Car rental software is a cloud based platform to manage car rental business. It includes customer mobile app (iOS / Android), driver app (Android), agency module, backend module with online search, booking, payment, cancellation, tracking and reports. So in a nutshell, is about designing and implementing the ecommerce platform for car rental business.
Car rental software brings real benefits to all aspects of car and taxi rental business. Whether it is the ease of use for your operators or the convenience to customers being able to book directly from your website, car rental software will make a difference. It can automate the complete process starting from search, booking, online payments, cancellations and DSS reports.
IATA NDC - New Distribution Capability is a travel & hospitality industry-supported program launched by IATA for the development, growth and adoption of new XML-based data transmission standard, which is called NDC standards today. This was started in 2012 by IATA to replace the old EDIFACT, which global distribution systems rely on. EDIFACT can only display information such as fares and schedules and need an upgrade to meet the new global standards.
Car rental software pricing actually depends on the deployment model. If you are looking for a cloud based car rental software platform, then monthly pricing of car rental software may be between 200US$ a month to 500 US$ a month and the booking charges. If you are looking for one time development and deployment model with source code delivery (*on premise deployment), then the cost may vary between US$ 12000 to US$ 50,000.
If the agency is Non IATA then what are the alternatives one has for travel GDS systems? Then the agencies have the option of going with third party APIs like flight APIs, hotel APIs, transfer APIs through consolidators or aggregators.
