💳 The Card Deposit: The One Feature That Pays for Your Whole Website

Ask any Jamaican rental operator about their worst customer and they'll describe the same person: booked big by WhatsApp, sounded certain, never showed. The vehicle sat. The Saturday died. The "booking" cost nothing to break because nothing was paid.

A card deposit at booking rewrites the deal. The customer commits money the moment they commit words — and everything about your week changes: real bookings, filtered customers, cash before pickup.

💳 How our sites take deposits

Fygaro is built into our rental systems — Ezy Car Rentals for car fleets (already live on Jamaican rental sites like Ways Car Rental) and Ezy Rentals Pro for buses, bikes, boats and equipment. For operators who bank with Scotia, the Scotiabank eCommerce gateway is available on request, settling card payments straight through your bank. And because this is the Caribbean, the systems also take PayPal, Lynk, bank transfer and cash on pickup — the deposit by card, the balance however you like.

🧮 The math nobody argues with

Say your no-show rate is two bookings a month at J$15,000 average. That's J$360,000 a year in dead Saturdays. A deposit doesn't just recover some of it — it converts your calendar from a list of maybes into a list of paid commitments. Overseas customers feel it too: a tourist who can pay from their phone in Atlanta books you, not the operator asking them to "send it Western Union".

⚙️ What it looks like on your site

Customer picks the item and dates → sees the price and deposit → pays by card → gets a professional confirmation email → you get a ping on your phone. Deposits can be a percentage or a fixed amount, with per-category refundable security deposits where it makes sense (jet ski ≠ kayak). Existing Ezy Car Rentals clients can activate card deposits on their current site — message us and you're live in days.