Laptop Lifecycle Management From Purchase to Sellback
A new laptop for every hire. A drawer of returns. A write-off, not a resale.
Tequipy manages the whole life of every laptop in 180+ countries. Bought at retail price. Repaired with a replacement shipped so nobody sits idle. Recovered when someone leaves, then redeployed for $70-150 or sold back for 20-70% of its value. One record follows the machine the whole way.
Here's what changes when you consolidate laptop lifecycle management
A $180-240 second life, not a $1,500-2,500 new laptop
Every leaver's laptop defaults to a drawer, and every new hire defaults to a new purchase at $1,500-2,500. The fleet grows, the drawer fills, and finance pays full price for laptops the company already owns.
A returned laptop is collected, wiped, stored, and sent to the next hire. Collection to redelivery costs about $180-240, a tenth of a new machine. Laptops keep working for the company instead of depreciating in a drawer.
A replacement while the laptop is repaired, not an employee idle for weeks
A broken laptop means a broken workweek. A repair takes about 14 business days from pickup to return, whoever runs it. Without a spare-device process, the employee works on a personal machine, or on nothing, while IT chases the repair.
Report the issue and Tequipy tries a remote fix first. If the laptop has to travel, a replacement ships immediately, from your stored stock or bought new. The repair happens; the work doesn't stop.
Laptops that come back from leavers, not write-offs abroad
Across the market, 71% recovery is the standard, so roughly 3 in 10 laptops never come back, usually the ones abroad. As one buyer put it: "We just write off devices when someone leaves abroad, it's not worth the hassle."
Tequipy contacts the leaver, ships packaging, books the courier, and wipes the machine, in 180+ countries. Customers see 100% of company laptops returned. One customer stopped losing about $2,000 per departing employee.
Pay per stage, not a monthly fee on every employee
Lifecycle platforms bundle everything into $12-20 per employee per month, which is $40,000-70,000 a year at 300 people, charged whether the laptops needed anything that month or not. The retainer buys readiness you rarely use.
Each stage bills only when it runs: offboarding $70-150, storage $12 a month, repair quoted before work starts. The platform is free under 100 devices. A month where nothing happens to the fleet costs nothing.
What makes laptop lifecycle management work on one platform
Bought at retail price in 180+ countries
New laptops at recommended retail price through 600+ local resellers, delivered in 3 business days on average and MDM-ready on arrival.
Repaired with the downtime removed
Remote troubleshooting first, then pickup, diagnosis, and a quote before any paid work. Warranty repairs are free, and a replacement device ships so the employee keeps working.
Recovered, stored, and redeployed
Offboarding collects the laptop from any employee, wipes it, and stores it for $12 a month until the next hire needs it. Redeployment runs $70-150 including delivery.
Sold back when it's done
Old or surplus laptops sell back to Tequipy for 20-70% of value, with a certified Blancco wipe for the handover. The payment is cash by invoice, not store credit.
One record, and laptops from anywhere
Every laptop's owner, repairs, warranty, and history in one registry. Upload existing laptops by CSV; every lifecycle stage works on machines bought elsewhere.
How RemoFirst manages laptops end to end across 30 countries
RemoFirst, an Employer of Record hiring in 185+ countries, bought laptops remotely for new hires and struggled with repairs at distance. Machines left behind in Colombia, the UK, or Kazakhstan after offboarding never came back.
Tequipy now covers the full laptop lifecycle: deliveries, repairs, MDM, and retrievals across 30 countries. Every company laptop comes back, about $2,000 per employee in losses is prevented, and IT gets 25+ hours a month back, worth $3,500.
Time Saved
Money Saved
SLA Performance
Device Recovery Rate
You're not managing laptops harder. You're buying fewer of them.
The honest answer to the budget question: where does the saving come from? From the second life. A managed lifecycle means fewer new purchases, fewer write-offs, and cash back at the end, and the management itself is pay-per-use.
Day 1, Count the fleet
Day 5, Give one laptop a second life
Day 30, The fleet pays you back
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Have more questions about laptop lifecycle management?
What stages of laptop lifecycle management does Tequipy cover?
All of them: purchase at retail price, MDM-ready configuration, repair with replacement devices, offboarding collection, storage, redeployment, and sellback. Each stage is optional; use one or the whole chain.
What does each lifecycle stage cost?
Laptops sell at recommended retail price with delivery included. Offboarding and redeployment each run $70-150 per device by country, storage is $12 per device per month, and warranty repairs are free with only the transport charged. The platform is free under 100 devices, then $99 a month.
Does laptop lifecycle management work on laptops we bought elsewhere?
Yes. Upload your existing fleet by CSV and every stage applies: repair, offboarding, storage, redeployment, and sellback all run on machines from any vendor.
How do repairs work without leaving the employee idle?
Tequipy attempts a remote fix first. If the device has to travel, a replacement ships immediately, from your stored inventory or bought new, and diagnosis determines warranty coverage before any paid work. Average repair turnaround is 14 business days.
How much does a laptop sell back for?
Between 20% and 70% of its value: recent machines in good condition reach 60-70%, older or damaged ones sit near 20%. Age, condition, and market demand set the final quote, confirmed on inspection.
Can laptops be redeployed across countries?
Within the European Economic Area, yes. Elsewhere, laptops redeploy within the country where they were collected, because customs makes cross-border moves unpredictable. For countries where you won't hire again, sellback recovers the value instead.
What is laptop lifecycle management?
Laptop lifecycle management is running a company laptop through every phase of its working life: purchase, configuration, deployment, repair, recovery from leavers, storage, redeployment to new users, and eventual resale or disposal.
What are the stages of a laptop's lifecycle?
Buy, configure, deploy, support and repair, recover at offboarding, then store and redeploy or sell. A managed laptop typically cycles through several users before it's sold back, at a fraction of the cost of buying new each time.
How is laptop lifecycle management different from MDM?
MDM manages what's on the laptop: settings, security policies, apps. Laptop lifecycle management manages the laptop itself: buying, moving, repairing, recovering, and reselling the physical machine. Tequipy does the physical side and works with your MDM through ABM and Autopilot.
