How to get an overview of your inventory?

In this article, you will learn how to use the Sharefox rental system to manage your inventory and warehouse, and how to keep a better track record by using a calendar solution to see if the equipment is available or not.

A rental company requires an efficient and user-friendly system to have control over your entire product inventory – availability and distribution. Sharefox inventory management system is integrated with your ordering service, and helps you handle both online orders and administrator reservations. You will learn:

How to enter and update inventory / inventory?
How to see if furniture is available.

Any questions?

How to enter and update inventory / inventory?

All products, accessories and sales items need an inventory. This is controlled under the menu item ” inventory “.

In the overview screen inventory => MAIN PRODUCTS / ACCESSORIES you get a quick overview of the number of rental units that exist under each product and you can replenish your stock.

Filter – At the top right you can filter by products – Main Products, accessories – Accessories or sales products.

Stock – number of units

Buffer – number of virtual units (units with acquisition time, but which can be booked)

Use% – utilization rate

Capacity – The calendar can be used to check the available capacity for each product. The calendar shows the number of units booked out of the total number available.

Change and update rental inventory

To update the inventory, press ITEMS to the right of each product and a list of individual rental units will appear.

To add a new device, select ADD.

ID – automatically provided by the system
Status – Active / Inactive – can be booked by customers, Inactive – can not be booked, and is used if the product is under repair or something
Type Actual / Virtual – Actual is a real product that you have in stock, virtual is a product with acquisition time. How many days the acquisition time is controlled under the product’s settings.
Location – You must allocate a product to a department in order to be booked.
Supplier name – name of the supplier of the product
S.product id – the product ID – is used if you need to allocate a product to an order. For example, a registration number on a trailer
S. product name – for example model number
Note – enter notes that accompany each object. For example: out for service

Sales products / Purchasing overview for consumables

Sales products provide a purchasing overview that is managed and added in bulk. Here is an explanation of the possibilities:

Items in stock – Quantity in stock
Reorder level – minimum before new order
Last order – When you ordered / updated the inventory last time
Last quantity – How many you ordered last time
Last purchase price – Last purchase price
Report – Executes a shopping list that you can download in excel

To edit the list, it is done per product.

For the first time, you put a new stock. This is done by pressing UPDATE> RESET STOCK LEVEL.

Then you choose how many you have in stock. Can also be used to correct exact inventory along the way.

For purchasing and replenishing new inventory, you can select UPDATE> ADD ITEMS

It is important to note that the number of units is the number of new units to be added. These are added to the number you have in the inventory from before, but do not apply when setting up the product for the first time – then RESET STOCK LEVEL must be used.

How do I see if the product is available?

You can see if products are available from the webshop / online store page or inside the admin page.

Website

The customer can check availability on the website. Touch the product you want to see and select the date. The calendar opens and shows what are available times for rent.

The picture shows that April 17 and 18 are busy.

Administrator – Inventory overview

If you are an administrator, you can also go to the inventory page “Inventory”, from there you can see all the products and can see how much they have been rented out (utilisation rate), how many have been rented out and when they have been rented out.

Learn more about the rental software

Go to Sharefox Academy

faq

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Yes. You can create orders manually in the admin system. You will be able to select the customer, product, rental dates, payment methods and place the order.

The Sharefox team have extensive experience from running rental businesses. In fact, they started out operating their own rental business.

Yes. With your admin access, you can edit or delete an incorrect order from your sales report.

Yes. Sharefox has comprehensive marketing features that enable you to reach more customers. They include a product description module, blog and news feature and integrated social media channels that allow you to promote your business. You can also integrate data collection and analytics tools to improve your marketing efforts.

Yes. You can create orders received offline into the Sharefox equipment rental software. You can select the customer, the product ordered, and the payment method with a few clicks.