Below is a basic comparison of our Magento 2 and Woocommerce / WordPress rental solutions. Both are different and we can’t say that one is better than the other, however for most clients we recommend the Woocommerce / WordPress solution.
We have developed the Magento 1.x and Magento 2 solution for a few years now, but found that Magento is slow to customize and that many clients already had WordPress sites that they wanted to integrate with. Thus we developed a custom WordPress / Woocommerce booking system based off of some already-existing plugins.
| Magento 2 | WooCommerce / WordPress | |
| Open Source |  | |
| Easy to Customize | Difficult – customizations take about 3 – 5 x longer | |
| Loading Speed | Needs high-powered web hosting | More moderate-powered web hosting is ok |
| Bookings by Day or hour | | |
| Many payment and shipping modules | | |
| POS |  Some POS modules are available but they do not integrate with bookings | |
| Rental contract signing | | Customization |
| Product maintenance | | Customization |
| Deposit to reserve (e.g. 10% down 90% later) | Some deposit modules are available but they do not integrate with bookings | |
| Serial number tracking | | Customization |
| Stored payment methods | Extra paid third-party modules (about $299) | |
| Custom customer / order fields | Extra paid third-party modules (about $399) | |
| Flexible rental pricing model | | |
| Return reminder emails | | |
| Filterable rentals report | | |
| Inventory availability report by day/month/year | | Customization |
| Edit bookings | | |
