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3 surprising reasons your school should make the move to cloud-based equipment checkout software
School districts, universities, and colleges often deal with large amounts of AV equipment. But monitoring & tracking inventory manually needs to stop now. Here are 3 reasons why you should transition to cloud-based equipment checkout software.
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Equipment management software - why is it better than spreadsheets?
When used right, spreadsheets can be pretty awesome. Not so for equipment management, which requires much more insightful tools to keep equipment tracked and well maintained.
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More control with booking restrictions
Do you encounter long queues in the equipment room? Does equipment stay unavailable for long periods because people book equipment for longer than they need? Or do you, as an equipment manager, sometimes feel pressured to hastily prep a last-minute booking? For people like you, we have added booking restrictions to Cheqroom. Hooray! Less stressful equipment managers in the office in 3, 2, 1
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6 reasons to implement Equipment Spotcheck
A regular inspection or audit of your equipment room is mighty important if you want to be on top of your equipment management. You’re probably thinking, “is it that time of the year again?” But it doesn’t have to be that hard, and you don’t have to do it all at once.
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The shareable equipment list is here to simplify your workflow
Cheqroom now supports shareable and public equipment lists. They come in handy if you want to share a specific list of equipment with a freelancer, student, or any other person you don’t want to grant access to your Cheqroom account.The shareable equipment list is organized, easy to access, and always up to date.
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5 Reasons to trade in Excel spreadsheets for a modern software tool
Using Excel for asset tracking in this day and age may be justified because it’s easily available and seemingly cheap and easy to use, but do these reasons hold up against the many disadvantages?
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4 ways to facilitate remote work with Cheqroom
Like many teams worldwide, our team has learnt to work remotely since Covid-19. Although we are more or less used to remote work now, we realize that this can be a challenge, for some industries more than for others. That’s why we’d like to share a few tips to help guarantee and stimulate a smooth tracking of your equipment with everyone working from all over the world.
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10 Examples of using QR codes to track your smallbiz inventory
QR-codes have been the way to go recent years to track things or to guide people towards a website, a menu or to enter places or even to pay. But did you know you could organize and track your gear easily by labeling everything with these codes? Here we have a few tips
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Adopting new software: let's get your team on board
So you found this wonderful solution to all your problems at work… or at least some of them. And you’re so excited about it, you can’t wait to tell your entire team! Before you do, you might want to consider this: bringing new software into your organization can definitely increase productivity and help your team focus more on their work and less on things like administration. But getting your entire team on board could be a real challenge.
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6 reasons to move your equipment management to the cloud
Poor equipment management can be a drain on profitability and efficiency. To put it simply: it can cost your organization a hell of a lot of money. That’s why many companies and schools have moved their inventory management to an online tool. May these tips help you with your business case!
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This is how SIGMA preps for events with Cheqroom
The SIGMA Corporation of America joined our Cheqroom family a little under a year ago and we finally got to meet their lovely team in person at this year’s NAB show.
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Of Whales and Drones: An Interview with Salinda Bacheler from MARRS Lab
We had the chance to sit down with Salinda Bacheler, the (super nice!) program manager at MARRS Lab in North Carolina. Not only did we talk about all the amazing things they do at the research lab, but we also discussed how they were in need of better equipment management last year, and how Cheqroom has helped them manage their inventory.
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