Built in New Zealand · Live in the United Kingdom
Run your whole hire business in one place.
Bookings and your booking website, the fleet calendar, payments and deposits, handovers with photos, MOT and maintenance, customer messages and VAT. One system for UK car, van and campervan hire, from 1 to 50 vehicles.
Free to start · no card · no lock-in
- Price
- From £42 a month
- Commission
- None on your bookings
- To start
- Free, no card
- Compact · VW Golf£45/daySelect
- SUV · Nissan Qashqai£65/daySelect
- Pickup · Ford Ranger£89/daySelect
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Built for UK hire, not adapted for it
- A VAT invoice per paymentCredit notes on refunds and a one-click VAT return export.
- No card surchargesNever added. They are banned for UK consumer cards.
- MOT and vehicle-tax remindersPer vehicle, before they lapse. Miles, not kilometres.
- 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 sterling.
Fleet and handovers
Live availability across every vehicle, checked on every booking, and handovers with photos.
Compliance
MOT, vehicle tax, servicing and insurance tracked per vehicle, with reminders before they lapse.
VAT and accounts
VAT at 20% on every line, an invoice per payment, credit notes and a VAT return export.
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 the UK’s: VAT on every line, a VAT invoice per payment, credit notes, no card surcharges, 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 a UK hire company running on it.
Northern Lights Car Hire is a sample UK hire company running on Glovebox. Open it as its customers see it: pick dates, choose a vehicle and see the price in pounds. Then take the operator side for a spin in a sample UK workspace, with its fleet, bookings and prices already set up. No signup, and it resets itself so you can’t break anything.
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
- Bill you in a foreign currency. UK workspaces pay in pounds, so the amount on your statement is the amount on this page.
- If you leave
- Export every booking and customer record. Billing is monthly, so there is no contract term.
From
£42a month, scaled to fleet size
Billed in pounds. The same amount on your statement every month, with no currency conversion by your bank.
- Bookings, booking website and widget
- Fleet calendar and dispatch board
- Payments, deposits and excess holds
- Handovers with photos
- Maintenance, MOT and vehicle-tax reminders
- VAT invoice per payment, credit notes, VAT return export
- 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 UK operators ask first.
01Is Glovebox available in the UK now?
Yes. Sign up and the UK preset is set up for you: sterling, VAT at 20%, miles, Europe/London, MOT and vehicle-tax reminders, and your own rental agreement. Operators in Ireland, New Zealand and Australia have their own presets; anywhere else, joining the list is a real vote for your market.
02What will it cost?
From £42 a month, scaled to fleet size, with no commission on your bookings. You start free with no card, and you are billed in pounds: the amount on your statement is the amount on this page.
03Will it handle VAT properly?
Yes. You 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, and the Flat Rate Scheme if HMRC has accepted you onto it. Card surcharges are never added, because they are prohibited for consumers in the UK. 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 or Ireland?
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