Essentials Update: Customizable Contracts+

Rental Essentials now allows you to customize your contracts.

If you’re using Rental Essentials, your software just got updated! Here’s what you can expect to find: We’re adding several customization options to your contracts – you can now choose colors based on RGB format, preview the document and customer front end, and if you’re a .css whiz (or know someone who is), you can […]

Essentials Update: Account Customers + Xero Integration

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It’s donut day here at Point of Rental, and that means one thing: The new version of Rental Essentials is out, and our customers got some pretty sweet things of their own last night. Customers asked and our programming team delivered – Essentials now supports account customers, giving you the ability to support a credit […]

Six Software Apps to Start Your Small Rental Business

Six Useful Apps for Startup Rental Companies

A lot of work goes into starting a rental business, from having the initial idea to creating a business plan to finding a location and incorporating your vision. It can feel like there are a thousand steps to get through, so we knocked one of them out for you: here’s a list of affordable software […]

Essentials Update: Mobile Payments + Donation Tracking

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Good news heading into the weekend for our Rental Essentials customers: Your software just got upgraded! Some of the new features you’ll enjoy: Mobile Payments Payments are now more portable, allowing you to finish contracts away from the counter. Our U.S. customers can take payments on any mobile device with Cayan Genius Mini. The Genius […]

Rental Essentials Adds Maintenance User Role

Maintenance teams can now use Rental Essentials to manage their repair schedule

Have an employee who’s responsible for managing the maintenance of your store’s equipment? Now there’s a new user role called Maintenance to help make their job easier and reduce confusion among other staff. An employee in the Maintenance user role will see a list of inventory currently in maintenance, be able to add items to […]

Essentials Update: (Limited) Time Travel!

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Today was a big day for Rental Essentials, as we continue to add features to enhance your rental experience. In fact, there are so many in this edition that we’re breaking the biggest three down in separate blog posts (we’ll add those soon). Here are the other significant upgrades to the software: We added virtual items, which […]

Essentials Update: Contracts Made Easier

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Our programmers have been working hard to make our customers’ wishes their commands this month. They’re basically genies dressed in business clothes. Good thing we found that lamp! This month’s fulfilled wishes: Subrental abilities. When you overbook an item, you’ll still receive an overbooked warning. But if the transaction is a reservation or an order, […]

Rental Essentials is a Cloud Awards Finalist (Again)

Rental Essentials is a Cloud Awards Finalist for its Web Storefront feature.

Our Rental Essentials team started off the new year with the news that their Web Storefront (a first among SaaS-based rental software) is a finalist for The Cloud Awards, a program that rewards the best and most innovative products in the cloud computing industry. Web Storefront enables straightforward rental businesses to provide 24/7 service to […]

Essentials Update Enhances Mobile App

Screenshots of the Essentials mobile app update show the Quick Scan Out and Quick Receive screens.

The Rental Essentials mobile app just got upgraded! Our developers have been hard at work adding functionality and continually improving all our features. If you already have Essentials, all you need to do to see the updates is refresh your browser. With last night’s update, we added two useful elements to the Essentials mobile app. Quick […]