BookCars

This is a repackaged open source software product wherein additional charges apply for cloudimg support services.

BookCars is a popular open source, self-hosted car rental and booking platform built on the MERN stack. It gives you a complete rental business in a box: a customer storefront to search, filter and book cars with online payment, and an administrator panel to manage suppliers, vehicles, locations, bookings and customers, all driven by a Node and Express REST API backed by MongoDB. This image delivers the entire platform fully installed, hardened and reverse-proxied behind nginx, so your rental site is operational within minutes of launch with no container wiring, dependency troubleshooting or database bootstrapping required.

Unlike a bare deployment, this image ships the full stack pre-wired and native. MongoDB is configured as a single-node replica set bound to the loopback interface with authentication and key-file internal auth, its data directory on a dedicated, independently resizable data volume. The BookCars API is compiled and managed by systemd on the loopback interface, and the customer storefront and administrator panel are compiled to static bundles and served by nginx: the storefront on the standard web port and the administrator panel on a separate port. The compiled front ends call the API same-origin through an nginx reverse proxy, so the appliance works whether you reach it by its IP address or by your own domain, with no rebuild.

There are no default credentials. On first boot the image generates a unique administrator account, unique application signing and encryption secrets, and a unique database credential and key file, then writes the administrator login to a root-only file on the instance. No shared password, database user or pre-seeded record exists in the image, and MongoDB is never exposed to the network.

Capabilities include a searchable car catalogue with filters, supplier and location management, a full booking workflow, customer accounts, multi-currency and multi-language support, and online payment through Stripe or PayPal. Bring your own Stripe, PayPal and SMTP credentials to enable live checkout and transactional email; safe placeholders ship so the platform boots without them. Docker is not used; MongoDB, the API and nginx are managed by systemd for automatic restarts and clean logging, and 24/7 cloudimg support is included.

BookCars is a trademark of its respective owner. All product and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Use of them does not imply any affiliation with or endorsement by them.