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How do I compare a customer’s billable hire with the supplier’s longer minimum subhire term?

Assume supplier charges for the greater of client days and minimum days. Transport is incurred once.

Open Subhire recovery test

Try the worked example

These are the example inputs from Subhire recovery test. Replace them in the tool to run your own case.

Client billable days (days)Client day rate (€/day)Supplier minimum days (days)Supplier day rate (€/day)Return transport (€)
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Example result
Expected commercial balance · -€13.00

Who uses this?

Equipment hire coordinator. The free online tool runs the calculation in your browser. To edit the files and use the tools offline in one business, see the €49 offline edition.

Where the idea came from

A person reviews the output and handles exceptions before buying. This independent application adapts that idea to compare a customer’s billable hire with the supplier’s longer minimum subhire term.

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