Equipment Hire & Rental Software That Keeps Up When the Job 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.

Off-Hire & Workshop
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Off-hire it straight into service

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.

Variable Hire Pricing
Get the Friday-to-Monday hire right

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.

Contract Changes
Checklist and truck with service report icons.
Extend it, suspend it or bring one machine back

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.

Over-Hire Alerts
Asset management checklist with trucks and progress bars.
Catch the clash before the customer does

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 & Collection
Logistics planning checklist and calendar graphic
Don’t leave the charge in the yard

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.

Safety & Inspections
Let the right checks follow the machine

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.

Hire Deposits
Take the deposit against the contract

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.

Operator Timesheets
Hiring the operator too? Keep the hours with the hire

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.

Inventory management and delivery process illustration
Off-hire it straight into service

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.

Get the Friday-to-Monday hire right

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.

Checklist and truck with service report icons.
Extend it, suspend it or bring one machine back

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.

Asset management checklist with trucks and progress bars.
Catch the clash before the customer does

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.

Logistics planning checklist and calendar graphic
Don’t leave the charge in the yard

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.

Let the right checks follow the machine

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.

Take the deposit against the contract

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.

Hiring the operator too? Keep the hours with the hire

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.

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.

1.
Equipment dealers with hire fleets
Sell, hire and service equipment around the same operation.
2.
Plant & tool hire with workshop or service
Connect the hire desk with what happens to the machine when it comes home.
3.
Merchants adding hire
Run rental alongside existing stock, account customers and trade sales.
4.
Compliance-Heavy Hire Businesses
For equipment that needs inspections, safety checks or documented handover, Turbo can make those requirements part of the hire process. Default inspections can follow the machine, safety-equipment confirmation can be required before it goes out, and GA1/GA2 records can sit alongside the hire rather than in a separate paper trail.
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