Instead of HireHop
Stop paying HireHop per licence. Own the system your hire business runs on.
Enterprise DNA builds a hire system shaped around your depot, your rates and your paperwork, carries your HireHop stock, customers and hire history across, and looks after it from then on.
HireHop Professional is billed in pounds: £46 a month for the first user and £23 a month for each additional user, plus VAT in the UK. Its Australian site shows that as roughly A$98 and A$49 a month, A$1,176 and A$588 a year. Enterprise is priced on application.
- check_circleYour data in a database you own
- check_circleOpen source, no lock-in
- check_circleBuilt and run by Enterprise DNA
What the subscription buys
HireHop is cheap to start. The bill is in the fine print.
HireHop is a capable product at a fair entry price. What you rent is the access, counted by licence, priced in another currency, with the parts a growing hire company reaches for kept in a tier with no public price.
Licences counted at the same moment
Each additional user is a concurrent licence. When the counter, the yard and the workshop all need to be signed in on a Monday morning, that is three licences, every month.
Priced in pounds, paid in dollars
The charge is £46 for the first user and £23 for each extra one. The A$98 and A$49 on the Australian site are described by HireHop as a rough conversion, so your real cost moves with the exchange rate.
The grown-up features have no price tag
Migration support, advanced permissions, sandbox accounts, data replication, multi-currency, ERP and custom integrations sit in Enterprise, which is priced on application.
The free plan is for one person
Starter is free for a single user with limited functionality. A second person at the desk means moving to Professional.
Reports export to spreadsheets
HireHop's reports export to CSV or Excel.
Ten people, one bill
HireHop's own price slider shows ten users at about US$352 a month. A bigger crew pays more to look at the same fleet.
What changes when you own it
One hire system, as many people as you like
On the phone
Quote from what is really in the yard
A customer rings for a digger. Ask what is free, and get machines by category with the gear that is on site but not allowed out listed apart, each with its reason.
- check Free machines now, plus the next hire already booked for each one
- check Held back gear named: lapsed test tag, inspection out of date, service overdue
- check Double bookings and customers on stop refused at the point of booking
- check No hire starts until a pre-hire check is on record
Money in
Over-runs turned into invoices
Every hire past its expected end appears with the days over and what each machine has earned since, so a forgotten off-hire becomes revenue instead of a write-off.
- check Hires running late, with the dollars building beside each line
- check Machines called off hire but still on a customer's site, until the truck collects them
- check Day rates, the weekly cap and free return days kept as one rule for every hire
- check Draft invoices from the meter, checked and sent by a person in your accounts system
Safety and paperwork
Certificates checked against the rules
Each machine carries its service due, its test tag and its periodic inspection, and the compliance check runs rules with their sources against your records.
- check Electrical test and tag tracked on the AS/NZS 3760 cycle
- check Elevated work platforms and cranes with their inspection dates
- check Long hires flagged for PPSR registration before they reach a year
- check Gear on a customer's site right now with paperwork that has lapsed
Owned outright
No licence count, no exchange rate
Your records sit in your own database. Everyone who needs them can ask, and nobody needs a seat to do it.
- check Your HireHop stock, customer and hire exports brought across with a test run first
- check Hire agreements, off-hire dockets, job cards and invoices in your own logo and colours
- check Printable dashboards for the yard board: what goes out, what is late, what is in the workshop
- check Add a field, change a rate rule or add a report by describing it. MIT licence, nothing to cancel.
Make it yours
Design your own HireHop replacement
Everything starts from the open-source base. Then it gets your name, the parts you run, your rules and your data from HireHop. Try it here, and we build the real one.
2. What it runs
3. Make it fit
4. Your colour
Answered from your own database
Good morning. Here is what needs you today.
We build it from the open-source base, bring your HireHop data across and run it for you.
Switching
How to switch from HireHop
A move usually involves exporting your stock, customer and hire records, mapping their columns, checking the import, and running both systems side by side before you switch.
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Export your HireHop records
Export your stock, customer and hire records from HireHop reports as CSV or Excel. Choose the records and history you need in the new system. If you cannot find the reports or export options you need, check with HireHop about what your account allows before you proceed.
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Prepare and load the data
Map the columns in your spreadsheets to the fields used by the new system. The import expects its own column layout, so check that the records and values are matched correctly before loading. Start with a test run, which shows what would be created before anything changes. Then load the records when the mapping looks right.
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Review the import results
Check what the test run reports and anything it flags for attention. Confirm that the expected stock, customers and hire records would be created, and resolve any mapping issues before you make the final load. Pay particular attention to the records your team needs for current work, so problems are found while HireHop is still available.
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Run both systems side by side
Keep HireHop available while you use the new system for a short period. Compare the records your team relies on, including current hires, customers and stock, and check that people can find and use what they need. Use any differences you find to correct the data or mapping before you make the new system the one your team relies on.
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Switch off HireHop
When the checks are complete and your team is ready, make the new system your source for day-to-day hire work. Confirm that you have kept any HireHop records or history you still need before ending its use. Do not switch off HireHop while you still need it to check a record or resolve an import issue.
Where the real effort goes
The real work is usually mapping your own fields and rules to the new system, then deciding how much history to bring across. Exporting records is only part of the move. If you have Enterprise DNA install and run it for you, they handle the mapping and import work with you.
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Get your HireHop switch plan by email
We will send you the step-by-step plan for moving your business off HireHop, what the move really involves, and how we would do it for you.
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Set it up yourself, or have Enterprise DNA do it
Open source
Do it yourself
Free
- 1 Download the free version from GitHub
- 2 Load the demo hire company and open the folder in Claude Code
- 3 Ask what needs attention today
- 4 Export your HireHop stock and customer reports to CSV and ask Claude Code to map the columns in
Omni by Enterprise DNA
Have Enterprise DNA build and run it
One setup fee, then a monthly retainer
- check We bring your HireHop stock, customers and hire history across and reconcile the counts
- check Your depots, rate rules, packages and safety checks set up the way your yard works
- check A driver app, if you want one
- check Run for you inside Omni, our managed Command Center, beside the rest of your business
Questions
Instead of HireHop, answered
HireHop is not expensive. Why would I move? expand_more
For a single desk it may not be worth it. The case gets stronger as your team grows: every person signed in at the same time is another licence, the price is set in pounds, and migration support, data replication and ERP integration sit in an Enterprise tier with no public price. Owning the system means none of those are a line on a bill.
How do I get my records out of HireHop? expand_more
HireHop's reports export to CSV or Excel, so you can take your stock, customers and hire records out as spreadsheets. The free version expects its own column layout, so the columns need mapping: Enterprise DNA does that for you, or you ask Claude Code to do it. Do a test run first and you see what would be created before anything changes.
HireHop syncs with Xero. Will I lose that? expand_more
The free version drafts invoices in your own layout, and you send and reconcile them in the accounting system you already use. When Enterprise DNA builds your version, we connect it straight to your accounting system so invoices land where you already work.
My yard uses barcode scanners. Does this work? expand_more
The free version records dispatch and returns from the desk. If your trucks need signatures and photos, Enterprise DNA can add a driver app when we build your version.
Who keeps the safety rules current? expand_more
The rules live in a plain rule book with their sources: test and tag, platform and crane inspections, PPSR on long hires. Change a rule and the check that runs against your records changes with it. When we run it for you, we keep it current for your state or region. It is your rule book, not legal advice.
Let everyone see the fleet without buying another licence
30 minutes with Sam. We go through how many HireHop licences you pay for, what your counter and yard staff actually use, and what your own version would look like. If it fits, we build it and bring your records across. If not, the free version is yours to keep.
Equipment Hire for Claude Code is free and open source, published by Enterprise DNA.
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