Hire-X is an all-in-one E-commerce software platform designed for companies and businesses that hire things out in all shapes and sizes.
Hire-X helps you to Launch, Grow, and Manage your hire business!
- Create and customise an online store, or as we like to call it, your Webshop, with a unique web address and hosting included.
- Have a comprehensive booking management system that enables you to prepare and manage hire quotes and orders.
- Utilise the Tasks Management system. A to-do list for your business to help you keep track of all the things to do. Easily create one-off or recurring tasks and link them to quotes, orders, customers or hire equipment.
- Use a fully integrated CRM to help you manage your customers and sales process.
- Keep control of all your hire stock and equipment with the Asset Management system.
- Use Hire-X’s integration with Xero for seamless accounting and Stripe for online payments.
Hire-X is completely cloud-based which means you don’t have to worry about software, web servers, or additional hosting costs. All you need is a computer and an internet connection.
Try Hire-X free for 14 days when you register and you can cancel at any time, no questions asked. If you are ready to go, you can view all our current pricing (HERE).
From time to time, we may change our pricing when we release major new features, but if this ever happens, we will always let you know well in advance of any changes.
Yes, you can use your own domain name with Hire-X.
How you use it is up to you, you can choose to:
- Link your Hire-X Webshop URL to your existing webpage, by adding a button to your page that says “Visit our Webshop”; or
- Contact your hosting provider and set up a redirect to use your Hire-X Webshop as your primary website. If you don’t have a domain name yet, you can get one through a third-party provider.
No, you don’t need to be a software engineer or web developer to use Hire-X. Hire-X has been designed to be easy to use so that anyone can start their hire business and get online easily.
Yes, you are able to customize the look and feel of your webshop using the pre-configured themes to select the colours that suit your business.
Add your own background images, phone numbers, logo and text to make it all about your business and look super appealing to your customers.
If you need extra help working out how to set up your webshop or use the features in Hire-X, you can always contact our friendly team on 1300 244 739, we will be happy to help you.
To start hiring on Hire-X, you’ll need to sign up for a Hire-X subscription and of course you will need some things to hire out. There are thousands of things that can be hired out to customers from floor polishers to fish tanks, trailers to tents and bulldozers to boats.
Get started by signing up for Hire-X. Then set up your webshop and add your hire products!
Hire-X lets you hire thing out almost anywhere your customers are, so long as your customers are in Australian states and territories.
You can reach customers online, through social media and online marketplaces and by good old-fashioned word of mouth.
How you advertise your hire business is up to you!
For every order or enquiry, you’ll receive an email and text message to your mobile phone to let you know. Included in the email and SMS will be a link to the enquiry that will take you to your Hire-X order management system so you can review and respond quickly.
Yes. Hire-X offers integration with Stripe, which is a third-party payment processor (sometimes called a payment gateway) that lets you accept online payments.
Hire-X is currently set up for Australian businesses using Australian Dollars (AUD) only.
Yes, depending on the GST setting in your administration panel for your Hire-X subscription, if your business is set up for GST then GST will be automatically added to your orders, shipping and so on.
GST will be shown on invoices in accordance with Australian Taxation requirements, however you will still need to have you accountant or bookkeeper work out your BAS and GST payments as normal.
For businesses that are not registered for GST, no GST will be added to any prices.
If you already have hire terms and conditions, you can simply add them under your administrator settings. These terms and conditions will then be attached to every hire order or quote created in Hire-X.
If you don’t have terms and conditions, Hire-X provides a sample set of terms and conditions for you to review and use, but acceptance and use of these terms and conditions rests with the user. Depending on the nature of your business and what you intend to hire out, we recommend obtaining legal advice about terms and conditions of hire for your business. You can always use the sample terms and conditions we offer as a starting point and then refine them to suit your business.
Yes. You can capture and record any information you need in Hire-X for any order!
Set up “Sign on Screen” options, set up photo’s for equipment and take copies of customer ID’s. Whatever you need, you can capture it.
No, Hire-X is a software platform to help you advertise and run your hire operations and is not in any way able to offer any insurance for equipment you are hiring out.