Rental Barcodes and Rental Stickers - NMRP

When a book is rented, customer information is linked to the book’s rental record.  In addition, the specific copy of the book taken by the student can be identified by a unique rental barcode that’s assigned to it when rented.

For NMRP Rentals, rental barcodes are mandatory and must be assigned when the title is rented.

Dynamic Rentals

When renting dynamically, the cashier will scan the regular Bookland EAN barcode.  If the book has an active rental record, a ‘Rent or Sell’ prompt appears.  If the customer is renting, the cashier will select ‘Rent,’ place a dynamic sticker on the book and scan the rental barcode when prompted during the transaction.  Best practices include putting the rental sticker on the book before scanning it, placing rental stickers on the same location on each book and not covering the regular Bookland EAN barcode.

Dynamic Barcode Stickers

Dynamic rental barcodes are the rental barcodes that should be placed on books when stickering them at the time they are rented.  They are generic in that they do not include any book specific information such as author, title, price, etc., and can be placed on any book.  When printing them in PrismCore, they can be printed with or without the due date for a rental period.  Dynamic rental barcode stickers can also be ordered from Nebraska Book Company.

Additional Barcode Information

Rentals barcodes in PrismCore can be used from one rental period to the next.  This means, when a rental returned by a student for a previous rental period is rented again, you can scan the rental sticker already on the book.  If you do this, a history of all students who have rented the same copy will be recorded on the History tab in Rental Number Maintenance.

If you prefer to assign new rentals barcodes with each rental, when books are returned by students, be sure to remove the rental barcodes already on the books or render them unscannable by drawing a line through them.  By assigning new rental barcodes with each rental, you will build a one-to-one relationship of each rental barcode with a customer name.  The History tab in Rental Number Maintenance will show only one name per rental barcode.

The rental barcodes are designed so that, if you receive books from Nebraska Book Company and the books have a rental barcode on them that was created using by any store using PrismCore, you could use that rental barcode as well.