Building RentFlow: How I Used OOP to Rescue a Growing Car Rental Business from Spreadsheet Hardships.
A deep dive into building RentFlow, a Python OOP system that transitions a manual car rental business into a robust and automated platform. The Nightmare of Scaling via Spreadsheets Every growing business eventually hits a wall where tracking operations manually becomes impossible. For SafariDrive Rentals , a car rental company in Kenya, that wall was hit hard. They were tracking a growing fleet…
SafariDrive Rentals, a car rental company in Kenya, struggled to manage its expanding fleet, customer profiles, and billing structures using manual spreadsheets. To solve this issue, the author designed and built RentFlow, a production-grade command-line software platform powered by Object-Oriented Programming (OOP). The article explores how the four pillars of OOP—abstraction, inheritance, polymorphism, and encapsulation—were used to create a modular, maintainable, and well-structured application.
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