Do you change our prices for us?
No, not to start with. We recommend rates with the reason for each one, and you decide what goes into your system. Automatic updates come later, only if you want them.
Solutions
Rate management for car rental, with a reason for every change
A recommended rate per car type and pick-up week, with the reason. Your demand sets the direction, the market caps it, and you approve every change.
Rate management means setting the right rate for each car type and pick-up date, then changing it as demand moves. We give you a recommended rate per car type and pick-up week, with the reason for each one. Your own demand sets the direction. The market caps it. Your floors, ceilings and maximum move keep it sensible. You approve every change.
What the work involves
A 30-minute call
Your fleet, your markets and what's hurting.
A short written scope
The car types and weeks covered, how often, and a fixed price.
Set your rules with you
Floor and ceiling per car type, the biggest move you'll accept in one go, and which competitors count.
Recommendations on a rhythm
Weekly or daily, each with its reason, plus a monthly look at what worked.
How a recommendation is built
Three inputs, in this order.
Your demand. Booking pace against last year and against what your fleet needs, from demand forecasting. Ahead of pace means up. Behind means down.
The market. Your rate against the market typical for the same car type and pick-up day. If you're already well over market, a rise needs a better reason.
Your rules. Nothing goes below your floor or above your ceiling, and no move is bigger than your maximum.
A worked example
Say you price compacts at NZ$150 a day for a week in December. Your rules are a NZ$110 floor, a NZ$240 ceiling and a 10% maximum move.
Pace is 25% ahead of last year, so demand says up.
For the market, take Christchurch. In the Rate Pulse sweep of 7 Nov 2026, the typical compact rate there was NZ$192 a day. You're 22% under that, so there's room.
Demand would justify more than 10%, but your rule caps it. The recommendation is NZ$165, with the reason written out: pace 25% ahead of last year, still 14% under the market typical, held to your 10% maximum move.
You load it or you don't. Next week the same sums run again.
What you get
- a rate per car type and pick-up week, with its reason
- a flag on any week where you're far off market in either direction
- a monthly review of what you changed and how bookings responded
Book a call to scope it. The free Christchurch rates are a good place to see the market side first.
Questions
What if we don't agree with a recommendation?
Don't load it, and tell us why. A rule that keeps coming up wrong gets changed. A one-way hire rule or a new market are the kind of thing we add as we go.
Want this done on your own bookings?
Forecasting, rate management and booking-system integration, scoped to how you run.