10 Rental Software System MUST HAVES

Looking for a good rental software system to run your rental hire business? Make sure that the software you chose has the following features:

1. Role based permissions for the administrators. This means that you can create different administration logins that can access only the areas of the admin they need to have access to. Your marketing login might only be able to access your blog. Your data entry person can only access the product catalog. The login for yourself will probably have access to everything.

2. Overview Rental Inventory Calendar to show where all your rental inventory is by day, week, month. Should show how many items are available, and click to show the details of where the inventory is by client.

3. Social Integration. The system should be able to integrate with facebook logins and likes, google + logins and likes, and all other popular social networks.

4. Email confirmations of orders, send confirmations, return confirmations, and return reminders.

5. Product Filtering. Ability to filter products by rental price, product attributes (colors, sizes, categories, features) on the customer side so customers can quickly find what they want.

6. Loads Fast. The rental system you chose should have page load speeds of 1 second or less per page. Studies show that customer buy more from quickly loading web sites.

7. Open Source Rental System. The code for your rental system should be open source. No two rental businesses are the same. Do you need custom features that are not already offered in your rental system? If so you'll need to make sure your rental software is open source so these new features can be coded in.

8. Serial Number Inventory Tracking. This will make sure you can make barcodes or QR 2 dimensional barcodes to stick to each of your products. If your rental system can't handle serial numbers, you will not be able to accurately track your inventory.

9. Tracking Of Send & Return Of Rental Products. Don't try and customize an existing E-commerce system to add rentals. You'll never be able to do so on-time or on-budget. Critical to any rental system is a different form of tracking inventory. You'll need a page that tracks both the send AND return of your products. E-commerce systems are only built for sending, not returning by default.

10. Integration With Major Rental Shipping & Payment Gateway APIs. Make sure your rental software system ties in with the major shipping services like DHL, UPS, FedEx, USPS, etc. For payment gateways you'll probably need Authorize.net, Paypal, Moneris, Sage Pay, Skrillr, etc. Trying to integrate these APIs from scratch will cost you a lot of time and money.