Car hire verification in East London.
East London hire runs on the same rails as the rest of the city, Instagram to WhatsApp to a meet, but it sits on top of the river crossings, and that changes what a hire costs a firm when it goes wrong. A car that goes out from Barking on a Friday can cross the Thames twice and the Dartford Crossing once before anybody has paid anything, and every one of those charges is addressed to the keeper.
What every hire leaves behind
IdentityPhoto ID matched to a live selfie
LicenceDVLA share code, checked on gov.uk
ConditionTimestamped photos, both ends
AgreementE-signed, sealed with a hash
DepositLogged, traceable to the hirer
£49 a month for life, any fleet size, while founding is openThe hirer pays the £4.99 verification feeNo contract, 30 days free first
No firm has signed yet, and that is what the founding cohort is for: £49 a month for life, any fleet size, and a direct line to the two founders instead of a support queue. Nothing on this page asks to be taken on trust: walk the whole product in the demo.
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What East London operators deal with, and what fixes it.
Blackwall and Silvertown carry a penalty of £180 if the crossing goes unpaid, halved to £90 if it is settled inside two weeks and rising to £270 after 28 days. Dart Charge is £70 and halves to £35 inside 14 days. In both cases the notice goes to the registered keeper, and Dart Charge says out loud that the keeper may not have been the driver and is liable anyway. Recharging any of it needs a signed agreement naming a verified person, with dates that cover the crossing.
There is often no forecourt to hand over on. The car changes hands outside a flat in Ilford, on a side street in Dagenham, in a retail park off the A13, often after dark and often not by the owner. That is why the check has to be finished before anybody arrives, and why the photos have to be takeable on whichever phone is actually there.
The East London scene is small enough that a firm hears about a bad hirer from another firm, and small enough that a dispute follows you. Neither of those is a record. A hire that ends with an identity checked, an agreement signed and the condition photographed at both ends is the version you can send to an insurer; the version you can only tell people is not.
One link in the chat. One record per hire.
KeyProof works the same in East London as everywhere in the UK, because it lives in the chat your bookings already use. The hirer opens one link and verifies their photo ID against a live selfie, supplies the code for a DVLA licence check you complete, signs your agreement and photographs the car’s condition, with the same again at return. You get one timestamped record instead of a scattered thread: the full flow is on the product page.
East London firms:
verify before the keys move.
One link in the chat, a checked licence, and a record with a name and a date range on it.
Locked for life, any fleet size.
30 days free on every plan. No setup fee, no contract, cancel any time.