Set up your fleet, one step at a time.

Let's watch a real booking, start to finish. Renter's side first. They open your link, pick a car, choose pickup and drop-off dates. Notice the deposit line: "held, not charged." They save their card, and the hold goes on about two days before pickup: money reserved, never taken, and it runs through YOUR processor.

Name, email, "Book now." Done on their end.

Your side: the booking lands in your Bookings tab as Pending, and you get an email instantly. Here's the reference, the dates, payment status, booking status.

Click into it. One button does the work: "Approve and charge rental fee." That charges the card they saved and confirms the booking.

Charges panel: daily rate, taxes, the deposit hold. And down here, the rental agreement. The renter got a signing link with their confirmation. They check a box, type their name, takes them under a minute.

Once they sign, you've got the full record: who signed, when, from what device, even a fingerprint proving the terms never changed. That's your protection if anything goes sideways.

Hand over the keys, mark it active, mark it completed when it's back. That's the whole loop. No middleman, and every dollar of it is yours.

Let's talk about the thing you actually came for: your own booking site. Here it is in Settings: Your website. This link IS your business now. Copy button's right there.

Here's what renters see. Your cars, your photos, your daily rates: all-in pricing, no platform fees, booked direct with you. Add a car in your Fleet tab, it shows up here automatically. Upload your logo, pick your theme, colors and fonts in Appearance, and the whole site re-themes instantly. Already have a website? Paste its address and we'll pull the logo, colors and fonts for you.

Now the part that works while you sleep. This one's on the Pro plan. See "Local guides"? That's a blog about real places in your city. Rentovation writes a post for you and drops it in Marketing, under Local SEO, as a draft. You read it, hit "Approve and publish," and it goes live. Nothing publishes without you.

Each post is built to catch local searches like "car rental near" the stadium in your town, and it points readers straight at your fleet.

Set your city, keep one car active, and the drafts keep coming.

If you're still running cars on Turo while you build your direct business, this feature is going to save you from the nightmare scenario: the same car, booked twice, for the same weekend.

Here's how it works. Rentovation gives you this private forwarding address. Copy it with one click. You forward your Turo emails there, and your calendar blocks itself. And notice what we're NOT asking for: your Turo password. Never need it.

One-time setup, about two minutes. In Gmail: Settings, "See all settings," Forwarding, and add that address.

Google sends a confirmation code, and here's the slick part: the code shows up right here, on this card, in Rentovation. No digging. Copy it, paste it into Gmail's Verify box.

Last step, and don't skip it: the filter. From at-turo-dot-com, create filter, forward it to your new address. Only your Turo mail forwards. Nothing else leaves your inbox.

Now check this pill. Until a real Turo email arrives it says "Action needed: finish steps three and four." Once one lands it flips to "Sync live," and that's how you know it's actually working.

One catch: Gmail only forwards mail that arrives after the filter exists. Any trip you've already got booked won't come through. Add those as manual blocks on the car.

From then on, every Turo trip shows up here automatically, and those dates are locked on your storefront.

Alright, step two on your checklist: payments. One thing before we click anything. The money from your renters never touches Rentovation. It goes through YOUR payment account, straight to YOUR bank. We just do the paperwork.

Click Connect, and here are your options: Stripe, Square, PayPal, Braintree, Authorize.Net. You only need ONE. If you've never taken card payments before, start with Stripe.

And here's the good part: you don't copy any keys. Click "Connect with Stripe," sign in, and you're done. Don't have a Stripe account? That same button creates one: business details and a bank account, about ten minutes, one time.

When Stripe hands you back, the badge reads "Connected," and your storefront can take real money.

Already on Square? There's a one-click connect for that too, or a full walkthrough in the help docs for pasting your own keys if you'd rather. Either way: green check, and you're done with the hardest step.

Hey, welcome to Rentovation. If you're coming off Turo, here's the one-sentence pitch: this is your own rental business: your booking site, your prices, your money. No commission, ever. Let me show you how fast you can be live.

Sign up with Google in one click, or use the email form. Four fields: your business or fleet name (this is what renters will see), your work email, a password of twelve characters or more, and your city and state. The city matters more than you'd think: it shows on your storefront and powers some automatic marketing we'll talk about later.

Hit "Create my fleet account"... and that's it. No email confirmations, no waiting. You're on your dashboard, and your first fourteen days are free.

This card right here, "Get booking-ready," is your whole setup. Six steps, about fifteen minutes, no tech skills needed. Add a car, connect payments, turn on renter checks, review your agreement, add your logo, share your link. The checkmarks are real, by the way: it tracks what you've actually done, so you can stop and come back anytime.

In the next video, we'll connect your payments. That's the big one.