Press Releases

Registration opens for Point-of-Rental Software User Meeting in Orlando

Point-of-Rental™ Systems will hold its annual User Meeting on Sunday, February 9, 2014 from 3:30 pm to 5:45 pm at the Orange County Convention Center prior to the opening of the ARA Rental Show. Free to all Point-of-Rental customers, this short meeting takes place to review software updates and answer any questions customers may have. Although this event is free, customers interested in attending must register by Monday, January 20, 2014.

30 December 2013

Point-of-Rental Software Scheduled to Host Regional Training at the ARA Rental Show in Orlando

On Thursday, February 13, 2014, directly following the ARA Rental Show, Point-of-Rental will host its Regional Training from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm for its customers at the Castle Hotel (8629 International Drive, Orlando, Florida 32819). Cost of the conference is $225 for the first person and $200 for each additional person. Training topics include top features in version 2013, Mobile WorkForce, Continuation Billing, Invoicing and Accounts Receivable, Overbooking, Advanced Day at a Glance, Automation Features, Marketing and making your website work for you. This training is also an opportunity to speak with staff and network with other Point-of-Rental users

16 December 2013

Point-of-Rental Software CEO Celebrates 20 Years

Wayne Harris, President and CEO of Point-of-Rental™ Systems, marked his 20th anniversary with the rental management software company on Friday, October 11. The milestone was celebrated with cake at the office headquarters in Grand Prairie, Texas, and dinner with previous owners, Bob Shaffer and Steve Husbands, whom Harris bought the company from in 2011. In 1993, Bob Shaffer hired Harris to revamp the company’s aging UNIX-based software. He believed that Harris’s combination of practical rental knowledge and an MIT education uniquely equipped him to build upon Point-of-Rental’s hallmark software designed “by rental people for rental people.” Harris grew up working

15 October 2013

Point-of-Rental Software Combines Fed-Ex and UPS with New Module

22 August 2013

Register Early at a Special Rate for Point-of-Rental’s 2013 International Conference

Early registration for Point-of-Rental™ Systems International Conference is now open and will end on Friday, August 16, 2013. Normal registration (without the early bird discount) will begin on Saturday, August 17, 2013 and end on Wednesday, October 2, 2013. On October 16-18, 2013, Point-of-Rental™ will hold its annual International Conference at their corporate offices in Dallas. The conference is scheduled to have training seminars, open round tables, a giveaway, and presentations from conference sponsors such as In-A-Bind, Clearview Financial, TSO Mobile and Rouse Analytics. In addition, there will be inclusive evening outings to Main Event Entertainment in Grapevine, Texas as

16 July 2013

Point-of-Rental Software Develops New App

New with Point-of-Rental’s most recent update, the company introduced their Mobile Workforce App. This app empowers workers on a jobsite as well as in the rental yard, capitalizing on their mobility. A web-based application rather than device-specific, Mobile Workforce can be utilized with any Internet enabled mobile device, be it iPhone, Android, any number of tablet devices, or even a laptop. Taking full advantage of the touch-screen user interface of mobile devices, this module reduces tasks from what would normally be several time consuming steps down to a few simple clicks. Mobile Workforce allows the mobile worker to eliminate the

8 May 2013

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