Built in New Zealand · Live in the UK, Ireland and Australia
Run your whole rental business in one place.
Bookings and your booking website, the fleet calendar, payments and deposits, handovers with photos, maintenance and compliance, customer messages and tax. One system for car, van and campervan hire, from 1 to 50 vehicles.
Free to start · no card · no lock-in
- Price
- From NZ$99 a month
- Commission
- None on your bookings
- To start
- Free, no card
- Compact · VW GolfNZ$89/daySelect
- SUV · Mazda CX-5NZ$129/daySelect
- 4WD · Toyota HiluxNZ$159/daySelect
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Set up for your country, not adapted to it
- Your tax on every lineVAT or GST at the right rate, and the invoices that go with it.
- No commissionOne subscription. Your bookings are yours.
- Built by an operatorRun on two hire fleets before anyone else saw it.
- Your data leaves when you doExport everything at any time. Monthly billing, cancel any time.
01 · The problem
Most hire businesses run on six tools that don't talk.
Every gap between them is a double-booking, an unpaid excess, or an inspection that lapsed while you were handing over keys.
- Booking pluginTOOL 1
- Availability spreadsheetTOOL 2
- Agreements folderTOOL 3
- Card machineTOOL 4
- Calendar remindersTOOL 5
- InboxTOOL 6
One system
Glovebox
Every booking, vehicle, document, payment and message in the same place, each one updating the others without you retyping anything.
02 · The product
The dispatch board your day actually runs on.
Live availability, today's pick-ups and returns, and anything that needs a decision. This is the real board on a sample fleet.
Bookings and payments
Direct bookings, deposits, excess holds and settlement through your own payment provider, in your currency.
Fleet and handovers
Live availability across every vehicle, checked on every booking, and handovers with photos.
Compliance
Inspections, registration and servicing tracked per vehicle, with reminders before they lapse.
Tax and accounts
Your country’s tax on every line, the invoices that go with it, and sync to Xero.
03 · Who builds it
I run two hire fleets, Jimny Rentals and Dream Drives. Glovebox is the software I built to run them, and it takes their bookings, settles their payments and keeps their vehicles compliant today.
Adam Crouchley · founder, operator
I proved it against New Zealand's rules first, then for the UK, Ireland and Australia: VAT and GST on every line, the right invoice for each payment, no card surcharges where they are banned, and your own agreement terms. If something in it doesn't fit how your counter works, email me and I will read it.
04 · Switching
Three weeks, and you keep taking bookings the whole time.
Nobody can afford a migration that stops the counter. This is the sequence we used on our own fleets.
- 01Week one
We import what you have
Vehicles, rates, forward bookings and customer records, out of your spreadsheet or your current system’s export.
- 02Week two
You run both for a fortnight
New bookings land in Glovebox while the old system finishes the hires already on it. Nothing is switched off until the board matches reality.
- 03Week three
The counter moves over
Widget on your site, agreements and deposits live, old tool cancelled. One afternoon of training, not a project plan.
05 · Try it yourself
Take the operator side for a spin.
A complete demo fleet with real bookings, pricing and compliance already set up. No signup, nothing to install, and it resets itself so you can’t break anything.
New Zealand demo fleet · sample data only · no card
06 · Pricing
One plan. No commission on your bookings, ever.
- What you keep
- Your payment provider, your settlement account, your customer records.
- What we will not do
- Invent a local price we do not charge. The charge on your statement is in New Zealand dollars, and we say so.
- If you leave
- Export every booking and customer record. Billing is monthly, so there is no contract term.
From
NZ$99a month, scaled to fleet size
Billed in New Zealand dollars, which your card converts. UK workspaces are billed in pounds, and Irish and EU workspaces in euro.
- Bookings, booking website and widget
- Fleet calendar and dispatch board
- Payments, deposits and excess holds
- Handovers with photos
- Maintenance and compliance reminders
- Tax on every line, invoices and exports
- Customer messages and accounting exports
No card to start · no commission on bookings · export your data any time
07 · The library
Written by an operator, not a content team.
Start a car hire business in the UK
VAT, MOT, insurance, the hire agreement, PCNs and card fees, in the order you will hit them.
Fleet utilisation calculator
Enter your fleet, hires and idle days. Get utilisation, RevPAD and ADR with a shareable link.
Running a fleet on a spreadsheet
It works until it does not. The specific failure modes, and the day to stop.
Coming soon08 · Straight answers
Questions operators ask first.
01Is Glovebox available in my country yet?
Yes, if you are in the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand or Australia: sign up and your country’s currency, tax and compliance defaults are set up for you. Anywhere else, joining the list is a real vote for your market, and it decides which one opens next.
02What will it cost?
From NZ$99 a month, scaled to fleet size and billed in New Zealand dollars, which your card converts. UK workspaces pay in pounds, from £42, and Irish and EU workspaces pay in euro, from €49. No commission on your bookings, and you start free with no card.
03Will it handle my currency and tax?
Yes. UK and Irish operators get VAT at the right rate on every line, a VAT invoice for each payment a business customer makes, credit notes on refunds, a one-click VAT return export, VAT stated in sterling or euro, and the UK Flat Rate Scheme if you are on it. These are defaults you confirm with your own accountant: Glovebox is not your tax adviser, and you supply your own rental agreement.
04Can I move my existing bookings across?
Yes. Vehicles, rates, forward bookings and customer records import from a spreadsheet or an export from your current system. We ran the same migration on our own fleets before offering it to anyone else.
05What if I only have four vehicles?
That is a normal size for this software. The fleets it was built on started at three. Nothing in it assumes a call centre or a head office.
06Can I leave and take my data with me?
Yes. Your customer and booking records are yours, and you can export all of them at any time. Billing is monthly and you can cancel any time, so there is no contract term to wait out.
09 · Not in the UK, Ireland, New Zealand or Australia?
Tell us where you operate.
Operators outside our four markets decide which country opens next, and hear first when it does.
Or fifteen minutes, no pitch. We mostly want to hear how your operation works.
Book a 15-minute call