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The Complete Setup · Car & van rental firms

Website, CRM & marketing package for car rental firms

The whole front end of a rental business, built and wired together. Website, CRM, automations, chatbot, email, ads, branding. You run the fleet.

Price on application. Scoped per business — you see the number before anything starts.

Rental is a margin business competing against brokers who outspend you on every click. Fast Track Leasing gets around five enquiries a day from search, with nothing spent on ads. That is the position this package is built to put you in.

The second problem is admin. An enquiry is not a booking until you have the licence, the agreement, the deposit and the insurance sorted, and most firms are doing that by hand, one email at a time.

What you get

The whole front end, in one go

Take all of it, or the parts you are missing.

Website

Built for search and AI answers, not a template.

SEO & GEO

Structured so engines and assistants can quote you.

CRM

Configured around your pipeline, not a generic one.

Automations

The admin that currently eats your week.

AI chatbot

Answers out of hours, captures the rest.

Email marketing

Onboarding, follow-up and reactivation.

Google & Meta ads

Set up, tracked, and attributable.

Branding & graphics

Logo, identity, imagery, collateral.

Hosting & domain

Fast, secure, and handled.

Documents

Stored and routed into whatever you already use.

What this replaces

The jobs currently eating your week

Re-keying the same details four times

Enquiry form, agreement, insurance, invoice.

Chasing licence photos

The single biggest delay between yes and keys.

Answering "have you got one free" all day

Same question, twenty times a week, out of hours.

Deposits and paperwork left hanging

Nobody's job, so it slips, so the vehicle sits.

Automations

Built for how this industry actually runs

Enquiry to application, one form

What they type becomes the agreement. No re-keying.

Licence and ID collected up front

Uploaded at enquiry, chased automatically if missing.

Deposit and e-signature chased for you

Reminders run until it is done or you stop them.

Availability answered out of hours

Chatbot handles the common questions, hands over the rest.

Return and rebook reminders

Due-back nudges, then a rebooking prompt later.

Every enquiry traced to its source

You know which page and which ad produced the hire.

Proof it works

Fast Track Leasing runs on this exact stack

~5 a day

enquiries from search, every day

£0

spent on ads to get them

400+

pages answering what customers search for

1 form

from enquiry to signed application

Your CRM

Set up for this industry, not a generic pipeline

  • Vehicle class and hire dates on the record, not in an inbox
  • Driver age and licence status as pipeline gates
  • Deposit and agreement status visible at a glance
  • Repeat hirers flagged, because they are the cheapest revenue you have

Integrations

Wired into what you already run

  • Your fleet or rental management software
  • Licence checking, through whichever provider you use
  • Card and direct debit payments
  • E-signature for agreements
  • Accounting and invoicing
  • Google Ads and Meta
  • Email marketing
  • Document storage, wherever you already keep it

Where a system is genuinely closed, we say so during scoping and build around it.

Or take one piece

You don't have to take all of it

Every part of the package is a service in its own right.

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Questions

What is included in a complete website and CRM package for a car rental business?

The whole front end of the business: a professional website built for search and AI answer engines, hosting and domain, branding and graphics, a CRM configured around hire pipelines rather than generic sales stages, the automations that move an enquiry through licence, agreement, deposit and handover, an AI chatbot for out-of-hours questions, email marketing, and the Google and Meta ad accounts set up and tracked. It is scoped per business, so anything you already have we leave alone.

How much does it cost?

Price on application, and that is not evasion. The scope genuinely varies: some firms already have branding, some have a rental system that needs integrating rather than replacing, some want ads from day one and some want organic only. We scope it, price it, and you see the number before anything starts. Publishing a headline figure we would not honour helps nobody.

How quickly can a rental firm start getting enquiries?

It depends on how much of the stack you need and how competitive your area is. What we can point to is Fast Track Leasing, which now gets around five enquiries a day from search with no ad spend, off the back of 400+ pages answering what customers actually search for. Organic takes months to compound; if you need enquiries sooner, ads run alongside it while the content builds.

Do I need a CRM if I already use rental management software?

Often yes, because they do different jobs. Rental software manages vehicles, availability and contracts once someone is a customer. A CRM manages the people who are not customers yet — enquiries, quotes, follow-ups and the ones that went quiet. We connect the two rather than replace what already works.

Can the automations work with the system I already use?

Usually. Most fleet, payment and e-signature systems expose an API or a webhook, and where they do we wire straight in. Where a system is genuinely closed, we say so up front and build around it rather than pretending otherwise. That assessment happens during scoping, not after you have paid.

What does the AI chatbot actually do for a rental business?

It answers the questions that arrive at nine in the evening: whether you have a van free that weekend, what the minimum driver age is, what the deposit is, whether you deliver. It is trained on your terms rather than making things up, and anything it cannot answer becomes a captured enquiry with the context attached instead of a lost visitor.

Is this only for new businesses?

No. Startups take the whole package because they are building from nothing, but established firms more often take parts of it — usually the CRM, the automations and the enquiry flow, on top of a site that already works. The scoping conversation is about what you are missing, not about selling you the full stack.

Who actually does the work?

We do, end to end. The reason this is one package rather than five suppliers is that the handovers are where these projects normally fail: the developer blames the marketer, the CRM consultant blames the developer, and the business owner is left holding it together. HDC covers development, marketing, CRM, integration and process design, so there is one number to ring.

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