I need to setup a process to manage short term rentals. I have investigated the lease contract option, but it requires Fixed Asset setup and a large amount of transaction overhead.

The best option I have found thus far is to use a Loan sales order followed by a service charge sales order. It allows me to keep track of the inventory of the loan items, and charge a service fee for the rental. This process, however, requires generating two sales order documents for each rental transaction - one for keeping track of inventory, and one to invoice the customer.

Has anyone come up with a more efficient way to deal with short term rental transactions?