Point of Rental Essentials provides cloud-native hire management software that helps small and growing hire businesses manage stock, hires, payments, and reporting. It automates bookings, billing, and maintenance tracking, supports online bookings with an e-commerce storefront, integrates with QuickBooks, and scales seamlessly as operations grow.
Do you know where your inventory is? How about where it will be? Essentials’ intuitive inventory management can help you manage everything coming and going through your doors, from hires to sale items.
Cut down on wasted time and resources while maintaining critical documentation, like customer certificates of insurance, signed contracts, and delivery signatures. Essentials stores the information you need and makes it easily accessible, anytime.
Turn customers’ online searches into business with a customized, SEO-friendly storefront that show off your inventory and allow customers to book hires 24/7.
1. Fill out the form and set up a quick call.
2. We'll work together to find the software that fits you.
3. You’ll get set up and never look back!
Got your money on your mind? Essentials integrates with Quickbooks Online, Sage, and other leading accounting software platforms. In-store or online, you can take payments via cash, credit, or invoice.
Intelligent decisions are based on data. Essentials takes your business data and shares it with you in a way that allows you to act on it with nearly 100 available reports.
| Capability | Point of Rental Essentials | Most Competitors |
|---|---|---|
| Scalability & Deployment | Cloud-native with easy setup and growth-ready pricing | Often local-install; scaling requires additional costs |
| Inventory & Order Management | Real-time inventory tracking, kits, upselling, subrentals | Basic inventory tools, limited for multi-item tracking |
| Paperless Documentation | Onboard insurance, contracts, signatures, waivers digitally | Often require physical documents or external systems |
| E-commerce & Online Booking | SEO-friendly storefront, online booking, self-serve portal | Minimal or no integrated e-commerce fallback relying on manual processes |
| Accounting & Payments | Integrated with QuickBooks, Sage; automates billing & payments | Typically require third-party billing or manual syncing |
| Reporting & Workflow Customization | Wide reporting options, customizable contracts, tags | Limited reports, rigid workflows without customization |
| Notifications | Supports SMS and email alerts for staff and customers | Frequently limited to email-only or no alert capability |
Discover how people are joining the future of hire.
The Quick Return feature allows us to do [return items into the system] efficiently. Similar to the Kiosk feature, it helps us serve our customers quickly. Competition chips into your market share if you don’t get people moving quickly.
– Tim Quarles, Spokes Bicycle Rentals
Bryan Coons
Wilson’s Rental & Landscape Supply
Kim Kim
EPIC Event Rental
Nick Albarado
Rental Solutions, Inc.
Essentials is for everyone in your organization. One, our mobile app, empowers your drivers and yard staff, allowing for quick inspections, condition photos, delivery route updates, and more.
1. Fill out the form and set up a quick call.
2. We'll work together to find the software that fits you.
3. You’ll get set up and never look back!
Essentials is a cloud-native hire management software tailored for small to midsised established and growing hire businesses. It helps manage inventory, hires, payments, and reporting while scaling with your business needs.
Essentials offers automated reservations and billing, maintenance tracking, a customisable ecommerce storefront for online hires, integrations with accounting solutions like QuickBooks and Sage, and a library of reporting tools for operational visibility.
Yes. You can create an SEO-friendly ecommerce storefront where customers can browse inventory and book hires 24/7. Features include damage waiver capture, contract signatures, and storing certificates, all supporting a paperless workflow.
Essentials integrates with QuickBooks Online, Sage, and other leading accounting platforms. It supports payment processing via cash, credit, or invoice and automates invoicing and billing, including meter-based and long-term hires.
You get access to nearly 100 prebuilt reports, including inventory utilisation, maintenance, inactive items, ROI analysis, picklists, delivery logs, and accounting summaries, so you can act on data efficiently. We’ll even help you find the right reports in Essentials with AI.
Yes, Essentials works with the POR One mobile app, enabling drivers and yard staff to perform inspections, capture condition photos, update delivery routes, and more, all in real time.
Smart Suggestions is a machine-learning feature that recommends additional hire or sale items directly in your online store. It analyses hire behavior trends to suggest items customers often rent together, boosting add-on revenue and improving customer satisfaction.
