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AutoSlash - We automatically slash your rental rates! Home Coupons Blog & Tips Reviews Help About Us Frequently Asked Questions Who is AutoSlash? AutoSlash is made up of a small but very passionate team of frequent travelers who love nothing more than saving people money on their rental car rates. Most of us on staff here at AutoSlash travel north of 75,000 miles a year (and most of us have maintained top-tier elite status with multiple airlines, hotel chains, and--of course--rental car agencies). Several of us on the team have also worked (or even managed) rental car agencies. With as much experience as we have, we like to think we have a few tricks up our sleeves to help you get the best possible rates on your rental cars. Click here to request a free price quote and see what we can do to help you save! How does your system work? Our goal is that you get the very best possible price on your rental car! How do we do that? We maintain a carefully curated database of over 1,000 different coupon and discount codes, and then we search through them all to find which one yields the best possible price for your rental. The vast majority of these codes are promotional specials published directly by the rental companies on their own websites and in their own marketing materials. All of them are free to use by the public: unlike many other coupon sites on the Internet, we do not list or search any discount codes that require any kind of employment or paid membership with any organization. The codes we use are 100% legitimate and freely usable by anyone. Some people call it magic, but it's really just our system doing in a few minutes what it would take you hours to do--and we do it all for you for free! Of course, we do throw a little bit of magic into the mix--with a combined total of decades of experience in the rental car industry and revenue management, we have a few tricks up our sleeves to help you get the absolute best possible price. Do you charge for your services? Nope! Our service is 100% free. We do make a very small commission on reservations booked through our links. Can I pick up the car in one location and drop off in another location? Yes! This is known as a one-way rental. Just click the checkbox labeled Return at a different location? on the blue search box on our homepage. The form will then expand allowing you to enter a different return location. You can pick-up or drop-off at an airport or local (non-airport) location. Does AutoSlash support local (non-airport) rentals? Yes! You can book both airport and local rentals via AutoSlash. The default on our homepage is to pick up the car at the airport. If you'd like to rent a car locally, just click on the little bubble next to near an address and the form will change to let you enter in a city or street address. What do I need to rent a car? The car rental company will require that you have a valid driver's license and a major credit card in your own name with at least enough available credit to cover the cost of the rental. Some companies may require an additional deposit on your card. Some locations accept debit cards, usually with additional restrictions. You'll want to review the reservation rules or contact your rental company for details. You can also search our help page for "debit" for more details on common debit card restrictions. How do I add my frequent renter program (Hertz Gold, National Emerald, Avis Preferred, etc.) number? As frequent travelers ourselves, we absolutely understand the value of being able to skip the line, choose our own cars, earn points, or other benefits of loyalty programs! (If you don't know what a frequent renter program is, be sure to check out our blog series on the topic. It's a great--and free--way to save time and minimize hassle at the rental counter!) When booking one of our Pay Later rates through our partners, look for the box labeled "Loyalty Program" or "Frequent Renter Number" and plug your membership number in there. On Priceline, you'll have to expand the section labeled "Add-Ons" and then click the "Rewards Points and Discounts" section to see the box: If you've already booked your rental and need to add your number, you may need to cancel and rebook the reservation. You can always add it at the rental counter as well. When booking one of our special discounted, prepaid Slash Deals rates, there isn't a way to add your frequent renter program to your reservation. You may be able to add it at the rental counter (and if there's a long line, feel free to go right to the special bypass line or designated kiosk for loyalty program members). With most companies, loyalty benefits generally won't apply, however, and you may not earn points or credit for the rental. We look forward to helping you get the best possible price for the best possible experience with your rental car! Do your rates include unlimited mileage? The vast majority of rates in the rental car industry do come with unlimited mileage. In the rare case that a rate comes with _capped_ mileage, when booking, the booking site should explicitly show the mileage allowed each day or week. If you do not see anything like this, then your rate has unlimited mileage. If you're running into rates with capped mileage and want us to help you find a rate with unlimited mileage, just reply to your quote notification email and let us know--we have ways to limit the search and force it to find only rates that include unlimited mileage. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions. We look forward to saving you money on your rental! What if I have AAA or another membership (AARP, Costco, USAA, etc.)? Perhaps you've run across a coupon in the AARP magazine or on Costco's website. Maybe you got an email from AAA advertising a super cheap weekend deal for AAA members. It's a lot of work to test every coupon you can find to see which one has the best price! That's the beauty of AutoSlash! We keep a close eye on specials that the rental companies advertise and keep tabs on hundreds and hundreds of possible great deals. When you reserve through us, we check through them all to make sure you get the best possible deal. You don't need to ask us to check all of your own coupons, because we likely have all of them in our system already! If you're a member of major membership organizations or warehouse clubs, including AAA, AARP, USAA, Costco, or BJ's, you'll find checkboxes to select which ones you belong to when you submit your quote request. Of course, if you already have a reservation from one of these organizations with a lower rate than we found, click here to submit it for price tracking . That way, we can alert you if a lower price comes along--so you can save even more money on your rental car! Why are rates so high? While we'd love nothing more than to be able to control the rates and make sure you get an affordable rental car every time, note that our system simply looks through over 1,000 coupons and discounts to find the best possible rates for your rental car. Other than identifying the best discounts, we don't have any control over what rates the rental companies set for their cars. It's difficult to pinpoint any reason for the rates being high. Obviously, seasonal tourism often plays a big part (you're not the only one who wants to go to Florida in winter!), but there also could be a big convention in town or just a shrinkage in the number of cars the rental companies have available to rent. Hopefully, rates will go down sometime before you pick up, though--and that's what AutoSlash helps out with, since our tracking system checks rates every day and will alert you of any lower prices that may come along! As well, please definitely do shop around! Our only goal is that you get the best deal on your rental car, even if it's not through us--so if you find a better price elsewhere, feel free to book it (just be careful of any cancellation fees on other sites). If you do book it on anoth...