Oliver Dyllick runs DachboxING, a roof box rental business based in Ingelheim-Heidesheim, Germany. The business was originally run by his wife before Oliver took it over about ten months ago and decided to grow it properly with a real website, a proper booking system, and a bigger inventory.
Today, DachboxING rents out high-quality KAMEI roof boxes along with matching roof rack systems and professional mounting. What began with a single roof box has grown to seven. A roof box is exactly what it sounds like: extra storage strapped to the roof of a car, handy for road trips when the boot just isn’t big enough. And that’s exactly when customers find DachboxING.
Families heading off on holiday who realize too late that luggage, strollers, and everything else won’t fit are the most common customers, alongside dog owners who need the extra space. The typical booking is a one- or two-week roof box rental over the summer, with mounting and dismounting included.
Before switching over, Oliver was running things through a patchwork of tools: a custom availability widget, an external form, a Google spreadsheet for booking requests, and manual calendars to block off dates. It worked, but every rental meant entering the same information in several places by hand.
Booqable’s invoicing and flexible pricing features are what convinced him to make the switch, and they’re still the two features doing the most work for his business today.
Skipping repetitive tasks with Booqable invoicing
Oliver found that the pain point with invoicing was the repetitive work. He was manually creating invoices and handling payment links separately from the booking itself, which meant double-checking everything and hoping nothing slipped through the cracks as bookings picked up.
With Booqable, invoicing is tied directly to each order. Oliver can generate an invoice for a roof box rental straight from the back office with a single click, finalize it, and have it stored automatically, with no separate documents or manual entry required. As he put it, Booqable brought availability, bookings, customer data, invoicing, and payments into one place, removing almost all of the manual duplicate work he used to do.
This one change has:
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Cut out a large chunk of manual data entry for every order
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Let customers book, pay, and get their confirmation and invoice in one smooth motion
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Removed the small errors that used to creep in when syncing spreadsheets and calendars by hand
For a one-person operation, that adds up. Oliver isn’t chasing paperwork after hours anymore, and every rental gets billed the same reliable way without him having to think twice about it.
Flexible pricing structures to protect rental rates
The second pain point was more specific to the roof box rental market itself. Oliver needed a pricing model that enabled hourly pricing, so he can make the most of each booking.
Booqable’s flexible pricing structures let him set up a rate model that reflects how long a roof box is actually rented for. He’s called it one of his favorite features precisely because it protects his rates without him having to police every booking manually.
That flexibility has:
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Matched pricing to how long a roof box is genuinely rented for
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Removed the guesswork around shortened or adjusted rental periods
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Given him one rate model that works whether it’s a weekend trip or a two-week holiday
The result is pricing Oliver trusts on every booking, without renegotiating terms case by case.
A local roof box rental business built for growth
“Booqable brought everything into one place,” Oliver says, and that’s really the story here. What used to be spreadsheets, calendars, and separate payment links is now one system that handles booking, invoicing, and pricing together.
DachboxING is now often fully booked across all seven boxes during the peak summer season, and Oliver is looking to expand the fleet and eventually add rental products such as e-bike carriers. For a business built on personal service and one roof box rental at a time, Booqable has given him the back office to match.
