Hire

Six scanners. Count with them, 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. Hire ours instead: they arrive set up for your site, you count, they go back.

What it costs

Per device, inc GST, 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.

Hire	Per device	All six	Inc GST
A day	$55	6 × $55	$330
A week — up to seven days	$220	6 × $220	$1,320

A week is four days' hire for up to seven, so a count that runs over a weekend costs no more than one that finishes on Friday. Take one device or take all six.

The software is separate, and sold per count. Six scanners on the portal is $396 inc GST — $66 a scanner, and sites cost nothing. So six devices for a day is $726 all up, and for a week $1,716, including every report. 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

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.

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.

A warehouse worker holding a Zebra TC8000 in one hand and a small carton
in the other, in front of blue stock totes on orange racking — **One hand on the scanner, one hand on the stock.** The trigger is under the grip and the screen does the rest — there are no keys to learn. It is carried like a tool rather than read like a phone, which is the whole reason it is shaped this way.

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.

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.

All six charge at once, and so do the spare batteries

Included in the rate. Two four-bay cradles go out with the scanners — 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.

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.

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.

A long black Zebra charging cradle with four bays shaped to take a TC8000
and four upright cups for spare batteries alongside them — **Four devices and four spare batteries on each one** — a Zebra CRD-TC8X-5SC4BC-01, and two of them go with the fleet. Charge only, no data, and nothing is lost by that: a count has already reached the portal before a scanner is put down, so there is nothing left on the device to come off it.

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.

A warehouse worker aiming a Zebra TC8000 at a barcode label on an orange
racking beam from a couple of metres away, the aiming line visible across
the label — **Read from where you are standing.** A label on a beam above head height does not need a ladder or a second person — which matters most on the bays nobody wants to count.

Getting them to you

Quoted, because distance decides it.

We are in Berowra, north of Sydney. What it costs to get six scanners to you and back depends entirely on where you are, so we will not pretend there is a flat rate.

SYDNEY

Delivered and collected

We bring them, set them up on your wifi and take them away afterwards. Charged by the hour, quoted before we start.

INTERSTATE

Couriered where it makes sense

Sent staged and ready, back by return courier. Quoted per job, and we will tell you plainly if the freight makes hiring the wrong answer.

PICK UP

Collect them yourself

The cheapest option, and often the fastest. Berowra NSW, by arrangement.

Tell us your dates.

How many scanners, which days, and roughly what you are counting. Six is the whole fleet, so the earlier we know, the more likely they are yours.

Talk to us