Built in New Zealand · Live in Australia
Run your whole hire business in one place.
Bookings and your booking website, the fleet calendar, payments and deposits, handovers with photos, rego and maintenance, customer messages and GST. One system for Australian 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 · Toyota CorollaA$69/daySelect
- SUV · Mazda CX-5A$99/daySelect
- 4WD · Toyota HiluxA$139/daySelect
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Built for Australian hire, not adapted for it
- GST at 10% on every lineInclusive for customers, ex-GST in your reports.
- Tax invoices with your ABNAnd the full GST breakdown, synced to Xero.
- Rego and inspection remindersPer vehicle, before they lapse.
- 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 Australian dollars.
Fleet and handovers
Live availability across every vehicle, checked on every booking, and handovers with photos.
Compliance
Rego, safety inspections and servicing tracked per vehicle, with reminders before they lapse.
GST and accounts
GST at 10% on every line, tax invoices with your ABN, 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 built it for Australia’s: GST at 10% on every line, your ABN on tax invoices, card surcharges switched off, rego reminders, 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
See an Australian hire company running on it.
Red Centre Car Hire is a sample Australian hire company running on Glovebox. Open it as its customers see it: pick dates, choose a vehicle and see the price in Australian dollars. The operator side is your own workspace: start free and it comes set up for Australia.
A sample company with sample data
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 an Australian dollar price we do not charge. The charge on your statement is NZ$99, 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. Your card converts it to Australian dollars at its own rate.
- Bookings, booking website and widget
- Fleet calendar and dispatch board
- Payments, deposits and excess holds
- Handovers with photos
- Maintenance, rego and inspection reminders
- GST on every line, tax invoices with your ABN
- 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 Australian operators ask first.
01Is Glovebox available in Australia now?
Yes. Sign up and the Australian preset is set up for you: Australian dollars, GST at 10%, your ABN on tax invoices, kilometres, your state’s timezone, and rego and inspection reminders. Operators in the UK, Ireland and New Zealand have their own presets; anywhere else, joining the list is a real vote for your market.
02What will it cost?
From NZ$99 a month, scaled to fleet size and billed in New Zealand dollars, which your card converts to Australian dollars. No commission on your bookings, and you start free with no card.
03Will it handle GST properly?
Yes. GST at 10% is applied on every line, tax invoices carry your ABN and the full GST breakdown, pricing is GST inclusive on the customer side and ex-GST in your reports, and invoices land in Xero. Card surcharges are switched off for Australian operators under the RBA rule. These are defaults you confirm with your own accountant: Glovebox is not your tax adviser.
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 Australia?
Tell us where you operate.
Operators outside the UK, Ireland, New Zealand and Australia 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