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The sharing economy has changed how people think about ownership — favoring access over buying. This guide breaks down its origins, key models, Rachel Botsman's contributions, how it compares to the gift economy, and where it's headed next for rental and subscription businesses.
Thinking about opening an event venue? This guide walks through defining your concept, researching your local market, writing a financial plan, getting permitted, staffing up, marketing the space, and running bookings without double-booking your busiest weekend.
If your business operates out of a rented space, your landlord's policy almost certainly doesn't cover your equipment, inventory, or liability — renters insurance does. This guide breaks down what it covers, what's excluded, how premiums are calculated, and the steps to file a claim, with a side-by-side comparison of renters, landlord, and liability coverage.
A step-by-step guide to launching a rental property business, from choosing a business structure and financing your first property to using rental management software to scale with confidence.
Setting the right equipment rental rate is a balancing act between covering your costs and staying competitive. This guide breaks down cost-based vs. market-based pricing, the factors that move your rates, and how a rental pricing calculator takes the guesswork out of it.
Launching a website is one of the highest-leverage moves a small rental business can make. This guide walks through choosing the right builder, structuring essential pages, setting up booking and payments, and marketing the finished site — so you can go straight to what works instead of learning it the hard way.
Surveys and gig apps can cover a short-term cash gap, but they don't scale. This guide compares the common ways to make money online and breaks down why starting a rental business — equipment, vehicles, or space — is one of the few options with real earning potential and recurring income.
Spring is turning into summer, and so is our product roadmap. This month: open-ended returns for monthly-billed rentals, smarter pickup/return confirmation emails, a significantly faster order list, and a second Autopass toll integration via Flyt — plus what's driving these changes across the platform.
Ant Equipment Rentals is expanding into Alberta, opening operations in Calgary and Edmonton. The move brings the company's all-in-one rental commerce platform — plus a focused XCMG and SDLG equipment lineup — to rental operators across the province, along with new partnership opportunities for digital agencies and tech partners.
Hospitals and healthcare providers are increasingly turning to rental medical equipment to cut capital costs and stay agile amid rising chronic disease rates, an aging population, and the shift toward home healthcare. This report breaks down the market's key segments, growth drivers, and what's shaping its future.
The equipment rental industry is shifting fast toward digital-first operations. Drawing on American Rental Association (ARA) insights, this article breaks down the market trends, economic drivers, and career shifts shaping the sector — plus what separates operators still running on spreadsheets from those winning with modern rental platforms.
Manual counts and barcode scans slow rental operators down and leave room for costly errors. RFID changes that by reading dozens of tagged assets at once, with no line of sight required. This guide breaks down how RFID works, where it delivers the most value across the rental lifecycle, and what to weigh before investing in it.
A practical guide to implementing Google Consent Mode V2 — how to choose a CMP, wire it up through Google Tag Manager, and keep your GDPR compliance and ad data intact at the same time.
Beauty tech is turning guesswork into data — and that shift is quietly reshaping how the industry thinks about waste. From AI-powered skin diagnostics to refillable, sensor-monitored packaging, this article looks at how personalization and smarter sourcing are helping beauty brands move from a linear buy-and-discard model toward a genuinely circular one.
Rental commerce is no longer a niche — it's a growth category clients are actively asking their agencies about. Here's how digital agencies and consultancies can become a Sharefox partner, which partnership model fits their business, and what it takes to start delivering rental projects for clients.
Spring means final prep for the season — and a good moment to get more efficient. This update covers VAT-aware pricing defaults, a new product utilization report, what to use instead of the retiring Facebook Messenger plugin, one-click order creation from the Schedule, and a handful of checkout and self-service improvements.
Discover how car rental self service automation works, its benefits, and how digital rental software helps companies scale efficiently.
This month's Sharefox update focuses on the small operational details that add up: automatic toll and ferry billing through Autopass, faster order lookup by inventory ID, a single streamlined way to change order lines, and a one-click booking summary PDF for customers.
The Schedule just got a major overhaul — see who booked what at a glance, switch to Compact View for large inventories, drag-and-drop orders between items, and try our new front-page location and time search.
Effective order management is what keeps machinery and tool rental businesses running smoothly — from booking to returns. Here's how a purpose-built order management system reduces errors, improves utilization, and scales across multiple locations.
