Running the current app
The same build as every other scanner, whatever the current version is when they arrive. Nothing about these devices is a cut-down version — the Android floor came down to 5.1 so that they could run it, and they do.
Hire · six scanners · Sydney and the Central Coast
Stocktake scanner hire. Count with them, send them back.
Zebra scanners for hire by the day or the week, in Sydney and on the Central Coast. They arrive set up for your site and signed in to your portal, you count, you send them back.
Most businesses count once or twice a year. Buying scanners for that means they sit in a cupboard for eleven months, and the battery is flat when you next want them.
What it costs
Per device, inc GST, with charging and spare batteries included.
Not per scan, not per part number, and not a minimum spend. One rate for the device in your hand and everything that keeps it running all day. Every scanner comes with a charging cradle and a spare battery, and a full hire of six goes out with two four-slot charging cradles and six spare batteries. We also have one spare access point — one, not one each — set to take a DHCP address, and you are welcome to it with any hire if you ask. Plug it into your network and the scanners have somewhere to associate. It is a spare, not a fix for racking with no coverage; test that first.
| Hire (software not included) | Per device | All six | Ex GST | Inc GST |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A day | $110 | 6 × $110 | $600.00 | $660 |
| Four days or more — up to seven | $440 | 6 × $440 | $2,400.00 | $2,640 |
Four days is the most you pay. Hire for four, five, six or seven days and it is the same $440 a scanner, so a count that runs over a weekend costs no more than one that finishes on Friday. Most counts are one to three days. Take one device or take all six.
Past seven days, ask before the return date. We will extend the hire if the scanners are not promised to somebody else — there are only six, so it is not automatic and we cannot promise it in advance. Extra days are charged at the daily rate, and so is equipment kept past the return date without asking.
Software and hire together
What it costs all up.
The rate card above is the scanners on their own. Add the software licence and this is the whole invoice, before courier.
| What you are doing | Software | Scanner hire | Total ex GST | Total inc GST |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| One scanner, one day | $110 | $110 | $200.00 | $220 |
| One scanner, a week | $110 | $440 | $500.00 | $550 |
| All six, one day | $594 | $660 | $1,140.00 | $1,254 |
| All six, a week | $594 | $2,640 | $2,940.00 | $3,234 |
Software is $110 a licence — one per scanner — and less from five, and sites cost nothing — so the software column does not move when the hire runs longer, because a licence already runs seven days. Delivery is not in these totals: freight is quoted with the hire, or $539 for us to bring them and set them up. Either way you send them back — they arrive in a box built to go back in it. See the software pricing →
The fleet
Six Zebra TC8000s, and we will tell you their age.
They are from 2015. Zebra does not sell them any more, and we would not sell you one — but you are not buying it, you are counting with it for a few days.
PROVEN
TOUCH
No keypad, and it does not matter
A large screen with an on-screen number pad, and a proper scan trigger. The count box asks for digits, not a qwerty keyboard, because the app knows the difference.
SIX
Six is the whole fleet
Not six in stock with more in a warehouse — six is what exists. Two counts in the same week will collide, so tell us your dates early and we will hold them.
The one place the six are not identical is the scanner. Four of the six read 2D codes — a QR code, a DataMatrix, the square ones. The other two are 1D laser: they read an ordinary barcode, the striped kind on nearly every carton and shelf label, and nothing square.
If everything you are counting carries an ordinary barcode, which is most warehouses, it makes no difference and you can take all six. If any of it is a QR or a DataMatrix, say so when you book — we will send the four that read them. It is worth thirty seconds on the phone rather than finding out at the far end of an aisle.
As the fleet grows these will be replaced with newer hardware. The hire rate is for a working scanner set up for your site, whichever model that turns out to be.
What arrives
Set up before it reaches you.
01
Configured for your site
Wifi, the scanner profile, the app installed and pointed at your portal, and the company and site already saved on the login screen. An operator signs in and counts.
02
All six charge at once, and so do the spare batteries
Included in the rate. Two four-bay cradles go out with a full fleet of six — eight bays for six devices, so every one is on charge overnight and two bays spare — and each cradle charges four spare batteries beside the devices. A scanner that goes flat halfway down a bay is a ten-second battery change, not a walk back to a charger.
03
Your data already loaded
Parts and bin locations on the portal before the devices arrive, so the first scan of the day resolves to a description rather than an error. If your files need work, we will say so and quote it.
04
Back in the same case
They go home the way they came. Fair wear is expected — these are warehouse devices. Damage beyond that, or a device that does not come back, is quoted at what it costs to replace.
What we do and what we do not
We supply the tools. Your people do the counting.
Worth being plain about, because it is the first thing people ask and the answer decides whether we are the right call.
WE DO
Everything up to the count
- The software, sold per stocktake
- Zebra hardware to buy, or these six to hire
- Devices staged and configured for your site
- Loading your parts and bin locations
- Fixing the files when they need it — quoted by the hour
- Bin and product labels, printed and quoted from your list
- Support on the phone while you are counting
WE DO NOT
Count your stock
We do not supply counting staff and we do not run the count for you. Your people know your stock, your racking and what a part looks like when the label has come off — and they are the ones who have to stand behind the numbers afterwards.
What we make sure of is that the tools do not get in their way: scanners that work, data that resolves, and someone on the phone if something does not add up.
Getting them to you
Gosford down to Campbelltown, and that is the whole of it.
We are in Berowra, on the northern edge of Sydney. Sydney and the Central Coast — from Gosford down to Campbelltown. Not Newcastle, not Wollongong, not Canberra, not Goulburn. Freight is quoted with the hire, because three boxes of scanners is not a flat rate and what it costs depends on the courier service and the distance.
SYDNEY
Couriered, or delivered by us
Freight is quoted with the hire — three boxes of scanners is not a flat rate, and it depends on the courier service and how far you are. It is on the quote before you book, not on the invoice afterwards. Or $539 and we bring them ourselves, set them up and stay while your first operator signs in — that price includes our travel there and back on the day, so it is the whole figure and not a starting one, and if the first hour turns into two we do not charge you for the second.
You send them back either way. They arrive in a case and a carton built to go back in, so booking the return is a phone call — and you are closer to your own courier than we are. A second drive out to collect six scanners is not something $539 can carry.
THE EDGE
Where we stop
Gosford down to Campbelltown. Not Newcastle, not Wollongong, not Canberra, not Goulburn. We would rather say that here than take a booking and work it out afterwards.
Outside it, ask anyway. If you want us there, delivered and set up with the access point configured, that is a day of our time and we will quote it — and we will tell you plainly when hiring locally works out cheaper.
The software is a different question. Stocktakes Online runs anywhere in the country on your own Zebras — it is the six scanners that cannot leave Sydney, not the licence.
PICK UP
Collect them yourself
The cheapest option, and often the fastest. Berowra NSW, by arrangement.
Booking ahead
If you are counting at 30 June, ask in May.
Plenty of Australian businesses that count once a year count at the end of the financial year, and they all want the same fortnight. There are six scanners. The last two weeks of June are the two we run out of first. Planning a count at 30 June →
MAY
When to ask about June
A month is comfortable. It leaves time to load your parts and bins, send you a test label sheet, and courier the kit so it is on site the day before you start rather than the morning you do.
ANY
The rest of the year is easy
Outside that fortnight the fleet is mostly idle and two weeks is usually plenty. Our longest-running stocktake customer counts in October and has never had to book far ahead.
PLAN B
If June is already gone
Count on your own Zebras and hire nothing - the software is the same price either way, and it runs on devices from 2015 onwards. Or count a week either side of the date; a stocktake stays open as long as you need it.
Before you ring
What people ask about hiring.
The questions that come up on the first call, answered here so the first call can be about your count instead.
What does it cost to hire a scanner?
$110 per scanner per day or $440 per scanner per week, inc GST, with
charging cradles and spare batteries included. The rates are per scanner and
untiered, so six for a week is six times $440 and there is no arithmetic hidden in
it. Freight is quoted with the hire. We hire across Sydney and the Central Coast, from
Gosford down to Campbelltown.
Is the software included, or is that extra?
No — the software is separate. Hiring a
scanner gets you the scanner. The Stocktakes Online licence is charged per stocktake
on top, which is why one scanner for a day is $110 hire plus $110 software, not $110
all up. The table above shows both together → If you count
on your own Zebras and hire nothing, the software is the same price either way.
Do we pay up front?
If you have an account with us, nothing changes — some of our
stocktake customers have been invoiced the same way for fifteen years. If we have not
dealt with you before, the hire is paid before the equipment ships. We never see or
hold your card number; anything paid by card goes through the payment provider's own
page.
What happens if we break one?
Fair wear and tear is expected and never charged — scuffs,
scratches, a worn keypad, a marked screen protector are what these devices are built
for. Damage beyond that is charged at the repair cost, or at $1,995 inc GST
for a replacement TC8000 if it cannot sensibly be repaired, and you see the quote or
the invoice before we charge anything. The full wording is in the
hire terms.
Are the scanners insured?
No. Six devices is not a fleet worth a policy, so there is no
insurer standing behind it — if something is broken or does not come back, it is
between us. Worth checking whether your own business policy already covers hired
equipment, because many do and it costs nothing to find out before you book.
What if a scanner dies in the middle of a count?
Nothing is lost. The scanner stores nothing — every count
reaches the portal as it is made — so the operator signs in on another device and
carries on from where they were. The practical warning is that if you hire all six
there is no spare in the building, which is a reason to take one more than you think
you need.
How far ahead should we book?
Two to four weeks. Four if you are counting at
30 June, which means asking in May — six is the whole fleet, counts cluster, and
everybody wants the same last two weeks of the month. Two is plenty for the rest of
the year, when the fleet is mostly idle.
Do you provide the wifi?
No. We supply the equipment; the network, the power and the
building are yours, and we are not responsible for a count that ran long because the
coverage was not there. We will help you test it before the day, and walking the
wifi with a scanner rather than a phone is step 07 of the
setup checklist.
Can we hire for longer than a week?
Yes, if the units are not promised to somebody else. Ask before the
return date rather than after it. There are six scanners, so an extension is not
automatic and we cannot promise one in advance.
How do they get to us, and back?
They arrive by courier, set up for your site — the app
installed, signed in to your portal and tested — in a carton built for the
return trip. Your parts and bin locations are loaded into the portal, not onto
the devices, because the scanners store nothing; that is also why a scanner can
be swapped mid-count without losing anything. Return freight
is yours to arrange, in that same carton, by a method with tracking. Check everything
against the delivery note the day it lands and tell us within two business days if
anything is missing — that window protects you more than it protects us, because it
is the only point at which anyone can tell a courier's damage from yours.
What is the smallest hire?
One device, for one day. It comes with a charging
cradle and a spare battery, and those are in the rate rather than extra.
How far do you go?
Sydney and the Central Coast — from Gosford down
to Campbelltown. Not Newcastle, not Wollongong, not Canberra, not
Goulburn.
Outside that we do not hire — but ask anyway rather than assume. If
you want us there, delivered and set up with the access point configured, that is
a day of our time and we will quote it. Newcastle or Wollongong is four hours in a
van before anybody counts anything and Canberra is closer to seven, so hiring
locally is usually cheaper — and we will say so rather than let you find out
on the invoice.
The software is a different question. Stocktakes Online runs anywhere in
Australia on your own Zebras, charged per stocktake rather than per year —
it is the six scanners that cannot travel, not the licence.
Before you book
Both of these are on the site, free, in public.
Nothing here is held back until you have committed to something. Read them before you ring us, not after.
The hire terms
One page, plain English. What you are hiring, what a day means, fair wear and tear against damage, who pays for what, and an honest account of what the software does and does not do. It prints and it has a signature block if you want one on file.
The setup checklist
The list we work through with customers before a count: part and bin data, label sheets scanned off the paper before four hundred are printed, wifi walked with a scanner rather than a phone, logins, and a practice count on real racking.
Tell us your dates.
How many scanners, which days, and roughly what you are counting. The fleet is small, so the earlier we know, the more likely your dates are held.