Do you run a dress, purse, or clothing rental store? Why not rent and hire your products online? Sales Igniter allows you to run your clothing rental business online with no hassles. Sales Igniter will allow you to do the following:
- Integrate your online and offline rental inventories
- Mass upload and download spreadsheets of clothing, purse, or dress rentals
- Enter orders through the admin POS system that allows charging customers credit cards and refunding orders
- Allow your clothing inventory to be filtered by different styles, colors, and sizes
- Require a deposit to hire and rent goods
- Offer different language websites
- Show where your different rental locations are
Fashion Rental Has Rules of Its Own — This System Knows Them
One dress in a size 10 is not the same product as the same dress in a size 14, and neither is available while the first is at the dry cleaner. Fashion rental is the most unforgiving kind of rental inventory there is, and generic booking plugins fall over on it immediately. Sales Igniter was built to handle exactly this.
Size and colour are real inventory
Configurable products give every size, colour and length its own stock and its own calendar. A customer sees availability for their size on the product page, not a vague “in stock” badge that leads to an apology email.
Dry cleaning is part of the booking
Automatic turnaround days after every hire hold the garment off sale while it is cleaned, pressed, repaired and re-photographed. Your calendar stops promising a dress that is still hanging in a garment bag at the cleaners.
Deposits without the awkward conversation
Store the customer’s card as a secure token at checkout and only charge it if the item comes back stained, torn or late. No card numbers on your server, no chasing, no uncomfortable phone calls.
Because it is a full e-commerce catalogue, shoppers browse and filter the way they actually shop — by designer, occasion, colour, length, size and price — and rent a dress, a clutch and a set of earrings in a single order. Mass import your collection by spreadsheet when a new season lands, run try-on appointments and in-store hires through the admin POS, and give repeat customers membership or subscription access to a rotating wardrobe.
Run It on WooCommerce or Magento 2 — Same Rental Engine, Your Platform
Whether you are one boutique or a national rental label, the sizing and turnaround logic is the same. The platform is the choice.
Sales Igniter ships as two products built on one rental engine: the WooCommerce booking plugin for WordPress sites, and the Magento 2 rental booking extension for Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source. Both are 100% open source, self-hosted and licensed per site — no per-booking fees and no per-seat charges.
Sales Igniter Bookings & Tours — the WooCommerce clothing and dress rental plugin
Perfect for boutiques and independent rental labels. Beautiful, fast and inexpensive to run on WordPress.
- Per-size availability, dry-cleaning buffers and tokenised deposits, inside WooCommerce.
- Drops into any WordPress site you already own — keep your theme, your pages, your SEO and your blog.
- Rental pricing by the hour, day, week or month, prorated or flat, with special pricing for peak dates and seasons.
- PDF rental contracts signed at checkout, refundable security deposits and deposit-to-reserve part payments.
- Stripe, PayPal, Braintree and Authorize.net are supported out of the box.
- The fastest, lowest-cost way to be taking real online bookings — usually live in days, not months.
Sales Igniter — the Magento 2 clothing and dress rental booking extension
Perfect for large collections, several showrooms, or a brand selling into more than one country and currency.
- Thousands of SKUs across showrooms and countries, with per-location stock and multi-currency storefronts.
- Multi-Source Inventory: real stock levels per warehouse, depot, branch or city, on one calendar.
- Multi-store and multi-language storefronts running off a single catalogue and a single inventory pool.
- Serial-number and barcode tracking, B2B account pricing, request-a-quote and enterprise-grade reporting.
- Built to stay fast with tens of thousands of SKUs and heavy seasonal booking traffic.
- The platform to choose when you are scaling locations, catalogue size or head count.
Still weighing it up? Our honest, side-by-side breakdown of Magento vs. WordPress / WooCommerce booking solutions walks through cost, scale and what each platform is genuinely good at — or just take the live demo for a spin and see the booking calendar work with your own dates.
What Fashion Rental Software Has To Handle
Fashion hire has a shape no generic booking plugin anticipates. The unit is a size, not a product; it spends days in transit and at the cleaners rather than on a shelf; and the customer is booking against a fixed, unmovable date – a wedding, a gala, a graduation.
A size is a piece of stock, not a dropdown
A size 10 gown and a size 14 of the same style are different items with different diaries. Configurable and variable products let one catalogue entry carry the whole size run while each size holds its own availability, so a customer sees that their size is taken for that Saturday rather than finding out after they have paid.
Dry-cleaning and repair turnaround
A dress does not come back ready to go out. It is cleaned, pressed, checked for damage and sometimes repaired, and that is days rather than hours. Turnaround buffers hold each garment out of availability for exactly that window, per item, so the cleaning cycle is built into what the calendar offers.
Shipping out, shipping back, and the days in between
Postal hire loses the garment for the transit at both ends. Padding before and after the hire covers outbound and return shipping so those days are never sold to somebody else, and the whole booking is priced by day, week or month rather than as a flat fee.
Deposits, damage and the signed hire agreement
A designer piece can be worth more than the hire fee many times over. Charge a refundable deposit at checkout and release it on return, or store a card token and charge only for genuine damage or a late return. The hire terms are generated as a PDF from the booking and signed online before the garment ships.
A Fashion Rental Website, Not Just a Booking Screen
Fashion sells on photography and detail, which is exactly what a booking widget on somebody else’s platform cannot give you:
- Full editorial product pages – photography, fabric, measurements, fit notes – with live availability by size on the same page
- Customers booking a specific date months ahead and seeing honestly whether their size is free
- Your own SEO and your own brand, so the collection ranks under your name rather than a marketplace’s
- Customer measurements, order history and the store itself stay on your server
Fashion hire lives on repeat customers who know their size with you. That relationship, and the data behind it, should not sit on a platform you rent.
What Fashion Rental Software Costs Over Five Years
Fashion hire carries good order values on a high booking count, which makes a percentage of every booking one of the most expensive lines in the business. The same choice expressed as a five-year total, using list prices read in August 2026.
| Option | Five-year total | What drives the number |
|---|---|---|
| Sales Igniter — Regular | $995 | $199 once, then $199/year for support and updates. Online store included. |
| Sales Igniter — Pro | $1,095 | $299 once, plus optional $199/year support you can stop at any time |
| Booqable Grow | $4,140 | $69/month billed annually, before add-ons |
| Checkfront | $5,940 + 3% | $99/month plus 3% of every online booking |
On a $180 average hire and 1,500 hires a year, a 3% per-booking commission costs about $8,100 annually – roughly eight times the entire five-year cost of a one-time licence. If you are weighing specific platforms, our Booqable alternative for rental businesses and Twice Commerce alternative for rental and resale each include a section on when the competitor is genuinely the better choice.
Clothing and Dress Rental Software Questions
Can I hold availability separately for each size?
Does it handle dry-cleaning time between hires?
Can I account for shipping days at both ends?
Can I take a deposit on a designer piece?
Can customers book a specific event date months ahead?
Is there free dress rental software?
Do you take a percentage of each booking?
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Show the right dress, in the right size, on the right date. Try it yourself in the live demo.