Hosted Booking Site for Motorcycle rental companies

Motorcycle operators hold the tightest liability envelope in this category and the largest gap between what a booking form collects and what the rental needs. A driving licence is not enough on its own: the rider needs the endorsement that covers the class of machine, and in most places the operator carries the exposure if it was never checked.

Machines are also tiered. A 300cc commuter and a 1200cc tourer rent to different riders at different rates with different deposits, and a catalogue that holds them as one pool will put a novice on the wrong bike. Engine class belongs to the unit record rather than to a note in the description.

Damage is expensive and disputed more often than in any other two-wheel category, because a dropped bike marks in places nobody photographs at handover. Condition evidence against the individual machine, at both ends, is what decides a claim months later.

Touring rentals add distance. A bike hired for a week covers hundreds of miles, comes back needing service rather than a wipe-down, and sometimes finishes at a different location than it started.

What the platform does here is narrow and specific. A complete booking website designed, built, hosted and maintained for you by askotter, with the booking path native to the site rather than embedded into a theme somebody else maintains.

The problem it removes: paying an agency through the season to keep a website and a booking widget talking to each other. The number to watch is conversion from landing page to completed booking, and the hours a season costs you in site maintenance.

The site is built around the booking rather than around a brochure with a booking button added. Category pages, availability, delivery zones and rates all read from the same records the operation runs on, so a rate change or a new unit shows up on the public site without anybody editing a page.