Almost every rental booking platform on the market is rented, not bought. You pay every month, forever; the software runs on the vendor’s servers; your customers, orders and contracts live in their database; and several of them take a percentage of what your customers pay you.
Sales Igniter works the other way round. You buy it once, you get the complete source code, and it runs on a store you already own — as a WooCommerce plugin or a Magento 2 extension. No monthly fee. No commission. No per-user or per-location charge. Support and updates are $299/year after the first year — and entirely optional.
Below is an honest comparison against each of the major rental platforms — including the situations where they are the better buy. Every pricing figure is cited from the vendor’s own pricing page with the date it was read.
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Five years of ownership, side by side
Monthly pricing is easy to underestimate because each number is small. Here is the same decision expressed as a five-year total.
| Platform | Pricing | Five-year cost | Licence model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sales Igniter for WooCommerce — Regular | $279 once + $299/yr support | $1,475 | Buy once, own it |
| Sales Igniter for WooCommerce — Pro | $419 once + $299/yr support | $1,615 | Buy once, own it |
| Booqable | $29–$149/mo + add-ons | $4,140 | Subscription |
| Checkfront | $99/mo + 3% of bookings | $5,940 + 3% | Subscription |
| EZRentOut | ~$59–$499/mo, per user | ~$23,940 | Subscription |
| Goodshuffle Pro | ~$39–$139/mo, per user | ~$10,680 | Subscription |
| Twice Commerce | Free–€5,000/mo + commission | ~€35,880 | Subscription |
| Point of Rental | No published pricing | Quote only | Subscription |
| Rentman | Subscription, per user | See comparison | Subscription |
Vendor list prices as published August 2026, read from each vendor’s own pricing page where one is available; EZRentOut and Goodshuffle Pro figures are indicative and drawn from third-party software directories. Excludes negotiated discounts, payment-gateway fees and tax. Sales Igniter five-year figures assume the optional $299/year support and updates renewal is paid for years two to five ($279 or $419 up front, plus four renewals). Renewal is optional — if you never renew, the plugin keeps working indefinitely and the five-year cost is just the $279 or $419 purchase. Figures exclude web hosting, which you provide — typically $10–$40 a month. Pricing changes; check the vendor’s site before deciding.
What every one of them has in common
The individual feature lists differ. The structure of the deal does not.
You are renting, not buying
Stop paying and you stop trading. There is no version of the arrangement where you end up owning what you have been paying for.
The code is closed
If you need behaviour their roadmap does not cover, you wait — or you migrate. No developer you hire can change it.
Your data is on their servers
Customers, orders and contract history live in the vendor’s database. Leaving means an export and a rebuild.
The storefront is not your site
Bookings happen on their platform or through an embedded widget, so the SEO value goes to them rather than to your domain.
Sales Igniter is the opposite of each of those, which is the entire reason it exists. Read more about the open source, self-hosted approach — including an honest account of what running it yourself actually asks of you.
The fairest test is to book something
Our live demo is a real store with real inventory. Pick your dates and watch availability, deposits and contract generation work end to end — no signup, no card, no sales call.
Not sure whether WooCommerce or Magento 2 suits you? Read the platform comparison, or talk to us and describe your inventory — we will tell you honestly whether we fit, and say so if we do not.