Done
mauritiusaura.com is live, in English and French. It reads your fleet and tours straight from your admin.
Loaded for you
7 car models and 10 tours are already in your admin, with their stops in the order you gave them.
Waiting on you
Prices. All 10 tours and all 7 models still show "On request", because none of them has a price yet.
Start here
One box, five minutes
If you do only one thing after reading this, do this one. It proves the whole chain works — from your keyboard to a customer's screen.
Make your first price appear on the website
escale.influxe.agency → Tours → 5 Island Tour → Duration (hours)Your Rs 1,500 adult price is already saved on that tour. That single box is all that stands between it and the website showing your price instead of "On request."
Save it, then open the tour on mauritiusaura.com. The change reaches the site within a minute.
While you're on that screen, fill in Start time and Seats as well — then the site will start offering dates for it too.
Where online booking is today. Your prices and tours show on the website now, and customers reach you through the enquiry form, which lands in your inbox. Taking a confirmed booking online — where a customer books and pays without you touching it — is the last piece, and it comes with the full delivery on 30 September. Nothing you enter now has to be redone for it.
Signing in
Where your admin lives
Go to escale.influxe.agency and sign in as admin.vkcompany@… — the same account you've used before. If the password doesn't work, ask me for a fresh link rather than creating a second account.
Nothing you do in there can break the website. If a car or a tour isn't finished yet, leave its Status on draft and customers simply won't see it until you're ready.
Everything you save appears on the site by itself, within a minute. You never have to send it to me and wait.
Your admin, tab by tab
What each screen is for
These are the tabs down the left-hand side, in the order you'll see them. The two marked in orange are where nearly all of your work is.
Operations
Dashboard
Your day at a glance: what goes out today, what comes back, and anything that needs attention.
Bookings
Every reservation in one place — whether it came from the website, the phone or WhatsApp. A number appears beside this tab when a new request is waiting.
Planning board
A calendar of every vehicle. See which car is free on which date, and block one out when it goes in for service.
Customers
Everyone who has booked with you, with their history behind them.
Tours
Your island tours, boat trips and golf. Prices, durations, start times, pick-up points, and what's included.
Inventory
Fleet
Every physical car you own, with its own plate — not one row per model. Photos go here too.
Rates & seasons
What each car costs: deposit, kilometres included, and cheaper prices for longer rentals. Set it once and the booking engine applies it everywhere.
Finance
Invoices
Invoices, receipts and credit notes, generated from your bookings. Nothing to set up — they follow the numbering you choose in Settings.
Account
Settings
Your business details, logo and colour, VAT and invoice numbering, and how bookings behave. Also Team, to give your staff their own logins.
There's also a search box at the top of every screen. It looks across bookings, customers and vehicles at once.
Setting up
What to fill in, in order
Four rounds. Each one stands on its own, so you can stop and come back whenever you like.
Your business details
SettingsThis is what customers read, and what prints on every invoice and contract. Four cards, each one saving on its own:
- Brand name
- Legal name
- Tagline
- Contact email
- Contact phone
- Brand colour
- VAT number
- VAT rate (%)
- Invoice prefix
- Booking mode
- Hold (hours)
- Turnaround (minutes)
- Tour booking cut-off
Turnaround is the gap you need between one rental coming back and the next going out — cleaning and checking. Hold is how long a customer's reservation is kept before it expires.
Your tours
Tours → click a tourAll ten are already there. None of them has a price, a duration or a start time yet, so the website shows every one as "On request". On each tour you'll see:
- Pricing mode
- Vehicle price
- Adult price
- Child price
- Child up to age
- Duration (hours)
- Duration label
- Start time
- Seats
- Minimum people
- Maximum people
- Pickup points
- Includes
- Excludes
Pricing mode is the one real decision. You described these as a private car and driver on any date, which means per vehicle. Choose per person only if you genuinely sell single seats on a shared trip. And if you sell both a private boat and seats on a shared one, tell me — that needs two separate entries rather than one.
Be specific in Includes and Excludes: entrance fees, the tastings, lunch, water. It prevents arguments at the end of the day.
Each tour goes live on its own as soon as it has what it needs. You don't have to finish all ten before anything shows.
Your cars
Fleet → Add vehicleSeven models are loaded. You mentioned 17 cars — add each physical car as its own vehicle, with its own plate:
- Make
- Model
- Class
- Seats
- Bags
- Transmission
- Fuel
- Year
- Plate
If you have four Swifts, add four vehicles with four plates. The website still shows customers a single "Suzuki Swift" card — it simply knows it has four to give out, so it will never double-book one.
There's a photo box on each vehicle. Your own photos sell far better than stock ones, and a phone photo in good daylight is perfectly good.
Your rental prices
Rates & seasonsOne rate per model. You'll set a Deposit, Included km per day, and a price list where you give a daily price from day X.
That last part is how you charge less for a longer rental — for example 1–3 days at one price, 4–7 lower, 8+ lower again. You choose the bands.
Once a model has a deposit and at least one price band, its real price shows on the website by itself. Finish one model and that one goes live; the rest can wait.
Ticks are saved on this device only. They're a note to yourself, not something I can see.
Not in the admin
What to send me instead
These live in the website itself rather than in your admin, so you can't change them from where you sign in. Reply with the answers and I'll put them in.
Contact & trust
- Your real phone and WhatsApp number. The site is showing a placeholder that belongs to nobody, and the enquiry form already points people at it. Most urgent item here.
- Business address, and office hours including weekends and public holidays.
- Is contact@mauritiusaura.com the right address for enquiries to land in?
- Three claims to confirm or drop: free airport delivery at SSR, unlimited mileage, comprehensive cover. These came from my draft, not from you — I won't publish any of them until you confirm each one.
- A Google, TripAdvisor or Facebook link if you have reviews. If not, I'll leave that section out rather than invent it.
Services with no price yet
- Airport and hotel transfers — what you charge each way, whether it varies by region, and any night surcharge. This is the most-searched service on a site like yours, and I have nothing for it.
- Full-day chauffeur — the rate, how many hours count as a day, and what happens past them.
- Contract bus and van — which vehicles, how many seats each, and whether it's quote-only or has standing rates.
- Golf — transfer to the club, booking the tee time, or both? Priced per club, per region, or as a day rate?
- Rental terms — minimum driver age, licence held, insurance excess, fuel policy, and any delivery fee.
Words, and a few checks
- Terms and Privacy are still placeholder wording. I need your real terms: cancellation, late return, damage, fuel, who may drive.
- The French version of every page exists, translated as a first pass. Nobody at Mauritius Aura has read it yet — visitors from Réunion and France will read that one, not the English.
- Tagline — keep "Freedom on wheels", or something of your own for Aura?
- Five things that look like slips: Tamarina is listed under East but sits on the west coast · I can't find any Anantara Golf Club — did you mean Anahita? · the 5 Island Tour names only four islands · Ertiga and Rush are listed as 6 seats but are normally 7 · and the two Central Tour shop names.
About the design
Why we're doing the engine first
The design isn't finished, and that's on purpose.
Right now the priority is the machine underneath: your admin, your real prices, and bookings that run from the customer's screen to your invoice without anyone babysitting them. That part has to be solid, because it's the part that costs you money when it's wrong.
Once it is, we go back over the design together and finish it properly — with your real cars, your real prices and your own photographs on the page, instead of the placeholders that are there now.
Designing around real content is the difference between a site that looks good in a preview and one that looks good to a customer. That's exactly what Thursday's call and our meeting in October are for. Nothing you dislike about how it looks today is fixed.
The dates
From here to go-live
-
Call, in the evening
Your feedback on what's built, the changes you want, and the final design direction. Tell me a time that suits you.
-
Full delivery
Website, admin and booking system handed over complete, with everything we agree on Thursday built in.
-
I'm back in Mauritius
Until then I'm on call whenever you need me. The distance changes nothing about getting the system working.
-
We meet in person
We go through your feedback properly, test it together with real bookings, and plan the improvements.
One thing today
Open Tours, click 5 Island Tour, fill in Duration
Then send me your real phone number. Those two things move this further than anything else on the list.
And if a box won't save, or the admin isn't where this page says it is, tell me rather than working around it — it usually means something needs fixing on my side.