Skip to content
RiQ

What’s included, as of Oct 2026

Hire software with the website included.

Every RiQ tier starts with a hire website on your own domain, with your own branding and online booking, so there’s no website builder to add on. Here’s plainly what each tier includes and what’s a bolt-on. RiQ (pronounced “Rick”) is fully cloud-based, with nothing to install.

What each tier includes

Three tiers, from a website you run yourself to the full platform. Join the waitlist and we’ll help you pick the tier that fits.

  • Tier 1

    Website and online booking

    For one-man bands

    A hire website with online booking that you run yourself. Customers book and pay online; you take it from there.

    • Hire website on your own domain, with your own branding
    • Online booking with live availability
    • Card payments and deposits at checkout
    • Bookings land in your RiQ account
  • Tier 2

    Managed booking

    For firms who just want the site

    You get the website; National Tool Hire manages the booking side for you, so enquiries and bookings are handled without you running the system day to day.

    • Everything in Tier 1
    • Bookings managed for you by National Tool Hire
    • No booking system for you to learn or run
    • Your brand stays front and centre on the site
  • Tier 3

    Full platform

    For hire businesses running everything in RiQ

    The whole RiQ platform, run by your team, with invoicing and WhatsApp as bolt-ons when you need them.

    • Everything in Tier 1
    • The whole RiQ hire platform, run by your team
    • Bolt-on: Invoicing
    • Bolt-on: WhatsApp updates for deliveries and returns
    • Bolt-on: Other bolt-on apps as your business grows

The website is part of the product

With some rental software the website builder is a paid add-on: Booqable’s pricing page lists its website builder as a monthly add-on on every plan, as of Oct 2026. With RiQ, the hire website is Tier 1 itself, and Tiers 2 and 3 build on it.

  • Runs on your own domain, with your own branding
  • Online booking with live availability
  • Card payments and deposits at checkout
  • Fully cloud-based: nothing to install

Bolt-ons, said plainly

RiQ has bolt-ons, and we’d rather say so up front. On Tier 3, invoicing and WhatsApp are bolt-ons, and the Apps page lists the other bolt-on apps. Ask us which ones you’d need before you choose a tier.

  • Invoicing: a bolt-on on Tier 3
  • WhatsApp updates: a bolt-on on Tier 3
  • Other bolt-on apps, listed on the Apps page

Or let us run the bookings

If you just want the site, Tier 2 gives you the website and National Tool Hire manages the booking side for you, so there’s no booking system for you to learn or run.

  • Everything in Tier 1
  • Bookings managed for you by National Tool Hire
  • Your brand stays front and centre

Why we show it this way

The complaint we read most often in public reviews of rental software this year was add-on creep: features people expected as standard turning out to be extras, and cheaper plans capped on users. So this page says what’s in each tier, and what isn’t.

  • What’s included, tier by tier
  • Bolt-ons named, not hidden
  • Join the waitlist to talk it through

Sources

Checked 19 Oct 2026. Booqable and other product names belong to their owners. Review themes are summarised from public review pages, not quoted. If anything here is out of date, tell us and we’ll correct it.

Waitlist

Get in early.
Get it right.

Join the RiQ waitlist for early access and a switching review at no cost. It takes about a minute.

All fields are required unless marked optional.

Step 1 of 3: About you

1. About you

2. Your business

What do you hire out?

Choose all that apply.

How many depots do you run?
How many people would need RiQ access?

Owners, depot staff, workshop and office. Anyone who would log in day to day.

3. Interests

What are you interested in?
Which apps would you like to hear about? (optional)
Staying in touch (optional)

We only use your details for the RiQ waitlist and never sell them. Read our privacy notice.

Join the waitlist