VikRentCar Car Rental Management System

Description

Vik Rent Car for WordPress

The popular car rental management system is now available also for WordPress as a Native Plugin!

If you are looking for a reliable reservation system for renting cars, scooter, motorbikes, boats or any other vehicles, then you have found the right plugin. In fact, Vik Rent Car is a famous piece of software used by thousands of car rental companies worldwide every day.

Vik Rent Car was born in 2008 for a different web-software (CMS) than WordPress, and that’s how it became popular. The same powerful framework is now at the service of all webmasters, designers and web-agencies that work with WordPress. It’s definitely the car rental plugin that you, or your client, were looking for.

This is the free version of the plugin, but you can upgrade to the Pro version at any time from your wp-admin section. Experience the power of a robust vehicles rental management system!

Works with any car rental theme for WordPress, or any other kind of theme.

Visit VikWP.com for more details.

Some of the unique features

• The most flexible pricing system that follows the OpenTravel Standards for any pricing model
• Custom Rate Plans (Refundable, Flexible, Non Refundable rates, Insurances, Damage Waiver etc.)
• Neat vehicles management functions with distinctive features for the sub-units
• Availability Overview with monthly calendars
• Pricing Calendar Overview
• Rental orders management functions for pros
• Feature-rich back-end section
• Front-end customizable booking process
• 8 different Views for the front-end (7 types of Shortcode for your pages)
• Multi-language support with built-in translation functions

Some of Pro version features

• Seasonal Pricing and Rates Calendar with 1-click modification
• Restrictions to define the min/max number of days of rent, weekdays allowed for pick up and drop off
• Custom fields to request specific billing information to the customers
• Options and Extra Services to be added to the rental order
• Fees for out of hours times and for certain combination of locations
• Customers management window
• Graphs and Statistics for the various rental orders
• Custom Payment Methods with real bank gateways to accept credit cards
• Coupon codes to apply discounts to the orders

Interested in, curious about the Pro version?

You should take a look with your own eyes at the demo website to see what you can do with Vik Rent Car. Do not stop at the front-end though, make sure to visit the wp-admin section too.

1. Front-end Demo Website
2. Admin Demo Website

Screenshots

Blocks

This plugin provides 1 block.

• VikRentCar Shortcode

Installation

Installation through the WordPress Plugins Browser

• Search for “VikRentCar” in the Add Plugin section of your website back-end
• Install the Plugin by clicking on the apposite button
• Activate the Plugin by using the apposite activation button
• A link to access and configure VikRentCar will be visible in the left-menu
• Enjoy it

Alternative Installation Method

You can only install the free version of VikRentCar, not the Pro version. If for some reasons the WordPress Repository installation won’t work, you can contact us to receive the zip installer file and upload it via FTP onto your server.

• Download the installer zip file from VikWP.com
• Unzip the archive on your computer’s local drive
• Upload via FTP the unzipped folder vikrentcar onto your /wp-content/plugins directory
• Log in to your wp-admin section and activate the plugin

FAQ

Is upgrading to Pro mandatory?

No, not at all. However, it took our company around 8 years to build the Pro version and we are willing to spend a lot more years of work on this software. We encourage you to evaluate the free version first, and then upgrade to Pro to unlock its potential.

Why some functions are not available in the free version?

We are a software development company that constantly works to deliver professional tools to build up websites. We make money by selling licenses of the Pro version.

Is it worth upgrading to Pro?

VikRentCar is not a one-page plugin. You can build websites worth a lot of money with this plugin. You don’t need anything else to deliver a complete website, if not a Theme and some experience with WordPress.

Can I use VikRentCar with my preferred Theme?

Yes, of course. You are free to install Vik Rent Car on your website with your own Theme. The plugin will adjust to it thanks to its own CSS framework. It is also possible to work on a custom CSS file to adjust some layouts.

How’s the availability of the vehicles calculated?

You can create several vehicles through the back-end, each with a total number of units available. Optionally, these cars can be assigned to one or more locations for pick up and drop off. The system will calculate the remaining availability at “vehicle level”, meaning that depending on how many vehicles have been booked for some days of the year with “Confirmed” orders, the system will be able to determine how many units are left for a certain vehicle. The locations selected for drop off or pick up will not affect this calculation. For example, if you have 5 units availble of a specific car, and if this car is booked for next weekend by one customer, those days/times will have 4 units left for booking.

Reviews

maintenance

sahwa September 22, 2024 3 replies

imam problem sa plaginom. kad ga aktiviram ne mogu u?i u administraciju da radim. ?ta se doga?a? error: Maintenance VikRentCar is in maintenance mode. Please wait a minute for the update to complete. Skip Maintenance

Basic Best Practices are ignored

fewturewebdesign June 21, 2024 1 reply

Update: The developer answered, and it makes sense!!!Sorry for the inconvenience…—————————————————————————The developer somehow ignores absolute basics. The CSS files for this plugin mess up a lot of website-parts. This is especially aparrent when using Elementor. One example:In vikrentcar.css line 5372:input, textarea, select {width: auto !important;}First of all, !important should not be used, especially with such a GENERAL style rule.EVERY input, textarea and select on the WHOLE SITE are affected.This is just an example of many unfortunately….Other than that, the plugin seems to do it’s job.We are happy to change our review as soon as the styling issues are fixed!

support is very bad

beckos April 4, 2024

I have the PRO version and the payment method discount is not workingit gives the wrong result both in the administrative one with the order and also in the pdf that goes to the customer! after a week with support informing me that they will update their developers they still haven’t. to note that I had this plugin for many years for the joomla version and it worked correctly! their support is very amateurish

Plugin is well-developed

cristian2202 March 28, 2024

The plugin is well-developed, offering nearly all the options you might need for managing car bookings on your site. We encountered some custom technical issues and reached out to their support team. To our surprise, the team at VikRent team was available and assisted us with the requested implementation in less than 2 days. Thank you for the support!

Great Plugin

Alex November 13, 2023

Great Plugin and support! Really easy to use.!

A powerful system lacking in some simple things

danenablebusiness September 11, 2023 1 reply

The plugin is very good, but I’ve had to jump through a lot of hoops to get it to do what we need for our client. One issue that is extremely strange is that when you set opening and closing times for stores, (ours is set at 8:30 – 5:00), customers can select 8:00am, 8:15am, 5:15pm, 5:30pm and 5:45pm from the time dropdown, which doesn’t make sense at all when they open at 8:30 and close at 5:00. I contacted their support team and was told this is just the default way that it works. I find that very odd. What is the point in having an option for opening and closing times when the plugin ignores them?Another frustrating thing is being unable to customize the Customer Email separate from the Store owner’s email. So when you add important information that’s just for the customer (e.g, bring your ID, Payment Card etc), the store owner also receives this exact same email, when they don’t need all that extra info that’s just for the customers reference. All in all, the plugin is good, but some things just don’t make sense the way they’re done.

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

1.4.2

Release date – 27 June 2024

• Fixed issue with type-hinting values.

1.4.1

Release date – 27 June 2024

• Adapter framework updated.
• Field validation controls improvements.
• Minor layout improvements.

1.4.0

Release date – 1 March 2024

• New framework major release.
• Added support for Gutenberg native blocks (FSE).
• Several widget/block improvements.
• Dark mode with dedicated styles to admin and site sections.
• Forced combinations for pick-up/drop-off locations.
• Updated payment framework.
• New PDF contract text management functions through tags.
• Several new hooks to facilitate customization.
• Restrictions framework improved.
• Coupon codes usage counters.
• Availability Overview new scrollable layout.
• New grid layout for cars list and search results.
• Tens of minor improvements to both admin and site sections.

1.3.3

Release date – 1 February 2024

• Modified naming technique for PDF contracts.

Earlier versions

For further details about older versions, please refer to the changelog.md file of the plugin.