Overdue indicators
Active loans show a color-coded days lent badge so you can spot loans that have been out a long time at a glance.
The colors
| Color | Days lent | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 🟢 Green | 0–14 days | Within a reasonable lend window. |
| 🟡 Amber | 14–30 days | It’s been a while — consider following up. |
| 🔴 Red | More than 30 days | Long-term loan, possibly forgotten. |
The badge shows on each entry in the Active tab of the Lending Tracker, and on the Lent Out banner on the manga detail page.
Why these thresholds?
The 14-day boundary roughly matches a “casual lend, took a few weeks to read” timeline. The 30-day boundary suggests “this is now a long-term loan or has slipped someone’s mind.”
The thresholds are deliberately generous — we don’t want to nag you about every loan. Red is for loans you’d genuinely want to think about following up on.
Due dates and overdue
If you set a due date when lending, the indicators are still color-based on days lent, not days past due. We treat days lent as the primary metric because most lends don’t have explicit due dates.
A future update may add a separate “overdue past due date” indicator for lends with explicit due dates.
Notifications for overdue loans
When push notifications launch, you’ll be able to opt into reminders when a loan crosses the amber or red thresholds. Until then, manually check the Active tab periodically.
To enable push:
- Open Settings → Notifications.
- Toggle Lending Reminders on (when available).
Following up on a loan
If a loan is in amber or red and you want to ask the borrower about it:
- Friend borrower — Message them outside Manga Vault (we don’t have direct messaging in-app).
- External borrower — Whatever channel you originally arranged the loan over.
Manga Vault won’t message the borrower automatically. The reminders are for you to follow up.
”Forever loans” — keeping things tidy
If a loan has been red for months and you’ve effectively given up on getting it back, consider:
- Marking as returned to close the record (you can backdate the return).
- Deleting the volume from your collection to remove it entirely (since you don’t have it anymore).
Either keeps your collection accurate without dwelling on the loss.
I want different thresholds
The thresholds (14 / 30 days) aren’t currently configurable. Let us know if you’d find a custom threshold useful.
Tip: Use due dates for context
Even if you don’t set strict due dates, an arbitrary one (e.g., “1 month from today”) gives you a soft checkpoint and a reason to think about the loan again.