Chris Corteen started Maven Pole Vault LLC in Wisconsin with one clear mission: help high school and college athletes succeed by giving them access to the right pole vault equipment and training. He began by selling poles and gear, using his coaching experience to fit athletes with equipment that matched their skill level. But it was not long before he saw a gap.
Many athletes wanted to rent poles to try them out before committing to a purchase. That is when Maven expanded into rentals. At first, Chris managed rentals manually. He used spreadsheets and documents to track inventory, handled bookings through one-on-one inquiries, and created quotes, contracts, and invoices by hand. With gear spread across three different pickup points, that setup quickly became unmanageable.
Keeping track of availability, location, and customer info for each pole was taking up more time than the actual coaching. As demand for pole vault rentals grew, so did the strain of trying to run everything manually. That is when Chris turned to Booqable. Using Booqable’s rental website builder and locations feature, he was able to move away from a patchwork system and launch the rental side of his business with clarity and control.
Using a Booqable website for a rental store
With an existing ecommerce site, Chris did not want to rebuild everything from scratch. He just needed a clean, easy-to-use rental section to connect from his main site. One that could clearly show the rental gear available, with prices, availability, and booking all in one place. The problem was that his current site could not handle booking logic, date selection, or inventory updates.
Booqable’s rental website builder was a better fit than trying to use a platform that was not built for rentals. With Booqable, all Chris had to do was select a predesigned template, choose his rental date and time settings, add the product catalog to the page in a single click, and hit launch. Using the domain that Booqable created for his site, he copied the link to redirect his customers from his current website to this one when clicking the rental button on his site.
He also chose to place the date picker first so customers could immediately see what was available, and their prices, when they first viewed the products. That made the process a lot smoother for renters. Here is what Booqable’s website builder does for Maven Pole Vault:
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Handles availability and pricing without needing custom development
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Highlights equipment in a clean, mobile-friendly layout
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Gives athletes a direct booking experience without emailing back and forth
Booqable’s rental website builder solved Chris’s original headaches by moving the booking process online, and automating it. This eliminated back-and-forth emails and phone inquiries, and made inventory availability clear, so Chris could focus more on his coaching and less on manual rental management.
Making multiple location management effortless
Maven’s rentals are done via pickup, but the poles and gear are distributed across multiple locations. Before Booqable, tracking where each product was involved spreadsheets, notes, and a lot of memory. Chris searched for a way to automate this part of the business but could not find a system that handled inventory across multiple pickup points in a way that actually worked for rentals.
Booqable was the first rental software that gave him the flexibility he needed. Chris added his pickup locations into Booqable and assigned product stock to each location in his back office. On his online store, customers can choose their preferred pickup point when selecting rental dates and times, which clearly shows stock availability in the product catalog.
Chris needed a rental software that could track inventory by location and reduce errors when sending out or receiving gear. With Booqable, it is all managed in one place. Each pole, each location, each reservation is tracked with clarity. The process of assigning or moving gear between pickup spots is now quick and accurate. Here is what the locations feature helps Maven do:
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Keep inventory levels accurate for each pickup point
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Prevent double-booking of the same pole in two places
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Check availability without manually scanning spreadsheets
With these tools in place, Chris can confidently run his sports rental service while coaching and growing the business. There is no more guessing or backtracking, just clear, dependable rental management.
A strong foundation for growth
For Maven Pole Vault, switching to Booqable made things click. The rental website builder gave the business a clean, easy way for athletes to book what they need, when they need it. The locations feature solved the challenge of tracking inventory between different pickup points.
In a sports rental niche where accuracy and timing matter, Booqable brought peace of mind. With faster payment, fewer mistakes, and more bookings, Maven is growing on a solid foundation. Chris no longer spends time chasing down equipment records or sorting through documents to manage rentals. Everything is in one place, from quotes to payments to availability.
For a solo business owner, that kind of control and ease is not just helpful. It’s necessary. Booqable gave Maven Pole Vault the tools to offer a reliable pole vault rental service that athletes and coaches can depend on.
