Technology Corner: Point of Rental’s Ready Tag Is Now Rent-Ready
Point of Rental is introducing Ready Tag, a digital, mobile software solution that will ensure everyone within a rental store knows whether or not an item is ready to rent. Ready Tag will be a feature of Point of Rental One, Point of Rental’s mobile app.
Ready Tag automatically builds a queue of items requiring a post-rental inspection. From this list, staff can search and select the item they are servicing, inspect it using a built-in checklist, and document its condition. Once the item passes inspection, it will show as available in Elite.
“Current rent-ready tags are helpful, but paper processes always have inefficiencies,” said product manager John Wooten. “The item’s ‘ready’ status displays in Elite so a person working the counter can see items that have been returned but have yet to be serviced. This saves a lot of radio communications, or worse, constantly going out to the wash rack to check the status.”
Aurora Rents in Seattle has been an early adopter of Ready Tag, and its staff has been surprised by how quickly its team has warmed to the new process. They have stopped using paper tags on items where Ready Tag is used.
“Even the non-tech-savvy guys are liking it because they’re not having to pull out a pen and fill out a tag,” said general manager Dave Steele. “We have designated areas for ready or not ready - it’s easy to figure out.”
Point of Rental One connects remote employees and allows companies to easily manage mobile rental processes like inspections, images, inventory counts, and deliveries.
Learn more about Ready Tag and Point of Rental One by visiting pointofrental.com/one.
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Michael Roth
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Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.