Flex Rental Solutions
How Can the Most Flexible Platform Become Even More Flexible?
As the first-ever asset and inventory management solution built from the ground up for the events industry, we are proud of the fact that Flex is repeatedly called out by our customers for its flexibility. Flex5’s deep breadth of capabilities gives customers significant freedom to work Flex into their processes. (As opposed to other platforms that require…
Read MoreSupport Summit Recap: Hello from Houston! Clear Vision, Full Stomach, Can’t Lose.
Last week, CEO Chris Stein traveled to Houston, Texas, to meet with our Support Team. The purpose of the meeting was to connect, learn, and (apparently) eat. The event was a huge success and we thought we’d share a few key notes: James took advantage of this adventure and enjoyed a nice long Texas bike…
Read MoreFlexCon ’23 Review (and what’s to come)!
It’s been a couple of weeks since we wrapped FlexCon ‘23 and there hasn’t been much time to come up for air. After all, our customers were busy with their summer festivals, fireworks shows, and so much more. Still, we wanted to share key takeaways from FlexCon ‘23 and even preview a bit out what…
Read MoreFlex Ability Sessions: A Continuous Improvement Plan To Help You
We recently found ourselves having an interesting conversation with Flex founder and CEO, Chris Stein. While it started with a question to which we can likely all relate, “How can we create a better experience for our customers?”, it became something more specific: “How can we help our customers better implement and customize their Flex…
Read MoreA letter from the CEO – Flex5 Timeline Update
I am excited to announce that we are nearing our goal of migrating to Flex5. Flex4 has served our customers and industry well. It offered amazing industry leading features and pioneered Inventory / Rental Management software in the Cloud. Flex5 promises to continue this trajectory, and then-some. Already, the overall speed improvements and stability of…
Read MoreCustomer Spotlight: Show & Design Group
The Show & Design Group success story begins where many begin – in a spare bedroom with a few bits of this, a little of that, not much money, and the nagging feeling that something bigger and better was waiting to be built. That was then (2015). And as principal owner, Lew Aronoff recently shared…
Read MoreCustomer Spotlight: Roundrock Technology
Founded in 2003, Roundrock Technology (formerly TOURtech) was one of Flex’s first 10 customers (thank you!). Founder and CEO, Allen Cook (like any good tech company) started in his garage with a dozen bar codes, and since then things have grown a bit. The company now manages thousands of assets and works on international events…
Read MoreCustomer Spotlight: Stage Sound Services
It started with one pair of old speakers. One pair of old speakers that were rented for parties, to clubs, to bands…to whomever needed one pair of old speakers. That was then. Nearly three decades later, Cardiff, UK-based Stage Sound Services employs more than 70 people and is one of the most trusted production resources…
Read MoreCustomer Spotlight: Monster Energy
“Do you mind if I share the screen to show you something?” This wasn’t the start of our conversation with Mark Titus, Sr. Event Operations Manager for Monster Beverage, but the question certainly took us all to the next level. Mark then shared a spreadsheet that outlined the deadlines, milestones, and progress of the nearly…
Read MoreCustomer Spotlight: Quince Imaging
We’re all familiar with the extravaganza that is the Super Bowl Halftime Show or other special one-off events. And not to take anything away from the intricacies of such events, but perhaps they benefit from the greatest of all unheralded production assets: Time. Imagine putting on a show day in and day out – without…
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