Rental Calendar for Workgroup

Rental Calendar for Workgroup is an application designed for anyone working in a field that entails renting out equipment for various group activities, such as management sports that rely on collective effort, for instance.

First off, you should know that you need to install the server and create a user and password before you can start adding entries and manage customers and reservations. You should not fret, as the task is simple and you can log in the application shortly after.

The program comes with a ribbon interface that you can further personalize so you can check out the scheduled tasks for the day, week, month and year ahead. You can select to have the reservations displayed in vertically or horizontally, depending on your work style and preferences. You can choose a color label for each activity, so you can easily find and edit the details, if necessary.

The highlight of the application stems from the fact that it allows you to organize everything from making reservations for a service you are offering to resources, customers and completed events.

You can add a new event, customer or reservation from the context menu and by simply specifying some basic details. The tool comes with a few quick buttons that allow you to move events and cancel reservations is this is the case.

While you can add whether you charged a fee or not for the service, it would have been nice if the program enabled you to emit bills and invoices directly. Then again, you can seamlessly figure out if customers have paid for your service by accessing the View Reservations tab.

A further noteworthy feature of the application is that you can synchronize the data you introduce with iCalendar and Outlook. If you have tasks planned within your Outlook event log, you can simply import them here and synchronize the data after you update it.

You should know that the utility allows you to export the information to a few formats – XML, HTML, TXT, XLS and XLSX – so you can analyze it using other apps as well, whenever you are away from the office.

If you are looking for a solution that can help you manage your rental business better, then Rental Calendar for Workgroup might be worth a try.