STOCK & HIRE CONTROL FOR PLANT YARDS

NOTHING LEAVES
THE YARD
UNACCOUNTED FOR.

Plant Hire Manager gives your hire desk one place to track every part, price every job, and chase every return — so double-bookings, lost dockets and end-of-month invoice guesswork stop costing you money.

Parts, items & customerstracked in one catalogue
Draft → Active → Returnedone workflow, no guesswork
Invoiced from return datenot from memory
THE PROBLEM

Spreadsheets don't notice when two customers book the same digger.

ISSUE

Stock juggled by memory

Dozens of items moving across a dozen jobs at once, tracked in someone's head, a notebook, or an inbox thread.

ISSUE

One typo, one double-booking

A shared spreadsheet has no idea an item's already out on hire — the error turns up on-site, not before the van leaves.

ISSUE

No single view of the yard

Nowhere to see, at a glance, what's out, what's overdue, or what's actually free to hire tomorrow morning.

ISSUE

Invoices built from memory

Billing pieced together after the fact — days after the kit's already back on the rack.

CATALOGUE

Every board, generator and digger — logged once, tracked forever.

Log each physical part with its unit type and daily hire rate. Stock counts update in real time: amber when it's running low, red when it's gone — so the hire desk always knows what's actually sitting on the rack.

15 PARTS SEEDED AT LAUNCH
Scaffold Board 3.9m 24 in stock
Diesel Generator 6kVA 2 in stock
Mini Digger 1.5t 0 in stock
Submersible Pump 7 in stock
Scaffold Coupler 140 in stock
ITEMS & PRICING

Bundle parts into ready-to-quote packages.

Build named hire items — a scaffold bay, an excavation package — from the parts that make them up, each with its own day rate. Quote the job in one line instead of pricing every component by hand.

Basic Scaffold Bay
Standard 3m bay with boards and couplers
£35/day
Excavation Package
Mini digger with submersible pump for groundworks
£195/day
Mobile Tower 4m
Single-width tower with stabilisers
£75/day
THE DOCKET

Every hire order carries the same three stamps.

No custom statuses, no ambiguity — a job is either being drawn up, out on site, or back and invoiced. Scroll down and watch it move through.

HIRE ORDER #0412HORIZON BUILDERS LTD
DRAFT
Items added, dates setCustomer assigned. Nothing has left the yard — stock isn't touched yet.
ACTIVE
Dispatched to siteStock deducted automatically. Overdue detection switches on from here.
RETURNED
Back on the rackStock restored, invoice calculated from the actual return date.
CUSTOMERS

Every job tied to the account that ordered it.

Horizon Builders Ltd

@accounts@horizonbuilders.co.uk
#01234 567890

SiteCraft Construction

@hire@sitecraft.co.uk
#07700 900123

TrueForm Groundworks

@office@trueform.co.uk
#07900 654321
THE BOARD

One screen tells you what the yard is doing right now.

Live counts, an overdue flag the moment a job runs past its return date, and a running total of what's currently out — no chasing paperwork to find out.

15
Parts
6
Items
5
Customers
3
Active hires
⚠ 1 overdue — SiteCraft Construction, past expected return date
8 part units currently out on active hire
INVOICING

The invoice writes itself the moment kit comes back.

Horizon Builders Ltd

accounts@horizonbuilders.co.uk · 01234 567890
START25/06/2026
RETURN07/07/2026
DAYS12
ITEMQTYRATETOTAL
Basic Scaffold Bay3£35.00£1,260
Mobile Tower 4m1£75.00£900
Subtotal£2,160.00
GET STARTED

See it running on your own price list.

Book a short walkthrough with the team. Bring your parts list and your day rates — we'll show you exactly how a real job hires out, start to invoice.

hello@planthiremanager.co.uk — we reply within one business day