Reservations are primarily setup to manage the Party Packs or Jumping Castle Hire. Any toy that needs to be borrowed out for a particular date range, e.g. a birthday party or open day, Reservations are a great way to “lock in” those toys. For all other popular toys I would suggest the “Hold” feature that provides a waiting list type of process of first in first served.

Settings

reservations = Yes

1. Create a toy category with category code JC (don't use another code as there is code in mibase that references the category JC), and description “Party Packs” or “Jumping Castles”. to do this go to (blue buttons 3rd Column)

Toys - Select Boxes - Toy Categories

then add the category as below

2. Create a Loan Type, so mibase knows it is in the Party Pack group, go to (blue buttons 3rd Column)

Toys - Select Boxes - Loan Types

Add a new Loan Type called JC and a description Jumping Castle or Party Pack.

3. Now that your loan types and categories are setup, you can add a new toy to reservations list, go to

Toys - New Toy

select save then select “edit Toy” from the popup box

Add a toy description and an optional alert

Allocate to the Loan Type JC

then set the toy as a reservation toy

The Reservation List in Admin should have the new toy in its list (purple Reservations button on menu bar)