Rental software for New Zealand operators
Run your hire fleet on the software we run ours on.
We built Glovebox because our own rental business needed a better system. Bookings, bonds, GST, COF and RUC, on your own website.
Free to build, no time limitNo cardWe move you off RCM or VEVS, free
Three pickups, a balance unpaid, a licence you have not seen, and a bond nobody held.
The old way is five browser tabs, an inbox and a whiteboard only you can read. One thing slips and it costs you the morning, or the bond. Glovebox has the day sorted before the first customer walks in.
Your customers see this
A real website. Yours, in an afternoon.
Every Glovebox account comes with a site on your own domain, live availability and bookings that land in the system. This is the Alpine theme, running live. Click anything.
From $99/mo. Free to build, pay when you go live.
1–5 vehicles $99 · 6–15 $169 · 16–30 $269 · 31+ $399, GST inclusive, founding price held for life
Founding pricing, held for life
In partnership with Road Ready NZ
Driver safety, built in
Get every hirer Road Ready before they take the keys
Road Ready NZ is a Kiwi road-safety initiative for visiting drivers. Short videos walk hirers through our most important road rules, drawn from the official Road Code, then a quick set of questions gives them a completion code. Fewer surprises on the road, better protected customers and vehicles.
Link goes out automatically
Every hirer gets their Road Ready link in the pre-arrival email.
They watch and answer
A few minutes on their phone before they arrive.
Code lands on the booking
Your counter sees who has done it at a glance.
We run Road Ready on every Jimny Rentals hire.
Included on every plan01 Abandoned cart recovery
Bookings you'd have lost, recovered while you sleep.
Someone prices a hire at 11pm, gets as far as payment and closes the tab. About an hour later Glovebox emails them a link straight back to the booking they started, dates and vehicle still there.
It is on for every booking from the day you start, so the follow up happens whether you are at the counter or asleep.
The cart as you see it the next morning: vehicle, dates, captured email, and what it is worth.
02 Self collection
Keys in 5 minutes.
Your customer uploads their licence, signs the agreement on their phone and has the bond taken as a card hold before they turn up, and that hold releases itself after the vehicle comes back.
By the time they reach you the paperwork is done, so counter time collapses to a walk around and a handover.
03 Your own booking channel
A real website, not a widget bolted onto one.
Your site comes with Glovebox: your brand, live availability, and bookings that land in the system with no marketplace commission on top.
Happy with the site you have? Drop the booking widget into it instead and run both off the same availability and pricing.
What the customer sees
Coastline Hire Co
Book online
Live availability and pricing, straight off your own site.
04 Ask Claude about your bookings
Ask in plain English. Get the answer from your own bookings.
Connect Glovebox to Claude and ask it the way you would ask the office: "what have I got on today", "what do I need to do this week", "who still owes a balance", "is the 5-door free next week", "which cars are due a service". It reads your live bookings, revenue, fleet, servicing and RUC and answers in a sentence, not a report you have to open.
Then tell it what to change: "take #8 off the road Tuesday to Thursday for a windscreen", "log the service on #8 at 41,300 km", "close Christchurch on Boxing Day". Claude shows you exactly what would change and applies it only when you say yes.
Sign in with your Glovebox account, no keys to copy, and it only ever sees the workspaces you tick. Included with every plan.
Here is the proposed block:
#QRY765-08 Jimny 5-door, currently at Queenstown
- Off the road
- Tue 22 Sep 2026 09:00 to Thu 24 Sep 2026 17:00
- Reason
- Repair
- Note
- Windscreen
No bookings or existing blocks collide with that window, so it is clear to confirm. Want me to go ahead?
Done. #QRY765-08 is blocked Tue 22 Sep 2026 to Thu 24 Sep 2026 for the windscreen repair.
Pillar 2 · Know what each car earns
Utilisation, RevPAD and ADR, per vehicle
See how hard each vehicle works and what it earns per available day, so you price and buy on the numbers, not a hunch, per vehicle and across the whole fleet. And the day itself on one screen: who is picking up, who is overdue, what still needs a nudge.
- Utilisation, RevPAD and ADR per vehicle and fleet-wide.
- The whole day on one screen: pickups, returns and what needs chasing.
- A checkout guard that stops a non-compliant vehicle going out the gate.
The day at a glance: who is ready, who needs a nudge.
Why it exists
I built Glovebox to run Jimny Rentals, and I still use it there every day.
Switching
Moving off Rental Car Manager, VEVS or a spreadsheet?
We do the migration for you, free. Glovebox runs alongside your old system while you check it, and you pick the cutover week.
From Rental Car Manager
Send your export, we move you across.
We map and import it, you check it, and RCM keeps running until your cutover week.
From VEVS
A turnkey VEVS migration.
The importer recognises a VEVS export, maps your columns and brings your fleet, customers and bookings across.
On a spreadsheet? Same offer. See how switching works →
Not switching yet? Two free tools, no account needed: the Revenue Stack calculator and the rental agreement generator.
Beyond cars
The same system already runs campervans and trailers
Campervans, bikes, scooters, trailers, kayaks and equipment all run on the same engine today: long hires and big bonds, licence capture, rego and warrant tracking, or none of that for a kayak. It is built to bend to how you work, not to make you fit it. Every kind of hire →
Free, no signup
Questions
Straight answers
- Do customers stay on my website?
- Yes. The booking widget sits on the site you already run, or you take a full Glovebox Site on your own brand. Either way the availability, pricing and confirmations run in Glovebox behind it: the customer never leaves your website, and there is no marketplace commission.
- How do bonds actually work?
- The bond is held as a pre-authorisation on the customer's card, not a charge, and released automatically on return. Condition photos, odometer and fuel captured at handover sit on the booking, so if you do need to claim against the bond there is an evidence trail behind it.
- Does it handle GST and RUC properly?
- Yes. Prices show GST inclusive, tax invoices sync to Xero, and RUC sits in the model where a local operator expects it, with low-km warnings, rather than bolted on by a US manual. GST is 15% and native, not a setting you configure.
- Can I leave RCM or VEVS mid-season?
- Yes. We do the migration for you, free. Glovebox runs alongside your old system while you check everything came across, and you pick the cutover week, so you never have to wait for a quiet month.
- Can it take my broker and OTA bookings?
- Glovebox doesn't have built-in connections to the big brokers yet. Brokers and OTAs that connect by API can use our Channel API today, and built-in connections are being built now. If most of your bookings come through brokers, talk to us before you switch.
- What does free actually mean?
- Free to build, no time limit, no card, and no trial to run out. You pay from the day you go live. Build your fleet and booking page and run test bookings end to end: nothing is charged and no emails go to customers until you go live.
Next step
Start free. Build it at your own pace.
Free to build, no time limit, no card. You pay from the day you go live.