DatumPlant replaces the plant-hire spreadsheet. Track plant and formwork — down to the individual piece — across every site, catch late off-hires before they cost you, and check supplier invoices in minutes. Works on the phone in your pocket.
No install. See it running on a real (sample) project.
It's a fair first question about any new system: "what did this actually save me?" Usually the honest answer is a shrug and a slide deck.
DatumPlant keeps a running figure of what it has actually caught for you — the off-hires flagged before they racked up another week of day rates, the invoice lines billing the wrong rate. Not a projection. The real number, adding up as it happens.
On a job running £50k–£500k of hired plant a month, you only need it to catch one forgotten off-hire or one wrong rate to pay for itself.
On site, the datum is the fixed point every level is set out from. DatumPlant is that point for your hire — one place every piece of plant and formwork, every delivery and off-hire, is measured and controlled from.
It's built for the plant manager who currently runs £50k–£500k of hired kit a month on a spreadsheet — bringing plant, formwork, deliveries, off-hires, collections, costs and supplier invoices into one simple system, so the office and the site finally see the same picture.
What that gives you:
DatumPlant comes from 14 years in UK construction — eight of them as a plant manager running hire across live sites — followed by seven years building software. It's the tool I wished I'd had when I was the one chasing late off-hires and checking supplier invoices against a spreadsheet at month-end. Built on how plant hire actually works on site, by someone who then learned to build it properly.
The things that actually move the cost needle on a site — not a generic project tool.
Excavators, dumpers, welfare — and cross-supplier formwork (panels, props, beams) hired from anyone. One system, not two.
Idle kit can cost hundreds a day. DatumPlant flags what's overdue and shows exactly what it's costing — before the invoice does.
Month-end supplier invoices lined up against your own delivery and off-hire records — overcharges flagged for you to query.
Real-time spend across every site and division, with rates per item rolled up — the board-level view, always current.
Snap a photo of the ticket on site — the items appear, ready to confirm. Off-hire and log collections from your phone.
Supplier rate cards, cost per project and cost code, forecast vs actual — the numbers you need for the valuation, on demand.
Run every site under one organisation, split by division where you need it — with roles controlling who sees and does what.
Big buttons, one hand, gloves on. Unlimited users on their own logins — so every action is logged to the right person.
The everyday screens a plant manager lives in — on the desk and on site.
A project per site — with its team, hires, costs and divisions.
Contacts, rate cards, and everything you've hired from each.
A tidy list of plant, tools and formwork to raise hires fast.
Raise a request, agree a price, turn it into a live hire.
Photograph the ticket, check the items, confirm — on your phone.
Request collection with a date; track what's waiting to go.
Tick off returns and handle part-collections cleanly.
Invoice lines checked against your records — discrepancies flagged to query.
Cost reports per project, supplier comparisons, CSV exports.
Cost across every site and division — and a tally of what DatumPlant caught.
Print today's deliveries and collections; scan a QR to jump to a hire.
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No sign-up form. No sales call. No trial clock ticking. The demo opens straight onto a real sample project with live data — have a proper look round, then decide whether it's worth a conversation.
How DatumPlant fits the way a plant manager actually works.
We're a UK-based team. Tell us a bit about your projects and we'll show you where DatumPlant would save you money — and put together pricing that fits.
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