Equipment Hire & Rental Software That Keeps Up When the Job Changes
Equipment comes back early. One machine stays out while the others return. A Friday hire runs into a bank holiday. Something comes home needing a service.
Turbo keeps the contract, pricing, equipment, billing and workshop in step as the hire changes.
The difficult bit starts after the equipment leaves the yard
The original hire is usually straightforward. Then reality gets involved.
Maybe a site shuts down for a week or a job overruns. Maybe one some items come back before the rest. A collection charge is waived at the last minute. A machine returns needing attention before anyone should send it out again.
That is where separate lists, calls to the workshop and manual corrections start creeping in. Turbo Inventory is built to carry those changes through the hire instead.
When a machine comes back needing attention, send it from off-hire straight into the workshop. Turbo can also create the draft sales invoice and print the off-hire docket at the same point, so the hire is closed out and the machine is already where the next job starts.
Set daily, weekly, monthly, weekend and bank-holiday rates on the hire product, along with a minimum rental price. Friday-start rules can price a weekend or bank holiday correctly, and live contracts can be recalculated overnight as they move from days into weeks or weeks into months.
The site closes for a week? Suspend the hire. The job overruns? Extend the return date. Three machines went out and one comes back? Off-hire that machine and leave the others running. Ongoing invoicing can continue on the dates you’ve set while the contract changes around the job.
Turbo warns the hire desk when equipment is being over-hired. That gives the team time to resolve the availability problem before two customers are expecting the same machine.
Delivery and collection are easy to forget because the decision often happens when the equipment is moving. Turbo can add the charges automatically as the hire reaches delivery or collection. Each charge is set up as a product, so its VAT, nominal account and reporting follow it too.
Set the appropriate inspection against the product or machine so the required check travels with it. Turbo Inventory can also require confirmation that the hirer has the correct safety equipment before the hire goes out, helping make compliance part of the job rather than something remembered afterwards.
Record the deposit directly against the hire contract while the agreement is still in front of you. Once a deposit or payment has been added, Turbo locks the commercial lines so the figures the customer agreed to cannot be casually changed afterwards.
Where the hire includes an operator, record their time against the hire rather than managing it separately. Those hours can stay with the contract for billing and reporting, giving you the equipment and the person working with it in the same record.
When a machine comes back needing attention, send it from off-hire straight into the workshop. Turbo can also create the draft sales invoice and print the off-hire docket at the same point, so the hire is closed out and the machine is already where the next job starts.
Set daily, weekly, monthly, weekend and bank-holiday rates on the hire product, along with a minimum rental price. Friday-start rules can price a weekend or bank holiday correctly, and live contracts can be recalculated overnight as they move from days into weeks or weeks into months.
The site closes for a week? Suspend the hire. The job overruns? Extend the return date. Three machines went out and one comes back? Off-hire that machine and leave the others running. Ongoing invoicing can continue on the dates you’ve set while the contract changes around the job.
Turbo warns the hire desk when equipment is being over-hired. That gives the team time to resolve the availability problem before two customers are expecting the same machine.
Delivery and collection are easy to forget because the decision often happens when the equipment is moving. Turbo can add the charges automatically as the hire reaches delivery or collection. Each charge is set up as a product, so its VAT, nominal account and reporting follow it too.
Set the appropriate inspection against the product or machine so the required check travels with it. Turbo Inventory can also require confirmation that the hirer has the correct safety equipment before the hire goes out, helping make compliance part of the job rather than something remembered afterwards.
Record the deposit directly against the hire contract while the agreement is still in front of you. Once a deposit or payment has been added, Turbo locks the commercial lines so the figures the customer agreed to cannot be casually changed afterwards.
Where the hire includes an operator, record their time against the hire rather than managing it separately. Those hours can stay with the contract for billing and reporting, giving you the equipment and the person working with it in the same record.
Built for Businesses That Hire and Do Plenty Else Besides
Turbo is particularly useful when hire is one part of a wider equipment business.
You might also buy and hold stock, sell machines and spare parts, run a workshop, make your own deliveries or carry out project work. Those activities do not need separate customer, stock and equipment worlds.
A machine can go out on hire, come back off-hire and move into the workshop. Workshop parts come from the same stock operation used by the rest of the business. The equipment keeps its history as its next job changes.
Know What’s Earning, What’s Coming Back and What’s Ready to Go
The hire desk can see what it can promise and The yard knows what is coming back. Pricing keeps up when dates change. Returned equipment that needs work can go straight to the workshop. Long-running contracts continue to be managed as they change.
And when the machine is ready again, its history has not disappeared between systems.
For a business that sells, hires and looks after equipment, Turbo keeps the whole cycle joined up, so more of the fleet is ready for the next job, and fewer things fall between teams.
Keep the Accounts Package You Already Use
The problem may be in the hire operation, not the ledger.
Run the operational side in Turbo and connect the relevant financial activity with supported accounting systems including Big Red Cloud, Xero, QuickBooks and FreeAgent.
Your finance team does not have to take on an accounting migration just because the hire desk, yard and workshop need to work better together.
Integrate with ecommerce platforms to keep workshop management, billing, and inventory control aligned, ensuring faster and smarter hire operations.
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