Guide 1
Build your rental business website
Create a simple, useful website that explains your rentals, prices, service area, customer steps, and the best way to contact you.
Open the guide →Rivet Rental Academy
Learn the business, then do the work.
The core Academy is free. Use practical lessons, calculators, and checklists to evaluate the work, prepare operations, configure Rivet, and improve a real rental cycle.
No account is required to read published lessons. Optional personal setup and business services are separate and clearly priced.
Watch the work
Use the Rivet Rental Video Academy.
Search reviewed appliance repair and maintenance lessons, follow related steps in order, and connect the practical work to running a washer and dryer rental business.
Choose your starting point
Three paths, one operating goal.
Exploring
Explore the business
Test the workload, local demand, startup cost, and downside before buying equipment.
First result: Write a proceed-or-pause decision with your assumptions.
Start this pathPreparing to launch
Launch your business
Turn a decision into a budget, operating checklist, configured workspace, and tested way for customers to contact you.
First result: Build a launch plan that matches your capital, time, storage, and delivery capacity.
Start this pathAlready operating
Improve an existing operation
Map current records, choose one difficult workflow, practice a safe transition, and compare the next cycle with your records.
First result: Choose one workflow to improve and define how you will verify the change.
Start this pathFind and help customers
Build a useful path from a local search to a real rental decision.
Start with a clear website and contact process. Then make the business easier to find, introduce it to relevant local people, and answer questions without promising approval or equipment before you check.
Guide 2
Help local customers find you on Google
Use accurate business details, useful pages, real photos, and honest reviews so nearby customers can understand and find your service.
Open the guide →Guide 3
Find customers through local outreach
Start useful conversations through local posts, landlords, property managers, and referrals without sending mass or misleading messages.
Open the guide →Guide 4
Turn customer questions into rentals
Reply clearly, ask the questions that matter, follow up respectfully, and move a customer you can serve into the supported Rivet rental process.
Open the guide →Six modules
Move from a decision to a reviewed operating cycle.
1Free module
Decide whether it fits
Evaluate the physical work, owner time, service area, and evidence of local demand.
Completion evidence
A proceed-or-pause decision with written assumptions.
2Free module
Plan the money
Model startup spending, collections, vacancy, repairs, owner labor, reserves, and a downside case.
Completion evidence
A completed budget using local inputs.
3Free module
Prepare operations
Create equipment, inspection, delivery, service, agreement, and responsibility controls.
Completion evidence
A readiness checklist and the first equipment records.
4Free module
Configure Rivet
Set up the workspace, products, customer requirements, payment flow, availability, and control points.
Completion evidence
A reviewed practice journey from inquiry through closeout.
5Free module
Get first inquiries
Build a useful website, help local customers find it, earn referrals, and respond clearly when people ask questions.
Completion evidence
A working way for customers to find and contact you, reusable messages, and a completed first-30-days plan.
6Free module
Run and improve
Review a complete operating cycle, including invoicing, service, pickup, records, and follow-up.
Completion evidence
A real workflow completed and revisited.
Tools you can keep
Use a tool, record an assumption, and make the next decision.
worksheet
Could this business work for me?
Think through local demand, your available time, startup costs, and the work you would need to handle.
Open worksheet →calculator
Startup cost and cash calculator
Model equipment, collected rent, costs, labor, reserves, cash remaining, and a downside case.
Open calculator →checklist
Get ready for your first customer
Prepare your equipment, delivery process, customer agreement, and service plan before accepting a real rental.
Open checklist →checklist
Set up your business in Rivet
Add your business details, products, equipment, and customer steps, then practice with example records.
Open checklist →checklist
Make it easy for customers to contact you
Check what customers see, test your business’s contact link and QR code, and make sure someone is ready to reply.
Open checklist →worksheet
Write your rental website
Draft the homepage, pricing explanation, service area, customer steps, photos, questions, and contact button for your website.
Open worksheet →checklist
Find customers in your first 30 days
Build the basic website, make it easy for customers to contact you, make useful local connections, follow up, and review which inquiries become rentals.
Open checklist →worksheet
Check how your rentals are going
Review one rental, count the time and cost it required, and choose one practical improvement.
Open worksheet →Put the learning into practice
Create the operating workspace when your plan is ready.
After signup, keep customer details, equipment, rentals, agreements, invoices, online payments, delivery, service, returns, and closeout organized in one place. When enabled, Rental Setup can send customers their next steps, collect required details and photos, support signing and setup-fee payment, and collect a delivery request. Rivet can also prepare recurring invoice work while your team handles approvals and exceptions.
The Academy stays free without an account. Optional services remain separate from both the learning material and Rivet software.
Free for up to three active rentals
Enter your business details, create your account, and set up your company. Rivet is free for up to three active rentals, with no payment method required.
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