One screen: what's out, what's due back today, what's overdue, what's waiting on service, and what's ready to go out again. This is the question a spreadsheet can never answer on the first try — because by the time you've scrolled to the row, somebody has already called the yard to ask.
| Unit ▲ | Kind ▲ | Asset # ▲ | Status ▲ | Rented to ▲ | Job site / event ▲ | Went out ▲ | Due back ▲ | Days late ▲ | Rate ▲ |
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Three units a month coming back a week late is real money nobody invoiced. On a spreadsheet it goes unnoticed until the customer finally returns it.
A unit waiting on a part isn't available and isn't earning. That should be visible to whoever is answering the phone, not just to the shop.
"Do you have a 40-foot boom for Thursday?" gets answered off this screen instead of a walk through the yard and two phone calls back.
What the counter fills in when something leaves the yard.
The unit moves to Out on the board, the customer is attached to it, and a timestamped entry lands in the activity log with the name of whoever did it.
What happens when it comes off the truck.
If it needs work it goes straight to In service instead of Ready, so nobody promises it to a customer on Thursday.
Who checked it out, who took it back, and when. Not to police anybody — so that when a customer says nobody told them it was due, there's an answer.
Company, contact, phone and PO all captured at the counter. Finding out who has your generator becomes one search instead of three phone calls.
Logged once at the counter, and it feeds the board, the overdue list, and the invoice. No re-keying into a second spreadsheet at the end of the day.
Every number here comes from what the counter already typed at check-out. Nobody builds an owner's report — it exists because the work got logged once.
It's a web page. From a phone at the boat ramp on Saturday, you can see whether the week is ahead or behind without calling the yard.
"Some stuff is overdue" is easy to live with. "$8,940 is sitting in overdue units" is not. That's the number that makes someone chase it.
This is a demo built to start a conversation. If it's close, the real version gets shaped around how you already work — your unit numbers, your statuses, your rates, your paperwork. If it's nowhere near, tell me that too. That's just as useful.
Tell me what's wrong with it