Glovebox.

I ran Jimny Rentals and Dream Drives on rental software that did not know what GST was, could not tell a CoF from a WoF, and still charged me around $400 a month for the privilege. Every rental tool I could find was built for big American or European fleets, priced like I had hundreds of vehicles, and shaped around workflows that had nothing to do with how a small NZ operator actually runs.

So I built the thing I wished I could buy. Glovebox started as the platform for my own fleets, then other operators saw what I was running and asked if they could use it too.

The hard part was deciding, on the very first commit, that this was multi-tenant. Not a single-business tool bolted into a SaaS later. Every operator gets their own isolated tenant, their own fleet, bookings, customers, branding and configuration, all on shared infrastructure. Getting bonds, GST, CoF dates, the embeddable booking widget, Windcave, Stripe Connect and Xero to all behave together was the boring work that decides whether a rental business runs smoothly or falls over at 7am on a pickup. I have had the live payment layer bite me in production, and fixed it, because I am the one on the depot floor when it does.

Glovebox handles the parts that quietly lose operators money and time. Bookings and availability, bonds and deposits, transfers between sites, CoF and compliance nudges, GST done right, and payments that reconcile. Because I still run hires on it every day, it is built for how NZ rental works, not how US software imagines it. It is dogfooded, in production, and improving every week off the back of real operations.