01 Vehicle rental · Réunion Island
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The starting point
No website: a Facebook page. And behind it, Google Sheets — one for the fleet, one for the bookings, one for the calendar, one for the servicing. Nothing was joined up: to find out whether a vehicle was free, you had to open two files and cross-check by hand. Quotes and invoices were still done elsewhere, in a third tool.
What I delivered
A showcase website whose fleet is the admin area's own — the manager adds a vehicle and it appears online — with a contact form. And a bespoke admin area replacing the four spreadsheets and the invoicing tool: everything is linked, you move from a booking to the client record, from the client record to the vehicle, from the vehicle to its servicing history.
- Bookings, client records and vehicles linked to one another
- Booking calendar and configurable rental options
- Tomorrow at a glance: vehicles to hand over, returns to expect
- Servicing history, vehicle by vehicle
- Quotes and invoices produced from the booking, with no re-entry
- The showcase fleet driven from the admin area
What it changed
The spreadsheets are gone, and with them the cross-checking by hand. The time saved is where it counts: preparing tomorrow, finding a client's history, getting a quote out. One tool, one entry.
The admin area data blurred