Electronic storage system

An electronic storage system, comprising:

• a housing;
• a kiosk configured to assign at least one of the securable units to a user and to provide the user with access credentials for accessing an assigned securable unit;
• a plurality of securable units within the housing;
• and
• a plurality of user portals within the housing and separate from the kiosk, at least one of the user portals being configured to assign at least one of the securable units to a user, to process payments for renting an assigned securable unit, and to provide the user with access credentials for accessing the assigned securable unit,
• wherein each user portal is further configured to permit access to at least one of the plurality of securable units, at least one of the user portals being configured to permit access to the assigned securable unit in response to receiving the access credentials from the user;
• wherein each of the plurality of user portals is assigned to one of a plurality of subsets of the securable units, each subset being assigned to a respective one of the user portals, each user portal permitting access to only the subset of securable units assigned to the user portal and not permitting access to subsets of securable units not assigned to the user portal.

An electronic storage system, comprising:

• a housing;
• a plurality of securable units within the housing;
• a kiosk configured to assign at least one of the securable units to a user and to provide the user with access credentials for accessing an assigned securable unit;
• and
• a unit configured to receive a text or SMS message containing the access credentials and to unlock the assigned securable unit in accordance with the access credentials received from the text or SMS message;
• and
• a plurality of user portals within the housing and separate from the plurality of securable units and the kiosk,
• wherein at least one of the user portals is further configured to assign at least one of the securable units to the user and to provide the user with the access credentials for accessing the assigned securable unit;
• wherein each of the plurality of user portals is assigned to one of a plurality of subsets of the securable units, each subset being assigned to a respective one of the user portals, each user portal permitting access to only the subset of securable units assigned to the user portal and not permitting access to subsets of securable units not assigned to the user portal.