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Updated: 21/05/2019 | By:Magenest | Support Portal: http://servicedesk.izysync.com/servicedesk/customer/portal/54 

Introduction

Rental System for Magento 2 by Magenest is a powerful rental management system. Along with typical products for selling, merchants are able to create products for renting such as clothes, books, cars, etc.

Features for Admin

• Easily create a rental product with a new product type - Rental product
• Set rental period for products: hour(s), day(s)
• Set the rental price for fixed rental period and additional rental time
• 2 delivery types: shipping or store pickup
• Set the address for store pickup and lead time for shipping

• Additional options for rental products with fixed price or based on rental hours

• Set advanced reservation period and maximum rent duration for rental products

• Set store’s days off and available hours for renting

• Add store’s rental policy

• Create and assign email templates for rental receipt with unique identification code

• Track stock qty, available qty and times rented of rental products

• View and change status of rental orders

• Change the calendar's locale settings

Features for Customers

• Choose flexible rental duration and multiple options
• View local pickup locations with integrated google maps
• View personal rental history and status

System Requirements

Add a new rental product

 On the admin sidebar, go to Catalog > Magenest Rental Management > Rental Products.

 On the Manage Rental Products page, admin can edit or delete available rental products on list gird. Export using CSV and Excel XML are supported.

 To add a new rental product, click on Add Rental Product button, go to New Product page.

• Set the basic configuration for the new product such as name, quantity, category, image.
  

 Expand the Renal section to set the rent functions for the product.

 Rental Price

• • Base price and Base block (required): Set the rental price for each rental period/duration (odd duration are treated as extra block/period). The base rental price will override the product’s base price value.

  • Additional price and additional block (optional): Set a different price for an additional duration which exceeds the base block.

    For example, the base price for Lady Dress is $10 for 5 days. From the 6th day, the additional charge for the Lady Dress is $5 per day.

• • Rental price calculation:

    • Without additional block: (duration/base block) rounded up, then multiply by base price.

    • With additional block:

    • • If the duration is smaller or equals base block: base price

      • If the duration is longer than base block: Base price + [(duration - base block)/(additional block) rounded up, then multiply by additional price]

Delivery type

• • Maximum rent duration (days): If empty, products will use default maximum rent duration value from Store Configuration.

  • Delivery Type: select a delivery type for rental products. There are 3 options: Shipping, Local Pickup and Both.

  • If choose Shipping, set the lead time. Customer cannot start renting during the lead time period. Lead time is displayed on the product page.

  • If choose Local Pickup, enter an address that customer can get the rental products. The address will be displayed on the product page on Google map.

Email Setting

Select a template for receipt email. Admin can choose between default template or another customized template (created from Marketing -> Email Templates). Default email template is as follows:

{{template config_path="design/email/header_template"}}

<p>{{trans "Your rental order from %store_name." store_name=$store.getFrontendName()}}</p>
<ul>
	<li><strong>{{trans "Product: "}}</strong> <em> {{var title}}</em></li>
	<li><strong>{{trans "Order: "}}</strong> {{var order_id}}</li>
	<li><strong>{{trans "Customer: "}}</strong> {{var customer_name}}</li>
	<li><strong>{{trans "Code: "}}</strong> {{var rental_code}}</li>
	<li><strong>{{trans "Rent From: "}}</strong> {{var start_time}}</li>
	<li><strong>{{trans "Rent To: "}}</strong> {{var end_time}}</li>
	<li><strong>{{trans "Qty: "}}</strong> {{var qty}}</li>
	<li><strong>{{trans "Delivery type: "}}</strong> {{var rent_type}</li>
	<li><strong>{{trans "Additional Option: "}}</strong> {{var additional_options}}</li>
</ul>

{{template config_path="design/email/footer_template"}}

Hold

• • Hold: Set the maximum reserved and waiting for payment quantity.

This feature changes how unpaid orders can affect the rentable qty of the product. If you don't want unpaid orders to affect the rentable quantity of other customers, set hold to 0. If you want unpaid orders to fully affect the rentable quantity of other customers, set hold equal to the total quantity of the rental product.

Example: rental product has qty = 10, hold =5. A customer placed an order for the duration X to Y with qty = 10, but haven't paid. Hold qty for the product in duration X to Y will be whichever number is smaller between unpaid qty and hold qty, or min(unpaid, hold) = min(10, 5) = 5. 

Another customer looking to rent in this duration can rent maximum (stock qty - qty in hold - paid qty) = (10 - 5 - 0) = 5 products. However if the first customer pays for their order, then hold becomes 0 but paid qty becomes 10, so other customers can rent maximum (stock qty - qty in hold - paid qty) = (10 - 0 -10) = 0 product. as in product will be out of stock in this duration.

 Note: the Hold setting here will override the same setting on the configuration page.

Additional Options

• • Admin can add unlimited additional items that customers can rent with the main product. 
  • The option price can fixed, or calculated per day/per hour.

Manage Rental Orders 

 On the admin sidebar, go to Sales > Rental Orders. On Manage Rental Orders page, admin can view orders, send receipt and change rental order status manually.

 There are some default status of rental orders:

• Pending: Customers place a rental order successfully.
• Delivering: Rented items are being shipped to billing address.
• Delivered: Customers receive the rented items.
• Returning: Rented items are in the way back to store.
• Complete: When items already back in store.
• Cancel: When the rental order is canceled while being pending.
  
   Note: When an invoiced rental order is canceled, it remains in the recent status.

Store front function

 View rented quantity on product detail page

On the rental product page, customers can view the quantity of rents on that product.

 Select rental options and checkout

Customers can select additional options for rent then accept the policy (if required) to create a rental order.

 Select delivery type 

Customer can select delivery type between Shipping and Local Pickup.

 View rent details

On the cart page, customers can view the rental order with details about the addtional options and time period.

 View personal rented orders on grid or calendar

On  My Account page, customers can view their own rented order on the grid or calendar depending on the back-end settings.