DropHaul vs Point of Rental
Point of Rental is general rental management with a toilet-rental solution. DropHaul is built only for portable sanitation, with published pricing, route optimization, AutoShare, and two-way customer chat.
DropHaul
Portable sanitation software
Free plan, then $149 / $299 / $599 per month. Flat per tier with no per-seat fees; trucks, units, and team members are capped by tier (2, 10, and 25 trucks).
Point of Rental
Rental software
Quote only. Tailored pricing includes 2 users, with more users added on.
Reviewed by the DropHaul team on , using Point of Rental’s own published materials.
How Point of Rental and DropHaul differ
Point of Rental is a long-established rental management system used across equipment, event, and party rental, with a toilet-rental solution. It sends customers arrival and completion alerts with proof-of-service photos and has a native iPad app. DropHaul is purpose-built for portable sanitation, publishes flat pricing, and adds route optimization, AutoShare across 13 events, two-way texting, and telematics.
Choose Point of Rental if
Rental businesses that rent toilets alongside equipment or party inventory and need deep contract, PO, and subrental features.
- Toilets are one line in a broader equipment or party rental business.
- You need purchase orders, subrentals, and rental contracts across many product types.
Choose DropHaul if
Portable sanitation operators who want to see the price up front, run crews from a native app that works offline, and keep customers updated without office typing.
- Portable sanitation is your whole business.
- You want optimized routes and automatic updates across the full job.
- You want published pricing with no per-seat fees.
Feature by feature
- YesYes
- PartialPartial
- NoNo
- Not documentedNot documented
| Capability | DropHaul | Point of Rental |
|---|---|---|
| Published pricing | Yes: Published: free plan, then $149 / $299 / $599 per month | No: Quote only; includes 2 users |
| Contract and trial | Yes: No contract or required setup fee; 14-day trial on paid plans | Not documented: Not published |
| Built for portable sanitation | Yes: Yes, built only for portable sanitation | Partial: General rental software with a toilet-rental solution |
| Unit tracking with QR or barcode scans | Yes: QR and barcode scanning for every unit (Pro and up) | Partial: Barcode scans during inventory counts; per-unit history |
| Route optimization | Yes: Road-aware optimization with monthly credits (Starter and up) | Partial: Live truck tracking and route changes; optimization not documented |
| Native mobile app | Yes: Native iPhone, iPad, and iPhone Duo app; Android coming soon | Yes: POR One for iPhone and iPad |
| Offline driver app | Yes: Full driver workflow without signal; syncs on reconnect | Partial: Recent items, tasks, and messages available offline |
| Automatic customer updates across the job | Yes: AutoShare texts or emails customers automatically from quote to payment (Pro and up) | Partial: Arrival and completion alerts with proof-of-service photos |
| Two-way customer texting | Yes: Threaded SMS and email chat from your own number (Pro and up) | Not documented: Not documented |
| QuickBooks Online | Yes: Invoice push on Starter; two-way sync on Pro and up | Yes: QuickBooks Online, plus Sage, Xero, and Intacct |
| Telematics and fuel cards | Yes: Samsara, Motive, Geotab, Verizon Connect (1 on Pro, all four on Fleet); WEX and Fuelman on Fleet | Not documented: Not documented |
| Official MCP server for AI assistants | Yes: Official MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI assistants | Not documented: Not documented |
“Not documented” means we couldn’t find it in Point of Rental’s public materials, not that it doesn’t exist.
What Point of Rental does well
- More than 40 years in rental software and a large installed base.
- Deep rental contracts, purchase orders, and subrentals.
- Arrival and completion alerts with timestamped photos and signatures as proof of service.
- Broad accounting integrations, including QuickBooks Online, Sage, Xero, and Intacct.
Why operators switch to DropHaul
- Built only for portable sanitation
- DropHaul’s data model starts with restroom units, sites, and service frequency. Point of Rental serves many rental verticals with one system.
- Route optimization in dispatch
- DropHaul sequences stops on real roads with optional time windows, shifts, and breaks. Point of Rental documents live truck tracking and on-the-fly route changes, not automated optimization.
- Updates from quote to payment
- Point of Rental alerts customers on arrival and completion. AutoShare also covers scheduling, quotes, invoices, overdue notices, payments, refunds, and unit swaps, with per-customer channel control.
- Published, flat pricing
- DropHaul publishes every self-serve plan, with no per-seat fees. Point of Rental quotes each customer and adds users beyond the included two.
AutoShare tells customers before they call
Customers get a text or email when their service is scheduled, when the driver is on the way, when the job is done, and when the invoice goes out. Your office stops fielding “is the unit coming?” calls, and you choose how each customer hears from you. Included on Pro, Fleet, and Enterprise plans.
See AutoShare- Driver en route · Wed 7:41 AMRivera Sanitation: Hi Dana, Marcus is on the way to Oakridge Phase 2 and expects to arrive 8:00–8:30 AM.
- Service completed · Wed 8:19 AMRivera Sanitation: Hi Dana, your service at Oakridge Phase 2 is complete.
Leaving Point of Rental? Bring everything with you.
Most owners move over on their own with the built-in importer. If you’d rather hand it off, Switch & Setup is our hands-on migration: we bring your data over, set DropHaul up the way you run, and train your crew at a competitive rate, usually in a day to a few weeks.
We work from Excel, Google Sheets, CSV and TSV exports, PDF route sheets and invoices, Desktop software, or another dispatch tool.
Pickup. We collect what you have
Spreadsheets, exports from your current software, even PDF route sheets. Messy is fine.
Service. We set DropHaul up
Customers, sites, units, and jobs land in the right fields, and DropHaul is configured around how you already run.
Drop. Your crew goes live
We walk the office and drivers through it, then review your first routes with you.
What Switch & Setup covers
- Migration
- Customers, contacts, sites, units, trucks, jobs, and open invoices moved over and checked for duplicates and gaps.
- Configuration
- Yards, trucks, service schedules, pricing, and AutoShare set up to match how your operation works today.
- Training
- Your office learns dispatch and billing; your drivers learn the iPhone app they will carry every day.
- Go-live support
- We plan the cutover with you and review the first routes, with an on-site setup day available.
Doing it yourself
The importer reads PDF, CSV, TSV, and Excel. Match columns, fix flagged rows, review, and import across 12 record types, from customers, contacts, job sites, units to fuel entries.
Frequently Asked Questions
Sources
Accessed October 25, 2026.
- Point of Rental toilet rental software (opens in a new tab)
- Point of Rental pricing (opens in a new tab)
- Point of Rental POR One app (opens in a new tab)
- Point of Rental integrations (opens in a new tab)
Competitor information comes from each vendor’s public website, help center, pricing page, and app store listings as of October 25, 2026, and may have changed. “Not documented” means we could not find the capability in the vendor’s public materials, not that it does not exist. Trademarks belong to their owners. Spot something out of date? Email hello@drophaul.app and we will correct it.
Ready to switch?
Create your account, then bring DropHaul with you on iPhone. No credit card required.