A Brief History of “The
Valet”
In 1987 a retired business CEO approached Trek Corp. of
Mass., Inc. with an unique car rental expansion idea. He
proposed many small locations with 5 to 10 cars renting from convenient stores.
Therefore, a renting location every five to ten miles apart.
We presented the idea
to a large company who owned a large chain of stores. They also owned a large
fleet of cars that returned little value when they traded them in for new
vehicles. We proposed that they sell these vehicles to a new leasing corporation
they would own and we would rent these vehicles at their store locations. The
retired executive knew the CEO of this company who acknowledged they would
engage into a partnership with us.
We needed a computer program
that could track and control the
whole operation. Hence began the project of writing a unique Car Rental program.
This program would have to be “User Friendly”, yet
powerful. It must be able to track the vehicles all
the time, detect if employees are cheating, and create a database of customers
for repeat business as this system was truly going to be a “neighborhood car
rental company”. It was designed to be multi-user at one location
and multi-location capable program.
So The
Valet was born. It has been a workhorse for years. Many employees
without any computer experience learn to use it quickly. The program is a
menu-driven application. Therefore, it is fast and an orderly outline of what is
available.
Also, we wrote other
programs that could help finance your business. One, we call Consignment, a program that pays investors who place
vehicles in your rental fleet. Another one, we call
Dividends, a program that figures and pays investors dividends from stock
they purchase in your business.
There are other variations of The Valet, to run a rental system we
call " Sub-Franchising " very simple for
the "sub-Franchisee" to use.
Features:
Runs on
any Microsoft operating system
User-Friendly menu
driven
Internal
Help System
Power
Packed
Multi-User
Network Ready
Multi-Location capable
Daily
Reports
Monthly
Reports
Yearly
Reports
Fleet
Status Reports
Prints
Daily Credit Card Reports
(no need
for expensive printing terminals)
Prints all reports for
each location
Can Print
Daily Reports Automaticly at night
Excellant
Vehicle Maintenence System
Password
Levels for employees
Customer
Database for repeat customers
Intergrated Accounts Receivable module
Mailing
list module
Produces
Email TXT file list
Reservation System
Yield
Management Rates System
Promotional "Special Rates" capable
Travel
Agents module and reports
Emergency
Road Service Database