Car Hire Broker System

Marketing & Advertising

Main idea of CRBMS is to help you market your business well, be flexible and quick in implementation of your business critical ideas. System provides wide choice of online reporting tools and data improvement automations which are basing on information gathered from reports. Very flexible market based prices allow you to have just these prices that are needed for this particular target market so you are always one step ahead from your competitors.

Price changing automations and cross references will allow you to implement pricing policies easily and save you lots of human resources. You can have as many languages as you want and you can change translations yourself and all that controllable from one resource!

Multi-Market

It’s well known that running just global business in Internet can’t be done successfully without focusing on exact market segments anymore. Clients want best service and ease of use they can get. What we can offer here?
Every market has it’s own specifics and needs to have own marketing policies and rules. CRBMS allows you to be as close and specific on each market segment as it’s possible. Separate incoming and outgoing pricelists, their cross referencing, flexible language module and customisable supplementary equipment which can be managed by each market separately or linked one to another. We offer widest flexibility of multiple websites’ structures which allow handling multiple markets on one website or manage multiple sites from one source what makes your work easy end effective. A wide choice or different reports and reports filtering will allow you getting most up to date and focused information to make correct decisions and take quick actions.

Multi-Lingual

CRBMS supports website and call centre module translation to any language. Language module provides you very flexible way of translating and changing texts shown to clients, customisation and translation of e-mails and vouchers. Your client can now enjoy working with you on their native language. Number of languages is unlimited – just add as many as you might require! Languages and Markets are separate and can be mixed and cross referenced as you may find best for your business and clients. Only Car Rental? No! You can also book supplementary extras of your suppliers or any third parties, insurances, bikes, boats, vans, motorhomes using our system. Flexible discounts and promo codes will help you finding best approach to your clients and offer them best motivating offers. XML Connections to external systems. CRBMS can be connected to any external system like comparison websites, other brokers or any other site.

Website

As CRBMS uses XML to interconnect back end system and website, there is a wide choice of solutions how to build the website. You can use existing website to connect it to CRBMS, or we can develop for you new state-of-the-art website basing on our know-how, newest technologies and trends, or you can even let any third party to develope it for you – it’s completely open for you and you can choose the way you feel is best for you. Our websites have a wide choice of features you can offer to your clients – quick search of cars, useful filters, „self service“ area, and lots of other features. To keep administration costs of website as low as possible, we offer you CMS module (Content Management System), which will allow you editing your website content (texts, pictures, etc) without need of any programming skills. It’s just easy as using any stadard text editor so you can apply colors and formatting to your text with some simple clicks.

Affiliates

To help you market your business better, CRBMS has very flexible Affiliate module which allows you to define rules for your partners:
• Different types and rates of commissions payable to affiliates
• Assign affiliate to particular market
• B2B clients accounting
• Different ways of connecting affiliate website to your system or affiliate references
• Separate website interface for affiliates where they can view their account details, existing and previous reservations, etc.

Cost Effectiveness

Online technologies (XML, SOAP)	Automatic credit card processing
As you will expand your business and have more suppliers within your business, cost of human resources may start going up. How we can help you here? We offer you online connections to suppliers’ servers using XML technology. Using it disappears need of human intervention into reservation process. Reservation comes from website, is automatically confirmed at supplier’s system, credit card payment processed and voucher is sent to client. That’s easy! And we can offer those interfaces to most car rental suppliers. And even if some of your suppliers can’t provide XML interface, but have specific area on website to recieve partner’s bookings, we may use screen scraping and simulate your staff making reservations.	Automatic credit card processing. All the credit card operations are done automatically without need of human intervention and for better cost effectiveness we can offer a choice of merchant interfaces to different credit card processing companies. Which one you prefer? Automatic client notifications will help you to keep your client up to date on processes happening with his/her reservation. We also have a wide choice of semi-automatic messages where you just need to choose which e-mail to send to client and it will be sent with personalised data taken from data base.
"Self Service"
„Self Service“ for clients will help your clients to manage their reservations on your website without need of calling you and taking your valuable human resources. They can always get there most up to date information and be confident of status of their reservations.

Affiliate module

Affiliates module will help you saving on your marketing costs and through cooperation with them raise your revenue and profits. Complete tracking of affiliates sales, affiliates website, reporting and a wide choice of interfacing possibilities will help you being successful. Banner links, XML connections, White Labels, iFrame – all that is possible.

Payment report

Supplier payment reconciliation module will help you to save time on reconciling supplier invoices with existing reservations, finding differencies and handling payment reports.

CSV export

CSV export will help you producing special reports or any data extracts to be analysed in any external software. Very simple and one of the most effective ones. You don’t need any specific skills to work with this data format.

Technical

CRBMS works on open source technologies and therefore, total cost of ownership of the system is very low. System can run on any Linux/MySQL platform and is programmed on PHP. This programming language allows us to be very flexible in any changes which you might need in the system at extremely low price in comparison to any other programming language. Communication between most of system modules and external resources like car rental suppliers or marketing systems are done using XML. One of very important things in system design is that it widely uses well known standards like OTA and ACRISS. This allows us to interconnect CRBMS easily to any external systems and be sure it’s easy and straight forward. Vehicle searches are powered with AJAX technology which makes search result displaying very quick and efficent.

	PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.
	Java is a programming language expressly designed for use in the distributed environment of the Internet.
	MySQL is a relational database management system (RDBMS) which has more than 11 million installations. The program runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases.
	Linux is a free Unix-type operating system originally created by Linus Torvalds with the assistance of developers around the world.