Production software · compared
A Booqable alternative: KitSlate or Booqable?
Booqable is rental software for businesses that rent out gear, covering online bookings, inventory, quotes, contracts, invoices and payments, sold on Start, Grow and Scale plans plus a Custom plan, with paid add-ons.
KitSlate keeps one record per job that the gear list, the call sheet, the quote, the invoice and the releases all read from, from $19 a month. Booqable’s side of the table is from its own pages, read on 3 November 2026. “Not stated” means their pages did not say, not that they lack it.
KitSlate and Booqable
Where Booqable leadsBooqable leads where a business rents gear to the public. It has a ready-made booking page, an embeddable booking flow for WordPress, Shopify, Squarespace and other sites, and a website builder add-on with 80+ templates, all showing live availability. Customers can request quotes, sign quotes and contracts by e-signature (Grow and up) and pay online through Stripe, PayPal and other providers, with payment links, deposits, card holds and Tap to Pay. An invoice is created for every order and stays in sync as the order changes. It offers barcode and QR scanning, iOS and Android apps, revenue and ROI reports, an AI assistant called Bo, and integrations including Zapier, Xero and Mailchimp. Inventory and orders are unlimited on every plan and it takes no commission on bookings.
Where KitSlate leadsKitSlate is built for a production company that crews and shoots the job as well as owning the gear. Call sheets go to each person with their own confirmation, the crew book keeps roles, rates and dietary needs, receipts are read and billed with the receipts attached, releases are signed on a phone, and the Media Center sends rushes that play in the browser. There is a free plan, and the paid plans include seats for your team.
Side by side
| What | KitSlateProduction software | BooqableRental software |
|---|---|---|
| The shoot day | ||
| Call sheets | Built on cards with the sheet previewed beneath, one sheet per day of a multi-day job. Each person gets their own email with their call time and start location at the top and the PDF attached. The forecast for the address and date goes on with one press, and a venue you have shot at before fills in its maps link, parking, hospital and urgent care. | Not stated |
| Who has confirmed | Each email carries its own Confirm link. Sent, Opened and Confirmed come back per person, with times; Resend asks someone to confirm again. They confirm and read the sheet on a phone with nothing to install and no account. | Not stated |
| Schedule and calendar | A calendar that draws each booking across every day it occupies, with holds from Inquiry through 1st, 2nd and 3rd Hold to Confirmed, and drafts that hold space without blocking the date. The day's schedule is built on the call sheet. Google Calendar connects per company, and a feed sends bookings to your phone's calendar. | Not stated |
| Script, shot list, storyboard | KitSlate has no script breakdown, shot lists, storyboards or stripboard. It starts from the job: dates, crew, gear and paperwork. | Not stated |
| People | ||
| Crew and contacts | Every operator, DP, sound recordist and assistant kept once with roles, rates, paperwork and dietary needs, and reused on every job. They can fill in their own details; a change waits for you to review. Crew come in from a CSV on every paid plan. | Customer profiles are saved automatically from each booking, with notes, tags, custom fields and rental history. Grow adds 5 extra team logins with permissions and Scale adds 10. A crew database with roles is not stated.Add custom fields to store details like rider height, production name, or event date.CRM & Emails |
| Clients | A client book kept once and reused on every job. Clients need no account: they pay an invoice on its own hosted page and open what you send them as links. | Customers browse, book and pay online through a hosted booking page (all plans), an embed in WordPress, Shopify, Squarespace or other sites, or a Booqable website built from 80+ templates (add-on, $19 yearly or $24 monthly, a month). Returning customers can log in at checkout.A ready-to-use booking page where customers can browse, book, and pay online.Flexible ways to offer online rentals |
| Equipment | ||
| Gear list for a job | Pick the kit out of your own inventory and price it at studio, location or rental rates with one switch. Sub-rented gear is tagged Outsourced and goes onto the quote. The list prints as a PDF for the client. | Each rental is an order listing its products, bundles and services, with automatic pricing and availability. Print packing slips or pull sheets to prepare and check off items for each order.Print and download pull sheets to prepare and check off items for each order.Documents and emails |
| Equipment inventory | Every camera, lens, light and cable with three day rates that cascade, kits and cases that know what is in them, and locations. One Import reads a spreadsheet, a PDF, a photo of a list or a pile of receipts. | Track products in bulk or as individual items with unique IDs and serial numbers, each with a rental history. Bundles, variations, sales items, services and temporary stock for sub-rentals. Multi-location is on Scale at $29 (yearly) or $37 (monthly) per extra location a month. Inventory is unlimited on all plans.Track every asset by barcode and serial number.Full Visibility |
| Packing and check-out | Mark each item packed, returned, missing or faulty on the gear list, grouped by case with a progress bar per case. Every mark writes back to what is available for the next job. No barcode or QR scanning. | Record pickups and returns by scanning or by picking items, and log damage or notes. Barcode and QR scanning (EAN-13, Code-128, QR) works with the phone app or a USB scanner and is an add-on at $9 (yearly) or $12 (monthly) per user a month. Every order gets a QR code for its packing slip. RFID is not stated.Use your existing barcodes, order pre-printed barcodes, or generate barcodes in Booqable.Supports your favorite barcode types |
| Availability and double-booking | Before a booking saves, its gear, kits and crew are checked against every other job on those dates and you are told. Gear marked in case stays out until it is marked returned. | Availability updates as items are reserved, picked up and returned, for online bookings and manual orders, to prevent double bookings. An availability calendar syncs with Google or Apple Calendar. Buffer times, downtime and shortage thresholds; Scale can allow overbooking.Prevent double bookings and stock conflictsInventory shouldn't be a guessing game |
| Money | ||
| Quotes | The quote pulls its equipment from the gear list and its crew from the call sheet, so it is priced from the job. Edit either side and the two are shown out of step, with the choice to keep them different. | Customers can request a quote online with products, quantities and dates, and Booqable prices it automatically. Send quotes from the order with email templates and request an e-signature (e-signatures are on Grow and up).Customers can submit a quote request onlineQuestions about quotes and invoices |
| Invoices and payment | The invoice is a frozen copy of the approved quote with its own number and a version history. The client gets a hosted page; with card payment on, it carries a Stripe checkout that pays into your own Stripe account, and the PDF a Pay button and QR code. Wire, Zelle and Venmo are listed with what each costs you. | Every order gets an invoice that stays in sync as the order changes, with due dates and revisions. Customers pay at online checkout, by payment link (email or SMS) or by Tap to Pay, through Stripe, PayPal, Square, Adyen, Mercado Pago, Mollie or Teya (several in beta). Deposits, partial payments and card holds are supported, and Booqable takes no commission on bookings.Every order gets an invoice automatically.Accurate invoices, even when rentals change |
| Expenses and receipts | Drop PDFs and photos, or send crew a link to photograph theirs on the day. Each receipt is read, kept and checked by you before it goes on the job; the ones you bill become their own section of the invoice, with the receipts attached. Crew send their final invoice through the same link. | Not stated |
| Budgets | No separate budgeting sheet. The quote prices the job and what you expect the expenses to come to, the Expenses tab records what they actually came to, and the reports show the figures. | Not stated |
| Paperwork and files | ||
| Releases and contracts | Talent releases, location releases, NDAs and your own agreements, with signers pulled from the call sheet and deal terms filled from the job. Each signer gets a private link and signs with a finger; the signed PDF is emailed to them and filed on the job with an audit trail. Signing is built in. | Contracts are generated from each order with customer, rental and product details, using your template and branding. Print for a paper signature or send a secure e-signature link (Grow and up). The mobile app can collect signatures on the spot.create a pre-filled equipment rental agreement with the booking informationCreate new rental agreements in one click |
| Sending video to clients | The Media Center sends up to 1 TB a transfer. The client gets a page that plays the clips, takes their notes at a timecode and shows you who downloaded what. | Not stated |
| Access | ||
| On a phone | Crew confirm and read call sheets, signers sign and the calendar opens on its Day view in a phone's browser, with nothing to install. There is no iOS or Android app. | The Mobile Point of Sale app for iOS and Android lets you create orders, scan items in and out (needs the barcode add-on), take Tap to Pay, collect signatures and email customers. It is an add-on at $9 (yearly) or $12 (monthly) per user a month.Sign contracts, take payments, and scan items in and out.Your rentals, always on hand |
| Connects to | Google Calendar connects per company. Stripe takes card payments on invoices. QuickBooks, Wave and Xero exchange invoices as files you import and export. Documents are emailed under your company's name, and replies come to you. | Integrations include Zapier, Xero, Mailchimp, Google Analytics 4, Google Ads, Meta Pixel and website platforms such as WordPress, Shopify, Squarespace, Webflow, WooCommerce and Lovable. CSV or Excel import of inventory and customers, and data export, on all plans. API access is on Grow and up.Connect Booqable to 9,000+ other apps with Zapier to automate workflows.Popular integrations |
| Security | TLS on every connection and AES-256 at rest, in the United States (Supabase on AWS us-east-1). Card details are handled by Stripe. KitSlate does not yet hold a SOC 2 or ISO 27001 attestation and has not commissioned a penetration test; the security page says so. | Booqable runs on AWS data centres and uses Stripe for card processing. Its data processing agreement says personal data may be processed in the EEA, with transfers outside it under safeguards. Scale can enforce 2FA for all users; the Custom plan adds SSO and IP restrictions. The ISO and SOC certifications listed are Amazon's; Booqable's own are not stated.Processor may process the personal data in any country within the European Economic Area9. Transfer of personal data |
| Price | ||
| Free plan or trial | The free Profile plan has a public page, the used-gear market and the Media Center with 5 GB a transfer. Jobs, call sheets, inventory, quotes and invoices are on the paid plans. | The 14-day trial gives full access to all features, add-ons and apps without a credit card. Afterwards the account stays inactive until you choose a plan. A free plan is not stated.you get 14 days of full access to all features, add-ons, and appsQuestions? We have answers |
| Published price | Solo $19 a month (1 seat), Studio $49 a month (3 seats), Production House $149 a month (8 seats); Enterprise: custom pricing. Paying yearly saves 20 percent. | Start is $35 a month billed monthly or $29 a month on a yearly plan; Grow $87 or $69; Scale $187 or $149; Custom from $349 a month (USD, as shown to a US visitor). Prices are per account, not per item; Grow adds 5 extra users and Scale 10. Add-ons cost extra: website builder, barcodes, Mobile POS (per user), extra locations, deliveries. Universities and nonprofits get 20% off.All plans include unlimited inventory and orders. No commission on bookings.Pricing Plans |
| Beyond | ||
| What else it does | Beyond the job: the Media Center for rushes and cuts, crew pay checked against the job, twelve reports, a free public page, and a used-gear market where you keep the full sale. | Reports on availability, fulfilment, product performance, ROI against purchase cost, customers and coupons, with CSV or Excel export. Bo, an AI assistant, answers questions about your data. Downtime scheduling for repairs (Grow and up), product history, coupons, security deposits and a deliveries add-on ($9 a month). Scale adds activity logs.The ROI report compares each product's rental revenue with its purchase costQuestions about reporting |
Where Booqable’s figures come from
Read on Booqable’s own site and help centre on 3 November 2026. If something has changed, tell us and we will correct it.
Booqable · read 3 November 2026
- Crew and contacts
- Clients
- Gear list for a job
- Equipment inventory
- Packing and check-out
- Availability and double-booking
- Quotes
- Invoices and payment
- Releases and contracts
- On a phone
- Connects to
- Security
- Free plan or trial
- Published price
- What else it does
KitSlate · its own pages
- Call sheets
- Who has confirmed
- Schedule and calendar
- Script, shot list, storyboard
- Crew and contacts
- Clients
- Gear list for a job
- Equipment inventory
- Packing and check-out
- Availability and double-booking
- Quotes
- Invoices and payment
- Expenses and receipts
- Budgets
- Releases and contracts
- Sending video to clients
- On a phone
- Connects to
- Security
- Free plan or trial
- Published price
- What else it does