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Hire periods

The full equipment hire lifecycle.

Replaces a stock take once a year and a glovebox full of receipts. Service-due assets become booked work, and stock stops walking.

Assets, Stock & Fleet in Gaffer
Why it matters

Know what you own, what you have on the van, and what needs a service.

An asset register with QR codes and maintenance schedules, stock levels with movements, and fleet records with MOT and service dates that flag before they lapse.

Service-due assets become booked work automatically; stock stops walking.

What you get
  • Lives on the job, the customer and the site it belongs to — not in a separate tool with its own login.
  • Available on the web and in the offline-first mobile app, so it is completed on site rather than back at the office.
  • Every record is timestamped, attributed to whoever created it, and kept in the audit log.
  • Included for every user across all 58 trades, with no per-user fee.
Nothing lapses
Know what you own
Scan and go
Where it fits

Step 04 of the job: on site

The engineer taps "On my way" and the customer gets a text with an arrival window. On site: clock in, photos, the certificate for the job — EICR, Gas Safety, whatever the trade needs — signed on the device. No signal? It syncs later.

Hire periods is one part of that step. The rest of the job — quoting, scheduling, certificates, invoicing and payment — runs in the same system, on the same record. See the whole job →

Step 04 of a job in Gaffer: The paperwork happens on site
Common questions

About hire periods

Something else? support@rungaffer.com

What does hire periods replace?

For most trade businesses, a stock take once a year and a glovebox full of receipts. Service-due assets become booked work, and stock stops walking.

Does hire periods work on a phone, and offline?

Yes. The mobile app is offline-first: records created on site are stored on the device and synced automatically, in order, when signal returns. Lofts, plant rooms and rural sites were the design brief.

Which plan is it on?

Every paid plan. Hire periods is included for unlimited users at no extra cost — the monthly, annual and lifetime plans differ only in how you pay.

How long does it take to start using?

Minutes. Start a 14-day free trial with no card, pick your trades at sign-up, and hire periods is switched on with your trade's templates already in place.

Put hire periods to work.

Full platform, 14 days free, no card needed. Set up in an afternoon, import your customers in a few clicks, and send your first quote today.

Founding members: first 100 businesses get 50% off every paid plan, for as long as they stay subscribed.