Rental software

Equipment rental software for every hire vertical

What is equipment rental software?

Equipment rental software runs the commercial side of a hire business — bookings, contracts, condition reports, invoicing and fleet visibility — in one system instead of phone, email and Excel. The catch: a scaffolder reconciles thousands of components at off-hire, a MEWP fleet lives by 6-month LOLER dates, a wet hire firm bills operator hours on signed timesheets. Generic tools ignore those differences. These pages take them one trade at a time.

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Find your vertical

Which equipment do you hire out?

Each page below covers one vertical properly — the workflow, the compliance regime, the billing traps — instead of pretending one pitch fits every yard.

Scaffolding hire softwareComponent-level stock, quoting and partial returns — down to the last fitting.See the workflow →Plant hire softwareLive availability, CPA-style contracts, transport and damage recharge for owned plant.See the workflow →Tool hire softwareCounter-speed bookings, deposits, ID checks and PAT records for high-volume kit.See the workflow →Powered access hire softwareMEWP fleets run on LOLER exam dates, IPAF records and familiarisation evidence.See the workflow →Wet hire softwareMachine rate plus operator hours — timesheets, overtime and one clean invoice.See the workflow →Pump and power hire softwareRuntime-hour servicing, fuel recharge and cycle billing for long power hires.See the workflow →Crane hire softwareCPA hire and contract lift kept apart — lift plans, certs and mobilisation costs.See the workflow →Excavator hire softwareDiggers plus attachments — separately billed, CESAR-logged, transport-planned.See the workflow →Lifting gear hire softwareSerial-level LOLER records — 6-month exams, colour codes and kit-list hires.See the workflow →
Why vertical matters

Why machine-specific software matters

“Rental is rental” is how generic systems sell. It isn't how hire businesses lose money. The expensive mistakes live in the details that differ by trade:

The contract differs

A CPA crane hire and a contract lift carry different liabilities on the same crane. Wet hire bills operator hours; dry hire doesn't. If the system only knows one contract shape, you're editing PDFs by hand again.

The compliance differs

LOLER wants a thorough examination every 6 months on a boom lift and every 12 on a goods-lifting crane. A standing scaffold needs a 7-day inspection record. A 110V breaker needs an in-date PAT record. Same software, three different clocks.

The billing differs

Scaffolders charge for components that never came back. Power hire recharges fuel per fill and bills monthly on long hires. Tool hire lives on late-return charges. One invoice template fits none of them.

The returns differ

An excavator comes back as one machine plus three attachments. A rigging loft hire comes back as 40 serial numbers. If off-hire is a single tick-box, the missing pieces are your margin.

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Frequently asked questions

Equipment rental software, answered

The questions every yard asks before they look at a system — answered straight.

Equipment rental software is a system that runs the commercial workflow of a hire business — availability, bookings, hire contracts, condition reports, off-hire and invoicing — in one place. It replaces the usual stack of phone, email, a diary and Excel. Good systems also carry the trade-specific layer: component stock for scaffolders, examination dates for access fleets, operator timesheets for wet hire.

You need software that handles your vertical's failure points, whether or not it's marketed that way. A tool hire counter needs sub-minute bookings and late-return charges; a crane firm needs hire and contract lift kept apart on paper. MovoGo is one platform — these pages show, per vertical, exactly how the workflow maps onto it before you book a demo.

Most customers are live within one business day. Onboarding, data migration and training are handled for you — no project plan, no consultancy invoices. Fleet size doesn't change the process, whether you run 15 machines or 500.

No — it feeds it. Invoices raised in MovoGo sync to your accounting platform via native API integrations (E-conomic and Dinero today, open API for everything else), so bookkeeping stops being a retyping job. Your accountant keeps their system; you stop doing double entry.

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