Long time since I posted on this forum.
I am looking for a software tool to book gear. I am imagining that this must be a solved problem. What do you use to book your gear internaly when you do shows or rent out the gear?
I have seen some very old post related to this, but what are people using now?
Info, most of our shows are one-offs and we use a lot of free lancers. It is often not possible or practical to go back home to get an extra cable or similar...
I would if possible like to use the same tool to keep track of personel and booking of freelancers.
Wish list:
I am looking for a software tool to book gear. I am imagining that this must be a solved problem. What do you use to book your gear internaly when you do shows or rent out the gear?
I have seen some very old post related to this, but what are people using now?
Info, most of our shows are one-offs and we use a lot of free lancers. It is often not possible or practical to go back home to get an extra cable or similar...
I would if possible like to use the same tool to keep track of personel and booking of freelancers.
Wish list:
- Mulit user support. (Excel on dropbox gets messy with conflicting copies etc.)
- Be able to keep track of indiviuals but book generic. (eg book 10 par cans for a show, pick any 10 but know which have been where after failures or which are missing)
- Handling consumables that get returned (used), such as tape.
- RFID or Barcode/QR support for the expensive stuff.
- Generate a list to use when picking stuff.
- Be able to add extra spares when picking, add it to the tool and get a warning if it will result in an issue for other shows.
- Gear booked for prepp/show differentiating. Perhaps could use ship something directly from one show to another even if not prefered. (and similar situations)
- Keep track on who is booked for what show. Have a database of freelancers and their contact info and maybe of their prefererad type of shows and skills. Auto generating emails and similar is not needed.
- Be able to do a "multi show checkin". 5 Shows returning at the same time.
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