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Counting to One

from Hire & Rental - May 2023

from Hire & Rental - May 2023, page 67

WHY HIRE FROM A HRIA MEMBER

BEING INNOVATIVE HAS ITS CHALLENGES.

Point of Rental built their first mobile app to help hire businesses all the way back in 2013 with Mobile Workforce. At the time, it was revolutionary, enhancing their single software offering by allowing businesses to work within their system while they were away from the counter.

Since then, the company has built a cloud-native software platform, Essentials, and acquired another industry-leading software, Syrinx, which has its own suite of apps. Elite has also joined the party, bringing its own online functionality and integration opportunities.

With resources divided across several platforms and code bases, Point of Rental’s newly-established product team decided in 2022 to take on a new challenge: Building a single app that could be used by every Point of Rental platform to help hire and rental companies worldwide get the features they need.

“More work is getting done away from the counter every day and most of that is done on mobile devices,” said CEO Wayne Harris. “In order to continue to give hire businesses the tools they need to succeed, we needed to bring our teams together and focus on one goal: A united mobile app that will benefit anyone doing their work on a mobile device.

“I’d venture to say that we’re investing more into our mobile functionality than other companies are putting into their software overall, and I think the people that use it are going to see the benefits of that effort.”

The new offering, Point of Rental One, is now available and already bearing fruits for the hire industry.

One works on both Android and iOS devices, and SSO (Single Sign-On) functionality allows users to use the app over and over again without having to log

Because One is an independent mobile platform, its other features work differently depending on the hire management software a business uses.

For example, Elite uses One to build workflows for deliveries and collections, as well as customer pickups and returns. It includes labor tracking for maintenance staff so hirers can bill appropriately, and inventory-taking functionality so you’re able to do quick on-hand counts. It also allows for mobile users to message desktop-based users natively, in realtime.

Syrinx, meanwhile, accesses One’s wet hire support by allowing operators in every time, saving minutes each day. to complete timesheets from the road, view their schedules, see required equipment checks for the day as well as site directions, and more.

Native messaging connects users to one another, cutting down on communication errors and getting everyone on the same page without requiring employees to use their personal phone numbers.

Point of Rental One caches relevant data for remote jobs, allowing for checklists and tasks to be completed in areas with no internet or phone service, to be synced when a connection is found.

All in all, Point of Rental One brings people (and software) into one place to move hire and rental businesses one direction: Forward.

Can we pump it? Yes we can!

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Both Atlas Copco and Varisco have decades of experience in designing and producing pumps. We have put those years of expertise into providing solutions that work across multiple applications. Both the PAS MF (medium flow) and PAS HF (high flow), range is packed with features that not only meet, but exceed the needs of the market. We are focused on an eﬀicient, extremely versatile pump that is suitable for many industries, including, construction, general dewatering and emergency applications, such as flood clean up.