How It Works
From signing up to taking your first booking and closing a return — a walkthrough of how RentJinie runs a rental business day to day.
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RentJinie follows the shape of a real rental job: something goes out, money changes hands, and it comes back — hopefully in one piece and on time. Here is what that looks like in the software.
1. Create your store
Sign up with your name, mobile number and business details, and pick what you rent out. That single step creates your user account, your organisation and your first store.
You are the Org Owner. From there you can add more stores and invite your team as Store Managers or Staff, each seeing only what their role allows.
2. Add your inventory
Add items with the variants that matter for your trade — size and colour for clothing, configuration for electronics and computers — each with its own stock count and pricing.
If you already keep a list in Excel, import it in bulk rather than retyping it. For high-value goods you can turn on piece-level tracking and follow individual units rather than a quantity.
- Per-variant stock and rates, so a size 42 sherwani is not confused with a size 38.
- Low-stock alerts before you promise something you do not have.
- Bulk Excel import to get your existing catalogue in quickly.
3. Take a booking
Pick the customer — or add them on the spot with their phone number and ID proof — choose the dates, and add items. Availability is checked live as you go, so double-booking is caught at the counter rather than on the morning of the event.
Record whether it is a delivery or a pickup, collect an advance or the full amount, and take a security deposit. A booking takes well under a minute once your inventory is in.
4. Handle the money
Payments are recorded as they happen — an advance now, the balance on handover, the rest later. UPI, cash, card and cheque are all supported, and the outstanding balance follows the customer rather than living in your head.
Invoices and receipts are generated as PDFs by the server, so the copy you hand over matches the copy in the system.
5. Close the return
On return, check the items back in piece by piece and record the condition of each. Anything damaged or missing can be charged against the booking, and late returns can attract a late fee.
The security deposit is then refunded or forfeited against those charges, with a record of why.
For clothing, a returned item goes into the cleaning workflow and stays blocked from re-booking until it is marked clean — so nothing goes back out unwashed.
6. See how the business is doing
Reports cover revenue, inventory utilisation, stock status, late returns and customers. Every one of them exports to Excel, so you can hand figures to your accountant without retyping anything.
Running it from your phone
There is a vendor app for iOS and Android alongside the web panel, because most of this happens away from a desk. Owners, managers and staff each sign in with their own account and see what their role permits.