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Heavy equipment rental

Hosted Booking Site for Heavy equipment rental companies

Ask a heavy equipment rental operator what breaks and the answer is never the booking form. The constraint here is a trailer and a driver free on the day the machine is.

NO MONTHLY FEE  ·  4.5% AT CHECKOUT  ·  PAID BY YOUR CUSTOMER

Heavy equipment rental operations, specifically

Delivery is the product. A machine moves on a trailer with its own weight class, its own route restrictions and its own driver, so the booking has to hold a float as well as a machine. Two units available and one truck free means one rental, and software that models only the machine will oversell the day.

Billing runs on the meter rather than the calendar. Day, week and month rates sit alongside engine hours, and a machine returned at 47 hours against an 8-hour day allowance is an invoice line rather than an argument. Fuel, delivery, environmental and damage waiver all land on the same order.

Service takes a machine off the board wherever it is standing. Hour-based intervals, annual inspections on lifts and hoists, and a fault reported from a site all have to hold a unit back until it is signed off. Condition photographs at drop and at collection are what settle a bent bucket that arrives back with nobody claiming it.

Hosted booking site

What the platform does here is narrow and specific. A complete booking website designed, built, hosted and maintained for you by askotter, with the booking path native to the site rather than embedded into a theme somebody else maintains.

The problem it removes: paying an agency through the season to keep a website and a booking widget talking to each other. The number to watch is conversion from landing page to completed booking, and the hours a season costs you in site maintenance.

The site is built around the booking rather than around a brochure with a booking button added. Category pages, availability, delivery zones and rates all read from the same records the operation runs on, so a rate change or a new unit shows up on the public site without anybody editing a page.

Sell a tour beside the kayak, in one order
$68
Sunset paddle4.9 (212)

Two hours with a guide. Boards and vests included.

$52
Dolphin watch4.8 (486)

Ninety minutes on the sound. Under fives go free.

$45
Trail ride4.7 (158)

Guided, twelve miles, e-bikes available on request.

Capacity, guides and guest messaging run on the same record as the rental, so a kayak for the afternoon and a guided paddle for eight arrive in one basket.

Timed capacity beside physical stock. One checkout, one confirmation, one place the guest replies to.

What it costs

Bodhisys charges no monthly fee. The platform takes 4.5%, added to each reservation and paid by your customer rather than by you.

How does Bodhisys handle hosted booking site for heavy equipment rental companies?

Bodhisys is rental operations software for companies that rent things, vehicles and experiences. It was built for rental inventory rather than adapted from a ticketing system, and it has been in market since 2023.

For heavy equipment rental companies, a complete booking website designed, built, hosted and maintained for you by askotter, with the booking path native to the site rather than embedded into a theme somebody else maintains.

There is no monthly fee. A 4.5% charge is added to each reservation and paid by your customer at checkout.

Bodhisys is younger than FareHarbor and Peek Pro and has a smaller install base. An operator whose revenue is mostly timed tours, or who needs a long list of third-party integrations today, is better served by an incumbent.

Questions

How is this different from a tour booking flow?

A tour flow sells a seat at a time. A rental flow has to capture what leaves, where it goes, when it comes back and who is responsible for it in between.

What does Bodhisys cost?

There is no monthly fee. A 4.5% charge is added to each reservation and paid by your customer at checkout.

Can we move our existing data across?

Yes. Customers, future reservations and booking history migrate from FareHarbor, Peek Pro and Bike Rental Manager.

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