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More security for your rental company

Thanks to customized solutions for customer identification

 

Cars, trucks, motorcycles, bicycles and more - the rental sector is diverse. Checking a driver's license for authenticity? Recognizing a fake ID? These two things are part of everyday life for companies in this sector. One thing is crucial for everyone: absolute security to protect against fraud and loss. This is where our functional verification devices for customer identification come into play. The innovative scanners check your customers' ID documents and drivers' licenses quickly and securely. We rely on customized solutions that transfer all captured data directly into your internal software. This allows you to start creating contracts immediately and ensure that the customer is authorized to drive the desired vehicle.

Important areas of rental

Flexible industry solutions for all fleet operators

As an experienced vehicle rental company, you enable your customers to be mobile at the right time and in the right place. Protect your company's capital by focussing on precision when recording customer data. Our innovative hardware and software solutions enable you to authenticate ID documents such as ID cards and driver´s licences and capture their data. This includes fast and error-free data transfer - for example to easily fill in contract forms or other documents. This ensures maximum security and efficiency in your processes. It doesn't matter which area of rental you work in. We implement intelligent, customizable and modular industry solutions for all fleet operators.

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Car rental

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Charter providers of motorboats, sailing boats etc.

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Motorbike and bicycle rental

A man and a woman ride e-scooters through a city centre

E-scooter rental

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Car and bicycle dealers offering test drives

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Rental of other tangible assets

Major advantages at a glance

Versatile and pioneering products

Our products not only impress with their innovative functions and high-quality features, but also with their versatility. From compact desktop solutions to scanners for integration into self-service systems - our versatile portfolio fulfils every requirement. Find out more about the key benefits of our products.

  • More security

    Our scanners protect your property and therefore also your company.

  • More flexibility

    All devices can be flexibly customized to your individual business processes.

  • More time savings

    Manual driver's license check? That is a thing of the past. With DESKO products, you can skilfully dispense with the tedious task of typing in all the relevant data and copying the documents.

     

  • More precision

    Thanks to our intelligent checking devices, you no longer have to worry about typing errors that occur due to the high error rate of manual data entry.

  • More service

    You can make the rental property available to your customers more quickly, as you save a lot of time thanks to the electronic checking and automatic completion of the contracts.

  • Less fraud

    Electronic verification using our devices reliably detects any document misuse and thus protects you against theft.

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Innovative technologies for greater security

Optimized workflows thanks to smart functions

Whether car hire, e-scooter hire or the hire of other material goods - protect yourself against identity fraud. In combination with the appropriate authentication software, our devices offer secure and fast verification of ID cards, driver´s licences and other documents. This allows you to ensure reliable customer identification before the rental property is handed over. Depending on the product and equipment, DESKO products optimize your workflow with a wide range of functions. How do our checking devices work? The process can be summarized in five steps.

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Record data

The scanners use proven technologies such as OCR (Optical Character Recognition), RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) or NFC (Near Field Communication) to capture data from the machine-readable zone (MRZ) or the integrated chip in documents or cards.

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Examine information

In conjunction with the corresponding software, defined information such as the age of the ID card holder or the validity period of the document is displayed.

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Check authenticity

Based on the specific security features of each ID document, a complete check for authenticity is carried out by our devices and authentication software connected to the PC.

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Save results

You can then save all test results, ID card scans and other analyses on your PC, laptop, tablet or other end device in accordance with internal compliance rules and the applicable data protection law, as the scanners can read information from any data carrier.

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Use data

Thanks to the connection to your in-house software, the personal data read out can be automatically transferred to your contract forms, among other things.

Impressive references from the field

DESKO products in use

We provide you with an insight into practice. Here you can find out why companies in the rental sector worldwide rely on DESKO to prevent identity fraud and optimize their processes. Browse through our references and see the results yourself.

 

Customer identification (KYC) in car rental

DESKO PENTA Scanner® and jenID's Genuine-ID authentication software

Identity theft and fraud jeopardise the business model of car rental companies. Therefore, providers such as the car hire company Europcar must take appropriate measures to protect their business. To support them in this task, DESKO has been working with software specialist jenID Solutions, among others, since 2017 to equip over 300 Europcar branches throughout Germany with the fully automated, secure and user-friendly Genuine-ID EASYCHECK system. The solution helps employees to quickly and reliably check customer identity before handing over vehicles to customers. Genuine-ID EASYCHECK combines DESKO's PENTA Scanner® and jenID's Genuine-ID authentication software to create an intuitive and user-friendly solution for reliable ID and driving licence verification.

Our FAQ in the rental area

We have collected frequently asked questions from the rental sector and summarized them for you. If you have further questions or would like to know more in detail, you are welcome to contact us directly by e-mail or telephone. Or you can use our contact form.

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