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I am trying to find the best product type to be used for "rental products" I have tried product types "Consumable", "storable" and even "Service" but not sure what is the best product type. I am looking for rental of heavy machinery so stock replishment is not an issue.

Will appreciate the comments from the Rental app users.

Anurag

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Hi,

The product type depends on what you are renting out.

For Eg: if you are renting out office space or auditorium, there is no physical stock for this. For this type, you can select product type as Service

In your case, you are renting out machinery, so it's better to select the product type as Storable. By selecting the product type as Storable you can manage the stock. If you enable traceability By Unique Serial Number, you can keep track of each machine and you can know which machine is with which customer. If there is a unique serial number in the machine you can use that or else you have to give a unique number to each machine.

Hope this helps

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Thanks Baiju I am looking at rental of heavy machinery such as Cranes each having its own identification, not something bought often. So I am leaning towards use of Service.

Yes, you can use the service type. It's okay if you don't want traceability. Please consider the case that you want to know which Crane got more booking in a period of time or who had a specific Crane at a specific point of time. You can generate these kinds of reports easily if you have a traceability feature.

Let's consider one more case:- I assume these cranes have their registration number. And in the future, you want to add service, maintenance, and fuel consumption to the system for generating detailed profit reports of individual cranes. In this case, it's better to have additional customization to integrate the Fleet with the Rental module.

So I think, it depends on what functionality you want to have.

May I know if this makes sense?

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Biaju

Really appreciate your helpI completely agree with you. We have arund 50 cranes and I plan to create a product/equipement for each with individual serial / registration numbers to allow tracebility.

And I am thinking along the line of adding service, maintanance, fuel consumption etc and have tried to look for relevant info but did not succeed. As you said the answr could be customization. I am juststrating with Odoo, so not much knowlwdge in customziation yet (may need external help in that area).

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