Turn Data Into Direction
No More Missing Cases.
Keep Every Show Accounted For.
Point of Rental tracks every piece of specialty gear individually, bundles it into show packages, and puts a manifest in the crew's hands before they leave the warehouse.
Get a DemoThree Ways a Specialty Rental Business Loses Time and Margin.
None of these show up as one bad show. They show up as a later load-in and a thinner season, until someone finally asks why.
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A missing case at load-in becomes a show that starts lateCables, adapters, and small parts vanish into road cases and never make it back onto the shelf, and a crew doesn't find out until they're building a stage.
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Serialized gear goes out the door with no record of where it wentA moving light or a digital console is worth too much to track by count alone, but a spreadsheet doesn't tell you which show it's on or who signed it out.
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A full schedule can still hide gear that's losing you moneyBetween shows, maintenance costs and downtime pile up quietly on a handful of pieces, and a packed calendar doesn't mean every piece of gear is paying for itself.
A Road Case Doesn't Tell You What's Actually Inside It.
Specialty and AV gear rents by the serial number, not the pallet: a moving light, a digital console, a case of cable all need their own history, and a show needs them bundled into a package a crew can load in one trip.
Point of Rental tracks every serialized item individually and lets you build show packages, an audio kit, a lighting rig, a full production package, that go out and come back as one unit, with a manifest for every truck.
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Serial-level tracking
Know exactly which unit of a moving light or console is on which show, not just how many you own.
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Packages built once, reused every show
Bundle a lighting or audio package once and rent it as a single line item from then on.
A Show Needs a Crew as Much as It Needs Gear.
Load-in times, call sheets, and which technician is running which stage don't live in the same place as the equipment list, so a production manager ends up coordinating both by memory and text message.
Point of Rental's dispatching plans crews and routes alongside the gear itself, tracking load weights, truck routes, and real-time status so a production manager knows what's rolling and who's running it.
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Crews and routes, planned together
Dispatch technicians and trucks against the same job, not a second system.
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Real-time truck tracking
See where a load is and when it'll hit load-in, without a phone call.
Gear That Fails Mid-Show Is Gear That Didn't Get Tested.
A fixture running past its lamp life, a console that's due for firmware, a cable coiled wrong for a year, none of it looks broken on a shelf, until it's live in front of an audience.
Point of Rental tracks inspections and maintenance by item and by employee, so testing before a show and inspecting after one is a routine step, not a hope.
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Inspections tied to the item
Every unit carries its own maintenance and testing history, not a shared assumption.
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Catch it before the show, not during
Flag gear that's due for service before it ever gets loaded on the truck.
Checking Gear in and out Shouldn't Slow Down a Warehouse.
A production warehouse moves fast between shows, and a paper pull sheet or a manual count at the dock is where mistakes get made, and where a piece of gear quietly goes missing.
Point of Rental processes contracts in real time with RFID scanning and double-blind counts, so a crew knows instantly what's staged, what's out, and what came back short.
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RFID & double-blind scanning
Scan gear in and out automatically, with a second check that catches what a single scan misses.
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Instant warehouse visibility
See what's ready to load and what's still out on a job, in real time.
A Busy Show Calendar Doesn't Guarantee a Profitable One.
Labor, maintenance, and gear that sat idle between bookings all eat into a show's margin, and without job-level numbers, a packed schedule can hide a loss as easily as a profit.
Point of Rental tracks ROI, utilization, and maintenance costs by item and by job, backed by hundreds of indexed reports, so you know which shows, and which gear, are actually worth it.
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Job costing, per show
See what a show actually cost against what it billed, not just what it invoiced.
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Reports, indexed and explained
Find the report you need without guessing what it's called or building it yourself.
Every Dot in Your Data Is a Point. Connect Them.
Add the Rental Intelligence Suite and the inventory, job, and maintenance data you already track becomes direction: an AI-powered analytics layer built to answer the question every specialty and AV rental business asks eventually, which gear is actually paying for itself across a season of shows, and which is quietly costing you truck space.
- AI Insights surface underperforming gear and rising maintenance costs before they erode a show's margin.
- Ask in plain language and get immediate answers, no report building, no dashboard hunting.
- Job and utilization data together show which packages are worth building out before the next show, not after.
- Confident buying decisions come from knowing which gear earns its keep across a full season of bookings.
Built for Gear That Goes out by the Serial Number, Not the Pallet.
Specialty rental lives and dies by whether every case, cable, and fixture makes it back onto the shelf. Here's how Point of Rental stacks up against typical specialty rental software.
"It's got everything. From order input, to sending it out, to dispatch, to inventory counts, every department runs off of it."
- 5,000+ rental businesses served
- 80+ countries supported
- 40+ years building rental software
- 98.4% of support calls resolved first call
Questions, Answered.
What features does Point of Rental offer for specialty and AV rental businesses?
Point of Rental combines serialized inventory tracking and show packages, crew and job dispatch, maintenance and testing tracking, real-time contract processing with RFID scanning, and job costing and reporting, all built to keep specialty and AV gear accounted for from warehouse to load-in and back.
How does serialized inventory tracking and show packages work?
Every piece of specialty gear, a moving light, a digital console, a case of cable, is tracked individually rather than by count, and you can bundle items into reusable show packages like an audio kit or a full production package that go out and come back as a single unit.
Can I schedule crew and dispatch alongside my gear?
Yes. Dispatching plans crews, routes, and load weights against the same job as the equipment, with real-time truck tracking so you know what's rolling and who's running it, without a separate system.
How does maintenance and testing tracking work?
Inspections and maintenance are tracked by item and by employee, so testing gear before a show and inspecting it after one is a routine, documented step rather than something that only happens after a failure.
What real-time contract processing tools are available?
Contracts process in real time with RFID scanning and double-blind counts, giving instant visibility into what's staged, what's out on a job, and what came back short, instead of relying on a paper pull sheet or a manual count at the dock.
What reporting and job costing tools help me understand profitability?
Point of Rental tracks detailed statistics on ROI, utilization, and maintenance costs by item and by job, backed by dozens to hundreds of indexed and explained reports, so you can see which shows, and which gear, are actually worth it.
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