Car rental is one of the busiest small-business sectors in Albania. Every summer, agencies around Tirana International Airport and along the coast juggle bookings from their website, phone calls, WhatsApp, walk-ins and marketplaces, often in a notebook or a spreadsheet. One double booking in August costs more than a year of good software.
RentalX is AppAlbania’s car rental software for exactly these companies: fleet, bookings, calendar, online payments and your own booking website, in one place, for €20 per month.
Everything a car rental company needs, in one panel
RentalX replaces the mix of tools most agencies use with a single system:
- Cars, seasonal prices, extras and pickup locations managed from one panel.
- A fleet calendar with date blocking and iCal sync.
- Online card payments or cash at pickup, whichever you choose in the settings.
- Printable contracts and invoices for every rental.
- Your own booking website on your own domain, with no platform commission.
- Instant notifications for every new booking, with an iOS and Android app.
Bookings without double-booking
The heart of the system is the booking list and the fleet calendar. New bookings arrive from your website, and you can add manual bookings for phone and walk-in customers in the same place. From the list you filter, confirm, record the payment and print the contract. The calendar shows which car is out and when; you block dates for service or private use, and iCal sync helps keep other calendars in line.
Seasonal prices and extras
Albania’s rental market is extremely seasonal. RentalX lets you define seasons with their own prices, so August and November are priced differently without editing each car by hand. Extras such as additional equipment, and the pickup locations you serve, are set once and offered on every booking.
Your own booking website, on your own domain
Every RentalX customer gets a public booking website. Add a CNAME record to your domain and it opens on your own address, for example rent.company.al. Customers search by pickup location, dates and times, see available cars with prices per day, and book. Bookings made on your own site carry no commission: you only pay the monthly subscription.
A real example: Albania Rental Car
You can see a live RentalX site at rent.albaniarentalcar.com. Albania Rental Car has been renting vehicles since 2013, with pickup at Tirana International Airport. Their site shows the RentalX flow: a search form for pickup location, dates and times, featured cars from economy hatchbacks to 9-seater vans and SUVs with daily prices, and the customer’s “My Booking” page. The site is available in English, Italian, Albanian, Spanish and German, which matters when most renters arrive from abroad.
Why your own booking site matters
Large booking platforms bring traffic, but every reservation through them carries a commission, and the customer relationship belongs to the platform. A booking made on your own site is different in three ways:
- You keep the full price. There is no commission on bookings from your own site, so a repeat customer who books directly is worth more to you.
- You own the customer data. Names, phone numbers and booking history stay in your panel, ready for a reminder or a return-visit offer.
- Your brand comes first. Customers see your name, your domain and your fleet, not a list of competitors next to you.
A practical approach for an Albanian agency is to keep listing on the channels that bring you new customers, and to send every returning customer, every Instagram enquiry and every WhatsApp lead to your own RentalX site. Over a season, that shift adds up.
Extra visibility on the rentalx.al marketplace
Besides your own site, your cars can also appear on the rentalx.al marketplace, a site where travellers search for cars at Tirana International Airport and book directly. It is an additional channel; your own site remains yours.
Setting it up
After you subscribe, step-by-step guides with video are in your account under My systems:
- What RentalX is and how your website looks
- Managing bookings
- Creating a new manual booking
- Adding cars
- The calendar and blocking dates
- Seasons and seasonal prices
- Extras and locations
- Your website and your own domain
We set it up with you, and support is available in Albanian and English.
Price: €20 per month
RentalX costs €20 per month, paid by card, and you can cancel any time. There is no commission on bookings made through your own site.
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Make it work harder with our other systems
Rental customers live on their phones. Send booking confirmations, pickup reminders and contracts as PDF with the WhatsApp System, or reach any phone with the SMS Gateway. To know where every car is after pickup, add AppAlbania GPS fleet tracking. For the bigger picture of rental software, read Streamline Your Operations with Our Car Rental System, and for the traveller’s view, our Albania road trip guide.
Frequently asked questions
Can I use my own domain?
Yes. Add a CNAME record to your domain and your booking site opens on your own address, for example rent.company.al.
Do I pay a commission on bookings?
Not for bookings on your own site. You only pay the monthly subscription.
How do customers pay?
Online by card or in cash at pickup. You choose which options to offer in the settings.
Can I add bookings that come by phone or WhatsApp?
Yes. You can create manual bookings in the panel, and they appear in the same list and calendar as online bookings.
How much does RentalX cost?
€20 per month by card. You can cancel any time.
