Golden Bay Jumpers is a locally owned and operated party rental business serving The Bay Area of California. The husband and wife team was a local family who has been renting tables, chairs, and inflatable bounce houses for birthday and family parties since they started the business.
Local dads and moms make up their primary clientele, as they are often the ones looking to rent an average size bounce house for their backyard parties. In beginning their party rental business, they spent many weeks searching the internet for rental software but often found there were too many complex and costly systems available to start.
They wanted a more straightforward and affordable platform, and Booqable stood out because of offering a combination of a website builder to get the business up and running, alongside the automated inventory management. Today, the Booqable system helps Golden Bay Jumpers manage their bookings and expand their local party rental business through the use of its templates, delivery module, and mobile point of sale.
Using a pre-built party rental website template
Golden Bay Jumpers quickly found that their first hurdle was designing a professional website at an affordable price. As an new party rental company, they sought to build an online store where customers could navigate and book services but numerous options available were extremely expensive and difficult to navigate.
Booqable’s website templates gave them a quick way to launch online without needing design or coding experience. Instead of building a website from scratch, they selected a template and customized it around their bounce houses and event rental inventory. The setup process allowed them to focus on their products and bookings rather than technical details.
The templates help Golden Bay Jumpers:
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Display bounce houses, tables, and chairs in a clean online catalog
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Accept online bookings directly from local customers
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Create a professional-looking website without hiring a developer
Using the templates helped Golden Bay Jumpers launch their party rental website quickly while keeping costs manageable. And because the system is easy to update, they can continue adding inventory as the business grows.
Managing deliveries through the Booqable mobile app
It’s critical for Golden Bay Jumpers to know where the jobs are, as they provide delivery, setup, and pickup. As they grow as a party rental business, they needed an application to track delivery statuses while out traveling between locations.
The Booqable mobile app’s point of sale became their main tool for managing upcoming deliveries. They currently use the app to check delivery schedules and monitor rental orders throughout the day. For delivery-based rental businesses, the app also includes tools for setting delivery pricing based on distance, charging delivery fees during online checkout, opening the fastest route in Google Maps, and marking orders as delivered directly from the app.
Here’s how the delivery workflow works:
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Delivery fees can be configured based on travel distance
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Customers can pay for delivery during online checkout
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Drivers can open the fastest route directly in Google Maps
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Orders can be marked as delivered to update booking statuses in real time
With Golden Bay Jumpers the mobile access to their delivery schedule enables them to remain organized with daily schedules when setting up for customers. It allows the team to stay organized without continually coming back into their desk for access.
Since deliveries play such a large part of their party rental company, it enables them to stay on task by not having to check their computers to confirm their appointment when arriving for set-up or pick-up.
Looking ahead as the business grows
The team at Golden Bay Jumpers intend to keep growing their inventory and eventually move into building custom website for their rental service down the road. In the meantime, Booqable has provided them with a reliable system to handle their online booking and delivery and has become instrumental in helping build their local name.
Their story exemplifies a good example for small, local rental companies looking to start up their business on a budget while still developing a customer-centric experience. Booqable has been “easy, straightforward and cost friendly,” according to their team.
