The EZRentOut team rolled out some exciting features in the past months. As part of our effort to help you improve functionality and streamline workflows, we added enhancements to our Custom Fields and Bundles features. We also added new features that enable you to easily charge delivery and pickup fees, add serial numbers to Order Line Items, and much more!
Continue readingAfter the Pandemic: Key Trends to Watch in Construction Equipment Rental
As of July 20th, the US has entered its fourth phase of reopening amidst COVID-19 lockdowns. The extent of relaxing the lockdown and reopening the economy varies widely across different states, counties, and even cities. Businesses that operate indoors are more hard-hit than ones that lend themselves more to social distancing. The construction industry is among those that are steadily opening up with work resuming at sites across the country.
Many states including Kentucky, Ohio, Maryland, Massachusetts, and New York have either reopened or are in the process of reopening the construction industry. While nonessential construction projects are still on hold, all essential ones, such as bridges, hospitals, affordable housing, and homeless shelters, are ready to start again.
Continue reading10 Cost Cutting Ideas & Money Saving Tips For Your Rental Business
While there are several different kinds of rental businesses out there, they all share a similar goal – increasing profits. As you focus on making money, make sure your company should also find ways to save money. Every rental business should have an emergency fund, but there are many that don’t. No matter what kind of rental company you operate, you should be looking for ways to save money and cut costs.
Continue readingKeep Students Accountable for Rental Equipment With Online Rental Booking Software
The US education sector was valued at $1,350 billion in 2017 and is expected to reach approximately $2,040 billion by 2026. With a CAGR of more than 4.5%, the education sector continues to grow at an exponential rate.
With an ever-increasing number of students enrolling each year, educational institutions have the additional administrative burden of safeguarding valuable rental equipment while still providing students with everything they need in a timely fashion.
Continue readingBoost Productivity with These 5 Work Order Management Hints
Do you run a small business? Then you know that there are always more tasks to handle than hours in the day. These can range from ordering inventory and undertaking quality checks to carrying out maintenance tasks and ensuring compliance.
For maintenance tasks, employees need instructions and direction, equipment downtimes have to be scheduled well in advance, and there needs to be coordination between all departments and locations.
Continue readingChoose Delivery and Pickup Dates and Slots with EZRentOut
This latest feature enables you to set specific delivery and pickup dates and time slots to suit your schedule. Customers can then choose from these specified time options instead of requesting their own time slots which may not suit you.
Let’s dive deeper to learn more about Delivery Time and Pickup Time.
Continue readingCharging Delivery and Pickup Fees in EZRentOut
As a rental business, you need to be able to charge a delivery and pickup fee for all orders, especially web orders. EZRentOut has introduced a new add on that enables you to set up a method to easily calculate delivery and pickup fee.
Continue reading3 Ways You Can Optimize Your Rental Website for Quarantine Traffic
These are uncertain times for businesses around the world. From remote work to remote operations, companies are adjusting their business model to adapt to the “new normal”.
Since this is a time for social distancing, rental businesses need to think beyond brick and mortar. If you have been considering an e-commerce presence, this is the ideal time to take action. Take your business online and continue operations via a rental website.
Continue readingHow You Can Streamline and Track Key Business KPIs with Rental Software
Regular and robust performance analysis is essential for the success of any business. In today’s data-driven environment, small and medium-size rental businesses can give themselves a competitive advantage by making efficient use of key performance indicators (KPIs).
Continue reading4 Ideas to Execute with Your Rental Inventory Tracking Software During the Slow Business Season
Every business, irrespective of the industry they’re in, can go through a slow business season. The question is, how do you use this time in a way that benefits the business.
Think of it this way: a slow business season gives you the opportunity to step away from the day to day business operations and focus on pending tasks you always wanted to do but couldn’t fit into your schedule.
This is an efficient way to tackle the sales slump, and will also prove benefits in the long run. You’ll have everything in order, ready to go once things start looking up again. Do you have a few projects you’ve been putting off for a while now? Now is your chance to catch up on some of them.
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