Series

More revenue from the same fleet

How a car rental company earns more from the fleet it already has, and what software contributes to that without needing extra staff.

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Earlier on this topic

The van that sat in your yard all weekend: what an idle fleet really costs

Almost every car rental owner estimates how busy their fleet is, but few know exactly what share of it earned revenue last week. This article shows how to calculate fleet utilisation on a napkin, where idle time hides and what one extra percentage point of utilisation is worth per year in a hypothetical worked example.

Read article8 min read

Payments

The invoice from three weeks ago: why rental businesses keep chasing money they have already earned

The car is back, the customer was happy, and three weeks later someone on your team is calling him about the invoice anyway. Late payments rarely start with the customer and almost always start in the process: manual invoicing, manual reminders, manual checks on who has paid. This article works out what chasing costs a car rental business, shows why rental in particular is so exposed and describes what automated invoicing means in practice.

Read article10 min read

Guide

The hidden cost of "good enough": what a spreadsheet really costs your rental business

A spreadsheet feels safe, but it only shows what someone typed in. Double bookings, late payments and blind spots in availability cost a growing rental business money every week without ever showing up anywhere. This article puts a number on all three leaks and gives you one question to ask your team this week.

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Guide

Six tips for local car rental companies to earn more money

Car rental is a tough market with thin margins, and most rental companies leave easy money on the table. These six tips cover service fees, website integration, online payments, fines, self-service and brokers. Each one adds revenue or removes cost without hiring extra staff.

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Customer communication

Preventing no-shows in car rental with smart software

If you run a rental business, you've undoubtedly experienced it. A customer reserves a vehicle, but doesn't turn up and stops answering their phone. Or worse: the customer does answer and casually tells you they've found something elsewhere.

Read article6 min read

Dynamic pricing

Rate management and dynamic pricing in rentals

A square is a rectangle, but a rectangle is not a square. The same goes for rate management and dynamic pricing. In this article we look at the differences between rate management and dynamic pricing.

Read article7 min read

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