The 6am airport drop without the 6am alarm.
Hirers want the car outside their flat, at the station, or from a key safe at midnight. Saying yes used to mean skipping the checks. Contactless handover means the verification travels to the hirer’s phone, so the checks happen wherever the car is, with or without you standing next to it.
Private beta applications open, public launch January 2027The hirer pays their own £4.99 verification feeSet up with you by a founder
No firm has signed yet. KeyProof is choosing up to five UK hire firms for its private beta, set up and walked through their first real hire by a founder: request beta access.
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Verified before arrival. Documented at the kerb.
- Everything serious happens before the collection
- ID matched to a selfie, a DVLA share code ready for you to check free on gov.uk, your agreement e-signed and the deposit recorded, all from the hirer’s own phone, hours or days before they get near the car.
- With nobody there, the hirer documents the condition
- Their own hire link has them photograph the car as they collect it, timestamped. A key-safe collection stops being a leap of faith: the condition when the keys moved is on record, though you were asleep.
- The face check still happens
- For in-person handovers you confirm the collector against the verified selfie. For fully remote ones, the liveness check already tied the booking to a real, present person, not a photo of someone else’s ID.
- Return works the same way in reverse
- The car comes back to the kerb or the key safe, you photograph it on your own schedule, and the before-and-after record closes the hire with the evidence complete.
No app for the hirer. No new system for you.
Contactless does not require an app the hirer will never install or a booking platform you do not want. The whole flow runs from links you drop into the Instagram or WhatsApp chat where the booking already lives. KeyProof's private beta opens in November, with a founding cohort of UK hire firms still being chosen: walk the full flow in the demo, or request beta access.
What every hire leaves behind
IdentityPhoto ID matched to a selfie
LicenceDVLA share code, for your own check on gov.uk
ConditionTimestamped photos, both ends
AgreementE-signed, sealed with a hash
DepositLogged, traceable to the hirer
Hand over anywhere.
Verify everywhere.
The hirer does their side before they arrive, so the handover is a photo walk and a key.
KeyProof is selecting UK car hire operators for its private beta, ahead of public launch in January 2027.