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Linen & Equipment Rental Platform

An intelligent, centralized, system of record where all linen & equipment rental production and fulfillment is managed.

Seaside Linen and Rental Company is a forward thinking company that sevices the vacation rental industry in Willmington, North Carolina area.  While they do serve customers direct, they prefer to establish relationships with large property management or vacation rental companies (VRMs) that outsource their linen and equipment rental needs.

Linens are difficult to make profitable and keeping an inventory of equipment is a logistical nightmare.  Property management, real estate, and VRM companies are starting to realize they can reduce overall costs by partnering with a trusted linen and equipment rental company for these services.

This project tells the story of an online application that helped a linen company to profitably provide these services, while the PM / RE / VRM company gets piece of mind and makes a little money on the deal.

Until now, a mobile software application designed specifically for the linen & equipment rental industry did not exist.  As is the case with anything cutting edge, there were many challenges to overcome and problems to solve.

  • The process to enter a new reservation was time consuming and prone to human error
  • Each property had a predefined bed configuration that needed to be loaded by default
  • Integration with PMS software APIs for Escapia, VRM is a challenge
  • Getting updates from PMS software and making intelligent decisions with the information
  • Breaking up routes into managable regions on a map that can be turned off in slow times
  • Scheduling, or routing delivery and pick-up schedules with a click of the mouse
  • Easy to move a reserviation to a new day or delivery truck
  • Automating the export of invoice data to elimate data entry, again
  • Reporting tools used to streamline operations and make better decisions

While not a comprehensive list of all the requirements, this is an impressive list of challenges to overcome.

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