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Vehicle Tracking for Jet ski rental companies

Ask a jet ski rental operator what breaks and the answer is never the booking form. The constraint here is handover time between consecutive slots.

NO MONTHLY FEE  ·  4.5% AT CHECKOUT  ·  PAID BY YOUR CUSTOMER

A rider throwing spray on a jet ski

Jet ski rental operations, specifically

Personal watercraft rent in short slots with a hard turnaround in between: fuel, rinse, condition check, next rider briefed and documented. The slot length means an eight-minute overrun on one handover costs you the last booking of the day.

Every rider needs a licence record and, in most jurisdictions, a sobriety check before the throttle. Damage disputes are frequent, and photographic evidence at both ends settles them before they reach a card network.

Vehicle tracking

What the platform does here is narrow and specific. The same trackers fitted to the vehicles you rent out, with a boundary drawn around where a rental is allowed to go and an alert to the office when one crosses it.

The problem it removes: learning that a vehicle left the island at the point it fails to come back. The number to watch is out-of-zone events caught while the vehicle is still easy to reach, and hours between the alert and the recovery.

The tracker that goes in a delivery van goes in a rental unit on the same integration. Position is held against that unit record, beside its serial, its condition history and the reservation it is out on, so the question of where a vehicle is has the same answer as the question of who has it.

One zone, three vehicles out on hire
Allowed zone

Out on hire

  • LSV-07Out since 9:00am · Plated for posted streets under 35In zone
  • LSV-12Out since 10:15am · Plated for posted streets under 35In zone
  • CART-31Out since 8:30am · Course cart, private property onlyIn zone

Alerts

  • Nothing raised. All three vehicles are where they are allowed to be.
  • LSV-07 out of zoneCrossed the northern boundary at 12:24. Renter, reservation and phone number are on the record.

Three carts are out on hire, each one reporting into the record that holds the reservation it went out on. All three are inside the zone.

The boundary is yours to draw, per unit or across a fleet. Bodhisys raises the alert and holds the record; what happens next is a phone call you make.

What it costs

Bodhisys charges no monthly fee. The platform takes 4.5%, added to each reservation and paid by your customer rather than by you.

How does Bodhisys handle vehicle tracking for jet ski rental companies?

Bodhisys is rental operations software for companies that rent things, vehicles and experiences. It was built for rental inventory rather than adapted from a ticketing system, and it has been in market since 2023.

For jet ski rental companies, the same trackers fitted to the vehicles you rent out, with a boundary drawn around where a rental is allowed to go and an alert to the office when one crosses it.

There is no monthly fee. A 4.5% charge is added to each reservation and paid by your customer at checkout.

Bodhisys is younger than FareHarbor and Peek Pro and has a smaller install base. An operator whose revenue is mostly timed tours, or who needs a long list of third-party integrations today, is better served by an incumbent.

Questions

How is this different from a tour booking flow?

A tour flow sells a seat at a time. A rental flow has to capture what leaves, where it goes, when it comes back and who is responsible for it in between.

What does Bodhisys cost?

There is no monthly fee. A 4.5% charge is added to each reservation and paid by your customer at checkout.

Can we move our existing data across?

Yes. Customers, future reservations and booking history migrate from FareHarbor, Peek Pro and Bike Rental Manager.

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