RCM alternative
An RCM alternative, from an operator who dogfoods it daily.
If Rental Car Manager is not the fit it once was, here is a fair look at its strengths, the friction operators mention, and what a move actually involves.
What RCM does well
Rental Car Manager has been around a long time and runs serious fleets. It is deep on the back-office side and a lot of established operators know it inside out.
Where operators feel the friction
The friction I hear about is usually the front end and the feel. A booking flow and admin that carry years of legacy, and a customer-facing experience that can look dated next to what travellers expect now. For smaller and newer operators, it can be more system than they need.
Why Glovebox
Glovebox is newer, built in New Zealand, and shaped around taking a clean online booking with a deposit and a bond. I run it in my own fleet every day, so the roadmap is whatever an operator actually needs next. You deal with the person who builds it, not a support tier.
What switching looks like
I map your RCM setup, migrate fleet, rates and history, and wire the booking widget into your site. Both run in parallel until the new one has taken real bookings without a hitch, then you retire RCM when you are ready. Book a short call and I will give you a straight answer on whether it is worth the move.
Want to talk it through with someone who runs a fleet?
Questions
The things operators actually ask.
RCM is a long-standing rental management system with deep back-office features. Glovebox leans into a modern booking flow, a booking widget for your own site, native NZ payments and bonds, and being built and answered by one operator. Which fits depends on how you work.
I bring your fleet, rates and booking history across as part of the migration, and keep RCM running until the new system is proven with real bookings.
Yes. Xero sync, Windcave and Stripe Connect are part of how Glovebox handles the money side, so reconciliation stops being a manual job.