Hire businesses fail on two things: machines that sit idle, and deposits that were treated as income. Both are record-keeping problems before they are anything else.
What the app is built around
The individual machine. Each item carries its hire history, its condition at handover and return, its repairs and its idle days.
What it helps you see
- Utilisation per machine — days hired against days owned
- Revenue against repair cost, per item, which drives keep-or-replace
- What is out and when it is due, so the next booking can be honoured
- Deposits held, tracked apart from takings
- Condition at handover, recorded before a dispute rather than during one
Where it changes a decision
What to buy next. A hire business expands by finding the machines that are always out and the ones that never are — and that is invisible until utilisation is tracked per item rather than judged by feel.
What it is not
It does not service your equipment. It tells you what needs servicing and what that servicing has cost.
Price and fit
Equipment Hire is $25 a month, with Knomart charging per app installed.
It suits a yard with enough items that you can no longer say from memory which ones earn.
Hire yards taking money up front frequently add Booking & Deposit at $12 a month, which keeps reservations and deposits apart from takings. There is no package to upgrade to — install what the yard needs and the total is the sum of those apps.
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