CeeRent vs. how you do it now.
Most of our operators come from a Facebook page and GCash, a spreadsheet, or software built for another country. Here’s an honest side-by-side.
Keep Facebook for marketing. Stop running the business in it.
Your page is where renters find you. CeeRent is where they book, pay and sign — and you don’t have to give up either.
- “Avail po?”
- Facebook + GCash: You reply to each message, often hours later
- With CeeRent: Live availability on your site; auto-reply sends dates and prices
- Quoting
- Facebook + GCash: Rate + delivery + extras worked out by hand in chat
- With CeeRent: One all-in price before they pay, same every time
- Double bookings
- Facebook + GCash: Notebook or memory — it happens
- With CeeRent: Impossible: the calendar blocks overlaps and turnaround time
- Payment
- Facebook + GCash: GCash screenshot you have to check against your app
- With CeeRent: Confirmed by the gateway, settled to your bank
- Deposit
- Facebook + GCash: Cash at pickup, returned by hand
- With CeeRent: Held on card/Maya, released on a clean return
- Agreement
- Facebook + GCash: Paper form, if at all
- With CeeRent: E-signed on the renter’s phone with the booking details
- Condition photos
- Facebook + GCash: Somewhere in your camera roll
- With CeeRent: Guided, timestamped, attached to the booking
- Renter trust
- Facebook + GCash: “Is this a scam?” — they can’t tell
- With CeeRent: Your business name, a real checkout, a verified-operator badge renters can look up
- A risky renter
- Facebook + GCash: A gut feeling and a photo of their ID
- With CeeRent: A risk score with the reasons, an LTO licence check, a second ID or extra deposit
- A car not returned
- Facebook + GCash: Calls that go unanswered, then the barangay
- With CeeRent: GPS alerts, a formal demand and a police-ready case pack
- Reminders
- Facebook + GCash: Typed one by one the night before
- With CeeRent: Automations send pickup details, return reminders and review requests
- Your evenings
- Facebook + GCash: Answering Messenger until midnight
- With CeeRent: Checking a Today board over breakfast
Your spreadsheet was a good start.
It tracks what happened. It can’t take a booking at midnight, hold a deposit, or show a renter which day their car is coded.
Bring it with you
Paste your vehicles, customers and upcoming bookings from a CSV. We check every row and tell you what to fix before anything is saved.
Nothing to maintain
No formulas to break, no “final_v3” copies. Everyone on your team sees the same calendar.
Still exportable
Export bookings, customers and invoices back to CSV whenever your accountant asks.
Great tools — built for somewhere else.
International rental platforms are solid for big fleets in Europe or the US. For a Philippine operator, the gaps are payments, local rules, price and support hours.
| What matters | CeeRent | Typical global tool |
|---|---|---|
| Price | From ₱499/mo, VAT included | Often US$29–250/mo per location, plus VAT on digital services |
| Setup or onboarding fees | None | Commonly €100–1,000 for onboarding |
| GCash, Maya, QR Ph | Yes | Usually not built in — card gateways first |
| Deposits on e-wallets | Yes | Card pre-authorisation only |
| Number coding & PAGASA alerts | Yes | No |
| Numbered receipts with the 12% VAT split | Yes | Generic invoices |
| LTO licence check & LTFRB franchise tracking | Yes | No |
| Filipino / Taglish booking site | Yes | No |
| Support in PH hours, on Viber | Mon–Sat 8am–8pm PHT | Email / ticket, often EU or US hours |
| Pricing published | Yes — all of it | Many ask you to book a demo first |
“Typical global tool” summarises published pricing and feature pages of international rental software (for example HQ Rental Software, RentSyst and Booqable) as of September 2026. Features and prices change — check each vendor’s site for current details.
Marketplaces rent you customers. CeeRent gives you your own.
Listing on travel apps and rental marketplaces can fill gaps — but they take a commission on every booking, set the rules, and keep the renter’s contact. Many operators do both: marketplaces for discovery, CeeRent for repeat renters and direct bookings. CeeRent can keep your Klook listing in sync, so a Klook order never double-books a car (early access).
We’ll move your first 10 vehicles with you.
Book a free 20-minute call. Send us your spreadsheet or your Facebook album and we’ll set up your vehicles, prices and policies together — in Filipino or English.
Tara, let's get your fleet online.
14 days free, no card needed. Import your vehicles from a spreadsheet, connect payouts, and share your link on Facebook the same afternoon.