Guest fills out a paper rental card or form; guest goes to a salespoint where an operator sells the guest a rental item; operator enters the guest information off of the paper card; operator finalizes the sale; a rental barcode may or may not be printed based on using pre-printed Rental forms or not; guest proceeds to a TechStation.

Any salespoint that finalizes rental sales needs to have the following inserted in the local Sales32c.INI file:

 

 

Replace the 0.0.0.0 with the IP address of the computer where RentEZ application is installed (RentEZ is usually installed on the rental shop server, so be sure to configure the correct IP address if there is more than one rental shop/RentEZ install.) These settings are not necessary if a salespoint only saves sales with rental items. The connection to RentEZ is really only necessary upon the finalization of the rental items.

There are three other optional settings:

 

 

The RentalShop setting can be used to automatically select the appropriate rental shop based on where the sale takes place. If a guest is purchasing rentals from within a rental shop, it makes sense to insert this setting for the current shop so that operators do not have to specify the shop location for rental purchases. However, in reservation centers that save rental sales, it is good to remove this setting. This forces the reservation center operator to select the appropriate rental shop for the guest. Then, reports such as the Rentals Arrivals Report can be run per shop based on the selection made during the reservation process.

The RequireShoeSize setting can be used to force the entry of a shoe size for a guest.

The DefaultLevel setting can be used to always assume a certain skier type (1, 2 or 3) as opposed to forcing the operator to select a type. Skier types for existing guests are maintained even with this setting in place.