Website & Marketing
A Car Rental Booking Platform with Your Website Built In
Not a brochure site with a contact form—a rental storefront that shows live availability, quotes the right price with seasons and extras, takes the booking, and confirms it into your control panel. 24/7, in your customer's language.
From $69.95/month · 14-day free trial, no credit card · Most agencies go live in about five days
Short answer: Car Rental Solutions is a car rental booking platform that adds live availability, instant quotes and online deposits to the website you already have, or comes with a complete website on your own domain. Plans start at $69.95/month plus a $197 one-time setup fee. Every plan includes an API-based reservation system that works on a website hosted anywhere and on multiple domains under one account. Try it free for 14 days with no credit card; most agencies go live in about five days.
Your website is your best rental counter
Most rental websites are brochures: photos, a phone number, maybe a form. Every after-hours visitor they attract becomes someone else's customer. A real booking engine turns that same traffic into confirmed, paid reservations—while you sleep. It's built into our car rental software from day one.
Live availability search
Customers search by dates and location and see only vehicles that are truly available—no callbacks, no double bookings.
Accurate instant quotes
The engine prices seasons, tiers, extras, taxes, and deposits exactly as your rate rules define them.
Online confirmation
Bookings land in your control panel instantly, block the vehicle, and trigger the confirmation email.
Multilingual booking
Serve tourist markets in their language with a multilingual reservation website.
Your brand, your domain
The site runs under your domain with your design—or we integrate the engine into a site you already have.
Mobile-friendly
The reservation form is built to work on phones as well as desktops, so customers can book from wherever they find you.
What a car rental booking platform should do
Use this checklist to compare any booking platform. The right-hand column is how Car Rental Solutions handles each point.
| What to check | Why it matters | Car Rental Solutions |
|---|---|---|
| A published price | You can budget before a sales call | From $69.95/month, setup from $197; all three plans are on the pricing page |
| Works on your current website | You keep your design, domain and search rankings | API-based reservation system for a website hosted anywhere, on multiple domains under one account, or a complete website we set up |
| Live availability | Customers can only book what is really free | One availability source that counts confirmed reservations, open contracts and returning units |
| Accurate quotes | No recalculating a price after the booking | Seasons, tiers, extras, taxes by location, one-way fees and age-group fees applied automatically |
| Payment at booking | A deposit makes an online reservation firmer than a request form | Credit cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay; deposits, pre-authorizations or full payment; PayPal where configured |
| Opening hours and limits | Bookings only arrive for times you can serve | Business hours per location, holiday overrides, minimum and maximum rental days, and blackouts |
| Driver details at pickup | Fewer typing errors at the counter | US driver's license scanning fills the rental agreement; renter profiles reuse stored data |
| Automatic emails | Customers get a written confirmation without staff time | Emails to you and the customer when a reservation is created, updated or cancelled, in the language it was booked in |
Use it on the website you already have
Every plan includes an API-based reservation system. It works on a website hosted anywhere, and you can run reservation sites on multiple domains under one account. Pick the setup that fits your agency.
Booking engine on your current site
Keep the website you have and add live search, quotes and booking to it. Your pages, your domain and your design stay as they are.
Connect through the API
If you have a developer or web agency, the car rental API lets them build your own booking flow on top of your fleet, rates and availability. API access is included on every plan; see the developer quickstart.
A complete website from us
No site yet? We set one up on your domain with the booking engine built in. Option B includes a basic website and Option C a custom website; custom websites are also available on request.
Before the keys: driver checks and no-shows
Online bookings land in the same Control Panel your counter uses, so the checks you do at pickup work the same way for web, phone and walk-in reservations.
Pending and confirmed reservations
Reservations carry pending and confirmed statuses. Your team can move a reservation from pending to confirmed in the Control Panel, and the Smart Fleet Dashboard lists today's pending reservations as a follow-up list.
License check at the counter
Scan the renter's US driver's license when you open the contract. Name, address, date of birth, license number and expiration fill in automatically, and repeat renters are recognized from their stored profile.
Deposits at booking
Take a deposit, a pre-authorization or full payment when the customer books online, so the reservation is backed by a card before pickup day.
No-show tracking
The dashboard shows today's no-show reservations so you can put the vehicle back to work, and reservation lists filter by canceled and no-show status so you can spot patterns.
What the booking platform costs
Three plans, each with a one-time setup fee. The first-year column is 12 months of the plan plus setup.
| Plan | Monthly | One-time setup | First year | Website and booking |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Option A | $69.95 | $197 | $1,036.40 | Bilingual reservation website, 3 users, API access |
| Option B | $99.95 | $297 | $1,496.40 | Reservation website in 3 languages, basic website, up to 125 units, 5 users, e-signatures |
| Option C | $179.95 | $397 | $2,556.40 | Custom website, reservation website in 6 languages, unlimited branches, locations, vehicles and users |
Example: Option A is $69.95 × 12 = $839.40, plus $197 setup = $1,036.40 for the first year, before payment-processing fees. Every plan includes the API-based reservation system for any website and multiple domains. Custom websites and extra reservation languages are available on request, and plans and pricing can be tailored to your agency. Full details on the pricing page.
Marketing tools that fill the calendar
A booking engine captures demand—these built-in marketing tools help you create it.
- Discount coupon codes for campaigns and partners
- Rate-code promotions for seasons and segments
- Customer export for email marketing and win-back campaigns
- Reservations by country to see which markets book you
- Affiliate referral program to reward hotels and agents who send you renters
- SEO-friendly structure so your fleet pages get found
- Confirmation emails that reduce no-shows
- One data source: marketing, bookings, and fleet in the same platform
From visitor to confirmed rental in four steps
This is what your website does automatically, around the clock.
Search
The customer picks dates, location, and vehicle class—in their language.
Quote
The engine prices the rental exactly: season, tier, extras, taxes, deposit.
Book & pay
The customer confirms online; the vehicle is blocked instantly.
Booking platform FAQs
What is a booking engine exactly?
It's the software behind your website's search box: it checks real availability, calculates the correct price with seasons, extras, and taxes, takes payment, and confirms the reservation into your control panel—all without staff involvement. Our plain-English guide covers it in depth.
How much does the car rental booking platform cost?
Plans start at $69.95/month plus a $197 one-time setup fee (Option A). Option B is $99.95/month plus $297 setup, and Option C is $179.95/month plus $397 setup. Over the first year that comes to $1,036.40, $1,496.40 or $2,556.40, before payment-processing fees. Plans and pricing can be tailored to your agency, and there is a 14-day free trial with no credit card.
Can I add the booking platform to the website I already have?
Yes. Every plan includes an API-based reservation system that works on a website hosted anywhere, and you can run reservation sites on multiple domains under one account. You can add the booking engine to your current site, connect through the car rental API, or have us set up a complete website on your own domain.
Does the website show live availability?
Yes. The website and your control panel share one availability source, calculated from confirmed reservations and open contracts—so customers can only book vehicles that are truly available.
Can customers book in other languages?
Yes. Option A includes a bilingual reservation website, Option B a reservation website in three languages, and Option C in six: English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Icelandic, Chinese and French. Customers receive their reservation emails in the language they booked in, and more languages are available on request.
How long does it take to go live?
Most agencies go live in about five days. You can start with the 14-day free trial, with no credit card, to load your vehicles and rates, and book a demo if you want us to walk through your setup.
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