Yardstick

Booking, condition checks, and invoicing for equipment & trailer rental.

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Yardstick
Booking, condition checks, and invoicing for equipment & trailer rental.

Dashboard

What needs your attention today, at a glance.

Overdue returns

Next 3 days

Integrations

Recent activity

Fleet

Add what you rent out. Claude suggests exactly what to photograph on each item, so condition checks are consistent no matter who's working the counter.

Bookings

Upcoming → Out → Returned → Inspected → Invoiced. Each rental moves on its own as photos come in.

Submitted through your customer booking page (Account → Customer booking page). Accepting re-checks availability and creates a real booking; declining just dismisses the request.

Draft a price for a customer, send it, and convert it to a booking once they accept — no re-entering any details.

Today

What's due out or back today and tomorrow — your morning checklist.

Customers

Every customer's rental history, grouped and collapsed — search to narrow it down, or click a name to expand it.

Invoices

Generated once a return is inspected and closed out. Connect QuickBooks or Xero from your account menu to sync for real.

Revenue by month

By equipment — revenue & utilization

Account

Your account, business, subscription, billing and integrations.

Account

Your personal details — kept separate from your business name, which is what the rest of Yardstick and your customers see.

Business

Your business name is shown throughout Yardstick in place of your personal name.

Subscription

Your plan, usage this period, and upgrade/downgrade options.

Billing

Manage your payment method, view past invoices, or cancel — handled securely by Stripe.

Accounting integrations

Push invoices straight to your books once a rental is closed out.

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Activity log

A running record of what's happened on your account — useful for spotting issues and for dispute records.

Team

Invite staff and set what they can do. Owners manage billing, integrations and the team; managers run day-to-day operations and reports; staff handle bookings and inspections.

Online booking & storefront

Your own booking page where customers browse equipment you mark public, pick dates, and book — reusing the exact same availability and pricing rules as the rest of Yardstick. Every item stays hidden from this page until you turn it on individually in Fleet → Edit.

At least one shows as a "Questions or need help?" contact option to renters on your booking page and their Manage Rental page. Only what you enter here is ever shown — no other employee or internal contact info.

Locations

Optional — set these up if you operate from more than one yard or pickup point. Equipment and bookings can then reference a specific location, and customers can choose one when they book online.

Online payments

Connect your own Stripe account to collect real rental payments and deposits from your online booking page. Money goes straight to your Stripe account, never through Yardstick — this is completely separate from your Yardstick subscription billing.

Damage waiver

An optional (or required) fee renters can elect that reduces their liability for accidental damage — this is a damage waiver, not insurance, and is separate from the security deposit above.

Rental rules & hours

Sets the default pickup/return times new bookings get when nobody picks a specific time, the hours customers and staff can choose from, how much turnaround time equipment needs between rentals, and the optional late-return fee.

The minimum time this equipment needs between a return and the next pickup — cleaning, fueling, inspection. Leave at 0 if back-to-back rentals are fine.
Used for every "today"/pickup/return calculation — dashboards, fleet status, invoices, and confirmation emails — so they always match your business's own clock, not the server's.
This only pre-suggests the fee on the invoice builder, exactly like the existing delivery/cleaning/damage fee rows — staff always decide whether to actually include it. Never charged automatically.

Rental agreements

The contract text customers sign at pickup or through a secure link. Use the built-in default as-is, edit it, or add category-specific templates — once a rental's agreement has been signed or sent, it keeps the exact wording it had at that moment, even if you edit the template afterward.

Available placeholders — filled in automatically when a rental's agreement is generated: {{businessName}} {{customerName}} {{equipmentName}} {{startDate}} {{endDate}} {{days}} {{deliveryMethod}} {{rentalPrice}} {{depositAmount}} {{agreementDate}}

Identity verification

Real, Stripe-hosted ID verification for renters — no Stripe account needed on their end. Yardstick only ever stores the verification status and the verified name; the ID photo and selfie stay on Stripe's own systems. Off by default for every business.