Most businesses count stock once or twice a year. Buying scanners for that means they sit in a cupboard for eleven months and the batteries are flat when you next want them. Hire ours instead, count, send them back.
Hire and rental are the same word here. People search for barcode scanner rental, zebra scanner hire and stock take scanner, and all three end up wanting the same machine: a handheld with a screen, a keypad and a battery that lasts a shift. That is a mobile computer, not the corded scanner on a shop counter — those are a different job, and we sell them rather than hire them.
The fleet lives in Berowra, on the northern edge of Sydney, and that is where the six are set up for your site before they go anywhere. They travel by courier and come back the same way — in Sydney the same as in Perth. We do not deliver them ourselves and there is no point pretending otherwise.
Thirty-five years in Sydney, and what being local does and does not change →
Six is not six in stock with more out the back. Six is what exists, so two counts in the same week will collide. Tell us your dates early and we will hold them.
This is a small, specific offer, and it is said plainly at the top because a page headed "rentals" usually means a warehouse full of equipment and this one does not.
Take one or take all six, for a day up to a week. They arrive configured for your site, with charging cradles and spare batteries, and they go back in the same case afterwards.
Usually they run Stocktakes Online, our own counting software, charged separately and per count. But you can bring your own — a telnet client into your ERP, or another Android app — and hire the six as plain hardware. Read the note below first if you do.
No printers by the month, no scanners to cover a repair, no long-term hire. We used to, and one day we may again, but today the honest answer is that there is no shelf of equipment waiting.
If that is what you need, ring anyway. We would rather point you somewhere useful than pretend.
And you do not have to hire anything. Stocktakes Online runs on your own Zebra Android devices if you have them — if the fleet on your floor already scans, it will count. Hiring is for the businesses that do not own scanners and should not have to buy six to use them twice a year.
So it goes both ways: our software on your devices, or your software on our devices, or both from us. The only combination that needs checking first is the middle one, and the next section says why.
Inc GST. Charging cradles and spare batteries are in the rate, not extra. Take one scanner or take all six.
Inc GST, for up to seven days — which is to say a week is four days' hire for up to seven. Nobody counts faster because the calendar says so.
Rental is priced per device rather than per fleet, so a count that needs two scanners is not paying for six.
Hiring the hardware on its own means hardware on its own. What turns up is the devices you booked, charged, with the cradles, the spare batteries and the case. That is the whole of it.
We do not join them to your wifi, install your app, point them at your host system or set up terminal emulation, because we do not know your network, your servers or your security — and we would rather say that now than discover it on the morning of the count. That work is yours or your IT department's, and you have the devices for the week to do it.
Everything in what turns up below — configured for your site, your data already loaded — is the hire with Stocktakes Online on them. That is the count we set up end to end. The hardware-only hire is the same six scanners and none of that work.
And the rate does not change either way, which is the point. The hire rate is the device. The staging that comes with a Stocktakes Online count — the wifi, the app, your parts and bin locations on the portal — is paid for in the software, which is sold separately and per count. So nobody is charged twice for it, and nobody is refused work they have already paid for.
The software price lives with the software. Stocktakes Online is sold per count rather than per year, charged per scanner, and what six devices and the software come to together is on its own page — one place, so the two cannot disagree. The hire rate is here because it is the question you arrived with. Repair rates work the same way and live on one page here.
The counting software itself, what it does, and what six scanners on a count cost all up.
From 2008 to 2024 there were more than fifty devices out on hire at any one time — Symbol and Motorola MC9100s and MC9200s, running our own inventory software, in warehouses all over the country. Staging them, repairing them, swapping a dead one out mid-count and keeping a Windows Mobile fleet alive years after Zebra had ended it.
That fleet is gone. We were eight years late to Android and it cost us customers, which is a story told properly on the Windows Mobile page rather than glossed over here. What replaced it is six scanners and a rebuilt piece of software, and it is deliberately smaller while it earns its way back.
The sixteen years is why the six work. Anybody can put scanners on a shelf. Knowing what to send with them, what breaks, what an operator will do to a device on day three, and how to have a spare battery in the right hand at the right moment — that is the part you are actually hiring.
A scanner that arrives needing to be configured is a scanner that costs you the first morning of the count.
This is the hire with Stocktakes Online on it. Steps 01 and 03 are work we do because it is our software and your data, on our portal. Hire the scanners as plain hardware and neither happens — the devices, cradles and batteries arrive charged and otherwise untouched, and the setup is yours. Said in full up in the rates.
Wifi joined, the scanner profile set, the app installed and pointed at your portal, and your company and site already on the login screen. An operator signs in and starts counting.
Two four-bay cradles go out with the fleet — eight bays for six devices, so everything charges overnight with two to spare, and each cradle charges spare batteries beside the scanners. A device that goes flat halfway down a bay is a ten second battery change rather than a walk back to a bench.
Parts and bin locations on the portal before the devices arrive, so the first scan of the day resolves to a description instead of an error. If your files need work we will say so and quote it rather than discover it on the morning.
They go home the way they came. Fair wear is expected — these are warehouse devices and they have been in warehouses. Damage beyond that, or a device that does not come back, is quoted at what it costs to replace.
And the honest bit about the hardware. These are 2015 TC8000s. Zebra stopped selling them years ago and we would not sell you one — but you are not buying it, you are counting with it for a few days, and it runs the current Stocktakes Online app exactly as a new device does, because the app was built to.
If you are bringing your own software, this is the sentence that matters: the TC8000 runs Android 5.1.1 and cannot be upgraded. A telnet or terminal emulation client into your ERP will be perfectly happy — that is the work these devices were designed for. A modern Android app very likely will not install at all, because most now require a far newer version. Check before you book, not on the morning of the count, and if you are not sure, send us the app and we will try it on one.
As the fleet is replaced these will be newer machines and that limit goes with them. The hire rate is for a working scanner set up for your site, whichever model that turns out to be.
That is the whole booking. Six devices and a calendar — tell us the week and we will hold them, or tell us honestly that somebody else already has them and you should pick another date.
