Help Hub

ToolShed Market

ToolShed Market is where you Borrow, Lend, Buy, or Sell tools with your neighbors — four equal ways to get and move the tools your projects need.

Borrowing a Tool

Browse tools available in your community and request what you need.

Lending a Tool

Share your tools with neighbors. You control who, when, and how.

Buying a Tool

Buy used tools neighbors have listed for sale. Browse or search, review the listing, message the owner, and coordinate the handoff — new-tool shopping is unavailable while partner integrations are pending.

Selling a Tool

List used tools for sale and manage them from your Seller Dashboard — active listings, sales in progress, and sold history. ToolBud does not handle checkout, payment, escrow, or shipping.

Tool Detail

Understand every field on a tool card and why details matter for borrowers and owners alike.

Borrow & Lend Sessions

Understand pending, adjusted, active, returned, and closed borrow/lend sessions.

MyToolBelt

Plan your project. Queue up the tools you need before you request.

MyToolBox

Your personal tool inventory for owning, lending, importing, and listing used tools for sale.

Projects

Plan a job with Bud, browse project ideas, and ask your community for project help.

Planning a project with Bud

Use the project planner for conversational project intake and saved project work.

Get Help From Your Community

Choose the right community-help option for advice, referrals, helping hands, paid neighbor tasks, and borrowing fallback asks.

Friends

Connect with neighbors you know and trust. Build your community.

Inviting Friends and Neighbors

Grow your community by inviting neighbors you trust. Here is how invite codes work.

ToolBud Home

See what's happening in your neighborhood from ToolBud Home. Tools shared, projects done.

Inbox & Messages

Use Inbox to coordinate pickups, returns, system updates, archived threads, and deleted-thread recovery.

Importing Your Tools

Import your purchase history and review what ToolBud finds before it lands in MyToolBox.

Safety & Etiquette

Community standards for trusted local sharing.

When Something Goes Wrong

Damage, late returns, and what ToolBud does and does not do.

Blocking and Reporting Someone

How to stop contact from a member, and how to report conduct.

FAQs

Answers to the questions neighbors ask most.

Setting Up Your Account

What each step of joining ToolBud asks for, and why.

Signing In and Password Trouble

Sign-in options, resetting your password, and getting unstuck.

Your Privacy and Data

What you can see, change, download, and delete.

Deleting Your Account

How deletion works, what it removes, and what it keeps.

Joining, Leaving, and Changing Community

How community membership works and what changes when you leave.