Alternatives
Rental software alternatives, compared with Sales Igniter
Sales Igniter adds rental booking to your own WooCommerce, Magento 2 or Shopify store. Here are 14 side-by-side comparisons with hosted rental software, WooCommerce booking plugins and tours platforms: what each one does, how it is billed and what five years of it cost, from each vendor’s own pages.
Hosted
Rental software
Rental platforms you subscribe to, run on the vendor’s servers. Each card shows the entry price and what five years cost for a team of six on the cheapest plan that covers them.
Booqable
From $29 a month, billed yearly, 1 user
Booqable is hosted rental software with a booking page, a website builder and embeds for other sites, on plans with a set number of users. Sales Igniter adds rental booking to your own WooCommerce, Magento 2 or Shopify store, with unlimited staff logins on WooCommerce and Magento 2.
Prices checked 26 October 2026Read the comparison: Booqable
Checkfront
From $99 a month, plus 3% of each online booking, which you can pass on to customers
Checkfront is hosted booking software for tours, activities, rentals and accommodation, priced as a monthly fee plus a percentage of each online booking. Sales Igniter adds rental booking to your own WooCommerce, Magento 2 or Shopify store and takes no fee per booking.
Prices checked 26 October 2026Read the comparison: Checkfront
EZRentOut
From $399 a month, billed yearly, 4 users
Hosted equipment rental software from EZO, built around one record per unit: orders, returns, maintenance and billing. Plans are billed monthly by the year, with a set number of users and a charge for each extra user.
Prices checked 19 October 2026Read the comparison: EZRentOut
Goodshuffle Pro
From $39 a month, 1 user, plus a 0.25% transfer fee on online payments, on top of Stripe’s card fees
Goodshuffle Pro is hosted software for event and party rental companies: quotes, contracts and payments, warehouse pull sheets and delivery dispatch, billed monthly per plan and per user. Sales Igniter adds rental booking to your own WooCommerce, Magento 2 or Shopify store, with no charge per user.
Prices checked 17 October 2026Read the comparison: Goodshuffle Pro
Point of Rental
Prices by quote
Point of Rental, from Texas, sells rental management software by quote after a demo: Essentials in the cloud for growing rental businesses, and Elite for large operations in its cloud or on your own server. Sales Igniter adds rental booking to your own WooCommerce, Magento 2 or Shopify store, with no charge per user.
Prices checked 26 October 2026Read the comparison: Point of Rental
Rentman
From $63 a month, 1 user
Rentman is hosted software from the Netherlands for AV, event and rental companies: equipment planning, quotes and invoices, warehouse scanning and crew scheduling, billed monthly per power user plus a platform fee. Sales Igniter adds rental booking to your own WooCommerce, Magento 2 or Shopify store, with no charge per user.
Prices checked 19 October 2026Read the comparison: Rentman
TWICE Commerce
From $116 a month, plus 1.5% of each payment processed through TWICE
TWICE Commerce, formerly Rentle, is hosted software for rental, resale and subscription businesses, priced per location each month plus a commission on the payments it processes. Sales Igniter adds rental booking to your own WooCommerce, Magento 2 or Shopify store and takes no commission.
Prices checked 19 October 2026Read the comparison: TWICE Commerce
Self-hosted
WooCommerce booking plugins
Plugins you install on your own WordPress site, as you would Sales Igniter. Your customers and orders stay in your own database either way, so these comparisons come down to features, platforms, support and price.
RnB
From $29 once
REDQ’s rental and booking plugin for WooCommerce, with six pricing plans, pickup and return locations and request for quote; redq.io still lists it, but the CodeCanyon page it links to said the item is no longer available (checked 17 October 2026). Serial numbers, check-in screens and rental contracts are not described in its documentation.
Prices checked 26 October 2026Read the comparison: RnB
Tyche Booking & Appointment
From $199 a year
Tyche Softwares’ booking and appointment plugin for WooCommerce, with time slots, person types, resources, deposits, seasonal prices and two-way Google Calendar sync, sold as a yearly licence for 1, 5 or 10 sites. Serial numbers, return screens and rental contracts are not described in its documentation.
Prices checked 26 October 2026Read the comparison: Tyche Booking & Appointment
WooCommerce Bookings
From $249 a year
Woo’s own booking extension for appointments, reservations, classes and rentals, sold as a yearly subscription per site. Time blocks, persons and resources are built in; deposits and recurring billing are separate extensions, and serial numbers, send and return and rental contracts are not described in its documentation.
Prices checked 17 October 2026Read the comparison: WooCommerce Bookings
YITH Booking
From €249.99 a year
YITH’s booking and appointment plugin for WooCommerce, with people types, services, resources and search forms, sold as a yearly licence priced in euros. Its FAQ says it does not manage stock, and serial numbers, check-in screens and rental contracts are not described in its documentation.
Prices checked 26 October 2026Read the comparison: YITH Booking
Tours
Tours and activities
Booking systems for tours, activities and attractions, compared with the tours features of Sales Igniter: departures, seats per departure, guest types, manifests and check-in on your own site.
FareHarbor
Free on Standard terms, plus a booking fee your guests pay at checkout
Hosted booking software for tours, activities, rentals and attractions, part of Booking Holdings. There is no monthly fee: guests pay a booking fee at checkout, and FareHarbor charges operators for card processing, OTA bookings by API and some services.
Prices checked 26 October 2026Read the comparison: FareHarbor
Peek Pro
Prices by quote
Hosted booking software for tours, activities, rentals and attractions, from Peek. Prices come in a quote: its terms set a commission or flat fee on bookings, with no fixed monthly plan.
Prices checked 26 October 2026Read the comparison: Peek Pro
Xola
Free on Flex Level, plus a 3% service fee, paid by your guests or by you
Hosted booking software for tours, activities and attractions, from Xola. There is no subscription: Xola charges a 3% or 6% service fee on bookings, paid by your guests or by you, and card processing on top.
Prices checked 26 October 2026Read the comparison: Xola
What it costs
Five years of each, side by side
A monthly price is easy to underestimate, so here is each one as a five-year total for six staff logins, on the cheapest published plan that covers them. Each comparison page has a calculator for other team sizes and years.
| Product and plan | How it is billed | 5 years, 6 staff logins |
|---|---|---|
| Sales Igniter | ||
| Sales Igniter · WooCommerce Regular | $199 with code 150regular (regular $349), then $199 a year for updates, optional; any number of users | $995Regular $1,145 |
| Sales Igniter · WooCommerce Pro | $299 with code 200pro (regular $499), then $199 a year for updates, optional; any number of users | $1,095Regular $1,295 |
| Sales Igniter · WooCommerce Ultimate | $499 with code 300multi (regular $799), then $299 a year for updates, optional; any number of users | $1,695Regular $1,995 |
| Sales Igniter · Magento 2 Regular | $399 with code 100hyva (regular $499), then $299 a year for updates, optional; any number of users | $1,595Regular $1,695 |
| Sales Igniter · Magento 2 Pro | $699 with code 200hyva (regular $899), then $299 a year for updates, optional; any number of users | $1,895Regular $2,095 |
| Sales Igniter · Magento 2 Ultimate | $1,099 with code 300hyva (regular $1,399), then $299 a year for updates, optional; any number of users | $2,295Regular $2,595 |
| Sales Igniter · Shopify | Rentals & Bookings for Shopify, billed monthly or yearly through Shopify. Prices appear here at launch. | Coming soon |
| Rental software | ||
| Booqable Grow | $69 a month for 6 users, billed yearly | $4,140 |
| Checkfront Growth | $99 a month; plus 3% of each online booking, which you can pass on to customers (not in the total) | $5,940 |
| EZRentOut Growth | $399 a month for 4 users, +$40 a month for 2 more, billed yearly | $26,340 |
| Goodshuffle Pro Lite | $39 a month for 1 user, +$195 a month for 5 more; plus a 0.25% transfer fee on online payments, on top of Stripe’s card fees (not in the total) | $14,040 |
| Point of Rental | Prices by quote | By quote |
| Rentman Standard | $63 a month for 1 user, +$120 a month for 5 more | $10,980 |
| TWICE Commerce Standard | $116 a month; plus 1.5% of each payment processed through TWICE (not in the total) | $6,960 |
| WooCommerce booking plugins | ||
| RnB Regular licence | $29 once | $29 |
| Tyche Booking & Appointment Starter | $199 a year | $995 |
| WooCommerce Bookings 1-year plan | $249 a year | $1,245 |
| YITH Booking 1-year licence | €249.99 a year; in euros, not converted | €1,249.95In euros, not converted |
| Tours and activities | ||
| FareHarbor Standard terms | Free; plus a booking fee your guests pay at checkout (not in the total) | $0 |
| Peek Pro | Prices by quote | By quote |
| Xola Flex Level | Free; plus a 3% service fee, paid by your guests or by you (not in the total) | $0 |
Each competitor line uses its cheapest published plan that covers 6 staff logins, at list price; booking fees and commissions depend on your sales and are named, not added. Sales Igniter on WooCommerce and Magento 2: the first payment, then the optional yearly renewal for support and updates; promotions change the first payment only, and web hosting (typically $10–$40 a month) is not included. Excludes payment-gateway fees and tax. Our prices are read live from our store; competitor prices checked 17 October 2026, each card shows its own date.
The deal
How each is sold
The products differ in features; the way they are sold falls into a few patterns. Each comparison page has the details and its sources.
Hosted rental and tours software
A subscription to software the vendor runs.- A monthly or yearly subscription, a fee on each booking, or both, for as long as you use it
- The vendor runs the servers, the updates and the backups
- Your customers and orders live in the vendor’s system; leaving means an export
- Some plans charge per user or per location, or take a share of each booking; each card says which
WooCommerce booking plugins
Installed on your own WordPress site.- Your customers and orders stay in your own database
- A licence per site: most renew each year for updates and support, some are paid once; each card shows how it is billed
- You choose and pay for the hosting
Sales Igniter
Rental booking in your own store.- WooCommerce and Magento 2: a one-time licence with any number of staff logins, a year of support and updates, then an optional yearly renewal
- The full source code, your own database and your own domain
- Shopify: an app billed monthly or yearly through Shopify, coming soon
The fairest test is to book something
The free live demo is a real store with real stock: pick your dates and watch the availability calendar, deposits and contracts work end to end. No sign-up and no card.