You rent out one heating unit. You built it yourselves.

Before you can rent out heat, it has to be built

At the start there is an empty box trailer. You plan which heating unit it is to become: boiler, pumps, controls, tank, valves, connections. In Jobtura that is a job of its own of the type manufacturing, with its own quote, its own order confirmation, its own delivery note and its own invoice.

Whatever is not in the warehouse, you buy in. Several sources are stored for every article, each with the supplier article number, purchase price, minimum quantity and delivery time. The matching one is suggested during purchasing, so the price comparison needs no phone call.

Assembly and build carry their own planned dates, independent of the delivery date of the job. Scheduling works with both, and the production type controls which qualification the build needs.

At the end there is no longer a pile of bought in parts but a heating trailer that carries its own identifier as an individually tracked item.

Sell it or rent it out yourselves

Maybe the unit was built for a customer. Then it goes out as a new unit through quote, order, delivery note and invoice. Maybe you built it for your own rental fleet. Then it should stand at the customer as often as possible and earn turnover there.

Manufacturing, rental and sales are separate job types, each with its own document chain. They come together in the project: it bundles any number of jobs and sets costs, income and dates side by side across all of them.

Every hire line item carries its own period. The price follows from that and from the stored rate. Day factors weight individual calendar days, so weekends, public holidays and seasons are valued differently from a working day.

So the price comes out of rules instead of hand calculation, and every step stays traceable on the document, without anyone having to keep the arrangement in their head.

Back in the yard, and one day into sales

At some point the site is finished and the heating trailer comes back. The return records what actually comes back. Damage and late returns are held on file and can be passed on to the customer.

In the workshop, repairs and pending work run as service line items in the same job as the goods used for them. Movements between warehouse, deployment and workshop run along with them, so it is clear at any time where a unit currently stands.

Every inspection carried out produces a record with the result, the inspector and the date. If an item fails, it can be blocked and replaced by a spare unit: the order carries on, the item does not. Once released, the unit is ready again.

After a few years the sums turn around. The unit has many deployments behind it and has earned money, while the rental fleet is meant to get younger. Purchase price, average return and target residual value sit on the item, and the hire article becomes a used unit in a sales job.