Managing your reservations
The reason BRM / RSM is so powerful is that it actually helps you actively manage your rentals all the way through from planning & scheduling to the service delivery element and beyond.
But of course there are many things you need to manage about a rental.
Don't worry you don't need to master all this at once - just know that the system can handle it!
Natural lifecycle
reservations will normally progress through a pre-defined path; provisional, confirmed, checked out, checked in. Along the way certain things will normally happen;
adding customer information
adding equipment setup information & notes
adding extras
adding payments as they occur
printing your reservations
waivers / disclaimers
tracking it though its lifecycle changes
handling security deposits
handling deliveries
Dealing with change
We always say that there is one certainty in the rental business; *hit happens! Customers are late, don't turn up at all, break stuff, lose stuff, steal stuff! Pretending that doesn't happen would be ridiculous which is why its built right into the solution.swapping bikes (or adding / removing)
extending rentals (or changing dates)
changing prices
early returns
bikes getting broken / lost / stolen
cancelling a reservation
inventory changing - broken, stolen, sold etc