Rental software how-to guides
Practical, step-by-step guides to running a rental operation on WooCommerce or Magento 2 — setting up rentable products, getting availability right, taking deposits, and the settings that quietly cause oversells. Written from how rental businesses actually work, not from a feature list.
WooCommerce guides
Start here if you are building a rental store on WordPress and WooCommerce.
Start here
How to add equipment rentals to your WooCommerce store
The full setup: choosing between a rental and a booking plugin, turning a product into a rentable one, pricing by duration, and the three mistakes that cause oversells later.
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Availability
How to set up rental turnaround time in WooCommerce
Cleaning, drying and inspection days held out of the calendar without charging the customer for them — plus typical padding for tents, inflatables, wetsuits, plant and vehicles.
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Getting paid
How to take security deposits on WooCommerce rentals
Taking a refundable deposit at checkout, how much to charge by category, releasing or retaining it on return, and the practical and legal details that catch people out.
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Running a rental business
Business
How to start an equipment rental business
What to buy first, how to price it, and how to work out whether the numbers support a rental model before you commit capital to stock.
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Pricing
Rental pricing: how much should I charge?
Working back from utilisation and payback period to a day rate that actually returns your investment, rather than guessing from what a competitor charges.
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Free tool
Free rental pricing calculator
Enter purchase cost, expected utilisation and running costs, and get the day rate you need to hit your payback target. No signup.
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Magento 2 guides
Setup and configuration for the Magento 2 / Adobe Commerce rental booking extension.
Setup
How to add bookings and a rental calendar to a Magento 2 website
Getting a working availability calendar onto Magento 2 product pages, and what the rental engine adds over a stock Magento catalogue.
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Install
How to install the Magento rental booking module
Installing and activating the extension on a Magento store, step by step.
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Products
How to set up configurable rental products by size and colour
Renting items that come in variants — dress sizes, ski lengths, frame sizes — where each variant carries its own stock.
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Worked example
Magento 2 configurable rental setup: a dress hire example
A complete worked example using product attributes for size and colour on a dress rental catalogue.
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Tours
Fixed-date rentals and tours setup
Configuring products that run on fixed departure dates rather than a customer-chosen range — tours, activities and scheduled experiences.
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Payments
Magento 2 Authorize.Net setup: fixing MD5 and API errors
Resolving the MD5 hash and API login issues that stop Authorize.Net transactions completing on Magento 2.
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Video training
Quickstart
Quickstart setup guide video
The fastest route from a fresh install to taking a first rental booking.
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Full library
Screencast training video library
The complete set of walkthrough videos covering day-to-day use of the rental system.
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Queue
How to use the rental queue and memberships
Running a subscription-style rental queue: members join, items dispatch automatically as stock returns, and tiers control how much anyone can hold at once.
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More videos
Five more how-to videos
Additional short walkthroughs covering specific configuration tasks.
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Rather just try it?
Every guide here describes something you can do on the live demo right now — pick dates, watch availability change, check an item back in. No signup, no card, no sales call.
Comparing options? Read our sourced rental software comparisons, or the case for open source rental software you own outright.