Commander is now available in Apex Rental Pro, giving businesses a new way to track projects, tasks, jobs, follow-ups, prep work, and daily operations directly inside the app.
Meet Commander
Commander is Apex Rental Pro?s built-in project and task management workspace. It gives your team a simple place to organize the work that happens around customers, quotes, jobs, sales, service calls, inventory, and day-to-day operations.
Instead of managing tasks across sticky notes, text messages, group chats, spreadsheets, and memory alone, Commander brings that work into one organized place inside Apex Rental Pro.
Why Commander Was Built
Most businesses do not lose time because they are not working hard enough. They lose time because work gets scattered.
A customer follow-up might be in a text message. A job note might be in someone?s head. A repair task might be written on a sticky note. A delivery reminder might be buried in a group chat. An inventory issue might be remembered exactly three seconds after it would have been useful.
Commander was built to help fix that.
Commander gives your team one place to track the work that happens around the sale, around the job, and around the customer.
Built for More Than One Type of Business
Apex Rental Pro serves many kinds of businesses, so Commander was designed to stay flexible.
It can support tent and event rental companies, lawn care businesses, pool and spa companies, general item rental businesses, service businesses, and point-of-sale operations.
- Tent and event rental companies can track setup prep, crew tasks, quote follow-ups, inventory checks, and event-related work.
- Lawn care businesses can organize routes, seasonal cleanups, equipment maintenance, landscaping jobs, and customer requests.
- Pool and spa companies can manage pool openings, closings, hot tub installs, service calls, chemical checks, and follow-ups.
- General rental businesses can track rental prep, delivery planning, return inspections, repairs, and inventory maintenance.
- Point-of-sale businesses can manage inventory counts, restocking projects, vendor follow-ups, store tasks, and internal checklists.
- Service businesses can organize installs, maintenance jobs, customer communication, and team assignments.
What You Can Track in Commander
Commander is built around practical project and task tracking for real business operations.
- Projects for jobs, service work, customer requests, internal operations, or larger business tasks.
- Tasks for the smaller steps needed to finish each project.
- Due dates so important work does not quietly wander off into the woods.
- Priorities so your team knows what needs attention first.
- Statuses so work can move from planning to active, on hold, completed, or cancelled.
- Task stages such as to do, in progress, blocked, and done.
- Assignments so everyone knows who owns what.
- Business links to related records in Apex Rental Pro where available.
Where to Find Commander
Commander is available from the same area where you already switch between core operational views.
- Calendar helps you manage scheduled jobs, events, and time-based work.
- Register helps you handle sales and point-of-sale activity.
- Commander helps you manage projects, tasks, follow-ups, prep work, and operations.
That means you can move between your schedule, sales activity, and operational task tracking without leaving Apex Rental Pro.
Real Ways Businesses Can Use Commander
Tent and Event Rentals
Create a project for a weekend wedding setup. Add tasks for confirming the customer, checking tent inventory, preparing sidewalls, assigning crew members, reviewing setup notes, and marking prep complete.
Lawn Care
Create a project for spring cleanup season. Add tasks for checking equipment, assigning routes, confirming customer requests, tracking materials, and completing property notes.
Pool and Spa
Create a project for a pool opening. Add tasks for scheduling the visit, assigning a technician, checking chemicals, tracking needed parts, and following up with the customer.
General Item Rentals
Create a project for a large customer order. Add tasks for inspecting rental items, staging inventory, preparing delivery notes, assigning staff, and checking items back in after return.
Point-of-Sale Operations
Create a project for an inventory cleanup. Add tasks for counting stock, updating item records, checking vendor orders, organizing shelves, and reviewing low-stock items.
Available on Trial and Pro Plans
Commander is available for Trial and Pro plan users.
If you are on an eligible plan, you can start using Commander now to organize projects, tasks, jobs, follow-ups, prep work, and internal operations inside Apex Rental Pro.
Starter plan users will see an upgrade prompt with details about unlocking Commander.
Why This Matters
Running a business means keeping track of more than just the sale.
There are customer follow-ups, team assignments, inventory checks, prep work, repairs, service notes, internal reminders, and jobs that need to move from ?we should do that? to ?done.?
Commander gives those details a home.
Start Using Commander
Commander is now live in Apex Rental Pro for eligible accounts.
Open Apex Rental Pro, go to the area where you switch between Calendar and Register, and select Commander to start organizing your projects and tasks.
Your business has moving parts. Commander helps keep them moving in the same direction.