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Car rental booking system

Car rental website builder

Live availability, hire-desk pricing, protection add-ons and deposits held on the card - on your own site, not a broker's.

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  • Cancel anytime
A car rental website showing three vehicles with their daily rates and a Reserve button on each

Take reservations on your own site instead of paying a broker for every one. Availability is worked out from the reservations you already hold, so a car cannot go out twice. Pricing works the way a hire desk works - seasons, mileage, young drivers, one-way returns, protection and extras - and the security deposit is held on the customer's card through your own Stripe account rather than taken from it.

Building your site, pages and blog are free forever. Car rental website builder is not - it needs Starter ($14.99/mo). The 14-day free trial covers it, and starting the trial needs a card. That tier covers a 5-vehicle fleet and 30 reservations a month, and carries a 2% platform fee per online payment (1% from Growth Business up); larger fleets are on Growth Business.

Before you start the trial

  • Nothing is charged today. Cancel any time before day 15 and you are not charged at all - the account moves to the Free plan and your site and its data stay.
  • Taking payment runs through your own Stripe account. Connecting it is a separate identity check with Stripe that can take a few days, so start it on day one if you want to take a real payment inside the trial.
  • The trial runs on Starter only. Moving up a plan part-way through ends the trial and starts the paid subscription, so if you already know you need the bigger tier, start there instead.
  • One trial per account.

What it replaces

  • Broker commission on every booking
  • A separate website
  • A payment setup
  • A reservations spreadsheet
  • Phone calls to check what is free
  • Card details read out over the phone
  • Season prices worked out on a calculator
  • Pick-up reminders you send yourself
  • A customer list you cannot email

Priced the way a hire is priced

A young-driver surcharge, extra drivers, a one-way fee when the car comes back somewhere else, per-location fees, your mileage allowance and your tax line. The customer sees the total broken down before they pay.

Sell protection at checkout

Offer your own protection products, each with its own daily price and its own excess, with one preselected. It is the line a hire desk makes its margin on, priced into the booking instead of argued about at the counter.

The deposit is held, not taken

The security deposit goes on the card as an authorisation through your own Stripe account. Capture it if something comes back damaged, release it if it does not.

Availability across the fleet

Every search is answered against the reservations that already exist, so two customers can never hold the same vehicle for the same dates.

Seasonal rates & minimum hire

Charge peak rates in peak weeks and require longer hires while they run. Rates are worked out per day, so a hire crossing out of high season is charged partly at each rate.

Extras by the day

Child seats, a GPS unit, a ski rack, a second set of keys - listed per vehicle with their own daily price and added to the quote.

Turnaround built into the calendar

A buffer between one hire ending and the next beginning, so a car is never handed over the minute it is due back - plus minimum notice, how far ahead you take bookings, and a same-day cut-off time.

A cancellation policy that runs itself

Set how many hours before pick-up a booking still cancels free. Cancellations inside that window refund automatically instead of becoming an email argument.

Reservations dashboard

Today's pick-ups and returns, upcoming reservations and revenue in one place - and a booking you take over the phone draws down the same availability.

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How it works

Live in an afternoon - no code, no plugins.

1

Load your fleet

Add vehicles with photos, specs, day rates and deposits - or import the whole fleet from a spreadsheet.

2

Set your rules and rates

Seasons, weekly and monthly rates, mileage allowance, fuel policy, driver age, protection products, extras, and your pick-up and return locations.

3

Connect Stripe and publish

Customers search real availability, get an itemised quote and pay. You work from the reservations dashboard.

Templates to start from

Hand-picked designs for this kind of business - customise any of them.

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Frequently asked questions

Yes. Customers pick dates, see live availability, and pay the rental (and a deposit) online through your Stripe account.

It becomes a paid Starter subscription and your card is charged for the first month. Nothing is charged before that. The trial runs for 14 days from the day you start it, and it is one trial per account.

You are not charged at all, and cancelling during a trial takes effect immediately rather than at the end of a billing period. Your account moves to the Free plan and everything you built stays - the site, the fleet you loaded, your rates and any reservations you took.

Nothing is deleted and nothing is hidden from you. Your site stays up and still shows the fleet, but it stops taking reservations online - the Reserve button becomes an enquiry, so a customer is told before they fill anything in rather than after. You keep access to every reservation already taken, and we email you rather than letting the site quietly stop producing bookings. Going back on a plan turns online reservations straight back on.

The fleet imports from a spreadsheet - vehicles, photos, specs and rates in one go. Reservations do not: there is no bulk import for those yet, so add the ones already on your books yourself, which takes a moment each and holds the dates exactly as an online booking does. If you only need the car to show as unavailable, blocking the dates is quicker.

Building, loading the fleet and publishing are immediate. Taking money runs through your own Stripe account, and opening one is a separate identity check with Stripe that can take a few days - so start it on the first day if you want to take a live payment inside the trial rather than at the end of it.

Not a broker's commission, but not nothing either, and it is fairer to give you the number. Payments taken online carry a platform fee of 2% on Starter and 1% from Growth Business up, on top of the flat monthly plan. Stripe's own processing fee is separate and goes to Stripe. There is no fee at all on a reservation you take over the phone or at the desk, and none on the security deposit, because a refundable hold is not a sale.

Yes. You define your own protection products - a basic cover and a zero-excess one, say - each with its own daily price, its own excess and its own description, and you can preselect the one you would rather sell. It is priced into the quote per day alongside the hire, and you can choose whether it is taxed, which matters where protection is not a taxable product.

It is held. The deposit goes onto the customer's card as an authorisation through your own Stripe account, separately from the rental payment. When the car comes back you either capture it, in full or in part, or release it - and releasing it is one click rather than a refund you have to explain.

Yes. Set a one-way fee and it is added automatically whenever the return location differs from the pick-up. Each location can also carry a fee of its own, so an airport desk can cost more than the town office without you pricing every vehicle twice.

Yes. Run unlimited mileage, or set an allowance per day with a charge for every unit over it, in miles or kilometres. The allowance for the dates booked is shown on the quote before the customer pays, so the overage charge is not the first they hear of it.

Both, per day. A minimum age is a hard gate - below it the booking is refused rather than surcharged - and above it you can set an age under which a per-day young-driver fee applies. Additional drivers carry their own per-day fee and you can cap how many are allowed.

You set a late fee per hour and a grace period before it starts, so the ten minutes lost to traffic costs nothing and the extra half day does not go unbilled.

If you want them to. Set a weekly percentage that applies from seven days and a monthly one from twenty-eight, and the better of the two is applied to the quote automatically rather than being a rate you have to remember to give.

Yes. Availability is calculated across your fleet in real time and the reservation is written under a lock, so two people checking out at the same moment cannot both take the last vehicle.

Yes - add vehicles one by one or import them in bulk from a spreadsheet, each with photos, specs and rates.

No. Pick a rental template, add your cars, set your rates and locations, and connect Stripe to get paid.

Yes. Set a season with its own daily price and, if you want, a longer minimum hire while it runs. Prices are calculated per day rather than per booking, so a hire that starts in high season and ends outside it is charged correctly for each day rather than at one flat rate.

Three settings, and you can use any of them. Minimum notice in hours stops a customer booking a car for this afternoon. A cut-off time stops offering same-day pick-ups after your desk closes. A maximum advance caps how far ahead people can book at all.

Yes. Set which days you take pick-ups and returns, and add individual closed dates for public holidays or a shutdown. Add them before people try to book them: a blackout date does not cancel reservations that already exist.

No. The rental schedule can copy the business hours you already set, so the hours on your contact page and the hours your reservations obey stay the same thing.

The same module runs campers, bikes, boats, equipment and holiday homes. Pick what you rent and the wording follows it everywhere - your dashboard, the search on your site and your reservation emails - and the booking form asks only what that trade needs: mileage and fuel for a car, a damage waiver for equipment, guests rather than drivers for a cottage.

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