Alert Rental vs. Getty Images Enterprise Solutions

Alert is very suited to the rental industry in general. We struggled a bit at the beginning with multiple locations for the rental business but eventually were able to make that work very well for us, especially helpful when tracking profit for each location. It is less suited to the wholesale business that is also owned here, but there have been ways to make it work for that as well. Overall, Alert is fairly user-friendly and reasonably easy to learn.

Working in the medical field it can be difficult to find specialized imagery without shooting it yourself in-house however Getty has a pretty vast library. They've also done a nice job staying up with 'mask' imagery during the current COVID pandemic which my organization had a very high demand for. You will also find the photography to be more diverse than competitors and their search engine's suggestions are usually pretty spot on.

Incentivized

• Posting payments whether by cash, credit card, checks or electronic bank transfers.
• Provides accurate aging reports so it's always clear who is behind in payments.
• Easy to manage steps for billing via email or paper invoices.

• Variety of images
• Excellent suggestions and search tool
• Sharable light boards
• Comp images of higher quality and don't contain annoying watermarks

Incentivized

• There are some payments that can be deleted and others that cannot; would prefer some features carried across the board.
• An easier method to transfer payments from one account or ticket to another.
• More specific parameters available for some of the reports.

• The price point is typically not workable for smaller orgs
• Video/Music assets are not as strong as the photography library
• Vector-based assets are often built in strange ways that aren't always easy to manipulate

Incentivized

I am only experienced in using Alert. Why would we try anything else!

I could probably rattle after a dozen 'stock' photo companies that tout claims such as '$1 downloads, etc.' but don't bite on them, their libraries are extremely limited and you'll end up seeing photos you've used all over the place. For example, we once used a woman for a magazine cover who I also saw on a Southwest flyer, a Home Depot ad and on a poster at my kid's school all within a few months. It waters down your brand.

Incentivized

• Alert has helped us to keep track of our substantial inventory and has been beneficial in upselling customers.
• Alert has enabled us to keep track of payments and delinquencies to keep good customers and weed out the bad.
• Alert has enabled us to keep track of the hard workers in the organization to be able to reward good employees.

• Saved on the expense of buying our own photography equipment
• saved time of conducting in-house photo sessions
• Cloud storage of all your download save on local IT costs

Incentivized