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. Read the guide › 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. Read the guide › 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. Read the guide › Damage & ID How to add a rental damage waiver, ID verification and custom fields The three things a handover depends on: the questions you ask before the item leaves, a damage waiver charged per item or per order, and verifying who you are handing it to. Read the guide › Vehicles How to set up a car rental booking system on WooCommerce One product per vehicle rather than a stock count, hourly and daily rates, turnaround between hires, refundable deposits and a hire agreement signed before the keys change hands. Read the guide › Powersports How to rent motorcycles and scooters online with WooCommerce Hourly hire, rider gear booked as real stock by size, grouping machines by licence class, and pricing a season that only runs a few months of the year. Read the guide ›

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. Read the guide › 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. Read the guide › 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. Open the calculator ›

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. Read the guide › Install How to install the Magento rental booking module Installing and activating the extension on a Magento store, step by step. Read the guide › 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. Read the guide › 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. Read the guide › 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. Watch the screencast › 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. Read the guide ›

Video training

Quickstart Quickstart setup guide video The fastest route from a fresh install to taking a first rental booking. Watch › Full library Screencast training video library The complete set of walkthrough videos covering day-to-day use of the rental system. Browse the library › 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. Read the guide › More videos Five more how-to videos Additional short walkthroughs covering specific configuration tasks. Watch ›

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.

Try the free live rental software demo See the WooCommerce rental plugin

Comparing options? Read our sourced rental software comparisons, or the case for open source rental software you own outright.