Rental (Legacy) – Xentral help center

Legacy module

The module described in this article has been marked as a legacy module. This means the following:

We don’t create new features for this module or fix any bugs.
The module is not available anymore in Xentral instances (demo or licensed) created after 28-Sep-2022. If you as a new user have special requirements that could only be fulfilled by this module, please contact our customer support team to discuss a solution.

For more information, see also Why is Xentral deprecating some modules (Legacy modules) and what does this mean for you?

Note

This app has the Special label. That means the app is developed for a special use case that may not be suitable for every customer.

Rental With the “Rental” and “Commission/Consignment warehouse” modules, all articles that are currently rented can be viewed in a list. This module integrates the “Commission/Consignment warehouse” module.

Thanks to the additional indication of the rental period and to a comment field in the order item, in the “Commission /Consignment Warehouse” module you can quickly see which articles are still at the customer’s premises or which articles are overdue.

Entering the rental date in the order

As soon as a commission warehouse is selected for the order, the rental period can be saved when editing an order position, together with a comment.

If the order is now processed via the logistics process, the order and its articles end up in the selected consignment warehouse. The rental data can be further viewed under App Center → Commission/Consignment Warehouse → Articles.

Article tab in the Commission/Consignment warehouse module

Here you can see all articles and their rental data from the order positions.

Filter

Overdue articles: It displays all entries whose “Rental date to” exceeds the current date

Continue editing article

With the curved arrow, an interface appears with which you can either continue this position as an invoice or to store it back.

Transferring articles

With the minus symbol the articles can be transferred from the commission warehouse. In doing so, you will jump to the stock transfer dialog with the article and quantity from the commission warehouse filled in.

The “Next” button will take you to the temporary storage and from there you can distribute the article further.

Editing the rental data

With the Edit icon that appears in the line you can further edit the rental data.

Rental article in the dispatch center

If a delivery note is processed with a logistics process via the dispatch center, then the rental data is also displayed to make it easier to assign the items.