Standards extranet

Budget EMEA's online site, www.bracii.com defines standards for the company and its global licensees. Comprehensive identity guidelines include logo usage, print and web templates.

Online manuals have replaced bulky, unfriendly and expensive paper-based operating guidelines for licensees and for all corporate functions. All users are automatically notified of latest updates using our article CMS - Presto! emailer

www.budget.co.uk web site

Reservations

An online booking engine that delivers pricing and availability for rental cars at a wide range of global locations, and accept reservations from customers. The system was integrated into multiple web sites, allowing for selection, pricing and availability to vary from site to site. The engine also caters for data delivery in multiple languages and wide variations in branding. Also included were reservation viewing, amendment and cancellation facilities.

A bespoke database houses the considerable volume of pricing, fleet and availability information. A generic series of booking forms access the data and deliver details of available locations and vehicles to the customer, based on various search criteria. Forms accept full reservation details from the customer, with data being both stored in the database, and passed across to Budget's central reservations engine using XML. The engine is currently used in eleven sites and four languages, and has generated tens of thousands of reservations for Budget EMEA.