Mobile Apps
Your crew shouldn't have to come back to the office to stay in sync.
Native iOS and Android apps for the people doing the physical work - warehouse crews pulling orders, drivers running routes, managers who need an answer while standing in a venue parking lot.
Most rental software gets mobile wrong
The work in a rental company doesn't happen at a desk. It happens in a warehouse aisle, on a tailgate, at a venue at 6am. That's exactly where most rental software stops being usable.
The common failure is a responsive website called a mobile app. It works until the signal is weak, the screen is in direct sun, or someone is wearing gloves. Then your crew goes back to paper and calls the office, and the system you're paying for stops reflecting reality.
Native, not a browser tab
RentKit's apps are genuinely native on both platforms, built for phones held in one hand while the other is holding a stack of chairs.
This is the clearest gap between RentKit and the rest of the category. TapGoods PRO has no native mobile app at all - it's web-only. Booqable's app is described in its own reviews as clunky and limited. Event Rental Systems' driver app sits at 3.42 out of 5 on the App Store. InflatableOffice and Bouncy Castle Network ship field-crew apps with no admin capability.
What the warehouse crew does on it
- ✓Pull and prep orders by invoice or batched by item
- ✓Mark quantities complete, flag damaged or missing items, add prep notes
- ✓See bundle contents so component items get pulled
- ✓Run operational checklists with photo proof
- ✓Log maintenance against a piece of equipment
What drivers do on it
- ✓The day's route with stop order, addresses, and site contacts
- ✓Load manifests generated from the live order
- ✓Turn-by-turn navigation to the next stop
- ✓Delivery photos and on-screen signature capture
- ✓Take payment on delivery with a connected card reader
- ✓Clock in and out, including breaks
It's an admin app too, not just a crew tool
Several competitors ship an app for field workers and nothing for whoever runs the business. That's a strange place to stop - the person who most needs an answer at 7pm on a Saturday is usually the owner.
- ✓Create and edit orders and invoices from the phone
- ✓Take a payment or send a payment link
- ✓Look up customers, leads, and job history
- ✓Revenue and operations reporting
- ✓Team chat tied to the order being discussed
- ✓Approve time entries and time-off requests
One login, one dataset
The app isn't a companion product with its own data. It's the same system your office is using, so an order edited at the desk is edited on the truck.
That matters most in the situation this whole category struggles with: something changed after the truck left. The office updates the order and the driver's manifest changes - no phone call, no group text, no version of the truth that only one person has.
How it works
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Download RentKit from the App Store or Google Play.
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Sign in with the same account you use on the web - permissions decide what each person sees.
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Crews pick up their work: prep queues, routes, checklists, time clock.
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Everything they do writes back to the same order the office is looking at.
Why the mobile app decides this for a lot of operators
- ✓Crews stop calling the office for details already on the order
- ✓Proof of delivery is captured at the stop, not reconstructed later
- ✓Payment can be collected on delivery instead of chased afterward
- ✓Owners can answer a question without driving back to a computer
Put it in a crew member's hands
The fastest way to judge a field app is to hand it to someone who'd have to use it on a Saturday. We'll set that up.