Hire and rental
Bookable assets with availability, deposits, inspections and damage claims.
Renting is not selling with a return date. The same item goes out and comes back many times, its availability is a calendar rather than a count, and its condition changes.
How it works
- An asset is bookable over dates, so availability is a question about a period rather than a quantity in a bin.
- Bookings carry deposits, add-ons and delivery scheduling.
- Inspections record condition out and back, with photographs.
- Damage claims run as their own workflow with a timeline, because a disputed deposit needs evidence and a date order.
Why condition is the hard part
The commercial risk in hire is not double-booking, it is arguing about damage. An inspection recorded at collection with photographs is the difference between withholding a deposit and refunding one you should not have.
What it does not do
This is hire as a product type alongside your shop — equipment, event kit, tools. If hire is your entire business, with fleets, operators and maintenance schedules, that is a bigger operation than a rental option on a catalogue and worth talking about directly.
Stop reconciling stock by hand
One catalogue, six channels, one stock figure that stays right.