Item Types > Rental (4)

A rental-type item is used with the standard Rental feature. If used with the standard application rental feature, you may define many different rental products. Rental products can be assigned rates on the Branch and Pricing tabs. These items must allow returns (see the Branch and Codes tab) and track on-hand quantities (see the Common and Codes tab). Please see the Rental help topic for further information regarding Item related settings.

When used with the Enfinity by Solutions software, there is typically one generic rental item. This item can be given any code (SKU). Users don't enter or select the "rental" item, so there's no need for this item to be easy to remember, but it's probably best to distinguish it from other items so that it isn't used accidentally outside of an actual rental transaction. The rental item is automatically associated with the selected rental ticket when using the Import (F3) function and selecting Rental Contract in Point of Sale, Sales.

In the database, the InventoryCommon table contains a column named ItemType that maintains an integer (whole number) value. The integer represents an enumeration (number code) used to indicate the item type. "Rental" type items have an ItemType value of four (4).