Bike and scooter operators live on turnaround. Fifty units go out on a Saturday morning and come back through the afternoon, some to a different location than they left from, and the next booking waits on a wipe-down and a brake check.
Beach gear, baby gear and party hire live on the delivery window. Nobody is at the property. The order has to arrive before the family wakes up or before the marquee crew needs the ground clear, and proof it arrived is what stops the phone ringing.
Boat, jet ski, powersports and ATV operators live on documentation. An unlicensed renter cannot leave the dock or the trailhead, and collecting the licence at a counter on a Saturday decides whether the day starts on time.
Equipment yards, heavy equipment yards and dive shops live on service state. A unit out of hours or waiting on a part is unavailable, and a system that cannot express that will sell it anyway. A machine that has to be floated to site on a trailer needs the trailer booked as well.
Car and low speed vehicle rental live on the driver file and the condition record. Licence, insurance, an authorisation hold and a photographed walkaround at both ends decide the damage claim six weeks later.
Wheels and vehicles carry one thing the rest of the list does not. The unit drives away with a customer in it, which makes where it is a question you cannot answer by looking at a board.
Tracker integration puts an OBD unit in a vehicle, around $20 to buy and about $70 a year to run, reporting into Bodhisys rather than into a portal somebody has to keep open in a second tab. It does two jobs, and they are worth keeping apart.
In a delivery van it is an operations tool. Live position on the same map as the run, idle and hard braking and speeding raised to the office as they happen, and closed stops leaving the screen so anything still showing behind the van has been driven past without being closed. Delivery vehicle tracking covers that.
In a cart, an LSV, a scooter, a car, a coach or a trailer it is asset protection. You draw the boundary a rental is allowed inside and the office gets an out-of-zone alert when one crosses it, while the vehicle is still easy to reach. Vehicle tracking covers that.
One thing this does not yet do is show the guest. The view where a customer watches how many stops away the van is has not shipped, and it is left off this site until it has.
Out on hire
Alerts
Three carts are out on hire, each one reporting into the record that holds the reservation it went out on. All three are inside the zone.
Categories differ in what goes out and what it needs before it can. The board underneath is the same: individual units, a location each, a service state, and a booking that lands on one of them by name.
Eight bikes, two locations, one in the workshop. Book against each model and see which one can tell you which bike the customer is getting.
Each page covers the workflow, the pricing and the honest limits for that category, then links through to the individual capabilities as they apply there.
Anything with a key or a kickstand.
A tracker can go in the unit itself on most of these, so the office can see where a rental is and be alerted if one leaves its zone. It is not limited to this family: a hull or anything else worth keeping track of can carry one too.
Hulls, boards and the kit that goes with them.
Machines that come back marked.
Delivered before anyone wakes up.
Fitted to a person, not a date.
Committed months out, billed by the day.
Bodhisys is built for operators whose inventory physically leaves the building: bikes and e-bikes, beach gear, baby gear, golf carts and low speed vehicles, cars, scooters, boats, jet skis, powersports, ATVs and UTVs, kayaks and paddleboards, surfboards, snorkel and dive gear, camping gear, party and event hire, general equipment and heavy equipment.
An operator whose revenue is mostly timed tours with rental inventory alongside it is a poor fit. That is a seat-selling problem and the incumbents handle it well. There is no monthly fee. A 4.5% charge is added to each reservation and paid by your customer at checkout.
