Full Features
RENTAL SALES AND INVENTORY
FULL FEATURES

A system of FileMaker Pro® databases for video stores, equipment rental, or school lending.

Use as a front end system to check items in and out, or to make sales. Quickly report on what items are out, due, or late. Check items back in, individually or an entire transaction at once, by clicking in a list, or by entering an item code.

Point of Sale
- Find customers quickly in database and begin new sale.
- Customer previous balance due or alerts indicated.
- Type or swipe (bar coded) inventory code, or choose from inventory list, to enter rented items. Search for items of interest by description and click to enter into transaction.
- Multi-level pricing entered from inventory, based on days rented.
- Quantity available in inventory shown on transaction.
- Apply discounts to line items or entire transaction.
- Apply sales tax to line items or entire transaction.
- Rentals can be tagged as "Reservation" and do not subtract from stock levels.
- Renting conflicts are flagged (10 day window).
- Click "go" button to view details of rental conflict.
- Onscreen buttons, or keyboard scripted shortcuts, aid in data entry.
- Set data entry popup lists to your liking.
- No limit on the number of line items per transaction.
- Expanded view shows more transaction line items.
- Click, or keyboard command, to enter full payment.
- Unlimited number of partial payments.
- Several quick-entry buttons that can be customized.
- Entry of staff making transaction.
- Fields for delivery information.
- Miscellaneous fields to use for whatever.
- Multiple data entry screens to accommodate various screen resolutions.

- Choice of print form: half or full size page invoice, and delivery receipt
.

Inventory
- Multi-level pricing.
- Record categorization.
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Item rental activity information updated as it happens.
- Inventory value and return on investment calculated.

Customers
- Simple entry of customer information.
- Click from customer record to new rental.
- Customer rental history always available.
- Print labels, track membership.

Reports
- Quick daily report printing for cash-out.
- Sales Summaries by any date range.

- Report by category, turn over.

General
- Automated maintenance: delete old transactions while retaining rental data for return on investment calculation.
- Macintosh or Windows operating systems.
- Networkable: with multiple copies of FileMaker Pro you can share the databases over an ethernet network, wired and/or wireless.*
- Easy to understand: a basic file (database, table) structure of customers, inventory, and transactions with line items becomes a simple model to grasp, as opposed to jumping around in cryptic screens and dialogs.
- Expandable: remove features you don't want; add features you do want. Customization can be done by any knowledgeable FileMaker developer (including Ram Design).
- Password protected for various levels of user interaction - basic data entry, manager, and developer.
- Investment protection: FileMaker, Inc., maker of the underlying "database engine" FileMaker Pro, is strong player in the computer software
market. The company has become a leader in database software workgroup and enterprise computing, across all computing disciplines.
- Inexpensive: we have kept it simple, so you're not buying features you don't need or want. At the same time, we've covered the basic bases.


* Not available with self-running "runtime" version.