Point of Rental integrates What3Words

Not every plot of land has its own street address. When all you’ve got is a postal address, large job and festival sites can make it difficult to find the locations of the equipment you’re delivering, collecting, or servicing.

Sure, it’s possible to use GPS coordinates. But calling out coordinates to 5 decimal places is time consuming and hard to remember. Furthermore, should you have a typo, ending up 100 metres away from where you should be… well, that can result in frustrated drivers and unhappy customers.

That’s why Point of Rental users have been asking for an integration with What3Words — it’s the top request for mobile functionality on the company’s uInnovate page in 2022.

What3Words divides up the world into three-metre squares and assigns each square a three-word name (example: just outside the doors to the Sydney Opera House, you’ll find palms.nest.chief). This makes locations easier to say, easier to enter (similar-sounding words are not located near each other, which makes is easy to identify quickly if you’ve got the wrong location), and easier to remember.

You can convert coordinates into 3-words locations an unlimited number of times for free.

With the API Key, you can convert W3W addresses to coordinates up to 1,000 times each month for free (if you need more, you can get a W3W license for a small monthly fee). For businesses operating in multiple countries, locations are translated into words in 50 different languages, including Chinese, Arabic, and Vietnamese.

What3Words

And as of Syrinx’s first update of 2023, Syrinx and its apps will be integrated with What3Words, making it easier for everyone to find where they’re going.

So hire drivers using Point of Rental’s Driver App — let’s say they’re delivering a loo to the very centre of the court at Rod Laver Arena* — will be able to tell their phone “animal.yards.sung” and be on the right route.

All in all, the integration will make it easier to not only get to where you need to be, but to tell your team where they need to go.

It’s even easier to remember where to go to get your hire business going to the right place, though: Just type pointofrental.com into your browser and book a demo.

*or, hopefully, they can recognize that they’ve probably got the wrong three words