Gobo Studios · a DBA of Monterey Skates LLC · Monterey, CA · (831) 264-8797 · gobostudios.com
Scan the tag. Hand over the skate. That’s the whole transaction.
One field on the screen, one RFID reader on the counter. Scan a tag and GearMaintain works out whether that item is going out or coming back, records who handled it, and starts the clock.
When it comes back it adds the hours to that item’s total and tells you if it has crossed the line for a deep check. Your attendant learns it in a minute, because there is nothing to learn.
One field, and it already has focus
The scan field focuses itself, so an attendant never has to click before scanning. Any USB keyboard-emulation RFID reader works — the reader types the tag ID and hits enter, the app takes it from there. No reader on hand, or a tag that has taken a beating? Type the serial number instead. Same screen, same result.
- Auto-detects check-out versus check-in from the item’s current state
- Optional note on the way back in, for “wheel sounds rough” and similar
- Confirmation shows the item, its category, and its size, so you catch a bad scan before the customer walks off
- Active rentals list with duration badges and plain-language timestamps, so you can see what has been out for three hours
- Barcodes and QR codes work alongside RFID
The gear tells you when it’s due
Every check-in adds usage time to the item. When an item crosses your deep-check interval — one week of use time out of the box, and you can set it to whatever your gear actually needs — it flags itself and appears in the dashboard alerts. Nobody has to remember. When the work is done, you record what you did and reset the counter in the same step.
Record types
Routine, deep check, repair, and inspection — each with notes and a timestamp, kept as a permanent history on the item.
Statuses you can set
In Service, Needs Repair, Needs Deep Check, Lost, and Retired.
Alerts
Email and SMS for items due, so the flag reaches somebody who is not standing at the terminal.
Four numbers at the top, the reasons underneath
Total equipment, how much is out right now, how much is due for a deep check, and how many check-outs you have done today. Under that, the charts that answer the questions you ask at the end of a season: which categories eat the most maintenance, how your fleet is distributed across hours of service, which sizes are actually getting used, and how daily volume and average rental duration move over time. Pick today, seven days, thirty, ninety, all time, or a custom range.
Usage Trends
Daily check-outs against average rental duration.
Equipment Lifecycle Distribution
Items grouped by total hours of service.
Maintenance Frequency by Category
Deep check, inspection, repair, routine.
Size Distribution
Usage by size across all categories.
A browser at the counter, a phone on the floor
The web app is the full system: equipment, rentals, maintenance, users, categories, brands, settings, reports. The mobile app is the part you need while walking the floor — scan, active rentals, equipment lookup, and adding a maintenance record without going back to the desk. It is built with React Native and runs on iOS and Android.
- Admin and attendant roles, PIN sign-in, sessions that survive a screen lock
- Search by serial, category, or size; filter by all, in use, or available
- CSV import to load an existing fleet, CSV export to get your data back out
- Custom categories with size tracking, brands, and your own logo
- Multiple locations under one account
- SQLite underneath, so it runs happily on a Raspberry Pi at the counter or a small cloud box — your call
The mobile app installs through Expo today. Native App Store and Play Store builds, and an offline mode that syncs when the Wi-Fi comes back, are still on the list.
Built at our own rental counter
Monterey Skates ran a pop-up roller rink at the Monterey County Fairgrounds from May 2025 to March 2026, serving more than four thousand customers, and was a runner-up for a Monterey Bay Parent award. GearMaintain is what we wrote to keep that fleet straight — which pair was out, which pair was overdue, and which size we kept running out of on Saturday afternoons.
It was in use before it was a product, which is why it does not ask you to do anything a busy counter cannot do.
If you hand equipment to strangers and want it back in one piece
The system does not care what the gear is. It cares that each item has an identity, a usage total, and a service history. We built it on quad skates and skate mates; the same shape fits anything you rent by the hour.
— or anywhere else with a counter and a wall of gear.
It is running in production on our own fleet and it is not yet a shrink-wrapped product with a price page. If you want it at your counter, write and tell us how many items you have and what your service interval looks like. We will be straight with you about what it would take.
Tell us what’s on your wall
How many items, how many sizes, what a deep check means for your gear, and whether you already have tags on anything. That is enough for us to tell you whether GearMaintain fits your counter or whether you need something else. Either answer is free.