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Patio | Core Concepts
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Core Concepts
Core Concepts
Understand the core building blocks of Patio.
🧱 Core Concepts of Patio
Core Concepts of Patio (Overview) Patio is built around a practical workspace flow: prepare catalog, serve customers, ru...
🏷️ Products
Products Products are the catalog foundation of Patio. A product defines what your organization offers for rental or sal...
📦 Inventory units
Inventory items are the actual, physical units you own and manage. Each inventory item belongs to a product and represen...
🧰 Maintenance
You can put items to maintenance if they need to be repaired for instance. To create a new maintenance ticket, click on ...
📅 Rental rules
Rental rules define how your items can be rented. They control the conditions of a rental, such as rental duration, pric...
👤 Customer
Customer Customers are the people your organization serves through rentals, sales, memberships, and related payments. In...
📄 Pages
TODO https://patio.so/docs/getting-started/policies-697263d93e56093c153b229a
🛡️ Policies
TODO https://patio.so/docs/getting-started/pages-6972631b2b5e38d266755e0c https://patio.so/docs/core-concepts
🧾 Orders
Orders represent a complete transaction with a customer. An order brings together everything that happens during a check...
🏢 Locations & sections
Locations and sections help you organize where items are stored and managed. A location represents a physical place, suc...
🎟️ Memberships
Memberships define the access rules and benefits for your users. A membership lets you offer subscriptions or passes (da...
💳 Transactions
Transactions represents the monetary transfers that occurs for your workspace. There is 3 types of transactions: Credit ...
👛 User balance
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🔐 Access control
Access Control helps you decide who can see and manage different parts of your workspace. What you can do Choose a role ...