3 February 2017

How DynaRent can erase 3 top complaints from car rental customers

Car rental, in particular short-term rental, is evolving. For example, the importance of user experience is rapedly growing.  Synchronizing customer demand, vehicle availability, contract details, and dozens of other factors across multiple locations—it’s challenging.

In addition there is something even more challenging for this industry. Car rental customers see it more and more as a “convenience retail” experience. They’re not buying a car—they just want to drive one. Of course, they have preferences and requirements, but they want a straightforward, consistent, quick rental transaction. Their expectation is that you’ll give them what they want, when they want it, at the price they expect.

It’s not surprising that the top issues customers experience with car rental aren’t major issues with the vehicles themselves. They’re about unwelcome surprises and delays. According to Sunny Cars, a Netherlands-based rental firm that does business across most of Europe, there are 3 major irritations. This prevents customers from having a satisfying car rental experience:

  1. Additional unanticipated costs, such as compulsory insurance
  2. Not getting the car model and type reserved
  3. Waiting in long lines or queues to pick up the car

Simply put, it’s clear that like all customers, car rental customers want clarity around costs and conditions! The wrinkle is that there is more to renting a car than in buying an off-the-rack coat with a price tag. Your company should offer all options for liability and availability. But also pick-up within a brisk transaction and being able to stick to your promises are equally important. If issues come up, your back-office should be able to handle those quickly, without disrupting the customer experience.

"DynaRent Car Rental for Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations is designed for those goals. It is delivering tools that lead to a transparent offering for your car rental customers."

Whether they’re using self-service or working with a representative, DynaRent Car Rental for Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations offers intuitive choices. It ensures that all conditional products and costs are included or proposed. And it presents real-time cost calculations. Graphical planning and ability to search and make changes instantly relieve availability pressures. Just as important, full insight into all aspects of your fleet help ensure accurate timing for reservation pickups and avoid logjams.

Up-front car rental overviews for your customer

  • To start, the customer has a complete overview of rental costs and conditions. For example, who can drive, maximum fuel usage, damage waivers, and other potential liabilities. They give a with a clear view of insurance options and coverage. Total costs estimations are accurate for the scenario you expect. That means no unpleasant surprises before, during, or after the rental period.
  • There’s added benefit to DynaRent’s transparent approach. You can configure your solution to propose relevant upsell products for the car rental, such as child seats, navigation, and rear-seat entertainment packages.

Flexibility that ensures you meet car rental promises

DynaRent Car Rental for Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations is built on the principle that “I’m sorry, we can’t help you” is not an option when a customer reserves/orders a rental car. It offers both “hard” and “soft” reservations on a specific car, which bolsters clarity for the customer and for your business. You know the limits of flexibility and can set priorities so that you meet promises.

If an issue arises and a specific car is unavailable, you’ll have strong functionality that supports ability to find alternatives. This satisfies impatient or exacting customers, search for:

  • Same type of car in another location or nearby depot
  • Same type of car in maintenance. For example, a  on the spot periodic inspection.
  • An upgrade to the same type of car that still meets all criteria (a 4-door rather than 2-door that sticks to request for automatic transmission)
  • Sub-rent the same type of car from a third-party, thanks to interfaces with real-time communications

Back-office visibility for proactive and ad hoc car rental control

Planners can take in a lot of information with ease using DynaRent graphical dashboards, which helps you take full advantage of your total fleet to meet specific car rental customers requirements. Planners can assess and take action on needs with fleet overviews that cover availability per:

  • Country,
  • Region
  • Depot,
  • Car category,
  • Car feature (i.e. manual shift/automatic or built-in navigation
  • Size, model, optimal usage scenario, etc. ….

What’s your parameter or dependency that you want to filter for? For both high-level views and granular drilldown, DynaRent Car Rental for Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations is configured to give you the exact information. Which you need to assess your fleet “bandwidth” and how to get the best out the vehicle availability.

Quick drilldowns will give planners or representatives the specifics they need for individual vehicles so that they can offer a car with confidence or locate one that meets the same criteria from another location and arrange for it, if appropriate. DynaRent Car Rental for Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations lets you track ongoing rental periods via orders and quotations, (periodic) service and maintenance jobs, and locations. A few examples of quick lookup insight include:

  • Technical availability (i.e. is the car damaged?)
  • Transactional availability (do orders/quotations exist for the car and/or is service & maintenance planned for the car?)
  • Physical location-based availability (what is the location of the car?)

Result? Built-in elimination of the top 3 irritations of car rental customers.

DynaRent’s customer-facing capabilities combine with back office tools to make booking or reserving a car fast and easy. It includes and calculates all car rental costs, conditions, insurance options, and upsell opportunities. On the back end, planners and reps have all the information and tools needed to make changes on the fly, and monitor fleets and depots for accurate pick-up times. Most important, you can make flexibility a tool that helps you meet the toughest customer’s needs in the face of issues you didn’t anticipate. We help you expect the unexpected and manage change with expert efficiency.

DynaRent Car Rental customers

Michiel Toppers,
Michiel Toppers,
Senior Director of Product Management

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