A production car rental platform for the Ho Chi Minh City market — a live fleet catalogue with availability, a three-step booking flow built for mobile conversion, and an operator dashboard for fleet, reservations, and pricing, running on the client's own domain.
A car rental platform built for a Ho Chi Minh City operator, live on their own domain. The customer books a vehicle for business or leisure travel; the operator runs their fleet, pricing, and reservations from the same system.
The market shapes the product more than the technology does. Most traffic is mobile, often on variable connections, and most bookings are decided in a few minutes — so the entire flow is built to reach a confirmed reservation in three steps without a customer account, and the vehicle imagery that sells the booking is optimised aggressively enough to load before the visitor loses patience.
Structured vehicle records with full specifications and high-quality imagery, served through a transformation CDN so the same source photo delivers correctly sized to every device
Category filtering by vehicle type — sedan, SUV, luxury, van — with the filters that customers actually use rather than every field in the schema
Availability by date — the calendar reflects real reservations, so a customer never selects a vehicle that is already out
Duration and seasonal pricing — rates driven by rental length and period rather than a flat daily figure
Side-by-side comparison so a customer choosing between two vehicles does not have to hold both in their head
Three steps to confirmation, ordered so the customer commits progressively and the highest-friction field comes last
Pickup and return scheduling with flexible times
Location selection through Google Maps, for pickup and drop-off points that customers can actually identify
Add-on services — insurance, GPS, child seats, additional drivers — presented as an upsell at the right moment rather than as a wall of checkboxes up front
Mobile-first checkout, since that is where the bookings come from
Automated confirmations by email and SMS, plus reminders before the pickup date
Self-service management — customers view, modify, or cancel a reservation without phoning the office, which is the single biggest reduction in operator workload
Server Components throughout — the catalogue and detail pages render on the server, which is what keeps them fast on mobile connections and indexable for local search, the primary acquisition channel for this business
Prisma over PostgreSQL with a normalised schema, so availability and pricing can be queried correctly rather than reconstructed in application code
Cloudinary for automatic image resizing, format negotiation, and delivery
Role-based access control separating customer, staff, and administrator capability
Bilingual interface — Vietnamese and English through an extensible translation layer
Caching on the read-heavy paths so the catalogue does not hit the database on every visit
This project demonstrates delivering a complete, revenue-carrying business system for a specific local market — not a template adapted to a client, but a booking flow, a pricing model, and an operations dashboard shaped around how this business actually runs.