Buy vs hire
Hire covers calendar dates — programmed faces, wear them, post them back. Buy keeps devices with you — £80 per badge plus £20 postage, year one of the platform included, then £30 per month per account. Same Cleckheaton programming line either way.
Conferences, annual summits, and trial chapter mornings where you want ship-ready hardware without ownership. Formula: quantity × days × £6 plus £20 postage out and back from Cleckheaton.
Deposits on kit sizes hold your booking while we confirm dates. The full hire charge follows the formula above — deposits are not the entire fee.
Buy keeps the 250×122 face on your account after year one for £30 per month — hire keeps it until the window ends.
One-day hire is one calendar day on the invoice — still includes return postage in the £20 figure.
Weekly meetings, multiple visitor days per month, or a team that updates faces from an account without posting kits. After year one, platform access is £30 per month per account.
Ownership makes sense once you know the layout and greeter workflow — many chapters hire once, then buy a smaller owned set for core members and hire extras for big visitor days.
Owned badges still show brick red, black, and e-paper white — ownership is custody, not a different screen.
250×122 pixels, brick red, black, and e-paper white. Member bars, visitor bars, QR, chapter mark — identical designer, identical programming line here. The difference is whether the badge comes back on a prepaid label.
Hire postage is £20 out and back; buy postage is £20 once from Cleckheaton. The hardware bezel is the same white face either way.
Unused consumer purchases can be cancelled within 14 days of delivery under the terms. UK consumer protection applies to faulty devices. Hire returns are governed by the hire window and missing-hardware clauses.
A chapter buys ten for core members and hires fifteen for visitor-heavy mornings. A conference organiser hires fifty annually rather than owning hardware that sits in a cupboard eleven months.
Neither path is morally superior — it is calendar math. If your next wear date is three months away, hire. If it is every Tuesday, buy after one successful hire window proves the greeter workflow.
Both paths use the designer — brick red, black, and e-paper white on a 250×122 face programmed here.
Pick hire or buy on checkout — same hardware, different custody after the event.