Reserving equipment

Streamlined equipment reservations

Trail simplifies the process of planning and managing equipment reservations, making it easy to allocate resources for future projects. With Trail, users can effortlessly reserve equipment, register assets for use, and manage their return. The view of all reservations offers comprehensive visibility into asset usage, ensuring that teams can effectively monitor and optimise the deployment of resources across all projects.

Key benefits:

  • Easily reserve equipment, register assets for use, and manage their return.

  • Set acceptance conditions for asset delivery to ensure quality and readiness.

  • Access detailed reservation history for better tracking and analysis.

  • Gain visibility into usage rates and optimize investments based on actual needs.

When managing equipment, it’s often necessary to reserve specific items for future use. Trail simplifies the entire process from booking to returning equipment. Users can make reservations easily via a browser or mobile app, and by scanning the asset label, all usage and return information is accurately recorded in the system.

Trail’s asset reservation functionality provides clear visibility into both available and reserved equipment, allowing users to easily view the full usage of all assets. The reservation details are continuously updated, offering real-time information to all users.

Certain reservations may require approval before equipment can be delivered, and Trail allows for the configuration of acceptance criteria to meet these needs.

All reservations are logged on individual item cards, making it simple to track usage history and ensure reliable documentation. If a user forgets to return equipment on time, Trail sends automatic reminders to both the user and responsible parties about the overdue reservation.

The asset reservation feature also helps identify equipment that is frequently used and in high demand, as well as items that are less often reserved. This data enables customers to optimise equipment investments based on actual needs.

Trail answers to the following questions:

  • Is the equipment available for reservation during a specific time?

  • Has the equipment been returned following its reservation?

  • Who has made a reservation for the equipment?

  • What is the purpose of the equipment reservation?

  • How efficiently are the reservable assets being utilised?

Explore industries where reservations are used

Performing arts

Trail has originally been developed based on the needs of the customers in the performing arts industry. Explore the key functionalities used in the performing arts sector.

Schools and Universities

Reservations can be utilised to manage equipment loans to staff or students. Ofter a lending locker provides a useful add-on to the reservations functionality.

Healthcare

Reservations management is an important feature in healthcare as it blocks double bookings and allows users to trust that certain equipment is available for them.

Learn more

Contact us

Do you wish to discuss and learn more about the benefits of equipment management? Fill in the form and we'll reach out to you!

Join our fast growing Trail community and let's build the future of equipment management together.

© 2025 Trail Systems