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# Organize Your Fleet with Branches

# 📍 Organize Your Fleet with Branches

A **branch** is a place you rent from. It holds that location's address, timezone, default rental agreement, and pickup and return spots, and every listing you assign to it follows those defaults.

|| **Note**: Most hosts only need **one branch**. If you rent from a single spot, create one branch for it and assign all your listings to it. That's a complete setup, not a missing step. Add more branches only when you rent from several locations with their own addresses, timezones, or agreements.
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## 🎯 What a Branch Controls

| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| **Branch name** | How the branch shows up across your dashboard, for example `Airport` |
| **Contact email** | The email address for this branch |
| **Rental agreement** | The agreement customers sign for listings in this branch, unless a listing sets its own |
| **Timezone** | The timezone for every listing assigned to this branch |
| **Address** | Where the branch operates |
| **Pickup & return** | Where renters collect and drop off vehicles by default |

Branches also group your **delivery and pickup options**. Each option belongs to a branch, and customers only see the options for the branch of the listing they're booking. See [Configuring Delivery and Pickup Locations for Your Rentals](/en/article/configuring-delivery-and-pickup-locations-for-your-rentals-5147hu/) for how to set those up.
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## 🛠 Create a Branch

1. In your Fleetwire dashboard, go to [Settings > Fleet > Branches](https://tenant.fleetwire.io/settings/fleet/branches).
2. Click **Add Branch**.
3. Under **Details**, enter a **Branch name** and **Contact email**. Pick a **Rental agreement** if you have one, and check the **Timezone**. Fleetwire fills in your computer's timezone to start.
4. Under **Address**, start typing the branch's street address and pick it from the suggestions. To type it yourself, click **Or Enter an address manually**.
5. Under **Pickup & return**, leave **Same as the branch address** on if renters collect and return vehicles at the branch. Turn it off to type a different spot for each, such as `Terminal B curbside` or `Rental return lot, level 2`.
6. Click **Create branch**.

| **Pro Tip**: Name branches the way your team talks about them. `Airport` and `Downtown` are easier to pick from a list than full street addresses.
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## ✏️ Edit a Branch

1. Go to [Settings > Fleet > Branches](https://tenant.fleetwire.io/settings/fleet/branches) and click the branch name.
2. Change any field. To move the branch, click **Change address** under the map and pick the new one. Changed your mind? Click **Keep current address**.
3. Click **Save**.

The branches table shows each branch's address and its pickup and return spots. **Same as branch** means the spot is the branch address.

||| **Important**: Saving a branch updates the timezone on **every listing assigned to it**. If one listing needs a different timezone, put it in its own branch.
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## 🚗 Assign Listings to a Branch

A listing follows a branch's agreement and timezone only once it's assigned to that branch.

**One listing at a time**

1. Go to [Listings](https://tenant.fleetwire.io/listings/) and open a vehicle.
2. Click the **Settings** tab.
3. Under **Listing Branch**, pick the branch.

**Many listings at once**

1. On the [Listings](https://tenant.fleetwire.io/listings/) page, select the listings you want to move.
2. Click **Edit Selected**.
3. Open the **Location** tab, check **Update Branch**, and pick the branch.
4. Click **Apply to All**.
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## 📝 How the Rental Agreement Is Chosen

When a customer books, Fleetwire uses the listing's own agreement if it has one. If it doesn't, it uses the agreement set on the listing's branch.

To have a listing follow its branch, open the listing's **Settings** tab and, under **Document eSign**, choose **Use Branch Default**. This option is only available once the listing is assigned to a branch.

|| **Note**: Changing a branch's agreement applies to future bookings. Agreements customers already signed don't change.
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## 🗑 Delete a Branch

Open the branch and click **Delete**, then click again to confirm.

You can't delete a branch while anything still uses it. Move its listings, delivery and pickup options, and vehicle classes to another branch first. Fleetwire tells you what's still attached if you try.
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## 🚀 Next Steps

* **Offer delivery and pickup**: Add airport, hotel, or custom spots in [Configuring Delivery and Pickup Locations for Your Rentals](/en/article/configuring-delivery-and-pickup-locations-for-your-rentals-5147hu/).
* **Need Help?** Contact us at [hi@fleetwire.io](mailto:hi@fleetwire.io) or via the in-app chat.

Happy renting! 🌟