Why chariots?

What is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word Chariots? Does it evoke images of horse-drawn carriages, reminiscent of a bygone era? Perhaps it brings to mind the grandeur of the Roman Empire, with chariots racing in the arena. Or maybe you envision a picturesque scene from the 1800s, with a brushed gold and off-white wedding carriage.

The word chariot is undeniably evocative, conjuring up images of elegance, luxury, and timeless transport. It represents a journey filled with grace and style, where every moment is cherished. And that is precisely the experience we aspire to offer – a captivating and unforgettable journey in which you can immerse yourself in the luxuries of life.

How we found the problem

To start, gaining a comprehensive understanding of the industry is crucial. It involves examining both sides of the coin: the car rental business and the customer. By delving into these aspects, one can uncover valuable insights and opportunities for improvement. This level of analysis ensures that all key factors are identified and taken into consideration, leading to informed decision-making and strategic planning. Here is what we found:

The Agencies Problem

The primary issue that agencies face is the cumbersome and outdated method of managing bookings manually. They typically rely on a combination of Excel spreadsheets and Google Calendar to handle their operations, which can be inefficient and error-prone. This approach often leads to miscommunication and confusion, with bookings sometimes being double-booked or overlooked entirely. It also makes it difficult to track and analyse data effectively, hindering strategic decision-making. The reliance on such manual systems restricts scalability, impedes the ability to provide quick and effective service, and ultimately detracts from the customer experience.

Customers Problem

From the customer’s perspective, the process of booking vehicles for their events is a laborious and frustrating task. They often have to make time-consuming phone calls just to confirm vehicle availability, understand pricing details, and explore alternative options in case of unforeseen circumstances. This tedious process adds an unnecessary layer of complexity to their event planning process, making what should be a simple task feel cumbersome and inconvenient. The lack of a streamlined, user-friendly system that provides real-time information and pricing transparency significantly diminishes the overall customer experience.

Here is a customer example:

• Damon has a formal coming up and needs to book a vehicle. He searches all the local car rental businesses until he finds the car he likes. Now he has to dial the business in order to find out if they are available (Hope they answer). Or alternatively message them on social media (Hopefully they don’t take too long to respond). This isn’t the point of conversion (Trading product/service for monetary gain), it is a prospecting call to gain more information. These highlights three main points :

1. To find out if the vehicle is available that day
2. Cost of the vehicle for his formal
3. Processes regarding how to complete the booking

This is where we found the need to build a solution.

Chariots: For When You Need Real Horse Power – Our Solution

We’ve created an online platform that enables the customer to book the vehicle instantly. The benefit for agencies, less manual steps and more time to focus on providing a high quality service.

This approach benefits the customer in three ways:

1. It offers complete transparency by providing real-time updates on vehicle availability, ensuring customers have accurate information at their fingertips.
2. It brings clarity to the cost of the vehicle, leaving no room for surprises or hidden charges.
3. Additionally, it offers customers instant alternatives if their desired vehicle is already booked, ensuring they have convenient options readily available. This saves time and allows for seamless planning and decision-making.

More importantly it addresses the customer buying process for booking a vehicle

For agencies, there are numerous benefits to consider, but let’s dive deeper into the most important ones:

1. Streamlined Booking Management: With our platform, agencies can easily manage, monitor, and report on all their bookings in one centralized place. This saves time and effort, allowing for more efficient operations.
2. Hassle-Free Payment Processing: Say goodbye to chasing payments! Our platform handles the booking payment process and ensures that funds are directly deposited, reducing the risk for agencies. This enables smoother financial transactions and peace of mind.
3. Data-Driven Insights: As agencies contemplate expanding their fleet, our platform provides valuable insights into the most popular vehicles in real-time. This data-driven approach helps agencies make informed decisions, optimising their offerings to meet customer demands effectively.

The catch is that the booking system will need to become the agencies’ ultimate resource, serving as their go-to guide for all upcoming bookings. In order to stay on top of their game, they will need to stay constantly updated with the latest bookings through our efficient system. This would not only streamline their workflow but also provide them with a more ideal way to handle all their booking-related tasks.

The Chariots platform addresses two crucial pain points in the car rental business: the agencies’ outdated methods of managing bookings and the customers’ convoluted process of securing a vehicle. Our solution introduces efficiency and transparency, providing an interface where real-time updates, seamless booking management and payment processing, and data-driven insights are at the forefront. By bridging the gap between agencies and customers, we are not only streamlining operations but also enhancing the overall customer experience. Through our platform, we are transforming the car rental industry, emphasizing the importance of convenience, reliability, and strategic data use. We invite you to join us on this journey towards innovation and customer satisfaction.

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What is Lorem Ipsum?

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.

Why do we use it?

It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using ‘Content here, content here’, making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for ‘lorem ipsum’ will uncover many web sites still in their infancy. Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose (injected humour and the like).

Where does it come from?

Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source. Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..”, comes from a line in section 1.10.32.

The standard chunk of Lorem Ipsum used since the 1500s is reproduced below for those interested. Sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 from “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” by Cicero are also reproduced in their exact original form, accompanied by English versions from the 1914 translation by H. Rackham.

Where can I get some?

There are many variations of passages of Lorem Ipsum available, but the majority have suffered alteration in some form, by injected humour, or randomised words which don’t look even slightly believable. If you are going to use a passage of Lorem Ipsum, you need to be sure there isn’t anything embarrassing hidden in the middle of text. All the Lorem Ipsum generators on the Internet tend to repeat predefined chunks as necessary, making this the first true generator on the Internet. It uses a dictionary of over 200 Latin words, combined with a handful of model sentence structures, to generate Lorem Ipsum which looks reasonable. The generated Lorem Ipsum is therefore always free from repetition, injected humour, or non-characteristic words etc.

What is Lorem Ipsum?

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.

Why do we use it?

It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using ‘Content here, content here’, making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for ‘lorem ipsum’ will uncover many web sites still in their infancy. Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose (injected humour and the like).

Where does it come from?

Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source. Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..”, comes from a line in section 1.10.32.

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Where can I get some?

There are many variations of passages of Lorem Ipsum available, but the majority have suffered alteration in some form, by injected humour, or randomised words which don’t look even slightly believable. If you are going to use a passage of Lorem Ipsum, you need to be sure there isn’t anything embarrassing hidden in the middle of text. All the Lorem Ipsum generators on the Internet tend to repeat predefined chunks as necessary, making this the first true generator on the Internet. It uses a dictionary of over 200 Latin words, combined with a handful of model sentence structures, to generate Lorem Ipsum which looks reasonable. The generated Lorem Ipsum is therefore always free from repetition, injected humour, or non-characteristic words etc.