Point of Rental Software, Inc. is a US company that was founded in 1983 by former NASA software engineers who opened a rental store in Texas.
Headquartered in Grand Prairie, TX, with offices in Melbourne, Australia and Reading, United Kingdom, Point of Rental Software develops and sells Microsoft Windows server-based, cloud-based and customizable rental management software to approximately 5,000 businesses worldwide in the equipment rental, party rental, inventory management and specialty rental industries. The company has been listed by Inc. 5000 as one of America's fastest private growing companies twice, in 2014 and 2016.
The company is an Associate Member of the American Rental Association (ARA), an international trade association for the equipment rental industry, as well as the Texas Rental Association, the California Rental Association, and the Canadian Rental Association.
The current President and CEO is Wayne Harris.
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History
When Point of Rental's three original founders started their rental store in 1982, they tried the rental software available at the time and found that none of them seemed to be designed by people who ran rental stores. They put their skills together and produced their first software in 1983. By 1984, they felt they'd created a product that would benefit others in the rental industry and began to sell their software, using the name Point-of-Rental Systems.
Gradually, as salesman Steve Husbands traveled throughout the United States, other rental stores signed on with Point of Rental. Early maps of Point of Rental's customer base provided evidence of his travels - pins were found along his routes.
A few years later, Husbands traveled through Ada, Oklahoma, and sold a system to the Harris family - the sale would prove to be more valuable than most as the Harris's son, Wayne, went on to program Rental Enterprise and eventually became the company's President and CEO.
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Products
Rental Essentials
Introduced in 2014, Rental Essentials started as Point of Rental Cloud before Rental Elite was introduced and the company's products were re-branded. It is a cloud-based product for start-ups, seasonal rental stores, and even companies simply needing inventory management software. Its web-based interface provides for the basics of running a rental store, like writing contracts and managing inventory.
Rental Expert
Rental Expert started as Rental Enterprise. A server-based software that runs on Windows, Rental Expert is made for handling any rental operation, from a single store to a dozen-location company. It manages equipment, employees, and customers. It also manages accounting in real-time and is PCI-compliant.
Rental Elite
Introduced in 2016 and created to fit the needs of the world's largest and more forward-thinking rental businesses, Elite expands on Expert's features and adds complete customization, fully integrated accounting, a real-time updated Microsoft BI dashboard, and advanced custom reporting. A web-based dashboard, introduced in 2017, was among the first of its kind in the rental industry.
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In 2016, Point of Rental acquired UK-based Higher Concept, Inc., nearly doubling the company's user base by adding 2,000 customers in more than 10 countries. The merger made Point of Rental one of the largest rental software providers in the world.
Awards
Point of Rental has won numerous industry awards, bolstering its claim as the most innovative rental software company. Below are the company's known awards (Rental Expert feature and category winner unless otherwise listed):
Rental Equipment Register's Innovative Product Award
- Computer Software: 2008 (Dispatch Center Module), 2010 (Wireless Alerts), 2011 (Dispatch Center's GPS Integration), 2015 (Contract Fulfillment), 2016 (Rental Elite)
- Technology Enhancements: 2011 (Mobile Website Hosting), 2014 (AEMP Telemetric Integration)
- Overall: 2014 (GOLD, Rental Essentials), 2015 (SILVER, Contract Fulfillment)
Cloud Innovation World Cup
- 2015 Finalist (Rental Essentials)
The Cloud Awards
- Best SaaS in the U.S.: 2015 Finalist (Rental Essentials),
- B2B Customer Excellence: 2016 Finalist (Web Storefront)
Hire Awards of Excellence
- Event Industry Product of the Year: 2017 Shortlisted (Rental Expert)
Rental Staging Systems Award
- Best Rental Management Software: 2016 (Rental Expert)
Access, Lift, & Handlers Award
- Rental Technology: 2014 (Mobile Workforce)
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