Lifting gear hire software
Lifting gear hire software tracks slings, shackles, chains and hoists at serial-number level, because LOLER 1998 requires a thorough examination of every lifting accessory at least every 6 months and a report you can produce on demand. A hire of 40 items is a hire of 40 certificates. The software keeps each item's examination history, working load limit and current colour code against its serial, and attaches the right reports to every hire automatically.
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9 minutes. The whole hire flow.
The same platform walkthrough we give lifting gear hire firms on a demo — booking to invoice, in English:
- Contractors see live availability and book themselves — no phone tag
- Contract generated and e-signed before the machine moves
- Condition reports with time-stamped photos at handover and return
- Invoices raised from the hire and synced to your accounting platform
- One live fleet overview across every depot
What makes lifting gear hire hard to run?
The reasons generic rental tools — and Excel — give up on lifting gear hire. If you searched for lifting equipment hire software, this is the part that matters.
Shackle #4471's certificate, 4:45 on a Friday
The site needs the examination report for one specific shackle before Monday's lift. It exists — in a lever-arch file, or the old emails, or the examiner's portal. Twenty minutes per certificate, forty certificates per big hire: the folder system taxes every single job.
Colour-code season changes the whole loft at once
When the inspection colour rotates, every compliant item in the loft needs the new tag and the record to match. Tracked on paper, the changeover takes days and still leaves items wearing last season's colour — which reads as failed kit to any sharp site manager.
Out-of-date items don't look out of date
A sling past its examination date looks identical to one examined yesterday. Without the date attached to the serial at the point of picking, the only barrier between an expired item and a customer's crane hook is somebody's memory.
Kit lists assembled by hand, checked by hope
A job needs four slings of a given WLL, six shackles, two chain blocks — picked from hundreds of similar items. Assembling the kit and its matching paperwork item by item is slow; getting one serial wrong makes the whole pack inconsistent.
Failed items drift back into stock
An item that fails examination or comes back damaged must be quarantined until repaired and re-examined. In a busy loft with no flagged status per serial, the bent shackle has a way of migrating back onto the shelf.
The cert folder has worked for years. Finding the right cert for shackle #4471 at 4:45 on a Friday hasn't.
We know — the folder is complete, the examinations happen on time, and you've never failed an audit. The compliance itself isn't the problem.
The problem is the retrieval tax: every hire, every site query and every colour change pays it. Certificates attached to serials, assembled into the hire pack automatically, is the same compliance with the tax removed.
The paperwork lifting gear actually carries
LOLER 1998 sets the clock: thorough examination at least every 6 months for lifting accessories — slings, shackles, eyebolts, chains — and every 12 months for other lifting equipment, with reports retained and producible. The working load limit must be marked and known, and an item without a current report has no business on a hook.
LEEA membership signals the standard the industry expects of a lifting equipment business, and the colour-code system makes examination status visible at a glance on site. The software's role is the bookkeeping underneath: examination history, WLL and current colour against every serial, quarantine status that actually blocks picking, and hire packs that carry the right reports without anyone photocopying anything.
How MovoGo handles lifting gear hire
The same flow your hire desk runs today — minus the paper, the phone tag and the things that never make it onto the invoice.
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A register that thinks in serial numbers
Every sling, shackle and hoist is an asset with its own examination history, WLL and colour code — not a quantity of a product type. The register is the single source the rest of the workflow reads.
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Kit lists picked against live status
The hire assembles as a kit list of serials, and items past their examination date or in quarantine aren't available to pick. The expired sling stops at the booking, not at the crane hook.
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The certificate pack ships with the contract
Examination reports for every serial on the hire attach to the paperwork automatically. Forty items, forty certificates, zero photocopying — and the site query answers itself.
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Returns inspected, failures quarantined
Each serial is checked back in; anything damaged or due examination is flagged and held out of stock until cleared. The bent shackle's route back to the shelf is closed.
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Examination planning from the register
What's due in the next 30, 60, 90 days — by serial, by location, by hire status — so examiner visits are planned around the stock that needs them, and colour changeover is a report, not an archaeology project.
Lifting gear hire software, answered
The questions lifting gear hire firms actually ask before they look at a system.
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