Instead of Point of Rental
Stop renting Point of Rental. Own your plant and tool hire system.
Enterprise DNA builds a hire system shaped to how your yards book, deliver, collect and service gear, carries your Point of Rental records across from its report exports, and looks after it every month.
Point of Rental publishes no prices. Every plan is quoted privately after a form asking your type of hire business and how many locations you run, with at least 2 users included and the rest priced by the features and users you take.
- check_circleYour data in a database you own
- check_circleOpen source, no lock-in
- check_circleBuilt and run by Enterprise DNA
Where the quote goes
A Point of Rental quote is built from parts
The machines and the hire history are yours already. What Point of Rental quotes for is the software wrapped round them, assembled from a product, a user count and a list of extras, and you only see the total after you ask.
A form before a figure
The pricing page has no prices. It asks what kind of hire business you are and how many locations you have, then a quote follows.
Two people, then a price for each one more
Every plan starts with at least 2 users. The counter, the yard, the workshop and the accounts office all count, and each extra login is priced into the quote.
Depots asked about before a price
Location count is one of the first questions the pricing form asks.
Three systems to choose between
Syrinx 365, Elite and Essentials are sold as separate hire systems.
The phone app and the web shop sit beside it
POR One for mobile, eCommerce for the online storefront and Record360 for inspections are each listed as their own product next to the hire system.
Asking questions is another suite
The Rental Intelligence Suite is listed as its own product, pitched on asking questions and getting immediate answers. Here that is how the whole system works.
What you get instead
One set of records, any question
Booking desk
Quote the job while the customer is on the line
Ask for a category and a date and get every unit that is free, its day and week rate, what it is promised to next, and anything in the yard that is held back and why.
- check Free units by category with the next booking beside each
- check Held gear named with the reason: tag lapsed, service due, inspection out
- check Bookings refused for gear already promised or a customer on stop
Late back
Hires that ran past their end date
Each contract still running after its expected finish comes up with the days over and what every line has accrued, so someone rings the site before the week is out.
- check Overdue contracts by customer and site, with the charge so far
- check Off-hired gear still sitting on site until the truck collects it
- check Finished hires with nothing invoiced yet, caught the same day
- check Repeat late returners, with what their extra days came to this year
Fit to hire
Tags, inspections and services held to the rules
Every machine keeps its service interval, its test tag date and its periodic inspection, and one compliance check runs six cited rules over the whole fleet.
- check Electrical gear tracked on the AS/NZS 3760 test and tag cycle
- check Elevating work platforms inspected 6-monthly, cranes once a year
- check Gear out on a customer site with lapsed paperwork shown first
- check Hires nearing a year flagged for PPSR registration in time
Owned
Records that stay put when the software changes
Plain records in a database you own, under an open licence. No edition, no seat count and no product rename decides what you can see of your own fleet.
- check Questions answered straight from your records, with no reporting suite to add
- check Hire agreements, invoices, off-hire dockets and job cards in your brand
- check Printable read-only dashboards of the yard and the debtors
- check New fields, rates and rules added by describing them
Make it yours
Design your own Point of Rental replacement
Everything starts from the open-source base. Then it gets your name, the parts you run, your rules and your data from Point of Rental. 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 Point of Rental data across and run it for you.
Switching
How to switch from Point of Rental
A move usually involves exporting customer, fleet and contract reports, mapping their columns, checking the import, then running both systems side by side before you stop using Point of Rental.
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Export your core reports
Use Point of Rental reports to export your customer, fleet and contract records. Its help centre says almost all reports can be exported to Excel or another spreadsheet, PDF, or a file type you choose. Export what your account allows, usually CSV or Excel, and check with Point of Rental if you are unsure which reports or formats are available.
- 2
Map the columns and test
Point of Rental's columns will not line up automatically. The free version's importer was written for a different hire system, so the fields need mapping first. Prepare the customer, fleet and contract records for the CSV import, then run it as a test before loading anything. The test shows what would be created without saving it.
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Review flags, then load
Check which records would be created and what the import flags or leaves out. Correct the field mapping or source records before saving. When the test results look right, load the records. Do not assume certificates, meter readings or open damage have transferred. The importer does not bring these across, so verify them separately against your records and the machines.
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Run both systems briefly
For a short period, keep Point of Rental available while you check customer, fleet and open contract records in Equipment Hire. Compare the records you rely on and check that current work is accounted for in both systems. This gives you a chance to spot missing or mismatched information before you make Equipment Hire your live hire record.
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Switch off Point of Rental
Once you have checked the records and current work and are ready to rely on Equipment Hire, stop using Point of Rental as your live hire record. Keep any exports you need for reference, then arrange the shutdown or subscription change directly with Point of Rental. Do not close access before you have the records you need.
Where the real effort goes
Most of the effort goes into matching Point of Rental's report columns to the fields here, deciding which of your own fields and operating rules need to carry across, and choosing how much history to bring. The importer does not bring certificates, meters or open damage, so plan to verify those separately. Enterprise DNA handles the mapping as part of setup when you have them run it.
Not ready for a call?
Get your Point of Rental switch plan by email
We will send you the step-by-step plan for moving your business off Point of Rental, what the move really involves, and how we would do it for you.
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Rather talk it through? Book a call arrow_forwardTwo ways to start
Try the free version, or have Enterprise DNA build yours
Open source
Do it yourself
Free
- 1 Download the free version from GitHub
- 2 Load the sample hire yard and open it in Claude Code
- 3 Ask what is free, what is late back and what is out of tag
- 4 Export your Point of Rental reports to a spreadsheet 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 across your Point of Rental customers, fleet and contracts and check the totals agree
- check Your rates, charging rules, depots and service intervals set up the way you run them
- check A driver and yard app for sign-off and photos, if your team needs one
- check Run for you inside Omni, our managed Command Center, beside the rest of your business
Questions
Instead of Point of Rental, answered
We run several depots. Does that change anything? expand_more
Not the price. Point of Rental asks how many locations you have before it quotes. Here there is no new quote when you open another one.
How do we get our records out of Point of Rental? expand_more
Point of Rental's help centre says almost all of its reports can be exported, to Excel or another spreadsheet, to PDF, or to a file type you choose. Customer, fleet and contract reports exported that way carry the business across. Their columns are Point of Rental's own, and the free version's importer was written for a different hire system's export, so the columns need mapping first. Enterprise DNA does that mapping as part of the setup, and a test run shows what would be created before anything is saved.
Our drivers and yard staff use the mobile app. What replaces it? expand_more
The free version has no phone app: the runsheet prints and the desk records each delivery and return. When Enterprise DNA builds your version, a field app for sign-off, photos and checks can be added, and it belongs to you rather than sitting as another product on the quote.
We take bookings online. Can we keep doing that? expand_more
The free version takes bookings at the desk.
Does it replace Xero or MYOB? expand_more
No. It drafts invoices from your contracts and a person sends them, and your accounting system keeps the books as it does today. Enterprise DNA connects your version to it so drafted invoices land where you already reconcile.
Find out what your hire system costs without filling in a form
30 minutes with Sam. We look at which Point of Rental system and extras you run, how many logins and depots are on the quote, and what your counter, yard and workshop use day to day, then sketch your own version. If it fits, we build it and move your records across. If it does 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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