Here’s an overview of what’s new or changed in the latest version of RUX Rentals, including solution revisions. 

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New features & enhancements

New features and enhancements included in this release are: 

• Rental Contracts now includes a Rental Return List report that provides drivers with clear rental unit details and quantities to be returned, using a printable layout.
• The Rental Invoicing Worksheet now includes a Skip Zero Inv. Amts. field, which allows users to exclude rental contracts with a calculated invoice amount of zero.
• Dispatch Management includes the following enhancements:
  • Delivery and Pickup Loads can be archived upon deletion when enabled in Rental Management Setup. Archived loads are available in a searchable Archived Dispatch Loads list.
  • Open Dispatch Loads now support adding eligible rental units and sales lines directly from the load, allowing users to set Delivery or Pickup dispatch statuses and automatically generate planning lines. 
  • Open Delivery and Pickup Dispatch Loads can now be split using a Split Load action, automatically creating a new load for the same customer and contract with selected lines moved to the new load number and the planning lines are updated accordingly. 
  • Rental lines with blank Return Dates have been enhanced to manage full and partial dispatch pickups when Default Blank Return Date = Yes in Rental Management Setup.
• Rental Management now includes creating Sub Rental Purchase Orders for rental units linked to bulk items, enabling full and partial sub rental scenarios with correct line splitting, billing schedule copying, inventory validation, and smooth processing through shipping, returning, and invoicing. 
• A Pre-Lien tracking feature has been added with Pre-Lien Required and Pre-Lien Filed fields, that flow from rental management setup to customers, quotes, and contracts, are preserved when archived, copied, and transfer actions, and can be overridden as needed for accurate compliance management.
• A new Proration Days feature has been added, introducing a Proration Days field that displays the number of prorated days and can be added to Rental Amount Lines, Sales Lines, and Sales Invoice Lines using Personalize. On the Posted Sales Invoice lines, the Rental Unit No., Rental Unit Description, Starting Date-Time, and Ending Date-Time can as well be added using Personalize.
• The Close Contract action has been enhanced to display a confirmation message when a contract is successfully closed. If the contract cannot be closed, a detailed message is shown identifying which rental or sales lines are preventing the close. The message includes why the rental or sales lines prevented the closing of the contract.
• Rental Package cards now include the Inactive field on the General tab. Packages marked as Inactive are excluded from the Rental Package List and from the lookup list opened from the Rental Unit No. field on rental lines.

Solution revisions

Solution revisions included in this release are: 

• Rental Management now supports assigning Rental Attributes to defined positions, displaying them as searchable columns and filters on the Rental Units List, and exposing them through a dedicated, searchable page backed by a custom query. solution revisions 
• Sales lines entry enforces the Sales Blocked setting when Advanced Sales Line Shipping = No.
• Image analysis now correctly restricts the “Use as category” option when analyzing an image for a unit that is assigned to a group. 
• The Accrual Journal calculation now relies on the invoiced price for deferral calculations instead of the line price which can be modified after invoicing.

Known behavior - Pending revision

We’re investigating the below behavior:  

• When on a User Defined Billing Term, the first line has a Billing Method of Initial Billing, the rental term is a Fixed Fee and the Use Pricing from Setup is flagged, then the price on the unit price card for the term does not default to the rental line Billing Schedule line.
• When inserting a Rental Unit into a Price Allocation Package, the Package Line Amount Excl. Tax and Rental Unit Price on the new unit line are not correct.