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United Rentals is the largest equipment rental company in North America, with a fleet that covers everything from compact tools to heavy earthmoving iron. Its Total Control platform gives customers the contract and telematics data behind every unit on hire. Clue reads that data directly, so a United Rentals machine arrives in your fleet with its rate, its contract and its expected return date already attached.

Rental records in Clue showing status, vendor, rate and return date

Power Up with United Rentals

Connect your United Rentals account to Clue and every unit on hire shows up with the numbers that decide what it costs. Rates, PO, contract line and expected return date come straight from United Rentals. You see what a rental is costing while it is still running, and you catch the ones sitting idle before the next invoice.

United Rentals Integration Features

  • See the daily, weekly and monthly rate on every United Rentals unit, in the same view as the machine itself.
  • Spot rentals that stopped working using hours and location from the United Rentals feed, and call them off early.
  • Track the expected return date on every line, so a short hire does not run long without anyone noticing.
  • Match vendor invoices to reality with the PO and contract line number carried on each rental.
  • Post rental cost to the job the machine is working, so project cost includes rented iron.
  • Keep an audit trail of rates, dates and contract references that came from United Rentals, not from a spreadsheet.

How the United Rentals integration works

Clue connects to United Rentals through its Total Control platform and its AEMP telematics feed, and refreshes on a schedule. There are no CSV exports and no portal logins. The commercial side of a rental and the machine side arrive together.

Because United Rentals publishes both the contract and the machine data, a unit on hire lands in Clue already carrying its rate, its PO and its expected return date, next to the hours and location the machine itself reports.

What syncs today

  • Rental lines. Every unit on hire becomes a rental line in Clue, matched on serial number so one machine stays one record.
  • Rates and references. Daily, weekly and monthly rates, currency, PO number and contract line come across with each unit.
  • On and off rent status. Clue follows the status United Rentals reports, so a returned unit stops showing as active and a new hire appears without anyone keying it in.
  • Expected return date. The vendor's projected end drives past due flagging, so a short hire that rolls into another month is visible before the invoice lands.
  • Machine data. Location and operating hours arrive on the units that report them, so you can tell a working rental from a parked one.

What this changes day to day

  • You can answer what are we paying for right now without opening a vendor portal.
  • Idle rentals surface on their own, so calling one off becomes a decision rather than a discovery.
  • Checking an invoice is a line by line match on PO and contract number instead of an afternoon.
  • Rental cost sits on the job the machine is working, so project cost counts rented iron.
  • Edits your team makes by hand are left alone. A line someone renamed or marked off rent is not overwritten by the next sync.

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