--- David E Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> 
> Is there a reason why this wouldn't work or that you
> wouldn't want to  
> use what is already implemented?
> 
> -David

The way that rental is currently implemented utilzes
the manufacturing concept of production capacity to
show availability.  This is a fine way to think about
it if your "production capacity" is fixed.  However,
when renting items (especially of low value) you are
constantly replenishing your stock.  The processes
that calculate serialized inventory appear to do a
much better job of handling product availability. 
Where it's simply updating the status of the inventory
item from "Available" to "Delivered" to "Available".  

For my use rental of these items only differ from the
sale of serialized product in how you're charging the
customer and that it will be returned (the return date
is unknown).  So if that's the only difference, why
handle it so radically different?

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