‘’Rentle’s rental software is an easy and agile solution for rental businesses’’
The popularity of renting sports equipment and gear has grown tremendously over the past years, but rental business owners still struggle with poor systems that don’t meet their needs. Rentle’s rental software meets and solves the challenges that these business owners face. Currently Rentle offers a free plan for any business to build their rental shop and start accepting bookings online.
‘’Not everyone has to have a pair of skis lying around in their basement, especially since rental shops have a selection of some of the best equipment available that you can rent either directly on-site or in advance online. In order for this to work, the shop has to have functional systems.’’ Tuomo Laine, the CEO of Rentle explains.
A few years back the three founders of Rentle started their caravan journey around Finland’s rental shops and ski resorts, they discovered the different challenges and obstacles that the shop owners come across on a daily basis.
Based on the wishes of these shop owners, Rentle has developed a rental software that transitions these shops from manual pen&paper work and facilitates the work that the employees do at these rental shops and resorts. The first pilot customers started using this rental software in 2019, and now Rentle has customers in ten countries around the world.
Rentle’s rental software solves the shop owners’ challenges.
The software is scalable to businesses of all sizes, starting from the smallest equipment rental shops to the large ski resorts. Depending on the size, different companies have different challenges. Still, Rentle’s is built on principles, one of which is that each and every business and business owner are met with the same amount of care and emotion.
‘’The happiness of the end consumer leads to our customer’s also doing well. It shows up as better sales in our client’s company. Many shop-owners have increased their business and shortened queuing times in the rental shop.’’
The software is continuously updating, with customer feedback being the number one priority. This way Rentle aims to develop the software based on the needs of the customers.
‘’Our customers have all the experience and expertise in the rental industry. Our job is to listen and help them with their challenges,’’ Laine explains.
Rentle Lite — accessible online renting for everyone
The problem with many rental shops is that the sales of their rental equipment are hard to predict in advance. Quite often, the shops experience rush-hours during season peaks since finding the right equipment for every walk-in customer takes a lot of extra time.
‘’It’s not that these gritty shop owners didn’t want an online renting solution, it’s that they didn’t have the right tools for it,’’ Laine explains.
Rentle now wants to make online renting accessible and easy for every rental shop owner. This is why they have now developed a new, free online booking system called Rentle Lite.
Rentle Lite is a free system that allows any entrepreneur to set up their own online rental shop. During the development of this product, all of the industry-specific needs were taken into account so that the shop owners don’t have to worry about the risks that come with renting.
With advance bookings, the shop owner can create, for example, marketing campaigns for the quieter weeks.
‘’It has been great to see the shop owners’ enthusiasm when the first booking has been made through the system. You get an empowering feeling, especially since you’ve always been used to having to get the customers to the store first. It’s a big moment when you actually start seeing further into the future, ‘’ Laine says.
This is a snippet of an article originally published by Lapinkansa July 15th 2020. For the translated English article, visit our blog.
