Glossary
One-way rental fee
A surcharge applied when a vehicle is returned to a different location from where it was picked up — covers the cost of repositioning the car back to balance fleet inventory.
A one-way rental is any booking where the pickup and dropoff branches differ. Operators charge a one-way fee because the dropoff branch ends up with one extra car it didn't plan for, while the pickup branch is short one — somebody has to drive it back, ship it on a transporter, or shuffle inventory across the network. The fee covers that logistics cost.
The amount depends mainly on the distance between branches and the demand imbalance between them. Returning a car within a major city or to another branch of the same airport often costs nothing — those moves balance themselves through everyday demand. Cross-country or cross-border one-ways can easily run into hundreds, particularly if the dropoff branch is in a low-demand area where the car will sit idle.
In renviq the one-way fee is configured as a location-pair rule: pickup location × dropoff location → fee. The pricing engine looks up the rule at quote time and adds the fee to the total automatically, so customer-facing quotes match what gets charged at the counter.