Independent UK car hire

Never hand over
the keys without proof.

Send one link. Your hirer proves their ID, hands you a DVLA share code to check, signs and puts up the deposit, all before they arrive.

You keep one sealed record of the whole hire, and the money never touches us: the deposit is a hold on your own Stripe.

And you set none of it up. Send us your fleet and your hire agreement: we load your cars, your terms, your deposit and your settings, then walk your first real hire through with you.

  • 30 days free
  • £49/mo after
  • No long contract
  • Set up in minutes

5 founding firms, £49 a month locked for life at any fleet size. Claim a founding spot before they are gone.

  • ICO registeredZC195906
  • PI and cyber insuredHiscox, in force
  • Secure paymentsPowered by Stripe
The KeyProof operator app on a desktop: the Today screen, running on sample data
The same app on a phone: one protected hire opened in full, running on sample data

Photographed from the app, on sample data.

  1. Your carBooked in the chat you already sell in
  2. Your hirerIdentity verified, DVLA share code in hand
  3. Your handoverAgreement signed and sealed, six named photos on record
  4. Your returnThe same six again, side by side
  5. Your proofOne timestamped record, ready for your insurer

One link before they arrive. One record when it is over.

Keep the WhatsApp. Keep the Instagram. Keep the cars. Add the proof. Then manage bookings, verify hirers, document every handover and keep your fleet compliant, all in one place.

1

Before they arrive

Drop one link in the chat. It collects their name, date of birth and address, matches their photo ID to a live selfie, and takes a DVLA share code you can check. They sign your agreement and the deposit goes up on your own Stripe.

2

At handover

Photograph the car together. Six named shots, walked one at a time, timestamped, lands on the record while you are both stood by it, and the car cannot be marked out until the set is complete.

3

At return

The same six shots run again and the hire seals shut, so a kerbed alloy is a side-by-side comparison. A notice arriving five weeks later meets one dated record, not a camera roll.

What you are left with

The record says what it does not have.

Every printed pack opens with a register: each check marked on record, not on record, or not due yet, with the gaps counted at the top. A thin record cannot pass as a full one, which is what makes a full one worth anything.

See what a record holds

Four things worth saying plainly

Stripe runs the identity check

They collect and hold the document and the selfie as the regulated provider. KeyProof only ever stores the result. Live on every hirer link.

The deposit stays yours

Held on your own Stripe, settled to your own bank. KeyProof never touches the money.

You decide what is new damage

That call is always yours. KeyProof records the before and the after, and never scores it.

The hirer pays for the check, not you

A £4.99 verification fee sits on their booking, not on your bill.

And it changes what you sound like

This is the half nobody mentions. Your hirer is already deciding whether you look like a proper business, and they decide it in the chat, before they ever see the car. “You’ll get a secure link to verify before you collect” is a sentence a serious company says. “Send me a photo of your licence” is not, and you are saying one of them either way.

The link arrives in your name

It previews in the chat as your firm’s own secure check-in, not as a bare link a stranger has to trust.

You verify every driver, and you can say so out loud

Put it in the listing, put it in the bio, say it on the phone. It is true on every hire or it is true on none, and it is true on every hire.

Screening stops sounding like an accusation

Nobody is being singled out when it is simply how the handover runs, which is what makes it possible to turn a booking down.

It starts with proof, then runs everything around it. Most rental software starts at the calendar and adds paperwork after. KeyProof began at the proof and grew the diary, the money and the records around it, which is the difference the day a hire goes wrong.

Set up for you

Nothing to learn or configure. We prepare it with you.

Send us your fleet and your agreement. We prepare everything and guide your first hire.

1

You send what you have

Your vehicle registrations and the hire agreement you already use, on WhatsApp or a video call. No settings screen to learn.

2

We load it

Your cars, your terms, your deposit and your settings, set up by us before you open the app for the first time.

3

We guide your first hire

Your next real booking runs through it with us alongside, so the first sealed record is one you watched being made.

There are two of us and no customers yet, which is exactly why we can do this and a company with a support queue cannot.

Get set up by a founderSend your cars on WhatsAppThe WhatsApp route opens with your message started. No form, no account, and you are not claiming anything.
What you keep

Every hire ends in one sealed record.

Who they were, what they signed, the car at both ends and the deposit, dated and in one place, ready for your insurer.

Record · KP-2026-0417BMW M4 CompetitionDEMO123 · 3-day hire · issued 12:04
Verified by KeyProof
Identity verifiedPhoto ID matched to a live selfie, by StripePass
Driving licenceShare code supplied, checked by you on gov.ukChecked
Agreement signedTheir own agreement, e-signed, bound to the bookinge-signed
Condition at handover9 timestamped photos
Condition at return9 timestamped photos, matchedOn record
Deposit recordedHeld by you, logged to the booking£1,500
One complete record, ready for your insurer
Share with hirerPerfect, just confirm herekeyproof.co.uk/r/kX9f3snPq7wLb2Rv8tYcAd

Illustrative record. Not a real hirer.

Get in now
and the price never moves.

A founding cohort of five firms, then the standard tiers. No contract, cancel any time. KeyProof never holds your money: deposits and payments settle to your own bank on your own Stripe, whether you collect them or KeyProof does.

Almost every camera-issued penalty lands on you first, because the logbook does, and moving one to the hirer needs a real name and address, a signed agreement and the dates, which the record already holds. The arithmetic is on the pricing page. The rarer case, a hirer who crashes your car and stops answering, is one of the four ways firms get taken.

A founding cohort of five firms
£49/ month

Locked for life, any fleet size, every feature

After the cohort: £59 to 3 cars, £89 to 10, £129 to 25. No setup fee, 30 days free on every plan, and 2 months free if you pay for the year up front.

Your hirers pay £4.99 each for the checks, so verification costs you nothing per hire.

“My customers won’t do all that”

They will, because there is almost nothing to do. You paste one link into the same chat you already sell in, and your hirer opens it on the phone in their hand. No app to install, no account to make, and it is all finished before they turn up for the keys.

One link, in the chat they already use

Instagram, WhatsApp or a text. They tap it and follow the steps.

No app, no account, no download

It opens in their browser. Nothing to install, nothing to remember.

Done before they arrive

ID, licence, signature and deposit are all cleared ahead of the handover, not at your counter.

The one who won’t is the one to watch

A hirer who will not prove who they are is the hire you most wanted to stop.

Some hirers will ask why they pay £4.99.

It is one line on their booking, beside a deposit and a day rate many times larger. And it buys them something too: the photographs that prove what they did also prove what they did not, which is their best defence against a charge for damage they did not cause.

Built for
Independent firms, roughly 3 to 25 cars (and priced beyond that)

Prestige and standard together, one or two people doing every handover. Running supercars or prestige? The full evidence treatment on every hire.

Firms currently eating the charges

If you pay fines because you cannot prove who was driving, that is the problem this was built around.

What it is not. KeyProof does not contact an authority, submit a nomination or give legal advice. The five founding firms get in before anyone, lock the price for life, and get what they ask for built first. Going first is the whole point of the founding price.

Registered and checkable

CompanyKeyProof Ltd, no. 17333773

ICO registerZC195906

InsuranceOwn PI £1m and cyber £500k, Hiscox

Identity checksRun by Stripe, we store the result

Sealed recordAgreement, hire and every photo, SHA-256, checkable by anyone

Hirer dataDeleted on schedule, in code

RolesYou the controller, we the processor

Every line is checkable, none of it is a badge: the full register, with links to verify each entry yourself.

Let us prepare KeyProof
for your next hire.

Every hire from today lands in a record with a name, an address, a signed agreement and the dates on it.

A founding cohort of five firms
£49/ month

Locked for life, any fleet size.

30 days free on every plan. No setup fee, no contract, cancel any time.

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