Yardwrite

Inventory and rental software for yards that tag every unit.

Yardwrite keeps one record for each piece of equipment for its whole life: who owns it, where it is, which job it went out on, what came back, and what it was sold for. Built for equipment rental yards, repair shops and equipment fleets that label things and count them.

Doors are not open yet. The waitlist gets first access and the launch prices below.

A unit's record in Yardwrite: the ownership panel, the work history and the movement timeline for one serial number.

Four things Yardwrite does that a spreadsheet, or most rental software, does not.

Every screen below is the real product, showing a demo yard six months in.

Ownership is a ledger, not a field.

Who owns a unit is written as a line with a date, a counterparty and who recorded it. Owned, rented in from a supplier, held on consignment, sold. Each change is a new line. Nothing is overwritten: a mistake is corrected by a new line that says what it corrects.

  • Sold units keep their history and stop counting against your plan.
  • Equipment you rent in sits on the same record as your own, with its due-back date and a morning email when it is overdue.
  • The ledger cannot be edited or deleted by the application, only added to.
The ownership panel for one unit: purchased, consigned in, then sold, each line dated and attributed.

The ownership panel on a unit's record.

One record per unit, for its whole life.

The label it was given, where it moved, every job it went out on and came back from, the repair it was opened for, the day it was sold or retired. All on one screen, in order, with who did it and when.

  • Ownership, status and location are three separate facts, so "rented in, in repair, on the bench" is one unit, not three guesses.
  • Bench readings from imported worksheets appear on the same record.
  • Retired and lost units stay on the books as history.
A unit's movement timeline: created, labeled, moved, dispatched on a job, returned, repair opened.

The movement timeline, filtered by category.

Import the spreadsheet you already have. Get a result you can read.

Upload it, match the columns once, and Yardwrite shows what it will create before it creates anything. Then it tells you, row by row, what was accepted and why the rest was not: a duplicate in the file, a type it does not know, a blank where a choice is needed.

  • The preview and the import are the same calculation, so what you saw is what you get.
  • An import that would take you over your plan is refused whole, with the arithmetic shown.
  • Bench worksheets too: a technician's test sheet becomes a reading on each unit's record, with the lines it could not match listed by serial.
Import results: rows accepted, rows rejected, and the reason on each rejected row.

An import's result, with the rejected rows and their reasons.

Labels that catch a misread.

Every label is a 14-character code: your own three-letter prefix, a serial, and a check character. OLBU-0000117-K A scanner that drops or swaps a character gets a code that fails the check instead of the wrong unit.

  • Choose your prefix. Print sheets of labels from the browser.
  • Scan with any handheld barcode scanner, or type the code.
  • A label from someone else's account is reported as unrecognized, never resolved.
A printed sheet of Code 128 labels, each with its 14-character code.

A label sheet as the browser prints it.

And the rest of a working day.

Photos and documents

Ten photos per record at up to 2 MB each, and 1 GB of documents per account, on every plan.

Jobs, dispatch, returns

Book by quantity, pick by scan, dispatch with a manifest, count the return and reconcile it against what went out.

Reports

Valuation, on rent, overdue, utilization and shrinkage, as PDF. Units and cases export to CSV or Excel whenever you like.

Your people, your seats.

Invite by email. Each person sets their own password from the link and gets the role you chose: owner, office, yard, or read only. Every member is a seat, whatever the role.

The members screen: the owner and two invited members with their roles.

How it works

Import or add your units

Upload your spreadsheet or type units in. Each one gets a record with its ownership, status and location.

Label and scan

Choose your prefix, print label sheets, stick them on. From then on a scan brings up the unit.

Run the yard

Jobs out, returns in, repairs, rented-in equipment, sales. Every act lands on the unit's record, and the ledger keeps the history.

Pricing

Launch prices. Priced by the number of units you own or manage, with the seats to go with them. The waitlist gets first access.

Starter

$32 / month

or $288 / year founding
($307.20 / year standard)

  • 1,000 units
  • 3 seats
  • 10 photos a record, 1 GB documents
  • Every feature
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Fleet

$199 / month

or $1,788 / year founding
($1,910.40 / year standard)

  • 30,000 units
  • 25 seats
  • 10 photos a record, 1 GB documents
  • Every feature
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Enterprise

From $349 / month

More than 30,000 units

  • Sized to your fleet
  • Talk to us first
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Units means units you own or manage. A sold or retired unit keeps its history and stops counting.

30-day trial. A card is asked for at your first sign-in. Nothing is charged until day 31.

These are the launch prices. They are what the waitlist gets.

Founding offer

The first 50 paying accounts get 25% off for life.

Pay yearly and the founding price above is yours for as long as the account stays open. After the first fifty, yearly billing is 20% off the monthly price.

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PlanMonthly ×12Yearly, standardYearly, founding
Starter$384$307.20$288
Yard$1,188$950.40$888
Fleet$2,388$1,910.40$1,788

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We email you when the doors open. That is all that happens.

One confirmation email from hello@yardwrite.com. No newsletter. Remove yourself any time by replying.

Questions

What counts as a unit?

A serial-numbered thing you own or manage: owned stock, equipment you have rented in, and consigned equipment you hold. A unit you have sold or retired stays on the books as history and does not count.

Does the trial need a card?

You can open the account and import up to 25 units before adding a card. At your first sign-in you are asked for one; with it on file the trial runs to the full plan limit. Nothing is charged until day 31.

Can I get my data out?

Yes. Units, cases and their contents export to CSV or Excel from the Exports screen at any time. If you close the account, an archive of every table and every file is produced first, and the data is deleted 90 days after cancellation. You can undo a cancellation before then.

How is my data protected?

Each account's rows are kept apart from every other account's by the database itself, on every table. The whole database is backed up every night, encrypted, into storage that refuses to overwrite or delete a backup for thirty days.

Does scanning need special hardware?

No. Labels are Code 128 barcodes. Any handheld barcode scanner that types into a browser works, and you can also type a code by hand.

What if I have more than 30,000 units?

Email hello@yardwrite.com. Enterprise starts at $349 a month and is sized to your fleet.

Who makes Yardwrite?

Carport Games LLC, in the United States. Yardwrite was built for an equipment repair and sales yard that tags and tests every unit it handles.