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Car rental app builder for agencies: your fleet, your terms, rental requests and key handover slots
Customers pick a category, read your terms before they come, send their request and book the time they collect the keys: a landing flight no longer fills your counter all at once.
Your agency gets its own app, made without code, native on iOS and Android phones and available as a web version: it shows your fleet and your terms, takes rental requests and condition photos, and books key handover slots. It is no substitute for a rental engine: multi-day availability, pricing, the security deposit and the contract belong in your rental software, which a link in the app can open.
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What your customers check before they rent
Your fleet by category
Compact, family car, van: photos, number of seats, manual or automatic, trunk space and what the rate includes.
Who can drive
Minimum age, years since the license was issued, young driver surcharge, additional drivers and what they need to show.
Security deposit and insurance
The amount held on the card at pickup, what the included insurance covers, the deductible and how to reduce it, explained before anyone reaches the counter.
Fuel and mileage
Full-to-full or your own rule; the mileage included and the price of each extra mile or kilometer.
Documents to bring
Driver's license, ID and a credit card in the main driver's name: the full list, so nobody leaves the counter without a car.
Your branch, even after closing
Opening hours and one-tap directions and, for returning the car in the evening or on a Sunday, where to find the key drop box and the spaces set aside for returns.
Customers book the key handover, not the car
Once you have confirmed the rental, they pick their 15-minute slot at the counter
Appointment booking reserves time slots within a day: it doesn't rent out cars. Once you have confirmed the rental, customers use the app to pick the 15-minute slot when they collect the keys, at your branch counter or at the airport desk. The form asks for their booking reference and, if they're flying in, their flight number; a confirmation email reaches both of you. One customer per slot: passengers from the same flight arrive spread out instead of queuing at the counter together. If someone books a slot without a booking reference, you cancel it and they're notified by email.
From rental request to keys in hand
Three steps: the first and the last in the app, the one in between in your rental software.
The request, through a Form
In a Form, customers enter their pickup and return dates and times, the category they want, the driver's age and their extras, such as a child seat or an additional driver. An email flags every request, and all of them stay listed in the back office, which exports them as CSV.Your confirmation
You check that a car in that category is free for those dates, set the price and prepare the contract in your usual tool. Then you reply to the customer by email or phone and give them their booking reference.Keys and departure photos
In the app, the customer takes a key handover slot. Before driving off, they photograph the car and send the pictures through a second Form, one file field for each side plus one for the odometer and the fuel gauge: each submission triggers an email to you, sent at the time it was made.
Your rental software and the agency's app: who does what
Two tools, two jobs: the rental itself stays in your software, and the app handles everything around it.
| Your agency's app | Your rental software | |
|---|---|---|
| Availability of a car over several days | No: time slots within a day | |
| Pricing by duration and security deposit | No | |
| Rental contract | No | |
| Fleet and terms shown to customers | on your website | |
| Rental request: dates, category, extras | Form | depending on the software |
| Key handover slot | Appointment booking | depending on the software |
| Condition photos at pickup and return | Form, file field | depending on the software |
| A message on your customers' phones: seasonal offer, closure | Push notifications | No |
Pioneers of no-code
15 years of experience building native apps for businesses and content publishers. And the numbers to prove it.
25 000+
Daily downloads for apps built with GoodBarber*
30 000+
Clients have brought their app projects to life with GoodBarber
2011
The year GoodBarber was born: no-code, before anyone else
* Source: internal download tracking, App Store and Google Play, April 2026.
How much does a car rental agency app cost?
On the Standard plan, a web version alone shows your fleet and takes rental requests. Key handover slots need Appointment booking: an option on the Premium plan, which also publishes the app on iOS and Android, and already built into the Pro plan.
| Standard · web version only | $30 /month, billed yearly |
| Premium · iOS and Android apps, web version | $55 /month, billed yearly |
| Appointment booking, with Premium | $15 /month |
| Pro · Appointment booking included | $105 /month, billed yearly |
Getting into the App Store and Google Play takes two developer accounts, paid directly to Apple and Google.
Car rental agency app: questions from rental companies
Can my customers rent a car for several days in the app?
Not in the app itself: Appointment booking reserves slots within a single day and doesn't track a car from Monday to Friday. Customers send you a request through a Form and you confirm it, or a link in the app opens your online booking engine, if you have one.
Can the app collect the security deposit or the rental fee?
No. The app doesn't charge anything, neither the rental nor the deposit: the hold on the card is taken at the counter, or by your booking engine if it can do so. What the app does is state the amount to expect and the cards you accept, so nobody discovers it when signing the contract.
How do I avoid disputes over scratches and dents?
Ask for photos at pickup and at return: a Form with several file fields, one for each side of the car and one for the odometer and fuel gauge. Each submission triggers an email to you, at the time the customer sent it, and stays in the back office. The signed condition report remains your reference document; the photos back it up.
I have a branch in town and a desk at the airport: how does that work?
Create one key handover section per location, each set up separately: hours, slot length, Google Calendar. Both addresses go on a map, and customers choose the section for the place where they pick up the car.
Can a car rental agency get by with just a web version?
To show your fleet and take requests, yes: the Standard plan publishes your app as a web version only, with the Form. It doesn't include Appointment booking: for key handover slots and native apps on the App Store and Google Play, you need the Premium or the Pro plan.
How do customers return a car after hours?
Publish the steps in the app: where to park, where to leave the keys, what to photograph. Before leaving, the customer sends the return photos through the Form, and the notification email gives the time. When you open, you walk around the car.
Can I tell my customers about a seasonal offer?
Yes, with a push notification, sent right away or scheduled, to all your app users or only to those in a given area: summer rates, the opening of your airport desk, a closure on a public holiday. The one limit: no notification addressed to a single customer.
Does my rental software connect to the app?
Not directly: the app has no built-in connection to rental software. If yours offers an online booking engine, a link in the app leads to it, and you can download the Form requests as a CSV file.
Extension Store
Six extensions for a car rental agency, one of them paid: Appointment booking, an option on the Premium plan that the Pro plan already includes. The Form, Push notifications, CMS Contact, CMS Articles and CMS Map are free.
Your software runs the rentals; the app handles everything around them
GoodBarber builds your agency's app, on phones and on the web: fleet and terms, rental requests, key handover slots, condition photos and notifications. Multi-day availability, pricing, the security deposit and the contract remain the job of your rental software.