Not everything in kids' rentals fits into "a counter reading" or "a wristband at the entrance." A trampoline sold by jumps with no fixed duration, an electric car that carries one child at a time — RentOS has a separate mode for that, "Launches": not a reading, not time spent, but the actual fact of a ride, recorded the moment it happens.
Untimed — a Digital Version of the Tally-Mark Notebook
The simplest rate is literally called that in the interface — "Untimed": one tap on the asset — one ride recorded, instantly. The employee picks a payment method, and that's it — no readings to enter, nothing to remember until the end of the shift. It's essentially a direct digital replacement for the paper notebook with tally marks that many points still use by hand — except this "notebook" never gets lost, never tears, and tallies itself up.
Timed — When a Ride Is Limited by Time
The second option is "Timed": the rate has several duration-and-price options, the employee picks the right one at the start, and the asset's tile shows a countdown. 30 seconds before it runs out, the tile already starts blinking — the warning comes ahead of time, not at the last moment. When time's up, the tile signals with sound, vibration, and pulsing — even if the employee is looking at a different screen of the app at that moment: the warning about a ride ending pops up no matter where the employee currently is, whether it's "Launches" or "Stays" — both modes share the same timer engine.
One Asset, One Ride at a Time — Enforced by the Server
An electric car physically can't carry two children at once — and RentOS won't let you start a new ride on an asset while the previous one is still open. This isn't a hint in the interface you can ignore — the server will reject the attempt to start if the asset already has an open ride.
The 30 Seconds That Stop People From Cheating the Till
Timed rates have a detail that's hard to invent unless you've run into real fraud at a rental point: there's a 30-second window between stopping a ride and confirming the payment method. This protects against a specific scheme: stopping the timer early, while the child is still riding, to record a cheaper, shorter ride on paper and pocket the difference. If the payment isn't confirmed within those 30 seconds, the ride automatically goes back to "in progress" — you can't game the system by pausing it.
The Till — Per Asset, With a Live "Difference"
At results submission, the calculated revenue for "Launches" is shown separately for each asset, not as one lump sum for the whole zone — and right next to it you immediately see the gap between that and what the employee actually put in as cash. There are quick-fill buttons with the expected amount, but they're just a hint, not an auto-filled number: the real cash recount stays independent of the calculation — otherwise the reconciliation loses its point. And as long as even one timed ride is still running, results can't be submitted for the zone — the system will state exactly how many rides need to be finished first.
Who It's For
Launches is for everything sold as a single go that fits neither a cumulative counter nor a wristband at the door: trampolines sold «by the jump», electric cars, karting.
What decides is not the equipment but who takes the money. If the same person who took the payment also started the ride there and then — that's Launches. If the cashier takes the money and another person starts the ride — that's already Tickets: sale and visit are separated, and what links them has to be an order number, not a staff member's memory. This choice is covered in detail in the article on revenue control in a small amusement park.
The timer engine behind Launches is the same one behind Stays — which means that if a site has, say, trampolines run by launches and a separate playroom run by time, both formats work on the same proven mechanics rather than on two different systems inside one back office.
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