Enterprise DNA

Instead of MCS Rental Software

Stop renting MCS Rental Software. Own your hire management system.

Enterprise DNA builds a hire system around how your depots quote, load, deliver and service plant, carries your MCS records across, and keeps it running for you every month.

MCS Rental Software publishes no price. Software listings show the price as contact vendor, charged per user.

  • check_circleYour data in a database you own
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  • check_circleBuilt and run by Enterprise DNA

Where the money goes

An MCS quote is seats, solution areas and hosting

The plant register and the hire history are your business. What MCS sells is the software wrapped around them: a long-running Windows application split into solution areas, priced per user and quoted only after a conversation with sales.

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No number until you call

Not one price appears on the MCS site. You get in touch and wait for a quote before you know what next year costs.

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Each new login adds to the bill

Listings describe MCS as priced per user. A second counter person, a yard hand on a scanner or a workshop lead who wants to look things up all count.

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Ten solution areas to choose between

Sales, Accounting, Operations, Logistics, Yard, Workshop, a customer portal, Mobile, Corporate and Cloud are each presented as their own area.

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Hosting as a separate line

MCS sells its cloud service on fixed monthly fees as an alternative to running the Windows application on your own servers. Either way, someone pays for the servers.

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Still not your accounts

MCS states that it is not a full accounting system and connects to one instead. You pay for a hire system and keep paying for the ledger beside it.

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A core product from 2001

MCS-rm, launched on Windows in 2001, is still the core product. Two decades of features is a lot of screens to learn for the handful of jobs a depot does every day.

What you get instead

Ask the yard, the workshop and the ledger directly

Counter

Quote and book without a second screen

A caller asks for a 5 tonne digger from Thursday. You ask what is free, and back comes each unit with its rates, the next job already promised and any machine held in the yard with the reason.

  • check Free plant by category with day and week rates side by side
  • check Units held back named, with the tag, inspection or service that stops them
  • check Double bookings and customers on stop refused at the point of booking
  • check Everyone at the counter asks the same way, with no seat count to manage

Overdue

Hires that ran past their end date

Contracts still running after their expected end show up each morning with the days over and the charge built up per machine, so the desk rings the site before the invoice turns into an argument.

  • check Past-due contracts grouped by customer and site, with the accrued amount
  • check Called-off gear still sitting on site until the truck collects it
  • check Finished hires with nothing invoiced, caught before month end
  • check Which customers keep plant late most often, across the whole year

Inspections

Certificates and services against the rule book

Each machine carries its service interval, its electrical test tag and its periodic inspection. A compliance check runs six cited rules over every record and puts gear on hire with lapsed paperwork at the top.

  • check Test and tag dates tracked on the AS/NZS 3760 cycle
  • check Elevating work platform inspections every six months, cranes every year
  • check Hires approaching twelve months flagged for PPSR registration
  • check Each rule linked to its source, and changed by asking

Owned

Plain records under an open licence

Your fleet, customers and contracts sit in a database you own. Nothing expires at renewal, and nobody needs to visit to install a new version.

  • check Questions answered across all your data, not one report screen at a time
  • check Hire agreements, off-hire dockets, invoices and job cards in your own brand
  • check Printable read-only dashboards of the yard, the workshop and the money
  • check New depots, fields and charging rules added by describing them

Make it yours

Design your own MCS Rental Software replacement

Everything starts from the open-source base. Then it gets your name, the parts you run, your rules and your data from MCS Rental Software. Try it here, and we build the real one.

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Answered from your own database

Build my version

We build it from the open-source base, bring your MCS Rental Software data across and run it for you.

Switching

How to switch from MCS Rental Software

A move like this is a planned setup: export your records, map them into the new system, then run both systems side by side until bookings, contracts and invoices agree.

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    Export your records

    Export your customer, fleet and contract reports in the format your MCS account allows. MCS does not publish a step-by-step export guide. Check with MCS Rental Software if you need help finding the right reports or exporting them. Keep the original exports so you can compare them with the records loaded into the new system.

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    Map and test the records

    The importer expects another hire system’s format, so MCS’s own columns need mapping before the records are loaded. Map the customer, fleet and contract information you want to bring across, then run a test import first. It shows what would be created before anything is saved. If Enterprise DNA runs the setup, it handles this mapping as part of the work.

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    Check the import flags

    Review the test results and any issues the import identifies before you rely on the records. Certificates, meter readings and open damage do not import, so check those against current records and the equipment itself. Verify that key customer, fleet and contract details have landed correctly, and resolve anything that does not match before moving on.

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    Run both systems together

    Keep MCS running while you use the new system for a short period. Compare bookings, contracts and invoices between the two, and check that the figures agree. Use this period to catch missing records or mismatches while MCS is still available. Do not switch over until you are comfortable that the records and day-to-day work line up.

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    Switch off MCS

    Once the bookings, contracts and invoices agree, move your team to the new system and stop using MCS for live work. Keep MCS running until that point, rather than ending it before the checks are complete. Make the switch when you are satisfied that the records you need are in place and the new process is working for your operation.

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Where the real effort goes

The main work is mapping MCS’s columns to the new system and deciding which fields, business rules and history you need to bring across. The importer does not bring certificates, meter readings or open damage, so those need separate checks. If you have Enterprise DNA install and run the system, Enterprise DNA handles the mapping as part of setup.

Not ready for a call?

Get your MCS Rental Software switch plan by email

We will send you the step-by-step plan for moving your business off MCS Rental Software, what the move really involves, and how we would do it for you.

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Two ways in

Run the free version, or have Enterprise DNA build yours

Open source

Do it yourself

Free

  1. 1 Download Equipment Hire for Claude Code from GitHub
  2. 2 Load the demo hire company and open the folder in Claude Code
  3. 3 Ask what is on site, what is past due and what is blocked in the yard
  4. 4 Export your MCS customer, plant and contract reports and ask Claude Code to map the columns in
Get it on GitHub

Omni by Enterprise DNA

Have Enterprise DNA build and run it

One setup fee, then a monthly retainer

  • check We move your MCS customers, plant register and contract history, and check the totals match
  • check Your rate cards, depots, charging rules and service intervals set up the way you work now
  • check A driver app for photos and signatures, if you want one
  • check Run for you inside Omni, our managed Command Center, beside the rest of your business
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Questions

Instead of MCS Rental Software, answered

We have run MCS for years. Is moving off it a big project? expand_more

It is a planned project, not a big one. Enterprise DNA sets up your version alongside MCS, loads your records, and both run in parallel until bookings, contracts and invoices agree. You switch over when the numbers match, and MCS keeps running until then.

How do we get our records out of MCS? expand_more

Listings show data import and export as a feature, but MCS publishes no step-by-step export guide. The files carry MCS's own columns. The free version's importer was written for another hire system's format, so those columns need mapping first. Enterprise DNA does that mapping as part of setup, and a test import shows what would be created before anything is saved.

Our drivers and fitters use the MCS mobile app. What replaces it? expand_more

The free version has no phone app: the runsheet prints and the desk records each return. When Enterprise DNA builds your version, a field app for delivery sign-off, damage photos and workshop checklists can be built in, and it belongs to you, not to a per-user licence.

MCS connects to our accounting system. Will this? expand_more

The free version drafts invoices from the contracts and a person sends them, while your accounting system keeps the books. Enterprise DNA connects your version to Xero, MYOB or QuickBooks so invoices land in the ledger you already reconcile.

We have several depots and more than one company. Does it cope? expand_more

For several depots, entities or currencies, Enterprise DNA builds that structure into your own version. Adding a depot later is a request you make in plain words, not a new quote.

Find out what owning it would cost before MCS sends the next quote

30 minutes with Sam. We look at your MCS setup, how many people log in and which parts your counter, yard and workshop really use, then sketch your own version. If it fits, we build it and move your records across. If not, the free version stays yours.

Equipment Hire for Claude Code is free and open source, published by Enterprise DNA.

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