Now that Rental Hosting is part of the Point of Rental product lineup, the feature set is expanding, the software provider said. The company’s new “node” upgrade allows payment information to update automatically in Point of Rental, paving the way for fully online payments.
“Ecommerce has gone from ‘an option that’s nice to have’ to a necessity over the past year-plus,” said Point of Rental CEO, Wayne Harris. “This integration will help Point of Rental users deliver an online rental experience that exceeds customer expectations.”
The company is promoting the new functionality by including it in its ARA Show specials. Anyone upgrading to the new Rental Hosting before Oct. 21, 2021, will receive 25 percent off the upgrade. For non-Rental Hosting users, the company is offering 25 percent off web design costs as well.
Learn more about Rental Hosting and how it helps rental businesses handle ecommerce at rentalhosting.com.
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.
