StayCraft for Bike, scooter and car rentals

For rental garages that hire out motorcycles, scooters and the odd car or SUV, by the hour or the day. You get your own website where every vehicle has its own page and price, an admin that runs each rental from request to return with the deposit handled, and staff logins for your counter. Choose it because a rider picks a vehicle, sees what is free for their dates and pays the advance on your own UPI, with no commission to anyone.

What every site gets

These are on every plan, from the smallest up, and work while your plan is paid.

• A listing on the StayCraft Experiences directory (staycraft.co.in/experiences), which links to your own site, once your plan is active.
• Your own website at yourname.staycraft.co.in, in the Throttle or Redline design, made for rentals: your fleet straight after the cover photo, your expeditions, and your rental terms. The site moves a little: the first screen opens with a slow push-in, and headings and photos rise as a visitor scrolls. Still for anyone whose phone is set to reduce motion.
• A page for every vehicle, with its photo, model, day rate, hourly rate, deposit and kilometres included.
• Rentals booked online, by the hour or the day, with an advance paid by UPI and a screenshot you check.
• Several vehicles in one booking, with one advance and one screenshot.
• Delivery to the rider, if you offer it, with the area, a landmark and a pin on the map.
• The deposit handled. Approving a rental puts the refundable deposit on the bill; returning the vehicle adds extra kilometres and damage and releases the rest.
• A fleet board that shows the week at a glance: which vehicle is out, with whom, until when.
• Your vehicles' papers on file, with a weekly email before a permit, fitness certificate or insurance runs out.
• Enquiries, a WhatsApp button, a photo gallery, reviews, nearby places, a blog, and SEO & Google tools with a health score.
• Enquiry follow-up: every enquiry moves through New, Replied, Quoted, Won or Lost, with a day to follow up on, a "Follow up today" tab, and one morning ping on your phone when something is due. On every plan.
• Google review cards and QR landing pages you design and print yourself.
• Social posts: turn a review, an offer, a nearby place or a festival into a finished picture and caption in your own colours and fonts (a post, a story or a square), in English or Hindi, and share it to your WhatsApp status from your phone. On every plan; nothing is posted for you.
• Visitor numbers: traffic, top pages, and where your enquiries came from.
• Backup: download your whole site and your records whenever you like.
• Staff logins for your counter (how many depends on the plan).
• Phone pings for new rentals, enquiries and the papers reminder (see the phone section below).
• No commission on any rental, on any plan.

Plans and prices

Rental businesses buy from the same six plans as homestays. Prices are per year.

Plan	Price per year	Who it suits	What it adds over the plan below
Website	₹9,000 (₹750 a month, billed yearly)	A small garage, often the owner alone, that wants its fleet online and rentals coming in	Everything in "What every site gets". No staff logins, 1 management user (you). Three designs made for your kind, 1 design change a year. 1 GB.
Basic	₹12,000 (₹1,000 a month, billed yearly)	A garage with a counter person and a steady flow of rentals	Your own brand colours on the site. 3 staff logins, 2 management users. Every standard design, 2 design changes a year. 2 GB.
Growth	₹15,000 (₹1,250 a month, billed yearly)	A garage that also sells guided rides or expeditions	Packages (expeditions and guided rides as priced cards), and Search insights from Google. 5 staff logins, 2 management users, 2 design changes a year. 3 GB.
Plus	₹18,000 (₹1,500 a month, billed yearly)	A garage with foreign riders and its own web address	Your site in 8 languages and your own domain. 8 staff logins, 2 management users, 3 design changes a year. 5 GB.
Team	₹25,000 (₹2,083 a month, billed yearly)	A bigger garage run by a team	10 staff logins, 3 management users, 4 design changes a year. 10 GB.
Pro	₹30,000 (₹2,500 a month, billed yearly)	The garage that wants the first screen to stop people	The premium Nitro design with a 3D bike. Alerts on your phone for every new rental and enquiry. The premium designs, and change your design any time. 20 staff logins, 5 management users. 25 GB.

GST. Plan prices are what you pay. StayCraft is not GST-registered, so no GST is added.

Add-ons. Your own colours, Packages, Search insights, the 8 languages and your own domain can be added to a smaller plan as add-ons. There is no public price for them: ask us and we quote for your business. The Nitro design is on Pro; on any other plan it is priced on request.

How paying works. No free trial and no card up front. We agree the plan and the price with you first. You pay by UPI or bank transfer to the account we send you, and we switch the plan on the same day the payment reaches us. A plan does not renew by itself: you choose to renew, and we send reminders before it ends.

Changing plan. You can move up to a bigger plan at any time and pay the difference for the time left. A move to a smaller plan waits until your current year ends.

Staff logins are counted without the owners. A login you switch off takes no place.

A note on the pricing page. The comparison table is written for homestays. Some lines on it do nothing for a rental: "Availability calendar" (your fleet board and each vehicle's own availability are on every plan), "Restaurant & bar", "Online card/UPI payments" and "OTA channel sync". "Requests + payment proof" is listed from Basic, but rentals with a UPI advance and screenshot work on every plan. Do not sell a plan on those lines.

Features in detail

Website & design

• Throttle. Asphalt and hi-vis: a full-height photograph with your name across it, the fleet on a dark band, expeditions as packages, and the rules of the road.
• Redline. The garage at night, with a first screen that moves. Choose one of four opening sequences in the editor: Title card, Ride out, Film leader or At speed. It is built to play smoothly on an ordinary phone. The fleet is a night garage too: dark cards with a red tail-light glow and a headlight sweep when a visitor points at a bike.
• Nitro (Pro, or priced on request). A real motorcycle on the first screen, in your colour, turning on its own and under the finger. A phone on data saver sees a still picture instead. Electric lime unless you set your own colour. The fleet is a showroom: one bike at a time on a dark stage, its name large and its day rate, deposit and kilometre limit beside it, with a row underneath to step through the rest.
• Its own touches. The enquiry form is styled the design's own way (ruled lines, soft cards, ink outlines, paper, glass or a stamp), a small hand-drawn mark of the design's own sits between the sections and draws itself in as a visitor scrolls, and facility icons are drawn in the design's own hand. What the form asks and does stays the same.
• Edit it yourself. Drag sections into order, hide the ones you do not want, change the headings and text, change the cover photo, with a live preview. No designer needed.
• A video on the first screen. Paste a YouTube, Vimeo or Dailymotion link and the site shows a Watch the video button.
• Your logo in the header and as the browser tab icon.
• Rental terms. Write your deposit, licence and ID, kilometres, fuel, damage and delivery terms once. They print on your home page, on every vehicle's page and on the rider's rental page. A term left empty is not shown. Anything else you ask of a rider goes under Other rules.
• Questions and terms, with your cancellation terms, folded so a long list does not scroll forever.
• Start from a demo. A ready demo garage of five bikes fills a new site, so it is not empty on day one.
• Your own colours (Basic and above).
• Your own domain, such as yourrentals.com, with HTTPS set up for you (Pro, or as an add-on).

Your vehicles

• One row per vehicle: motorcycle, scooter, car, SUV and other classes, with its name, model and registration plate.
• Add another like this: three of the same bike in one go. The next one starts with the model, rates, deposit, photo and description filled in; you type only its plate, odometer and papers.
• Pricing per vehicle. A day rate, an hourly rate if you rent by the hour (leave it blank to rent by the day only), minimum hours, a refundable deposit, kilometres included per day (blank means unlimited) and the rate for each extra kilometre.
• For the rider. Which licence is needed (two-wheeler, four-wheeler or none) and how many helmets come with it. Cars also show seats, fuel and transmission.
• Papers and upkeep. The permit, fitness certificate and insurance dates, the odometer and the next service date. Every Monday you get an email listing papers that run out in the next 30 days.
• Off the road. Take a vehicle off the road and it stays in your list but cannot be booked.
• Fleet board. The week at a glance, and you can block a vehicle for a service or a private ride from here.
• Packages (Growth and Pro, or as an add-on). Expeditions and guided rides shown on your site as priced cards with what is included. Riders ask about them through your enquiry form or WhatsApp.

Rentals

• Booked from the vehicle's own page. The rider picks a pickup and return time, by the hour or the day, and leaves a name, phone or email, and optionally their licence number.
• Free or not, before they send. The site checks the vehicle is free for those hours.
• Several vehicles in one booking. Every vehicle has Add. The rider chooses the dates once, and each line says "Free for your dates" or "Out for those hours" before they can go on.
• Delivery. If you write a Delivery term, each vehicle's page offers I collect it from you or Bring it to me. For delivery the rider gives an area and a landmark and can pin the spot on a map; your email has Open on the map.
• The rider's own page shows their rental, what is due and where to send the payment proof.
• Approve takes the vehicle out of availability for those hours, puts the rental, the refundable deposit and the advance paid on a bill, and emails the rider. Approve all approves every vehicle in a booking that is still free.
• Settle & return asks for the kilometres and any damage, adds extra-km and damage charges if there are any, releases the deposit against them and settles the bill.
• Decline part of a booking. The rider chooses on their page to go ahead with the rest or cancel everything, with the money shown. They are reminded once after a day; after three days you decide.
• Cancel frees the vehicle and reverses the charges. Record money returned keeps the UPI reference of a refund.
• Add a rental yourself for a rider who walks in at the counter.

Payments

• No gateway needed. The rider pays your advance by UPI or bank transfer and uploads the screenshot. You check it before you approve.
• You set the advance as a percentage, once, in Settings.
• The deposit is a refundable line on the bill: held, not charged, and released at return.
• Pay online (optional). With online payments on your plan (Growth and above) and your own Razorpay keys saved, the rider's page offers Pay online beside the UPI details. The money goes to your Razorpay account and you still approve the rental. A booking of several vehicles is paid by one link. If the rider paid and closed the page, the payment is found within about ten minutes.

Bills & GST

• One bill per booking, on every plan. Every vehicle in a booking goes on one bill, each with its own deposit and advance named.
• Download or email the bill as a PDF. While there is a balance it carries your UPI details; once settled it says paid in full.
• GST tax invoices. If you are GST-registered, save your GSTIN and state in Settings and each settled bill becomes a tax invoice with its own number, your GSTIN, the rider's if they give one, and the tax worked out of your prices. Vehicle hire is taxed at 18% to start with; under Settings, GST, Vehicle hire you pick 5%, 12%, 18%, another rate, or Tax included, which shows no GST on the bill. Confirm your choice with your accountant.

Customers

• Every rental in one list, in one of four states: awaiting payment, proof submitted, approved, cancelled. One-tap WhatsApp to the rider.
• Enquiries from your contact form are saved even if an email fails, and you reply by email or WhatsApp.
• Privacy, handled. Each rental records when the rider agreed to your privacy notice. If someone asks you to delete their details, Remove details clears their name, phone, email and pickup and drop from every finished record of theirs. Bills stay, as the law requires.
• Reviews. Add reviews you received on WhatsApp or in person, and choose which show on your site. Save your Google Place ID once and you get a review link, a code to print and a WhatsApp message ready to send.

Staff & roles

• Counter. Takes rentals at the counter: adds a rental, approves or declines, checks payment proof, settles and returns, opens the bill, cancels and sends WhatsApp. Reads the fleet board. Cannot add, change or take a vehicle off the road, never sees your rates, your takings or Settings, and never records money going back.
• How many. Website 1 staff login, Basic 3, Growth 5, Pro 10. Owners are not counted, and you can add a second owner.
• When someone leaves, switch their login off. Nothing they did is lost.

Marketing & Google

• SEO & Google. A health score with a checklist that links to each fix. Your sitemap goes to Google every week by itself.
• Area guide and How to reach sections, the writing that helps you rank for your town.
• Blog with live, scheduled and draft posts.
• Visitors and where enquiries come from, including campaign links you share.
• Monthly report by email: on the 1st, last month's visits, enquiries and (where your plan has them) bookings, payments, QR scans, reviews and top Google searches, against the month before, with one tip and your SEO score. A "Last month" card on the dashboard shows the same. You can switch it off in Settings or with one click from the email.
• Review cards in five designs and five sizes, drawn to the millimetre for printing, and QR landing pages whose buttons you can change without reprinting, with a live preview as you build them.
• Search insights (Growth and Pro, or as an add-on): what people typed into Google to find you, the pages they landed on, clicks, impressions and your position. Nothing to set up.
• Google Analytics, if you want it, asks visitors first and loads only after they accept.

Phone app & notifications

• Pings for new enquiries and for the weekly papers reminder. Tap it and that record opens.
• New rentals arrive by email and as a phone ping, with the vehicle, the times and whether payment proof came with it. The ping carries the rider's name, the vehicle and the pickup date, never a phone number or an amount.
• On Android, Windows or Mac pings work in the browser. On iPhone they work from a StayCraft icon added to the home screen from Safari.
• A ping can show a rider's name, never their phone number or an amount.
• A StayCraft Android app is being tested on Google Play and is not yet available to download.

Languages

• 8 languages (Pro, or as an add-on): your site is translated by itself into English, Hindi, Hebrew, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Russian, with a one-tap switcher. Hebrew reads right to left.

Backups

• Download a zip of your site and your records whenever you like: your vehicles, rentals, blocks on the fleet board, bills, enquiries, photos and settings.
• Restore puts your website content back from a backup. Your rental records are in the download but are never written back over newer ones.
• Your payment keys are never put in a backup file.

What it does not do (yet)

• No online card payment. Riders pay the advance by UPI or bank transfer and send a screenshot. "Online card/UPI payments" on the price list does not work for rentals.
• Refunds are yours to make. StayCraft records money you return, with its UPI reference, but does not send it.
• No discount codes or seasonal rates for vehicles. Each vehicle has its own day and hourly rate.
• No copy of the licence or ID is collected. The rider can type a licence number; checking the papers is done at pickup.
• No GPS tracking of vehicles.
• Packages are shown, not booked online. Riders ask about an expedition by enquiry or WhatsApp.
• No Android app to download yet; pings work through the browser and the iPhone home-screen icon.

Good to say to a customer

• "Can riders see which bike is free?" Yes. Each vehicle has its own page, and before a rider sends a request the site tells them whether it is free for their hours.
• "How does the deposit work?" Approving a rental puts the refundable deposit on the bill. At return you enter the kilometres and any damage, and the system adds those charges and releases the rest of the deposit.
• "Do I need a payment gateway?" No. Riders pay the advance to your own UPI and upload a screenshot. You approve when you see the money. There is no commission on any rental.
• "Can my counter staff use it without seeing my money?" Yes. A Counter login handles rentals, returns and bills, but never sees your rates, your takings or your settings.
• "Can I rent cars too, not just bikes?" Yes. A vehicle can be a motorcycle, a scooter, a car or an SUV, with seats, fuel and transmission shown for cars.