Rental Software Considerations For Rental Hire Software

It's important when searching for Rental Software for your rental hire business that you know what to look for. Here is a list of some of the important things to consider for your rental software system:

1. How easy is the rental software to use? What is the learning curve? Do you have to have on-site training or do they provide free video training?
2. Do you want a Windows installed rental software system or do you prefer a web based rental system for use anywhere (on the road, remote, in the office)? Warning - Windows based systems tend to charge per each staff member that uses your software.
3. How flexible is the pricing structure setup for rentals? Can it handle but pro-rated and non-pro rated as well as discounts for certain customers?
4. How much does it cost for each license is it by seat?
5. Can the rental software handle bundle / kit rentals where you rent multiple items at the same time?
6. How easy is it to visualize your inventory? Does it include a calendar that shows how many of each item you have in stock for each day?
7. How does the rental software integrate with other systems like Accounting, Social Media, Customer Relationship Management systems, Enterprise Resource Planning, E-commerce, and Email Marketing?
8. Can your rental software do online rentals? Can your customers manage or view their account online and get quotes?
9. Is your rental software multi-language compatible if you decide you want to expand your market?
10. What do support and updates cost? 
11. How quickly does the system run like for compiling reports or rental data?
12. Can the rental software support multiple inventory locations?
13. Can the rental software integrate with barcode readers or printers to track inventory easily?

We feel these are some of the important questions to ask when evaluating different rental software solutions. Now we will answer these for the product we offer Sales Igniter Rental Business Software.

1. Sales Igniter is easy to use and can be learned in perhaps 2 - 3 hours and training is free if you use our screencast training videos. 
2. Sales Igniter runs from a web server so it can be accessed anywhere in the world if you have a web connection. You could even run Sales Igniter from your local computer if you install a free web server like WAMP.
3. Sales Igniter can handle both pro-rated and non-pro rated rentals. Pricing can be entered by hour, day, week, month, year with multiple time periods in between each so it's as flexible as possible.
4. A big advantage to using Sales Igniter is there is no per seat or per staff member license. One license and you can use it for your entire organization and licenses start at only $600. As compared to other solutions that cost usually $2500 to start and a per staff fee of $1000 or more this is a great value. 
5. Sales Igniter rental software can handle bundles and kits easily and correctly tracks inventory for the whole bundle when checking for availability on the calendar. 
6. The inventory is easy to visualize as we provide a calendar with all of your inventory on it so you can visualize everything on one page - how much of each product is in stock for each day or even broken down hourly.
7. Sales Igniter is a Magento Based E-commerce rental extension. Magento plugs into almost all other systems you can visit their integrations page here: Magento Integrations
8. Because Sales Igniter rental software is web based yes your clients can all rent online and manage your account. This does not mean that you HAVE to offer online rentals if you don't want to. If you prefer, you can only enable the admin side of Sales Igniter and not allow your clients to rent online. But it's a nice option to have. 
9. Sales Igniter is multi-lingual compatible there are over 27 language packs available. 
10. Support and updates after the included free support and updates (time period included depends on your package) is $199/year. 
11. Sales Igniter runs very fast average time to load a page is 1 second.
12. Sales Igniter can run in multi-inventory mode with a separate module purchase and some custom programming time.
13. Sales Igniter has a built-in label maker for DYMO label printers. It also has a barcode scanning area on the send and return pages (checkout and checkin).