Guest proceeds to Self Entry and enters information; guest then goes to a salespoint where an operator adds rental items to the sale; when prompted the operator selects the correct guest record from the Self Entry list in order to attach the guest to the rental item; operator finalizes the sale; a rental ticket with a Rental form barcode and guest information is printed (this isn’t absolutely required if using pre-printed Rental forms to generate Rental form numbers, but typically with self-entry a rental ticket that includes guest information and the Rental form barcode is printed); guest proceeds to a TechStation.

In reservation situations, when an operator has already collected guest information during the creation of the reservation, there is no need for the guest to go to Self Entry before proceeding to a salespoint.

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 make 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.

In order to activate Self Entry in Sales, there are a few settings that need to be added to the Sales32c.INI file.

 

 

The Sales32c.INI SelfEntryPath setting points to the shared Self Entry folder on the rental server and specified in the web.config DataFilePath setting. The Sales screen action macros SELECTLAST()CHECKSELFENTRY() must be configured on all rental items that can have Self Entry records attached. This macro is used to pull up the list of unused Self Entry records when the rental item is added to the sale so that the operator can select the appropriate guest from the list of Self Entry records.

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 rental shop 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.