Hardware-as-a-Service
Hardware that keeps pace with your business.
Always-current technology, predictable monthly cost, zero capital drain. Hardware-as-a-Service from Affinity MSP gives growing businesses across Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, and Auckland a smarter way to equip their teams.
- Preserve cash flow with a fixed monthly operating expense instead of a large upfront purchase.
- Keep your team on current-generation hardware with refresh built into the agreement.
- We handle procurement, deployment, warranty management, and end-of-life replacement.
What is Hardware-as-a-Service?
Hardware-as-a-Service (HaaS) is a subscription model for business technology. Instead of buying laptops, servers, and networking gear upfront, you pay a fixed monthly fee for the hardware your team needs — with refresh, support, and procurement built in.
For a single predictable cost, your business gets enterprise-grade equipment without the capital outlay, the ageing fleet, or the admin overhead. When the term ends, you upgrade.
It's how forward-looking businesses keep pace with technology without keeping the depreciation.
One monthly cost for the hardware lifecycle: procurement, deployment, support, refresh, and end-of-life.
Less ownership drag. More business momentum.
Why more businesses are choosing Hardware-as-a-Service
A cleaner way to fund, refresh, and manage the technology your people depend on every day.
Free up capital for growth
A standardised fleet means fewer toner types to track, so your team never has to second-guess what's needed.
Always current hardware
Refresh is built into the model. At end of term, you upgrade — so your team is never working on five-year-old machines that slow them down and expose you to security risk.
Hand off the admin
We handle procurement, warranties, deployment, and end-of-life. Your IT team stops being asset managers and starts being strategic.
Scale with your headcount
Hire three people next month? Add three devices. Restructure a team? Reconfigure the fleet. HaaS flexes with the business — owned hardware doesn't.
The right hardware,
whenever you need it.
From a single endpoint to a full fleet, AffinityMSP Hardware-as-a-Service covers the technology your business runs on — across every site, every team, every role.
End-user devices
- Laptops
- Desktops
- MacBooks
- Monitors
- Peripherals
Network & infrastructure
- Servers
- Firewalls
- Switches
- Access points
Communications & print
- Business phones
- VoIP handsets
- Printers
- Conferencing kit
Need something specialised? Talk to us — we'll source it.
Top brands, sourced for you.
We provide equipment from a wide range of leading brands. Already have a preferred manufacturer or model in mind? Let us know — if it's not already in our standard range, we'll source it for you or recommend the best-fit alternative through our procurement network.
Buying hardware was the right move. Until it wasn’t.
For decades, owning your IT made sense. Hardware was a one-time decision. You bought it, used it, and replaced it when it broke.
Then technology stopped standing still.
Today, the laptop you bought 18 months ago can’t run the latest security baseline. The server you capitalised in 2022 is end-of-life in 2027. The “asset” on your balance sheet is a depreciating liability the moment it’s deployed.
Ownership used to be the responsible choice. Now it’s the slow one.
HaaS isn’t a workaround for businesses that can’t afford to buy. It’s the model forward-looking businesses choose because hardware has become a moving target — and the only sensible way to hit a moving target is to stop standing still yourself.
Hardware-as-a-Service vs. buying hardware outright
The biggest difference is not just how you pay. It's who carries the refresh, support, procurement, and end-of-life burden.
| Factor | Hardware-as-a-Service | Buying Outright |
|---|---|---|
| Upfront cost | None | Full purchase cost |
| Cash flow impact | Fixed monthly OpEx | Large capital outlay, harder to plan around |
| Hardware refresh | Built into every agreement | Your problem, on your timeline |
| Security Currency | Always on supported hardware | Degrades over time |
| Procurement | Handled by Affinity MSP | Managed and sourced in-house |
| Warranty & Support | Bundled | Managed and renewed separately |
| End-of-life Disposal | Handled | Your responsibility |
| Scalability | Add or swap devices as you grow | Requires forecasting and buying in advance |
| Best for | Businesses that refresh fleets often | Specialised, long-life equipment |
HaaS keeps your fleet current without the procurement headache. Buying outright can still suit specialised equipment, but for everyday business devices, it usually creates more cost, admin and risk over time.
If your business is constantly replacing, managing, or chasing ageing hardware — HaaS probably makes sense.
- Run fleets of 10+ devices across one or more sites
- Want predictable IT spend and cleaner financial reporting
- Need to keep pace with security and compliance requirements
- Would rather their internal team focus on strategy than asset management
- Are scaling, restructuring, or operating across multiple locations
Hardware-as-a-Service is designed for growing businesses that are tired of unpredictable hardware spend, ageing fleets, procurement headaches, and technology that falls behind faster than budgets can keep up.
The right approach depends on your business, your growth plans, and how often your technology needs to evolve.
For many growing organisations, HaaS delivers the flexibility, predictability, and lifecycle support that traditional ownership struggles to keep up with.
How Hardware-as-a-Service works
A simple path from hardware planning to rollout, then refresh.
Consult
We map your team, workflows and current setup. No jargon until you want it.
Recommend
Already know what you need? We'll confirm it. Not sure? We'll recommend a fit — with specs and a clear monthly figure.
Deploy
Devices are configured, ready to work and rolled out with minimal disruption.
Support
For the life of your agreement, our team is on hand for any hardware issue that comes up.
Refresh
At end of term, upgrade to newer kit, extend on your current setup, or hand it back.
Specifically looking for printers?
Affinity MSP also provides fully managed print solutions for businesses looking to reduce print costs, simplify fleet management, and modernise ageing printer environments.
From multi-site printer fleets to cost-per-page agreements, we help businesses across ANZ review existing print contracts, reduce unnecessary spend, and implement right-sized print solutions from leading manufacturers.
- Reduce print-related costs and free up IT budget.
- Top brands supported across existing and new environments.
- End-to-end management, procurement, and supplier coordination.
Frequently Asked Questions
A traditional lease is a financing arrangement for the hardware itself. Affinity MSP's HaaS is a fully managed service — procurement, deployment, ongoing support and end-of-term refresh are all bundled into one fixed monthly cost, so there's no separate service contract to manage alongside it.
Affinity MSP's HaaS covers end-user devices (laptops, desktops, MacBooks), network infrastructure (servers, firewalls, switches, access points), and communications and print equipment (business phones, printers, conferencing hardware). Devices are sourced from leading brands including HP, Microsoft, Apple, Lenovo, Dell, Cisco, Fortinet, Philips, Lexmark and Konica Minolta.
Affinity MSP offers flexible HaaS agreements from 24 to 60 months, so businesses can align their hardware refresh cycle to their own growth plans and budget cycle.
At the end of your agreement, you can choose to upgrade to newer equipment, continue using your current setup, or hand the hardware back. Affinity MSP manages the transition either way.
Yes. Affinity MSP delivers Hardware-as-a-Service to businesses across Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and Auckland, with hardware sourced and supported through one Australian-owned point of contact regardless of location.
No. HaaS suits any growing business that wants predictable IT costs and a hardware fleet that doesn't age out of security support — from a single growing office to a multi-site organisation with a large device fleet.
Hand off your hardware headaches.
Tell us what your team needs. We'll come back with a tailored HaaS recommendation and a straightforward monthly quote — no chasing vendors, no logistics headaches.
