Availability Engine
Availability Check (AE) Report
Purpose This report will display whether there are vehicles available for a booking, or for an On Request booking, according to the Availability Engine (AE). It will display the same information that your system and APIs use when integrated with the ...
Placeholder Bookings Report
Overview Placeholders are a feature of the Availability Engine that hold a vehicle for a set period of time, either preventing it from being booked entirely or only allowing it to be taken by a matching booking. This feature is useful in managing the ...
Options to Share Vehicles Between Locations
Overview If you have multiple locations and your vehicles frequently move between them, you may end up with a surplus of vehicles at some locations and be unable to meet demand at others. As such, the Availability Engine allows you to deploy various ...
Availability Engine - Vehicle Sharing Between Locations
Overview If you have multiple locations and your vehicles frequently move between them, you may end up with a surplus of vehicles at some locations and be unable to meet demand at others. As such, the Availability Engine allows you to deploy various ...
Placeholder Bookings
Overview Placeholder Bookings are an Availability Engine feature that "hold" a place in the schedule, typically indicating a move is required between locations, without the creation of an actual maintenance or revenue booking. They can be used to ...
Availability Engine Overview
Purpose Whether you like to allocate your vehicles up front, allocate them at the last minute, or use a combination of the two, Rental Car Manager (RCM) offers an Availability Engine which optimises your fleet availability and answers the critical ...
Availability Engine Utilisation Rules
Purpose For Availability Engine users, there are ways to control how availability is determined according to how heavily utilised your fleet is. This is done through the Availability Engine Utilisation Rules page. This page can set up Utilization ...
Availability Conflict (Availability Engine)
Purpose The Availability Engine keeps track of all vehicles and bookings, both unallocated and allocated. It also records any unallocated bookings for which there are no available vehicle within that location. When these bookings occur, they are ...
Availability Engine Settings
Purpose The Availability Engine (AE) settings page allows you to configure how you want to tune your engine using location sharing rules, turnaround hours settings and others. Note that the Availability Engine function and menu item will only appear ...
Availability Engine Booking Sheet
Purpose The Availability Booking Sheet is a visual representation of the behaviour of our 'Availability Engine'. This allows interested customers to better visualise how the Availability Engine is suggesting the best fit allocations to optimise your ...