Compare, as of Oct 2026
HireHop is UK cloud equipment rental software with strong roots in events and AV. Here is how RiQ compares for UK hire companies, based on public information as of Oct 2026.
| Topic | RiQ | HireHop |
|---|---|---|
| Who it’s for | UK hire businesses from the single yard to groups and networks, tool and plant first. | AV and event, broadcast and production, and plant and tool hire. |
| Online booking | Hosted storefront and embeddable checkout with live availability on every plan. | Quotes and bookings, real-time availability and an open API. Its Webshop plugin for WordPress lists stock with a cart and checkout and saves orders as jobs in HireHop. |
| Multiple depots | Multi-depot on Core; unlimited and multi-company on Enterprise. | Multi-depot setup on Professional and Enterprise. |
| Deliveries | Delivery and collection planning and a driver app on Core and Enterprise. | Route planning and a driver app. |
| Sub-hire | Cross-hire and sub-hire purchase orders, plus the optional RiQ Network. | Sub-hire and purchase management. |
| Pricing | Lite, Core and Enterprise plans. Pricing goes to the waitlist first. | No-cost Starter plan for one user; Professional from £46 a month for the first user plus £23 per extra user, plus VAT; Enterprise POA. |
| Availability | Waitlist open; onboarding in stages, tool and plant first. | Available now. |
HireHop publishes its plans on its homepage. This compares what’s included. As of Oct 2026.
From HireHop’s public pages as of Oct 2026. See Sources below.
Tier 1
For one-man bands
A hire website with online booking that you run yourself. Customers book and pay online; you take it from there.
Tier 2
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.
Tier 3
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.
HireHop’s no-cost plan and published pricing are clear. With RiQ, the hire website is Tier 1 itself: it runs on your own domain with your own branding, so you don’t need a WordPress site to add it to. On Tier 3, invoicing and WhatsApp are bolt-ons.
We’ll help bring across your fleet, customers, rates and open hires, and you can run both systems side by side until you’re confident.
Information about HireHop comes from its public website as of Oct 2026 and may have changed since. Product names belong to their owners. If anything here is out of date, tell us and we’ll correct it.
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