What makes rent-a-car businesses hard to run?
A rental company sells the same car in two different ways. In the morning it may go out with a driver for a corporate client; in the afternoon a walk-in customer may want it self-drive for three days. Keeping both straight on a whiteboard or in a spreadsheet is exactly how double-bookings, disputed kilometres and missed overtime happen.
How does Odobase handle rentals with a driver?
Rentals with a driver run as trips. You schedule the pickup, assign a driver and a car, and the driver runs the job from the Odobase Driver app with odometer readings at the start and end. A client who needs the car twice in one day, with a wait in between, gets one trip that is paused and resumed, and the car is free for other work in the gap.
How does Odobase handle self-drive rentals?
Self-drive rentals run as hires. Reserve a car for a number of hours or days, record the odometer and condition photos at handover, and do the same at return. Odobase calculates overtime beyond your grace period and kilometres over the allowance, and the hire goes onto an invoice with the customer’s other rentals.
How do you know what each car earns and costs?
Every trip, hire, expense and workshop visit is linked to the vehicle. Completed maintenance and driver expenses count as costs, issued invoices count as revenue, and the accounting module shows profit and loss by month and by branch.
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