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Doug Stoddart

Doug Stoddart

CEO & Founder

Product Update May 2018: Customer registration, rider information, hold-back inventory, re-ordering items

Welcome, BRM users!

We are continuously improving our bike rental management software to make your rental business even better and easier to manage. Here you will find the latest list of product updates and feature releases. Check back often to make sure you are making most of BRM benefits. You can find the full list of updates in the Knowledge Base.

MAY 2018

LET CUSTOMERS DO REGISTRATION WHILE THEY WAIT IN YOUR SHOP

Here’s what’s new/improved:

  • Free up your time and let customers register themselves on tablets while they wait

Why you’re going to love this:

  • Cut the queue down and speed up the rentals. Customers like to be useful and get faster service.
  • Registration per cyclist rather than a group.
  • Get more information, like email address, for your marketing efforts.
  • Select what fields you want to use.
  • Available in multiple languages.

https://bikerentalmanager.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/42000027363-self-registration

Customer registration Bike Rental Manager

COLLECT RIDER INFORMATION PER BIKE / SKI

Here’s what’s new/improved:

  • You can now collect information on item level that flows from (online) booking to back-office.

Why you’re going to love this:

  • You can easily find information in the booking to set items up as requested per rider, like weight and height. Or shoe size for ski boots etc.
  • All the information in the booking, so no more lost information.
Read the support article to find out how to set it up:

ONLINE BOOKING: HOLD BACK SOME OF YOUR AVAILABLE INVENTORY

Here’s what’s new/improved:

  • Choose a % of your inventory to keep reserved for back-office bookings only.

Why you’re going to love this:

  • If you are often sold out, you might find that it helps to keep a small percentage of your bikes reserved in case of broken bikes, late returns etc.
  • Gives you flexibility to reserve some stock for your walk-in customers.
Read the support article to find out how to hold back inventory:

https://bikerentalmanager.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/42000026925-does-the-system-hold-back-a-percentage-of-inventory-when-taking-bookings-online-

ONLINE BOOKING: RE-ORDER YOUR BIKES AND EXTRAS

Here’s what’s new/improved:

  • You can now easily change the order of how your bikes and extras are displayed in online booking.

Why you’re going to love this:

  • Gives you freedom to choose which products to display in which order.
  • Promote bikes (display on top) that you have a good availability for, high margin bikes to increase your revenue or new stock.
Read the support article to find out how to re-order items:

https://bikerentalmanager.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/42000025847-setting-the-order-of-your-product-lines

ONLINE BOOKING: AVAILABLE IN DANISH

Here’s what’s new/improved:

  • Online booking tool is now available in Danish.
Want another language? Contact sari@bikerentalmanager.com

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