Software for a dealer who sells and hires

Does this sound like your business?

• You sell machines outright and you hire others out, and the same machine sometimes does both.
• A hire that runs over is discovered when somebody else wants that machine.
• Deposits, unpaid periods and collections live in three places, none of which is the contract.
• The rental products you have seen have no idea what a trade-in is.

Questions dealers like you ask

How is this different from proper rental software?

Rental software assumes hire is the whole business, so the machine is an asset on a rate card and there is nowhere to put a sale, a trade-in, a margin or a customer who is buying rather than hiring. Stalmio treats the machine as one thing that can be hired this month and sold next, with its costs following it either way.

Can the same machine be for sale and available to hire?

Yes, and the public side stays honest about it: the hire catalogue shows only machines genuinely free today, so a machine out on contract is simply not offered while it is out.

How are long hires billed and taxed?

Per period, with the VAT rate resolved at the end of each period rather than once at the start. A rate change part way through a contract flows into the periods after it automatically, which is what a continuous supply actually requires.