TruPrice, the travel technology company that threw you the keys to ancillary airline fees, now drives thousands of car rental fees out into the open.
Ask anyone – even the most experienced corporate travel planners – how to determine the final cost to rent a car in a particular city and they don’t know because there are just too many variables involved.
Even more importantly, ask them how to find the lowest fees for ancillary items or whether certain locations even offer their items of choice. They can’t answer the question because there was no way of accessing and comparing rental car fee costs and availability – until now.
With its entry into auto rental ancillary fee comparisons, TruPrice significantly strengthens its ability to design comprehensive, customizable B2B solutions allowing for personal profile building and accurate forecasting, itemizing, and expensing. Additionally, TruPrice’s rental car fee calculator offers the perfect complement to its airline fee calculator by showing the costs of everything from navigation devices to insurance to early return fees and frequent flier surcharges at 450 locations, covering 9 major rental car companies in 50 major US airports. Delving to an unprecedented level of detail, TruPrice even shows corporate and local rules on fees so you can always plan your trip efficiently.
Just like with our airline fee comparison tool, the company offering the lowest base rental car rates ultimately may not be the most economical option based on fee costs. In addition, some locations may not provide certain products or may not list their prices. Or, some companies offer a flat fee rate while others have ranges based on vehicle class. With approximately 10,000 rental car fees, TruPrice removes the uncertainty of current travel planning. Using TruPrice to access and compare airline and rental car fees offers the business and leisure traveler unparalleled ability to control their travel costs.
To TruPri¢e your car rental:
1. Go to the Internet βeta web site of TruPri¢e.
2. Click on Car Rental, which will take you to the next screen.
3. Select the Rental Location from the pop-up menu list of where you intend to rent your car.
4. Select the desired car rental companies, or choose Select All to select all car rental companies.
5. Click on the blue Next button at the bottom left of the screen.
6. Optional Step: Type in the rental car rate that you have found elsewhere, as TruPri¢e does not yet have the functionality to search for car rental rates at this time.
7. Choose from the list of categories on the left-hand side of the screen which products and services you will use as offered by each car rental company.
8. Choose from a list of sub-categories about which options you would like ancillary fee information.
9. TruPri¢e will instantly calculate any fees associated with the services you intend to use, add it to the rental car rates and create a side-by-side comparison of the rental car companies, giving you the true price of the car rental.
Christopher Muise is one of the founders of www.truprice.net. You can follow his blog here.
