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# How do I rent equipment from a supplier with a rental order?

Are you renting a crane, a container or site fencing from a supplier? Then you create a **rental order**. That way you record what you rent, for which project, and when the rental starts and stops. In the rental planning you see per week all the equipment you rent.

| Do you rent out material or machines to your customers yourself? Then you do not use a rental order, but [rental tickets](https://support.robaws.com/en/article/rental-tickets-1awij99/).

## Creating a rental order

You create a rental order from a template of the Rental type, via **Add** (+) in the overview of your supply orders or from a project via the plus sign next to 'Supply orders' in the **Overview** block. Don't have a rental template yet? Then create one in the [settings](https://support.robaws.com/en/article/supply-orders-settings-zcmha1/#2-templates).

| Field | Explanation |
| ---- |
| Supplier, Contact | From whom you rent. |
| Start rental, Stop rental | When the rental starts and ends. |
| Loading address, Load at, Loading contact | Where and when loading takes place, and the contact person there. |
| Unloading address, Unload at, Unloading contact | Where and when unloading takes place, and the contact person there. |
| Reference | Your own reference. |

On the lines you fill in the rented item, the project, the quantity and the price.

#### No rental
Is the equipment not rented for a while, for example during the construction holiday? Add that period in the **No rental** tab, with **from**, **to** and a **Reason**. It also appears in the rental planning. To notify your supplier about it, create an email template for 'No rental period' in the settings.

## The rental planning

In the overview of your supply orders, click the **Rental** action button. You see every rental line per week, with an ascending aeroplane where the rental starts and a landing aeroplane where it ends. A green day is rented, a blue day is the last rental day, an orange day falls in a period without rental and a red day is not rented. With the search field you filter on supply order, supplier, project or rental item.

You do not see the **Rental** action button on a small screen.

## In the recalculation

A rental order does not count in the [recalculation](https://support.robaws.com/en/article/project-recalculation-1sitd2t/) of your project. The incoming invoice of your supplier does.