rental-centric system
BRM / RSM is a rental-centric system.
Meaning that it's all about your rental tickets.
Rental tickets are what you sell. (stuff for a defined period of time, for a price)
BUT underpinning each rental is your inventory.
So, most of the time you will be operating on rentals.
- creating rentals
- recording payments,
- checking out, checking in. etc
BUT sometimes you care about individual inventory items too.
normally for these 3 reasons:
- Item preparation - set up your kit the way the customer needs it.
- Item availability - you can't take a reservation if you can't fulfil the order
- logistics - getting the right kit int the right place at the right time
As such it's really two systems in one, cleverly linked in all the right places: