We, Jordy Fronik, Lars Ruijs & Guus Maij have made an application to check-in reservations for rental cars online. Because of this, the user will only have to physically pick-up the keys for the car, and will shorten the queue at the rental place.
You can visit the project here
A reservation is, most of the time, made well ahead of the rental date. Until now, the user always has to check-in physically at the location of the rental, which easily costs about 15 minutes per user.
Create a digital check-in process for the rental service, so that there is only little time needed to physically pick up the rental car. The check-in process consists of: user login, checking in a reservation, confirm the identity and driver's license and create a reservation for the deposit on a creditcard.
How can we ensure that customers, that reserved a car at the rental, can easily check-in online, so that they can quickly pick up the reserved car at the relevant location.
- User login
- Overview of reservations
- Checking in a reservation
- Confirming identity and driver's license
- Reserve deposit on a creditcard
Stripe Identity API
To confirm the identity and driver's license of the user(s), we use Stripe Identity API. This service easily can easily the identity and driver's license for us.
Stripe API
To assure the reserve deposit on a creditcard, we use Stripe API.
Passslot
To add a checked-in reservation to a user's Apple Wallet, we use Passslot.
For the usage of the database, we chose Supabase. This is a very easy to set up database, which a very nice and easy documentation. Therefore this database seemed really easy to use, and we chose to use this for our project.
For this project we needed to store the users and their reservations, with all of the associated information:
Dataset
const user = {
firstName: 'Kelly ',
lastName: 'De Jong',
email: 'kellydejong@gmail.com',
password: 'Welkom123',
phoneNumber: '+31 6 12345678',
birthDate: '01-01-1997',
userID: '3ad91773-3c2f-4907-b816-ae7c95c56077',
carResOne: {
class: 'Electric',
qrCode: true,
carImage: 'https://linkgoestoimage.png',
checkedIn: false,
driverOne: {
role: 'hoofdbestuurder',
driver: 'Kelly de Jong',
method: '',
verified: false,
},
driverTwo: {
role: 'extra',
driver: 'Lars Ruijs',
method: '',
verified: false,
},
otherInfo: {
freeKM: 600,
deposit: 500,
ownRisk: 450,
priceExtraKM: 0.3,
},
rentPrice: 600,
handInDate: '29-06-2921',
handInTime: '17:00:00',
pickUpDate: '19-06-2021',
pickUpTime: '09:00:00',
extraDriver: 0,
paidDeposit: {
paid: true,
method: 'card',
},
lowerOwnRisk: false,
orderDetails: true,
reservationID: 'bcf67557-43d7-4b64-9e41-927be4c67d48',
handInLocation: 'Amsterdam, Overtoom',
pickUpLocation: 'Amsterdam, Overtoom',
walletSerialNumber: '09c37531-01d7-47bb-9a6a-51f51781de28',
verificationProcess: false,
},
carResTwo: {
carImage: 'https://linkgoestoimage.png',
reservationID: 'af634c1f-a204-4129-bdbe-0138b844f1f2',
checkedIn: false,
pickUpLocation: 'Amsterdam, Overtoom',
pickUpDate: '16-06-2021',
pickUpTime: '09:00:00',
handInLocation: 'Amsterdam, Overtoom',
handInDate: '18-06-2921',
handInTime: '17:00:00',
class: 'C',
rentPrice: 600,
extraDriver: 0,
lowerOwnRisk: false,
otherInfo: {
ownRisk: 450,
deposit: 500,
freeKM: 600,
priceExtraKM: 0.3,
},
orderDetails: false,
driverOne: {
driver: 'Kelly de Jong',
role: 'hoofdbestuurder',
method: 'location',
verified: false,
},
verificationProcess: false,
paidDeposit: {
method: 'location',
paid: false,
},
qrCode: Boolean,
walletSerialNumber: 'String',
},
carResThree: {
carImage: 'https://linkgoestoimage.png',
reservationID: '35063e58-478d-472b-9eb5-fcfe877e07a1',
checkedIn: false,
pickUpLocation: 'Amsterdam, Overtoom',
pickUpDate: '18-06-2021',
pickUpTime: '09:00:00',
handInLocation: 'Amsterdam, Overtoom',
handInDate: '20-06-2921',
handInTime: '17:00:00',
class: 'A',
rentPrice: 600,
extraDriver: 0,
lowerOwnRisk: false,
otherInfo: {
ownRisk: 450,
deposit: 500,
freeKM: 600,
priceExtraKM: 0.3,
},
orderDetails: false,
driverOne: {
driver: 'Kelly de Jong',
role: 'hoofdbestuurder',
method: 'location',
verified: false,
},
driverTwo: {
driver: 'Lars Ruijs',
role: 'extra',
method: 'location',
verified: false,
},
verificationProcess: false,
paidDeposit: {
method: 'location',
paid: false,
},
qrCode: Boolean,
walletSerialNumber: 'String',
},
};The application is built in React.js. This is a component based framework, where we can easily work in together.
For every feature or adjustment, we worked in branches and made pull requests of every small change or feature add-on. Every pull request must be reviewed by at least 1 of the other team members before it is able to merge onto the development branch.
We also used a method of component based programming. The components can then be made in various ways. We have used the Atomic Webdesign method for this. By using this, we split up every bit of code in atoms, molecules, organisms and templates. By doing it this way, we can reuse the components, avoiding repetition, and program DRY in this way.
We also use prettier as code formatter, which also uses eslint to lint the code. This will save a lot of discussion within code reviews, because it creates the same layout for the code on every save the creator makes.
We wrote the backend in an external repository. This is built using Firebase Cloud Functions, and we can contact the backend with the help of an API fetch.
The repository can be viewed here: Car Checkin Tool Backend
To edit this project, Node (nvm) and Git are required on your machine
git clone https://github.com/joordy/car-checkin-tool-backend.git
cd functions/
npm install
npm run serve
npm run deploy
This is a repository which is licensed as MIT. Developed by Jordy Fronik, Guus Maij & Lars Ruijs ©️ 2021.