Alert Rental vs. OpenTable

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.

It all comes down to budget and options. Most places that can be found in the app are in the upper price range, so if the company is paying for the meal we immediately look for something in OpenTable. If each one of us is paying for its meal, the selection process might be a bit longer and we might have to make the reservation via phone call or just show up and hope we get a table.

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.

• Reservations are reliable.
• Options are well organized and that speed decision making.
• The ability to save restaurants I liked.
• UI is clean, color scheme looks good.
• Lots of information about the place is provided, including specific price range and safety precautions.

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.

• Having more places on it.
• Better suggestions by location. I live in the border with US and even though I open the app on the mexican side, it suggests US restaurants.

Incentivized

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

• 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.

• It's hard to calculate but it saves time and time is money.
• Helps take into account the expense process because we know what kind of payment type we can use at each place.
• Helps us select the correct place if we are going to talk shop or just team-build.

Incentivized