packing list with serial numbers and a column to tick when packed
• Today page with overdue returns and WhatsApp links, jobs in the coming days with unavailable gear, service due and gear value out
• Example data you can load in one click, a Start here guide and an Honest limits panel
• JSON backup and restore, CSV export, and CSV import with a check of every row before anything is added

Who it is for: wedding, portrait and event photographers, videographers and small studios that own several cameras, lenses and lights and lend gear to second shooters or friends.

What it is NOT: It does not insure gear, value it for insurance or track depreciation. It does not book gear for dates in advance: availability is as it stands today. It has no barcode scanning, no photos of the items and no sync across devices. It is not legal, tax or accounting advice, it is not connected to any government system, bank or messaging service, and it does not file or send anything by itself. UAE e-invoicing is not part of it.

Your data stays on this device in your browser. Back it up with Export; clearing browser data loses it otherwise.

Verified by us: scripted tests in Chromium (156 checks through the real screens: adding, editing and deleting records in every table, required-field messages, backup then clear then restore, CSV export then import, keyboard order, print layouts rendered to PDF, no horizontal scrolling at 375 and 1280 pixels, no network requests) and an independent recalculation by a separately written Python evaluator of 821 calculated values (25 randomised rows plus the example data) with 0 mismatches. Safari engine (WebKit): smoke test passed; Firefox: could not be launched. Not tested: Firefox beyond what is stated here, and no real printer was used (print layouts were checked as PDF).