Rentman alternative
Rentman is a well-regarded system built around equipment and crew for event production. RentWeave 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 days free · No card needed
| RentWeave | Rentman | |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Party and event rental: seating, tables, linen, décor | Event production, with crew at the centre |
| Built around | Availability across overlapping weekends, and what comes back | Equipment and crew scheduling together |
| Price | Solopreneur $29, Planner $49, Small Business $79, Enterprise $199 a month, per company | A €39 monthly platform fee, then each module per power user: Inventory from €14, Crew from €14. Basic users are free. Prices are published in euros, before tax. |
| Five people, billed monthly | $79 a month: Small Business, up to 8 staff accounts | €154 a month: the €39 platform fee plus five power users on Inventory Standard (€14) with Quoting & Invoicing (€9) |
Rentman figures from their pricing page, checked 14 October 2026.
The short answer
Choose RentWeave if the hard parts are availability across overlapping weekends and what comes back broken. Choose Rentman if crew qualifications, hours and pay are as central to the job as the equipment.
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 RentWeave does differently
Stock leaves, comes back in a condition somebody records, and has to be ready before the next booking wants it. Everything here follows from that.
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.
In fairness
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.
Every feature and the lowest plan that carries it. None of it is sold as an add-on.
| Feature | Plan |
|---|---|
| Run the jobs | |
| Bookings and availabilityChecked against every booking, with prep and cleaning days | Every plan |
| Unlimited inventoryEvery item type you own, on every plan | Every plan |
| Customers and history | Every plan |
| Board, calendar and table viewsBookings, customers and stock, the way you like to look | Every plan |
| Stock counts and returnsCounted on a phone, accepted by a manager | Every plan |
| Import from other softwareStock, customers and bookings from a spreadsheet or your old system | Every plan |
| Get paid | |
| Quotes, invoices and receipts | Every plan |
| Services catalogueDecoration, planning and crew at your own rates | Every plan |
| Deposits and damageDeposits held apart from income; damage charged or waived | Every plan |
| Invoice reminders | Every plan |
| Plan the event | |
| Mood boardsEdited together, live, with a view-only link for the client | Planner and up |
| Site plannerTo-scale floor plans and outdoor maps | Planner and up |
| Run sheet, crew and leaveRefuses one person in two places at once | Planner and up |
| Buy and restock | |
| Buy list, purchase orders, supplier billsWhat you're short of, and what's already on order | Small Business and up |
| Run the operation | |
| Vans, runs and the dispatch boardThe collection is scheduled the moment the delivery is | Enterprise |
| Reports and CSV export | Enterprise |
| Custom roles and temporary access | Enterprise |
| Full audit logEvery quantity change, who made it and when | Enterprise |
Export from Rentman, drop the files in and press Import once. Anything already in RentWeave is left alone.
Crew qualifications, hours and pay rates have nowhere to go here. Your people come across with their roles; what they are certified for and owed stays in your payroll system.
RentWeave is one price per company, with staff accounts included. 14 days of every feature first, with no card.
Rentman figures from their pricing page, checked 14 October 2026.
Rental companies that sell through polished client proposals
AV and production hire with serial-numbered kit
Companies whose customers book online themselves
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 14 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.
Load one category and one real booking. That is enough to tell whether it fits, and the trial gives you 14 days to find out.
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