Simplybook
Online Marketplace | 4th Cycle
Simplybook is a new online marketplace for easy, fast, reliable booking from small and medium local car rentals in Greece.
Detailed presentation
Simplybook is the new online marketplace for online car hire from local car rentals. Our vision is to provide the local car rental companies with the internet presence they deserve. Starting from the Greek Market we aim to connect travelers who want to hire a car locally, with small and mid-size car rentals.
The problem
"Simplybook aims to solve the current issue faced by small and medium local car rentals and their clients. Currently car rental clients visiting Greece have two options:
a) Search and a rent a vehicle from big-size companies who have the ability to develop APIs of their system, the basis of current global reservation systems. Smaller companies do not have access to this technology. In this competitive environment local small and medium car rental companies can not reach online customers.
b) Use search engines like Google, in order to find price lists of small-size companies, located in the area of the rental service. By following this option, clients go through a difficult, time consuming process of trying to compare many prices from mostly amateur designed websites, and usually are not able to retrieve sufficient information. Once a vehicle is found, booking is not online. Instead, the customer has to wait for a reply from the car rental company."
Our proposal
"Simplybook provides a solution for both small and medium size rental companies and their end clients.
B2B – Simplybook is a comparative search engine enabling small and medium size companies which do not have the resources to develop the necessary infrastructure, to reach online customers with no additional cost.
B2C – Simplybook makes access and comparison between vehicles provided by small and medium rentals easy, reducing the searching and renting transaction cost. Our strict no hidden costs policy makes both selecting and booking vehicles even more straight forward. Fundamental elements of the service will be easiness of use and transparency of data so that the end user will be able to compare the offered services"