Cheqroom

Pros: The ease of checking in and out equipment with your phone.

Cons: Needing to connect with fellow employees about checking equipment in.

Pros: Cheqroom is easy to use and has a wide array of functionality. It has freed up so much of my time by putting the onus on my staff to share the load of managing our gear by reserving, checking out, and then checking back in what they use.

Cons: The biggest hurdle is that I don't have full website functionality in the app. Would be nice to be able to add items in the app like you can on the website.

Pros: Cheqroom is a dynamic app. What I mean is that it updates instantly from anywhere in the world. This means that as long as you are using it correctly, it is reliable for keeping track of your gear.

Cons: There is a small issue where a loaded page will show 10 lines by default, with the option to change that to 50 lines. You need to choose " Show 50 lines" for every page you load (first time only). I'd prefer a system-wide setting to "Show 50 rows" or even "Show all" (though that may be too many to load, I don't know).

Pros: It's extremely helpful for students and professors to be able to see exactly what is currently available or checked out. The checkout and reservation processes are pretty intuitive, and was easy to learn.

Cons: Like any software, it has bugs sometimes. It took a couple of months for us to get a specific fix, but once it's been fixed we've had no issues.

Pros: The interface is very easy to use, the way we can connect to all the student with their accounts is faster and all the general settings is intuitive. Also the way we can upload the items is amazing!

Cons: Can't change the time zone in different workspaces, and that I can't put individual restrictions for a specific item.

Pros: The design of the platform and all menu/table presented in the webapp. Very easy to use also for user with a basic level of IT knowledge.

Cons: The only thing improvable is the export generation of the excel.

Pros: The possibility to visually see the items in the inventory and that makes the preparation of the list very easy

Cons: Just a couple of adjustments on the mobile app: the most important for us would be to give the reservation a name already from the mobile app while preparing the reservation. Now we need to save it and the change the name.

Pros: I Like the feature of the QR code scanning. It completely eliminates the need for paperwork. I can always get through cheqroom quickly versus the time I would spend working on a spreadsheet, otherwise. Plus, it keeps up with everything in realtime so you can not beat the accuracy.

Cons: The mobile software does not always work as well as the desktop version works. It tends to be a little buggy and just randomly closes. Also, it tends to get irritating that the time on the due date always has to be reset.

Pros: When it came time to renew, we saw over a 240% increase in price (without notification). Once we decided that we did not want to renew, I was informed that it “is quite a difficult process to obtain our devices/data”. There is still a likely possibility that they cannot/will not export my data into an excel file meaning I lose everything! That seems extremely odd and not worth it!

Cons: Unable to obtain data if you decide not to renew.

Pros: + I tagged all my equipment with asset tags, and that saves me a lot of time. When I'm in a hurry, I can easily use the mobile app to check all my equipment in or out. + I also keep my invoices safe with the related equipment. That way, I never need to search. + Since many people are using our equipment, the flagging feature is crucial in our workflow. We can't afford to have broken equipment on set. This feature prevents us from losing time and motivation.

Cons: - Some things can be fixed with UX/UI. But once you know it it's fine.

Pros: The phone application and the barcode reader on are simple to use. Our staff can book out items in batches or groups. Cheqroom is an easy place to store information for quick and easy access

Cons: Items which require frequent calibration need to have a warranty period entered as a work around solution presently. If Cheqroom was to add a calibration date feature with reminder it would be great

Pros: Obviously, going through and tagging and entering every piece of equipment was going to be a chore. But, using Cheqroom to do so, was simple and easy. We were looking for a simple piece of software that also has enough features to be worth our time and money, and Cheqroom fulfils all our needs.

Cons: There are features that our business could use that are missing from the Cheqroom software such as being able to delete an item and enforcing that users have to scan the barcode in order to check-out an item. However, I understand that there will always be features that would be useful to specific businesses and not all these can be fulfilled. The team at Cheqroom have been very satisfactorily answering any questions or requests I have had regarding the software.

Pros: The ability to track the tools and have pictures so it is simple to select the tool for checkout

Cons: It is a little cumbersome for the location where the tool is going. We had to do a workaround and create an "extra info" category to track this which works well. However, adding a new location to this category is not simple.

Pros: Checqroom has many advantages over other asset tracking solutions. The Navigation is efficient and provides many avenue to locating items, reservation, checkouts and report. The report and automated communications are very customizable with parameters that can pull information from item or contact details. Importing and Exporting information is well thought out and the SSO integration is a real time saver from a management perspective.

Cons: The only Con for us, is the cost. Comparatively, they are cheaper than the bigger players in the Asset Tracking service. Lesser services exist with much less features and customizability.

Pros: Ease of use. Easy to track our tool inventory on a daily basis.

Cons: Could be a little easier to extend the length of time a product is out. Also checking out inventory can a little confusing sometimes from the app. Easier to do on the computer as it doenst always show all of the tools listed in inventory

Pros: Makes it easy to track all equipment checkouts past and present!

Cons: Many features are continually being added, which is good. However, sometimes these features are updated suddenly, which can change how we use the software in the middle of a busy week, making it hard to adapt quickly.

Pros: Integration with Active Directory QR codes and mobile app make it easy for our staff to help customers Dashboard tells you what you want to know about the status of equipment, reservations, and loans Ability to create kits is a plus Automated and customized notifications save a lot of time and work

Cons: There's not much to not like. I do think being able to set up multiple business hours to take care of regular, summer, and break schedules would be nice so that teachers putting in early reservations for the semester would not be restricted by summer hours. Also, we sometimes have issues with duplicate usernames in CHEQROOM as a whole so that some of our users in AD will not update correctly. It's a small number, and we have workarounds.

Pros: This software is easy to use and fairly intuitive. It allows my organization to make checkout and reservation records as well as keep details on all of our loaning gear. I like that it is easy to customize information on your own or with their help. Support is very helpful if needed.

Cons: Nothing at this time. I like the software.

Pros: This software helped us automate all the manual processes we used to run for our demo equipment loans within our sales teams. It now helps us track verything real-time and acquire really useful insights from the reports that the tool provides.

Cons: I would add even more options to customize the permissions for making reservations, improve the reporting tools and notification emails configurations. I also do not see mobile notifications enabled yet.

Pros: Multi-use sign out and accountability on equipment was the most direct advantage when first implemented. The planning and reserving equipment was also ideal when project planning and evaluating resources working with other leaders to accommodate changing project timelines and requirements. Desktop and App integration was a good feature.

Cons: Found it difficult to get a hang of the check in and check out process. Could potentially be due to our implementation which I'm not sure how involved customer support was. We had in-house support from a engineering lab leader who led the sourcing and implementation. I found enough barriers in the process that I avoided it if not necessary to the task. I never went out of my way to try to implement it for my workflow rather used it sparingly when I had a specific request.

Pros: It allows us to manage all the gear across teams effectively and quickly

Cons: It has a bit of a learning curve to start using

Pros: What I like most, is the ease of being able to track company assets. The flags, and custody functions are very helpful for our tracking.

Cons: What I like the least, is the reporting functions. I feel that the reports are mostly for checking in and out items and we do not really use those functions.