Technology has evaded every sphere of our life and it has shown its effect in the field of travel and transportation too. Car rental companies and cab operators, in the recent times have shown the elevation, is far from what we could have ever imagined. It is all because of the technological advancement of online car rental software and booking apps, using which car rental companies have been capable of providing a smooth and organized service to its customers. PROVAB develops

car reservation software

platform with native apps (Android & iOS) and fleet management system for rental companies, cab companies and taxi operators.

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‘All-in-one-place’ online

car rental software

platforms and mobile apps have improved the user experiences to another level. According to Statista, revenues from car rental software platforms & taxi apps are expected to show an annual growth rate of 14.2% over the next five years.

Web Based Car Reservation Software & Mobile Apps

Car booking software

system provides privilege to end users (buyers) to make the rental bookings online without any hassle. Self driven and Chauffeur driven options gives the facility to rent a car as per the requirements.

In

car rental reservation software

, admin has the privilege to manage the fleet added in the system. Fleet can be added based on vendor with all desired details. This system also provides a panel for comprehensive reporting of current and future fleet. Tracking of the existing fleet with occupancy is also present.

Car rental management software

helps the users to perform the search on the basis of different criteria like city and the date ranges. Filters for selecting a particular car as per requirement is also present in the system.

Multiple payment option are present for customers to pay for the rented car. Users will have a leverage to pay via credit cards, debit cards and cash on delivery. User can also track the payments done and their payment status along in their account.

All booking are handled by admin and sub-admin. Booking approval can be done on automatic or manual basis depending on protocol set. Admin and sub admin have complete control on bookings and cancellations.

Driver can see all the allocated rides / trips to him and track user location through the maps.

Share your travel plan and let other people join for split fare.

System generated invoice based on the distance travelled and time taken by the vehicle.

Car rental business software

allows the admin / super admin to generate multiple type of reports. These reports can give the clear picture of the bookings made, earnings, fleet reporting within the system.

Car APIs are a set of web services (XMLs/JSONs) using which car rental companies and taxi aggregators connect to a source, which may be GDS or any third party car content aggregators. By integrating Car booking APIs, agents can offer real time availability & booking services of cars & taxis and all ancillary services including bookings, amendments and cancellations.

Below is the list of top travel API providers (2022) as per geography and contents. Check top Car APIs in travel industry as following -

CarTrawler is a leading car aggregator company that connects over 2,500 travel agents, travel retailers (OTAs), and international airlines with local car rental suppliers. Currently, the company operates in 45,000 locations in 185 countries.

Rentalcars.com is currently the largest provider in the car rental and aggregation vertical. Rentalcars works across about 60,000 locations around the world in 165 countries. Rentalcars offers two main options: 1) put a customizable banner on your website, 2) become Rentalcars connect partner and then leverage available technology through the API.

Rezdy is another T&A service for channel management that connects suppliers with travel agents and travel agencies. Rezdy API can be used for bundling packages for T&A, car rentals, charters, shuttle buses.

Amadeus is one of the most preferred GDS systems today. Global travel management companies are using Amadeus gds to access online travel contents including airline, hotels, transfers, sightseeing, cars and other ancillary services through Amadeus,/ travel APIs / web services. Amadeus processes the highest number of transactions on a day to day basis. In the last 25+ years, Amadeus has become the largest gds system and the biggest travel content aggregator around the world.

Provab Technosoft is a leading travel API provider and along with its IATA accredited fully owned subsidiary, it helps you to maximise your need of travel inventory through a single unified travel booking API connection while providing rich flight contents aggregated through several IATA and Non IATA consolidators. Provab’s open travel API XML suite includes flight API, hotel API, car API, transfer API and sightseeing API.

Galileo GDS system - offered by TravelPort, is one of the most sophisticated global distribution systems for travel domain. Galileo GDS provides global distribution services for the travel industry with advanced computer reservation software, top of the line travel system and web services XMLs. B2B and B2C booking software with Travelport universal APIs are surging in India, United States, Mexico, Europe, South Africa and Malaysia. In the last 22+ years, Galileo GDS has become one of the largest gds systems.

Sabre GDS system is the connect between the travel services buyers and sellers. Sabre GDS is supported (in terms of travel inventory) by more than 400 flight carriers, 200,000 hotels, global tour operators and several car and cruise providers. Sabre system is connected to more than 400,000 travel agents worldwide, who are serving to end clients. Sabre GDS system processes more than a million travel booking transactions per minute during the high season. B2B and B2C travel portals with Sabre software system are surging in United States, Europe, UAE, India, Africa (Nigeria, Egypt) and Indonesia.

TBO Holidays is one of the leading travel aggregator, connected with 70,000 travel agencies across 100+ countries while using TBO’s award winning platform to book global travel contents online. TBO offers flights, accommodations, cruise, cars, transfers and sightseeing.

PKFARE aggregates real time big data from over 600 airlines, 400,000 properties and 20 DMCs, covering over 100 countries and regions. PKFARE is an innovative global travel trade marketplace offering air tickets, hospitality and destination products. Empowered by its global resources, machine learning technology, big data and dynamic hedging and payment model, PKFARE provides global travel players with smart integrated solutions including real time inventory data, best buy rate, seamless multilingual customer service and diversified product portfolios.

Hotelbeds is one of the largest aggregators with 1,80,000 hotels in around 185 destinations worldwide. Hotelbeds API enables any hotel booking system or distribution platform to provide their agents and B2C clients, best hotels and activities at lowest wholesale rates. Simply using Hotelbeds API integration solution is enough to gain access to vast inventory from multiple sources with competitive prices. Hotelbeds booking API additionally provides you access to additional services such as sightseeing, transfers and even car rentals.

Skyscanner was established in 2003 with the unique objective of showing all flight options in one place. Today it has gone from a flight search engine to a global leader in travel. More than 100 million people across the world (that's quite a few!) rely on its app and website each month to help them with their travel plans. It also provides skyscanner APIs to distribute the contents on global OTA platforms.

If you are an OTA or a destination website, want to have top of the hotel inventory on your booking platform, integrate Booking.com API. It offers solutions for OTAs, hotel channel managers, property owners and affiliates like travel bloggers and media outlets. The online accommodation platform currently offers over 29,420,861 properties, 12,500 affiliates, and well-architected framework features in 41 languages, 23 countries with payment card supports Visa, American, Express, MasterCard. The Booking.com APIs support both XML and JSON formats using HTTP basic authentication.

Expedia Affiliate Network (EAN) APIs robust structure brings quick responses and retrieves data from multiple sources instantly to give real-time updates on rates and availability on your booking platform. The EAN APIs are used to book hotels, flights and cars. Expedia's well designed framework enables 200+ travel booking sites across 75 countries and 150+ mobile websites. Expedia API Integration connects any online booking system to 140,000 hotels spread across 245 countries. Expedia has a great user base in the United States, Canada, Mexico, India and UAE.

Kiwi.com is a leading flight aggregator, based in Czech. The OTA platform of Kiwi.com connects with 750 carriers, including over 250 low-cost carriers. Startup travel agencies can also KIWI API to find flight data and make online reservations and generate business.

Priceline offers strong inventory of flights, hotels, cars and holiday packages.

At PROVAB, our car API integration team and framework experts provide extensive support during APIs integration and live certification. They let you leverage the ready codes and libraries to complete the integration sooner than expected. You are assured of full scale OTA or mobile application to build rapid growth in travel booking vertical.

Post API contract signoff, agency code is created. Same time, sandbox and test credentials are sent to client’s developers. One can access travel apis for developers section and get all details.

Developers get the integration kit and they can start integrating PROVAB’s flight APIs on their platform in a seamless way.

Post flight web services integration, test cases are sent to client’s developers to validate the logic of application or mobile app.

On approval of all test cases, followed by few airline bookings in test environment, live credentials are granted to set the application live.

For a robust car booking platform, there can be two options 1 - AWS - Amazon Web Services and 2. Dedicated Server. Depend on traffic expectations on your platform, server company and server parameters can be defined which can range in $150 USD to $500 USD per month. On the other hand, if you want setup the hardware in your local office then the pricing parameters will change significantly.

Now that you are well aware of web based car reservation system and why to integrate car APIs, you must find the best car rental software provider and API integration company. While plenty of fleet management companies are available, the question is how to find the best rental software company. Let me help you in preparing a questionnaire that fits your requirements.

• Check the demo of car rental software including backend.
• What are the major API integration services you offer?
• Please provide 7-8 benefits you offer to car rental companies?
• Do you make custom web design or use the theme?
• Can you provide the portfolio?
• Do you provide case studies to showcase the results of your web design?
• What is the policy for building websites in comparison with the competitors?
• How do I get the timely work progress of the project?
• What are the types of travel technologies you are specialized in?
• Do you give round the clock support and also handling the updates of the applications?