Plant hire software for groundworks contractors
Opeux Hire is built for groundworks teams running diggers, dumpers, rollers, breakers and trench boxes across multiple sites. Quote a job, dispatch the kit, run weekly hire invoices and capture damage on return — all in one workspace.
The problem
Groundworks plant moves between sites on short notice, fuel and damage get lost in the weekly chaos and the off-hire is logged from memory two weeks late.
How Opeux helps
Opeux Hire keeps every machine on a live calendar, tied to a site contract, with deposits, weekly invoices and a clean off-hire process that catches damage before the kit leaves your yard.
What you get
- ✓1.5t–13t excavator, dumper and roller catalogue
- ✓Site-by-site delivery and collection schedule
- ✓Daily check sheets and PUWER/LOLER records
- ✓Refundable deposits and damage on return
- ✓Recurring weekly hire invoicing
- ✓Off-hire reference issued the moment kit comes back
Start with this if…
- •You re-type the same hire contract every booking
- •You lose track of which kit is out and when it's due back
- •Recurring weekly or monthly rental invoices get forgotten
- •Damage and missing items get noticed too late to bill for
- •You take international bookings and need multi-currency invoicing
What you can manage
- •Hire catalogue with day, week and month rates
- •Live availability calendar across staff and sites
- •Customers, contracts and deposits in one record
- •On-hire vs off-hire status per item
- •Damage notes and condition photos on return
- •Renewals and extensions without re-typing the agreement
Documents you can produce
- •Branded quotes for each hire enquiry
- •E-signable hire agreements with terms and deposits
- •Recurring rental invoices in the customer's currency
- •Off-hire and damage reports on return
- •Statements of account for long-running hires
Billing workflows
- •Recurring weekly or monthly rental invoices
- •Refundable deposits on agreement signature
- •Extra-week and extension billing
- •Damage and replacement charges
- •Polite overdue reminder cadence
- •Multi-currency invoicing for international customers
AI helper examples
- •Draft a hire agreement from a quote in seconds
- •Suggest a polite overdue return reminder
- •Summarise damage notes into a customer-ready report
- •Write a renewal email when a hire is about to lapse
The Opeux Hire workspace
A live, themed mockup of the actual booking calendar and hire agreements your team uses day to day. No video to load, no demo request — this is the product.
Sample Opeux Hire — availability calendar and hire contracts. Demo data — no real customer information shown.
Sample data shown. Your workspace will reflect your own kit, customers and pricing.
Why small hire firms choose Opeux
We aren't an enterprise rental platform. We're the hire system small operators actually use day to day.
Designed for owner-run and small-team hire firms (typically under 25 staff), not enterprise rental departments.
Import a catalogue CSV and start booking the same day. No implementation project, no consultant fees.
Quote and invoice in GBP, EUR, USD and more — no enterprise upgrade required.
Every hire, contract, invoice and asset exports cleanly to CSV or PDF whenever you need it.
Built in the UK for UK and European hire firms — sterling pricing, EU VAT-aware invoicing.
Hire sits alongside Quotes, Invoices, Assets and Suppliers in one login. No bolt-on subscriptions.
Tools that help with this
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Free to start. No credit card needed. Add more tools when you outgrow the first one.
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