Your first $2,000 of online bookings, ever, is free.
After that first $2,000, 4% per online booking, never more than $199 in a month. No monthly fee, no setup fee, no contract. We only make money when you do.
Add each trailer in about two minutes: one photo, a price, a deposit. Ten minutes and you're live.
booking
Card processing (2.9% + 30¢) is Stripe's, paid from your own Stripe account. Pay-at-pickup and phone bookings are free.
Everything included
Eight things you would otherwise buy, build or do by hand. All of it, from day one.
The Booked-While-You-Work Website
Your own booking site with a live calendar, on your own domain. Renters pick dates, sign and pay from their phone.
Elsewhere: $1,500 to have built, $30/mo to host
The Never-Chase-A-Renter Texts
Confirmation, pickup instructions with the lockbox code, return reminder and escalating late notices, all sent for you.
Elsewhere: $150/mo on a texting tool, plus your evenings
The Deposit-Proof Agreement
E-signed rental agreement with license photo and insurance capture, plus photo inspections at pickup and return.
Elsewhere: $400 for a lawyer's template, $20/mo to e-sign
Money That Collects Itself
Card and Apple Pay checkout, deposit holds, logged late fees, damage charges to the card on file, payouts to your bank.
Elsewhere: Hours a month of awkward phone calls
The Review Machine
A Google review request goes out the day after every clean return. Reviews are what the next renter reads.
Elsewhere: $99/mo on a review tool
Your Numbers
Utilization, revenue by month, repeat renters and what's already booked ahead, in one page.
Elsewhere: A spreadsheet you'd never keep up
The Right-Truck Check
Hitch, plug, tow rating and payload on every trailer. Renters confirm their vehicle fits before they book, and pick a pickup time from your hours if you run by appointment.
Elsewhere: One wrong-truck Saturday
Your Phone Already Knows
A text when a booking lands, a renter extends or a trailer goes late, and every pickup and return in your phone's calendar with the renter's details.
Elsewhere: $40/mo on a scheduling app
Pieced together from several tools, each with its own bill. Here: $0 until it has booked you $2,000.
The guarantee
Paid before you pay.
You don't pay a cent until HitchPilot has already put $2,000 of bookings in your account. If it never does, you never pay. That's the deal for every yard on HitchPilot, including the one we built it with in Louisiana.
Founding operators
Founding pricing for the first 10 fleets
The first 10 paying fleets keep 4% for life. Ask us if a spot is open.
Claim a founding spotDo the math
The free $2,000 counts every online booking your business has ever taken, not each month. The $199 cap is the monthly one. These examples assume your yard has not used any of that free amount yet.
$1,000 booked in a month
$0
Still inside your first $2,000, ever
$5,000 booked in a month
$120
4% of the $3,000 above your first $2,000, ever
$10,000 booked in a month
$199
The cap
The other guys
$165–$249 a month, whether you book anything or not
HitchPilot
$0 until it has already paid for itself
Straight answers
Is there really no monthly fee?
No. HitchPilot takes 4% of each online card booking after your first $2,000 of online bookings, ever, and never more than $199 in a month. Nothing else.
Is the free $2,000 every month?
No. It is one time. It is the first $2,000 of online bookings your business ever takes on HitchPilot. After that, 4% comes out of each online booking, never more than $199 in a month.
What about bookings I take by phone or at pickup?
Free. The fee only applies to card payments taken through your website.
Who holds the money?
You do. Renters pay into your own Stripe account and Stripe pays out to your bank; our 4% comes out automatically.
What if I want to stop?
Stop any time. There's no contract, and your Stripe account is yours to keep.
What do I actually have to do?
Add each trailer (a photo, a price, a deposit; about two minutes each), connect your bank on Stripe (five minutes), and share your link. That's the whole job. Everything after that runs by itself.