{"id":5262,"date":"2013-09-16T16:08:06","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T16:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=5262"},"modified":"2013-09-16T16:08:06","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T16:08:06","slug":"vehicle-hire-software-firm-prohire-celebrates-500-uk-locations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/5262","title":{"rendered":"Vehicle Hire Software Firm Prohire Celebrates 500 UK Locations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you operate a small or medium-sized car and van hire company, you are likely to need a computer system to manage bookings, invoicing, rental agreements and customer records, as well as back office functions like reporting.<\/p>\n<p>The cost of developing a bespoke system to suit your requirements will almost certainly be prohibitive, and this is where Prohire comes in.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1996, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prohire.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Prohire<\/a> specialises in providing a complete vehicle hire software solution. The firm recently celebrated the addition of the 500th rental location to use its software, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/wrexham\">Wrexham<\/a>-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jollygoodvanhire.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jolly Good Van Hire<\/a> opened its newest branch, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/colwyn-bay\">Colwyn Bay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the Prohire service, Mark Hughes, managing director of Jolly Good, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cProhire have been our rental software partner from day one. The quality management information the software provides gives excellent controls within our business\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As well as all of the back office functionality that car and van hire companies require, Prohire also provides a web interface for its customers, that allows vehicle hire firms to take online bookings without the considerable expense and complexity of developing their own booking engines.<\/p>\n<p>Prohire is based on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentsciencepark.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kent Science Park<\/a>, near Sittingbourne, \u00a0and is also used by smaller, independent companies with as little as one branch, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/\">vanrental.co.uk<\/a> advertiser\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seymourhire.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Seymour Self Drive Hire &amp; Storage<\/a>, which is based in nearby <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/larkfield\">Larkfield<\/a> (near\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/maidstone\">Maidstone<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent-based vehicle hire software firm, Prohire, recently celebrated the addition of its 500th customer location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[1773,1772],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5262"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5266,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5262\/revisions\/5266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}