Rentman is a well-regarded system built around equipment and crew for event production. Event Managr is built around a narrower loop: stock leaves, comes back in a condition somebody records, and has to be ready before the next booking wants it.
● From $29 a month. 14-day free trial. No card required.
WHO THIS PAGE IS FOR
Your business is party and event rental — seating, tables, linen, marquees, decor — and the hard parts are availability across overlapping weekends and what comes back broken.
WHAT EVENT MANAGR DOES
Every item carries its own prep and cleaning days, and availability subtracts them. Linen collected on Sunday with two days of turnaround is not offered for Monday just because the booking technically ended. The number you quote from is the number you can actually load.
Returning stock is the only moment the truth about your inventory changes, so it is a full workflow rather than an edit screen. You record what came back, what came back broken and what did not come back, and the three reconcile against what went out. Count forty-two against forty and it says so, because somebody has counted a pile twice.
Damaged stock is here and out of service. Missing stock is unaccounted for and often turns up in the wrong crate at the next event. Both come off availability, both stay on the record, and neither is a note in a comment field — so “how many do I own” and “how many can I promise in June” stay two answerable questions.
Roles are assembled from individual permissions rather than picked from a list of three. Warehouse staff can move units between pools, fix a storage position and submit a stock count without ever being able to change what the company owns — and cost prices are visible only to the roles you hand that permission to.
WHEN TO BUY THEIRS
If crew scheduling and staffing are as central to your operation as the equipment — tracking qualifications, hours and pay rates — Rentman does that properly and we do not. Our rostering answers a narrower question: who is working this job, and is anybody already committed elsewhere. A shift carries a free-text role and nothing about what somebody is certified to do or what they are owed for it.
QUESTIONS
Yes, and we are specific about which part. Run sheets are live — what happens on the day, who is doing it, and whether it is done, on a day board the floor can tick off. Rostering is live too, and it refuses to put one person in two places at once: an event roster, a dispatch run and booked leave are checked against each other in both directions, and somebody holding the override grant can proceed anyway by name. What it does not carry is qualifications, hours or pay rates.
A delivery or collection gets a vehicle or a hired-in supplier, a crew, and a time. Scheduling a delivery creates the collection run at the same moment, so a due-back date is never quietly forgotten, and the day board shows what is going out, what is coming back and what is overdue.
No. There are fourteen days of the whole product with no card required, and then three paid plans. We would rather be honest about that up front than run a free tier that quietly stops being usable at the point you depend on it.
ALSO COMPARED
Event Managr starts with a 14-day free trial, and no card is required. Load one category and one real booking — that is enough to tell whether it fits.
