What's New:
Sycor.Rental Spring Release 2025

March 14, 2025

Sycor.Rental for the challenges rental businesses experience.

As with every Microsoft D365 Finance & Supply Chain release, we published our Sycor.Rental Spring Release on March 14, 2025.

This release includes new features and improvements for our customers. The developments to extend the mobile app, particularly regarding the field service features, are extensive. We are pleased that some features originally planned for the Fall release 2025 have already been implemented this spring.

Here is a selection of features included in the Spring Release 2025:

Minimum Rental / Consideration of Returned Rental Inventory in the Invoice Beyond the Billing Period:

In some of our customer projects, the wish was expressed that the rental inventory returned should be included in an invoice if the rental end date (deregistration date) is only in a future invoicing period (in the context of minimum rental periods; see Figure 1). To support this, a new rental parameter has been introduced: "Invoice returned items up to the rental end date", which allows this functionality to be enabled or disabled.

Sycor.Rental Spring Release 2025 — *Figure 1: Example of the minimum rental feature invoicing*

Support for Unified Pricing in Sales

Microsoft has developed a new and very powerful module for the uniform administration of pricing. This can be activated via the function management. Similarly, we have adapted Sycor.Rental functions for standard sales so that the new module can be used. Due to low demand, we have not extended the pricing of rental transactions in Sycor.Rental for the time being. However, we have ensured that Sycor.Rental will continue to function and can be used as usual when the new module is activated.

Find more information about Microsoft’s new module here

Update of Sycor.Rental Mobile App Field Service-Features:

We are continuing development on the mobile app within the Field Service module. A lot has happened "under the hood" once again:

Since Microsoft released a new framework update, we also had to perform a codebase upgrade to .NET MAUI 9 and apply 3rd party framework updates (codebase "Up 2 Date").
We have implemented text size scaling in the app to ensure optimal display across all font sizes.
In the extended order details, we’ve added an additional customer contact field to store, for example, the contact details of a site worker.
For deliveries/delivery note booking, there is now a serial number registration. When the driver wants to register a delivery, the unloaded serial number must be scanned and then confirmed.
Furthermore, developments on offline functionalities have continued.

*Figure 2: Extensions of the Mobile App Field Service Features*

Workshop Order Status Based on Order Status or Spare Parts Availability

There is now an information on the workshop order showing whether all required spare parts are already available, making it immediately clear whether the work (repair/maintenance) can begin.

Financial Tags in Rental Invoices

Financial tags are not an entirely new feature from Microsoft. They allow transactions to be analyzed based on keywords ("tags"). Until now, financial tags were not transferred from the order to the rental invoice. Thanks to enhancements in our SRT-projects (Sycor.Rental-projects), the use of financial tags is now also possible in the rental area.

Disposition Board Markers

A new feature allows the creation of appointment-specific or appointment-independent markers, which are then displayed as a symbol/icon in the appointment area. The chosen visualization is intended to alert the user that an event is occurring, or, for example, a To-Do is due (see Figure 3).