Booqable vs EZRentOut: Which is a better fit?

James S.: Hi. I'm James. I'm the owner of a trailer rental business and we use Booqable and I would give it five out of five stars. Prior to Booqable, I was using a software that many other trailer rental businesses use. This software works for a lot of people, but unfortunately didn't offer a lot of the nice things that Booqable does offer, like automated booking, the ability to integrate payment systems and we really enjoy using Booqable for our trailer rental software. We chose Booqable for a couple of reasons. One is Booqable is very affordable. So it has several different plan options. So that was super helpful for us in terms of right sizing our business against Booqable's service offerings. Another great thing about Booqable is the fact that you are able to create your own website. It has a lot of customizability. It's great for somebody like us who we're not looking to get super deep into website creation. Booqable makes it super easy. If you've got any questions about how to do anything at all, customer service is right there, available 24/7 and they're super responsive and always looking to solve your problem rather than send you to a tech article or some sort of supplemental material. Lastly, we really like Booqable because it helps us stay organized. It helps us collect payments on trailer rentals and furthermore, it's a useful tool for invoicing, payments, authorizations, everything. So it's a one-stop shop, not a lot involved in terms of learning curve. So we really enjoy using it. So getting started with Booqable was a super simple process. Just to kind of highlight a few things, one of them is it's super easy to get signed up. Once you get signed up, there's a step-by-step checklist on the front page of what you need to do to get set up. That was super helpful for us because we were able to walk through the steps, get connected to our payment systems, get connected to our website or domain name, etc. It was very easy and if you have any questions along the way, you had a customer service representative there right alongside you, ready to help. Another thing that's great about Booqable is if you weren't able to get in touch with somebody, there are tons of supplemental articles, videos, etc that can help you to and walk you through what you're trying to accomplish. So really helpful and useful. So what would I say to somebody who's looking to switch to Booqable? I would say go ahead and do it now rather than later because I wish that I had started with them. I spent a considerable amount of time working with a previous supplier and the relationship did not go very well. They weren't providing good customer service. Their pricing was more expensive and their website and software was just very difficult to use. Booqable was a game changer. Wish I had started off with it and you won't regret switching to Booqable.

Willem K.: Hi, I'm Willem. I work as a camera equipment rental manager in the film equipment rental industry, and I think EZRentOut is an easy five out of five. Before we used EZRentOut we were tracking all of our gear, purchases, assets and just scheduling all through spreadsheets, through Airtable and then doing payments through QuickBooks, and then physically doing our own sticker system. So we had three separate systems tracking the same gear, and it was just, I found myself double entering. Every time someone would come in to rent something, I'd have to make sure it's available and manually scroll through all the reservations. And then if it was available, then I'd have to go into a different program, QuickBooks, and actually submit the invoices. It was a pain hunting down people, getting people to pay things. The payments weren't always synced up with the asset management tracking. The scheduling was running a completely different software. We were just all over the place. We chose to use EZRentOut because it combined scheduling, payments and asset management, all in one place so that we didn't have to bounce around between different programs to run our company. It all funneled into one easy to use place. Onboarding into EZRentOut was actually a breeze. They gave us a two week trial to test it, see how things would go. And it was actually really simple to be able to export out the CSV file of listing all of our assets, ingest them into EZRentOut, and then immediately start doing rentals, payments, all within a few days. If you're considering using EZRentOut, I highly recommend using their trial period, but also communicating with them. EZRentOut does act. Their support is incredible. We've requested features. We've talked through bugs and it's very much a back and forth. They're actively monitoring their emails and their support system. So we're able to make recommendations based on our business on things that we'd want to see in EZRentOut and it's made it an incredibly powerful tool. So use the trial, upload your assets, and then just give it a try. And it's worth your time.