A booking form and availability calendar for day-based car rentals

No. RentalBeam Pro takes no commission and no booking fee, so nothing from a direct booking goes to RentalBeam. The booking form widget, guest payment workflow, coupon codes, seasonal pricing, custom fields, and booking rules are all included. The only cost when a guest pays by card through RentalBeam is the standard Stripe card-processing fee, which is paid to Stripe, not RentalBeam. Inquiry-only and pay-later flows have no per-transaction cost.

No. RentalBeam never takes a commission on your booking revenue on any plan, and Pro adds no RentalBeam booking or application fee. If a guest pays by card through RentalBeam, only the standard Stripe card-processing fee applies - that fee goes to Stripe, the same as any payment processor. Inquiry-only, pay-later, and off-platform bookings (such as bank transfer) have no per-transaction cost at all.

Yes. RentalBeam Pro includes coupon codes, percentage and fixed-amount discount rules, seasonal prices, and a weekend price. You can run promotional codes for repeat guests, configure off-season discounts, and combine them with custom fees and booking rules from the same booking form widget setup.

Yes. RentalBeam Pro supports percentage fees built for taxes: you enter the rate (up to three decimals, so rates like 8.875% work) and it is calculated on the discounted subtotal plus your other fees, the same base tax authorities use. The rate can be added on top of your prices (US-style sales tax) or shown as already included in them (EU-style VAT, with an "Includes VAT (20%)" line under the total). You can exclude individual fees from the tax base when your jurisdiction does not tax them, and guests see the tax clearly labeled with the rate. Fixed per-person tourist taxes are also supported through per-guest-per-night fees with child age rules.

Yes. On Pro, every booking notification email includes a reply address linked to that booking. Reply in Gmail, Apple Mail, or any email app and your message goes to the guest. When they reply, it comes back to your inbox and is saved with that booking in your dashboard. Your personal email address is never shared with the guest.

Not if you set the rental to By the day on its Details page. The form, your emails, and your dashboard then say pick-up and drop-off and count days instead of nights. A day is the 24-hour period that starts at pick-up, so Monday to Tuesday is one day. Whether the form asks how many people are coming is your choice, under Guests & policies.

Yes, for day-based rentals. Each vehicle gets an availability calendar you can embed on your website, and on Pro a booking form where renters pick dates, fill in your custom fields, and optionally pay by card. RentalBeam does not handle hourly time slots.

Yes. On Pro you can add custom form fields, including a file upload field, so renters can attach a photo ID, driver's license, or document (image or PDF, up to 10 MB) with their request. You view the file securely from the booking in your dashboard.

No. RentalBeam is built around date ranges, so it fits daily and multi-day rentals. You can collect a preferred pick-up time as a form field, but availability itself is managed per day.

Block dates manually from the dashboard on Plus and Pro, or import an iCal feed from any tool that publishes one. Confirmed RentalBeam bookings block their own dates automatically.