MJX Library app for Android

The MJX Library app puts the whole library desk on an Android phone: new admissions, fees and renewals with WhatsApp receipts, the seat map, check-in, and book lending with the camera as a scanner. It uses the same account and data as the website.

#Where to get it

• Google Play: Get MJX Library (app id com.mjxtechnologies.app.library).
• Or open ~/app/library on your phone.

#How to sign in or create your library

The first screen says Run your library from your phone with Seats and shifts, Monthly fees and receipts and Books and lending.

#Steps to create a new library in the app

1. Tap Create my library.
2. Fill in Library name, Your name, Mobile number, Email ("Receipts and your plan's bills go here."), Password (at least 8 characters), PIN code (optional), City and State.
3. Tap Create my library. "Your free trial starts today. Add shifts, seats and members next."

#Steps to sign in to an existing library

1. Tap I already have an account.
2. Type your Mobile number or email and Password — "The same login as your library's website." — and tap Sign in.
3. Or tap Sign in with a code, then Send me a code. The code comes on WhatsApp and by email.
4. If your login opens more than one library, pick one under Pick your library.

The first time, the owner sees Set up your library — 1 minute: type how many Seats, a letter they Start with, tick the shifts you run (tap a time to change it) and tap Start using my library.

#What is on the screen?

#The bottom bar

Home · Books · Members · Seats · More. It is the same for every login; what each person may do is cut on Home's tiles and in the sidebar.

#Home

The top says My Library with a search box, Search books, members…. Below it are six tiles:

Then Recently Added books, with View All.

#The sidebar (More)

Tap More to open the sidebar:

Rows a login may not use are not shown: Money and Reports for the owner and admins only; Print labels and Setup for the owner and admins; Lending desk for those who may lend.

#Doing the daily work in the app

• Today — who needs you shows Collected today (owner and admin), Seats free now, Fees due, Needs you today with Renew or Take ₹… and Remind on WhatsApp, and Inside now with Check out.
• New admission has three steps — the member, Seat & time, then Payment — and ends on a receipt you can share on WhatsApp.
• Take fee / Renew asks "who?", then shows what they owe or lets you Renew with the same seat, or Change seat.
• Check in / out asks "who?" and flips them in or out. Check-in register shows any day.

#Scanning books with the phone

Tap a scan button ("Scan the barcode", "Scan the book", "Scan the member's card"). Hold the barcode on the back of the book, the copy's label or the member's card in front of the camera. Use Torch in a dark room, or Type it instead ("ISBN, copy number or member code") and Use this. A Bluetooth barcode gun paired to the phone works too.

• Issue a book: scan the book, choose the copy, scan the member's card (or Choose a member), check Due back, tap Issue book.
• Take back: on the Lending desk, scan the copy. You see "Book is back" and, if it is late, "Back. Fine to collect: ₹…".
• Books: Add book with Scan the barcode for the ISBN; on a book, Add copies, Scan copy labels and Print labels.

#Account, plan and payments

This screen shows your Name, Mobile, Library code, and your plan — Free trial with the days left, or Paid till a date. Tap Upgrade now (or Upgrade or pay), pick Monthly or Yearly, and pay. "Paid to MJX Technologies through Razorpay — UPI, cards or net banking." Basic keeps your remaining free trial days; Pro starts at once.

If the account is paused, the app shows what is owed (for example a WhatsApp bill) with Pay now and I have paid — check again.

#What is only on the website?

The app covers the desk, seats, members, money, lending, labels, setup and reports. Use the website to:

• download Excel (Pro) from Money or Reports;
• mark a copy Lost, Damaged or Withdrawn in the catalogue;
• add staff logins under Sidebar › Team › People.

#Questions people ask