For UK businesses
Equipment hire websites for UK event and AV businesses.
1968 Labs builds websites and enquiry workflows for UK businesses. Let customers browse your equipment and request a hire quote with dates, quantities and delivery needs. Give your team enough context to check availability and the event arrangements before confirming the booking.
Discuss your websiteThe hire period and venue belong with the equipment.
An event date alone may not tell your team when equipment must be available. Collection, setup, delivery access and return can happen on different days. Keep these details with the selected package so the bookings team can review one complete enquiry.
Inspect the studio conceptAn original demonstration, not a client project or a live booking system.
Illustrative UK enquiry
- Equipment
- One PA speaker pair (illustrative)
- Hire period
- Collection on Friday; return on Monday
- Event
- Saturday evening
- Venue
- UK postcode and delivery/access notes
- Next step
- Bookings team checks availability and prepares a quote
What the starting package includes.
From $4,500 USD
Four weeks for the agreed starting scope.
50% at project start / 50% on completion.
Published starting prices are in US dollars. Your written proposal states the currency, software costs, deliverables and timeline before you commit.
- Up to 8 agreed pages and 20 supplied hire packages
- Equipment information and a clear request-to-quote journey
- Packages, quantities, hire dates and collection/delivery details together
- One inbox or an agreed existing hire tool, with testing and a source-file handover
Custom inventory, live availability, payment collection and equipment suitability advice require a separate agreed scope.
Questions before choosing your website.
Should an equipment hire website show instant availability?
Show confirmed availability only when it is backed by a system your team maintains. Otherwise use a quote request and make confirmation explicit. A demonstration catalogue is not an inventory system.
Which dates should a hire enquiry ask for?
Ask for the hire start and return dates, plus the event date and any delivery, setup or collection windows your team needs. State whether the customer is collecting or requesting delivery, and keep the venue postcode with that choice.
Can you work with our existing hire software?
A suitable existing tool can form part of the agreed scope. Review its catalogue, enquiry, availability and export options before choosing a link, embed or custom connection. Subscriptions and integrations need to be stated in the proposal.
Can the website choose equipment for the event?
It can show your approved descriptions and collect requirements. Your team remains responsible for suitability, capacity, delivery and the final hire quote. Do not imply technical approval from an automated example.
Prepare the request before the build.
Use the guide and editable worksheet to identify the information your team needs. Adapt US examples and ZIP-code labels to your postcodes, approved units and workflow.
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