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Surfboard rental

Rental Software for Surf rental shops

Board choice is a sizing problem before it is an inventory problem. Put the wrong volume under a beginner and the rental has already failed, whatever the software says.

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A group carrying surfboards down to the water

Surfboard rental operations, specifically

Surf rental runs on fit. Height, weight and ability decide which board leaves, so the booking has to capture the rider rather than the dates alone. Dings get recorded against the individual board or they become a conversation at the counter.

Plenty of shops run walk-up and delivery side by side, which means one availability view has to serve a customer standing in front of you and a villa drop happening at the same moment.

Saturday 9am, boards across two locations
  • B-114North shopAvailable
  • B-118North shopAvailable
  • B-127South yardOut until 4:10pm
  • B-131North shopAvailable
  • B-140South yardAvailable
  • B-142WorkshopBrake service, back Friday
  • B-155North shopCleaning, 20 minutes
  • B-160South yardAvailable

Eight boards, two locations, one in the workshop. Book against each model and see which one can tell you which board the customer is getting.

A count says how many. A unit record says which one, where it is, and whether it is fit to go out.

What the platform does here

The constraint in this category is matching board volume to the rider who booked it. Everything below is aimed at it.

Reservations land against individual units. Delivery and pickup runs come out of the addresses captured at booking, sequenced into one loop rather than a list of addresses in the order they were booked. Drops are confirmed with a photo and a timestamp. Returns are recorded against the unit that came back, and availability reopens once it is fit to go out.

The first picture below is a real Saturday rather than a drawing of one, with a good part of what the platform does sitting behind that one screen. It works the same way at whatever size you run, from a single van out of one location to a fleet across several. The second picture is that same morning taken apart into a single run.

The Bodhisys map view on a peak Saturday: delivery, pickup and swap stops with every route drawn across Hilton Head Island, and the trips panel beside it

Reading the map

  • Square, a delivery.
  • Diamond, a pickup.
  • Diamond on a square, both at one address. Two orders closed on one stop.
A real Saturday, mid-morning. Driver names are obscured; everything else on the screen is that morning as it ran.
One morning run, five stops, one loop
Depot12345
  1. 114 Sea Pines Circle8:10am · 4 boardsScheduled
  2. 23 Barony Lane8:35am · Crib, high chairScheduled
  3. 3212 Hilton Head Way9:00am · 2 e-bikesScheduled
  4. 48 Palmetto Row9:25am · 6 chairsScheduled
  5. 519 Lagoon Road9:55am · 8 chairsScheduled

The addresses come off the reservations. The run is built as one loop that turns right out of the depot and right back into it, so no road is driven twice and no stop is passed before its window opens.

Every stop closes with a photo, a timestamp and a location, which is what settles a delivery dispute in October.

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.

The savings calculator puts that against what you pay today, including reseller commission and paid modules.

Is Bodhisys right for surf rental shops?

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 surf rental shops it runs reservations, inventory across every location, routing, delivery confirmation, waivers and returns in one system. The category constraint it is aimed at is matching board volume to the rider who booked it.

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

What does Bodhisys cost for surf rental shops?

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.

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.

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