BookCars is a car rental platform, supplier-oriented, with a backend for managing car fleets and bookings, as well as a frontend and a mobile app for renting cars.

This project emerged from a desire to build without boundaries – a fully customizable and operational car rental platform where every aspect is within your control:

• Own the UI/UX: Design unique customer experiences without fighting against template limitations
• Control the Backend: Implement custom business logic and data structures that perfectly match the requirements
• Master DevOps: Deploy, scale, and monitor the application with preferred tools and workflows
• Extend Freely: Add new features and integrations without platform constraints or additional fees

With BookCars, you can deploy your own customizable car rental marketplace at minimal cost using the Docker-based setup. The platform integrates Stripe for secure payments and can be efficiently hosted on a 1GB RAM droplet, making it an ideal choice for single/multi-supplier operations looking for a scalable and cost-effective solution. You can deploy this solution for under $5/month using cloud providers like Hetzner or DigitalOcean.

BookCars is designed to work with multiple suppliers. Each supplier can manage his car fleet and bookings from the backend. BookCars can also work with only one supplier and can be used as a car rental aggregator.

From the backend, admins can create and manage suppliers, cars, locations, customers and bookings.

When new suppliers are created, they receive an email prompting them to create an account in order to access the backend and manage their car fleet and bookings.

Customers can sign up from the frontend or the mobile app, search for available cars based on pickup and drop-off points and time, choose a car and complete the checkout process.

A key design decision was made to use TypeScript instead of JavaScript due to its numerous advantages. TypeScript offers strong typing, tooling, and integration, resulting in high-quality, scalable, more readable and maintainable code that is easy to debug and test.

• Supplier management
• Supplier contracts
• Ready for one or multiple suppliers
• Car fleet management
• Dynamic price calculation
• Location, country, parking spots and map features
• Booking management
• Payment management
• Customer management
• Multiple login options (Google, Facebook, Apple, Email)
• Multiple payment methods (Credit Card, PayPal, Google Pay, Apple Pay, Link, Pay Later)
• Operational Stripe Payment Gateway
• Multiple language support (English, French, Spanish)
• Multiple pagination options (Classic pagination with next and previous buttons, infinite scroll)
• Responsive backend and frontend
• Native Mobile app for Android and iOS with single codebase
• Push notifications
• Secure against XSS, XST, CSRF and MITM
• Supported Platforms: iOS, Android, Web, Docker

BookCars is supplier-oriented. This means that there are three types of users:

• Admin: He has full access to the backend. He can do everything.
• Supplier: He has restricted access to the backend. He can only manage his cars and bookings.
• User: He has only access to the frontend and the mobile app. He cannot access the backend.

BookCars is designed to work with multiple suppliers. Each supplier can manage his car fleet and bookings from the backend. BookCars can also work with only one supplier as well.

From the backend, admin users can create and manage suppliers, cars, locations, users and bookings.

When new suppliers are created, they will receive an email prompting them to create an account in order to access the backend and manage their car fleet and bookings.