DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF CAR RENTAL SYSTEM

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

1.0Brief introduction to Car Rental System

CAR RENTAL SYSTEM CRS is a web based system for a company that rents out cars. This system enables the company to make their services available to the public through the internet and also keep records about their services.

The world has become a place where there is a lot of technological development; where every single thing done physically has been transformed into computerized form. Nowadays, peoples activities have been transformed into work done by computerized systems. One of which is the main target of this project which is about Car Rental System. The system of renting cars exist back in the previous years, were people rent cars for their personal reasons. Car renting is essential to many peoples plan to travel or move from one place to another for business purposes, tour, and visit or holidays, for these reasons Car renting is very helpful.

The 8 starting point of Car renting is really unknown as said by Thomas Pretty; he also mentioned that many beliefs that Joe Saunders was the first man to start a Car renting company. According to Thomas Pretty, charges were calculated with the help of mileage tracking device. Many people became interested in the Car rental business and hence got involved. Car renting became more popular as years pass by. Today Car renting services is found all over the world, especially in the developed and developing countries. To make this service more popular and accessible to the public it has been transform into a web base system and connected to the internet were everyone can be able to have access to it.

1.1Objectives

The main objectives of this project are:

To develop a web based system that will help manage the business transactions of car renting.

To help in advertising the car rental services of a company, through the availability of the system online.

1.2Scope

The scope of this project is as follows:

The car rental system to keep detail records of both the cars and the customers, the duration they rent car as well as the type of car they rent.

The system will be mainly design for small a company that renders it car rental services to customers.

The system will have the ability to generate and print invoice for each successful transaction.

Level of Access:

The system will have two levels of access:

The administrator

Customer

1.3Problem Statement

The problem with some of the current system is that:

Based on observations, some small companies already have a car rental system which is not a web based application. This is a limitation that gives them capability to store customers details, but at the same time they cannot make their services more available to the public through the internet, they rather make use of posters to advertise their services to the public. These types of companies can overcome these problems by switching to the web base application of their type of system.

They also make use of phone call reservations which is also limited to many features as compare to a web base system. For example a customer may make a phone call reservation for a particular car, but when he/she comes to pick the car, he/she might turn not to like the car; this could be because the customer could not see a sample picture of the car he/she wants to rent