5 features, all shipped
Everything between the first click and the truck in the driveway.
What has shipped, described as it works rather than as it will work. Anything still being built is not on this page.
14 days, no card.
How it fits together
From the first visit to the truck in the driveway
Five pieces, one flow: the customer finds you, books only what is free, signs before the booking is confirmed, the truck arrives inside the window, and the numbers show what to buy next.
Step 1
Your booking website
Every operator gets a booking website at their own subdomain, or on a domain they own. The catalog comes from your inventory, so it is never out of date, and the parts customers never see are the parts that make it rank.
- Home, all rentals, category, item and package pages, built from the inventory you already keep.
- One page per town you deliver to, written in your own words, because twenty pages with the town name swapped rank for nothing.
- An FAQ you edit in the dashboard, marked up so search engines can read the answers.
Step 2
Checkout that knows what is free
Most rental sites show you everything and find out later. This one asks for the date and the party times first, then offers only what is genuinely free for that window, including the turnaround time between bookings. The price is worked out on the server, so what the customer sees is what they pay.
- Date and party times first, then only the rentals free for that window.
- Per item turnaround buffers, and packages counted against the components they actually reserve.
- Delivery and pickup windows worked out from the party times and your own rules: lead time, booking horizon and maximum rental length.
Step 3
Agreements signed and stored
A signature on a page nobody read is worth very little, and a signed PDF in an email folder is worth less two seasons later when a claim arrives. The agreement and waiver are filled from the order, signed before the booking is confirmed, and stored where the booking is.
- The rental agreement and waiver filled from the order itself, so the equipment list, the dates and the address are already right.
- Signed on the customer's own phone, by drawing or typing, on a page that needs no login.
- A signing record kept with the document: name, time, IP address, device, and a SHA-256 of the exact text that was shown.
Step 4
Routes and the driver's phone
A Saturday is won or lost on the route. Every delivery and pickup on the day lands on one screen, you split them into trucks, and the planner puts each truck's stops in the order that reaches every party inside its window. The driver gets that route on their phone, with directions, the customer's number and what comes off the truck.
- Every delivery and pickup on the day in one list, taken straight from the bookings, so the route and the calendar never disagree.
- Optimize puts a truck's stops in the shortest order that still reaches every stop inside its window. Being on time comes first, and a pickup always comes after its delivery.
- Drag a stop, or move it to another truck, when you know something the planner does not. The planned times update as you go.
Step 5
Reports
Reports add up what you booked, where it came from and how busy every rental was, counted on the day of the party rather than the day it was booked. The Demand tab reads the same bookings forward: the rentals that sell out, the ones nobody books, and the dates ahead that are filling up, each with what to do about it.
- Sales before tax, orders and average order, each against the period before of the same length, then what has been collected, what is still to collect, and delivery fees.
- How busy each rental was, across every unit you own. Own three castles and rent one every Saturday of a month, and that is about 4 percent, not 100: the two in storage count too.
- The Demand tab flags the rentals that sell out, your busiest, and the ones nobody booked in 90 days, with what to do about each: buy another, charge more on the days it sells out, feature it, or retire it.
Put the whole Saturday in one place
Set up your catalog and see your booking website before you decide anything.
14 days, no card.
