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Online Booking 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.

Online booking

What the platform does here is narrow and specific. A booking path built for physical inventory, with dates, sizes, delivery address and add-ons captured in one pass rather than a seat-selection flow bent into shape.

The problem it removes: customer mistakes at checkout, which turn into phone calls and then into refunds. The number to watch is completed bookings per session, and the error rate behind the abandoned ones.

The customer picks dates first, because for a rental the date range is the product. Sizes, quantities and add-ons are chosen against live availability for those exact dates, so the flow cannot offer a unit already committed.

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 online booking 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 booking path built for physical inventory, with dates, sizes, delivery address and add-ons captured in one pass rather than a seat-selection flow bent into shape.

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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