Environment of organisations and institutions working for another institution to represent their interests. Mostly found in the service sector.

Like a synonyme to "Object". It is something the lessor wants to rent to his customers.

Possibility to assign highly individual access rights to some employee accounts.

Available goods or articles in one stock.

A process in the accounting in which an invoice is created and the correlated bookings between customer and lessor are executed. Trading and taxing laws apply some mimimum standards to an invoice.

Exclusion of single rental objects out of any rental processes. For example, an rentalobject may be blocked from any rental transactions during a service check.

Part of the rental transaction where the rented object is reserved for the renting duration for money.

Conflicts that can occur for instance when an object is reserved to be rented at a time where it is already occupied by another customer.

Digital or analogue document in which all cash movements in our out of the company are documented.

In the rental business, check-in means to gather personal information of the customer before handing out the rental object, check-out means to state the end of the renting contract, maybe through handing back the car keys.

The claims or damage management covers all business actions related to the handling and processing of the damage case. from the admission of the damage notification to the clearification of the status as it is and the payout for one party.

All registered and active customers.

Processing coordinational and scheduling tasks to gather relevant information for the company leadership, for example budgetary planning, object listing. rentingforce comes up with some nice features here.

A place where costs were created and related services were delivered, usually your renting station. Can also be an abstract document which lists meaningfully ordered costs that can be administrated together.

Upcoming costs are categorizised in types of usage and split up. Some cost types may be administrated by seperate cost centers.

Currencies can or have to be converted to each other in international money transactions which occur permanently in some renting businesses like transporter renting or yacht renting. It has to be taken for granted that the price calculations don't differ depending on the country in which the bases are settled.

Sailing area or popular travelling area.

Different types of documets like invoices, rental contracts, data sheets, booking confirmation can be created and generated according to the rental requirements.

A domain or domain name is an identification string that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority or control within the Internet. A domain usually belongs to a legal entity an can be chosen almost freely (some naming rules still apply).

Automatically generated and delivered e-mails to advise employees of business processes and of need for action.

Access to the rentingforce software with different access rights for multiple employees of the lessor, which can be defined at will by the original rentingforce account owner.

A permanent establishment serves as a tax unit.

Sub part of the statistics: Sorting and structuring bigger amounts of data so knowlegde can be gained out of it.

Additional extra that doesn't originally belong to the renting object, but can be booked on top for some money.

Summary of all possibilities rentingforce provides for the lessor.

User interface to upload and manage file attachments to objects, bookings, users or transactions.

Interfaces in general allow the communication and set some communication standards between different (software) systems. In IT, this is realized through logical cut-sets which are defined in abstract ways so both systems can implement the interface and therefore control the commands and the data flow between the systems.

Facility in which the renting objects can be rented, picked up and brought back afterwards. So spoken, the leasing station is the place where all your renting business takes place.

(Mostly digital) document that automatically takes notes of all relevant processes going on inside of a software system like rentingforce. This is important for bugfixing, checking for software absuses or to create some useful user statistics.

rentingforce is available in several languages like German, English, French and Spanish. Other languages are still in progress.

Numbers for some documents like invoices can be generated by a schema or sometimes randomly.

Broader and more universal aggregation of objects and object groups to a specified category like compact cars, penthouses and so on.

All renting objects of the same precise type, eg. car model, type series with the same pricing.

Booking that was ordered through an online interface like a booking portal.

Payments through the internet. rentingforce offers the plugin to Braintree in that regard.

Administration of non-paid invoices and therefore balancing accounts

Additional extensions to the software that don't originally belong to the functional range of rentingforce, but can be developed or are already developed.

Process of calculating the price out of the price catalogue.

A set of all prices of all renting objects, including dependencies and special prices. The price catalogue is the basis for the price calculation of single objects.

General agreement between renter and lessor, in which the right of use of an object temporarily goes over from the owner (the lessor) to the contract partner (the renter) for money.

Objects for renting, like vehicles, yachts, machines, cars, boats, airplanes, motorbikes, quads, buildings, flats, holiday houses.

It's a lessor-defined period with special pricing conditions for some or for all objects. Sometimes the natural seasons are useful renting seasons as well, but depending on the business the seasons can be completly different

The whole business process of the renting itself, from the first request until handing back the object and managing the payments

The request of a customer to the lessor, for example if an object is available for rent at a specific time, or what he would need to pay for the leasing.

An object gets marked as "reserved". Its not necessary that an invoicing occurs for that, but often the reservation itself creates some costs as well.

Deeply modified calendar in the rentingforce software, where all booking processes with all related information can be accessed (booking duration, customer, object, extra conditions and so on). It is the central booking administration tool in rentingforce and is usable through drag&drop.

Automatic creation of an information document and its distribution to a list of e-mail adresses, for example the customers.

Temporarily or otherwisely limited discount for single objects or object groups, rarely for the whole object stock.

Once defined and possibly mandatory and universally valid, the standard price provides the basis of all further price calculations. The single object price for one renting process can still differ due to seasonal changes, special pricings and so on.

Inquiry and evaluation of masses of user data, for example booking processes, software usage, financial analysis and much more. rentingforce supports some nice statistic features.

Movement of articles from the warehouse to the customer.

Place (mostly a building) to store renting objects in an ordered fashion.

Business partner of the lessor who provides him with objects/articles (eg. extras) for further renting or sale.

Eg. invoice templates, rental contract templates, damage protocol templates etc. that are automatically generated depending on the rental transaction.

Transfer of an object to another renting station.

List in which the essential characteristics of the objects are documented. The list is used to check the status of an object after it is handed back to the lessor. If something is missing or not working, the customer can be called to account for the damage. Once a party confirmed the regular state of an object (like said in the transfers list), this party can no longer make claims on previously occured damage.

A document that describes the typical use cases and the functions of a software. The user help usually provides solutions for common problems in usage and is at best searchable.

Individually configurable web page that provides an online interface for customers to rent or reserve objects from the object stock of the lessor.