Magento 1.9.4.x Rental Booking Extension
Magento 1.9 is being retired by Magento. If you are opening a new rental store please use the Magento 2 version
Regular
Getting started
- 3 months of support/updates
- 50+ Features
- Time of day rentals
- Checkout and Checkin
- Turnover (Buffer) times
- Damage waiver and security deposits
- Rental Contracts
Pro
Great Value
- 3 Months of support/updates
- All Features of Regular Plus:
- Pro Installation
- 1 Training Sessions
- Pro Design Template
- Extra Modules: Design Style Customizer, Slider, Featured Products, Mega Menu, Product Page Tabs
Credit Cards (2)
SSL may seem difficult to setup, but it’s really quite easy. Don’t fall for companies that charges lots of money to setup SSL. You will need a few things to setup SSL:
- An SSL certificate. SSL certificates do not need to be that expensive. The cheap $10/year ones are just fine, and offer the same level of encryption as even the $699/year ones do. If you pay lots of money, you are just paying for the name brand appeal of having say a “Verisign” branded SSL certificate.
- A CSR or Certificate Signing Request generated from your web host. If you are hosting with us, you can go to your cpanel > ssl/tls manager to generate your CSR. Then you can copy and paste it to the place where you buy your SSL. if the SSL place asks for server type, choose cpanel from the drop down choices, or Apache if cpanel is not available as an option.
Where can you get SSL certificates? Our personal favorite is http://www.namecheap.com/ssl-certificates.aspx the Comodo and Geotrust $9 – $10 a year ones are fine.
To accept credit cards online you will need a Merchant Account and a Internet Payment Gateway.
A Merchant Account is basically the same thing as a bank account, except usually it is a temporary storage of your funds until it is deposited into your normal bank account.
An Internet Payment Gateway is the place that does the online transaction. They will verify the credit card of your client, make sure it has funds, and usually do a quick fraud check.
We recommend using Stripe which doesn’t charge any monthly fees or hidden charges and their service combines both the Merchant Account and Internet Payment Gateway. Their rates are very competitive and clearly listed on their website. If you want to use Authorize.net We offer merchant accounts and internet payment gateway accounts via our partner Merchant Focus.
Features (2)
For Magento 1 please see: Security deposits
For Magento 2 or WooCommerce please see: Security Deposits for Rental Businesses – Tokenized vs Authorization
Yes you can. A multi-store means you have multiple store-fronts, domain names, and even design templates however they all share the same installation of our rental software. You might have something like:
Store 1 | mystore.com | Catalog of cameras
Store 2 | mystore2.com | Catalog of sporting equipment
Each store can also have a default language and currency attached to it.
General (1)
Magento 1.9 requires intermediate web experience, you will need to unzip a file in your web hosting control panel, and flush the Magento cache. The Magento 2.1 version is a bit more advanced as it requires running some shell/ssh commands. We offer professional installation though as an add-on if you are not comfortable doing the installation yourself for $99. If you subscribe to the monthly leased version installation is already included.
General Usage Guide (1)
Setup of your rental booking software is very quick. We can have your rental system installed the same day after purchase.
After purchase you will receive a download link and license generator link to download your rental booking software Magento extension.
If you want us to set it up for you and host it, we can do so on our fast web hosting server.
Inventory (1)
Yes our rental booking software works with barcodes and rfid tags.
Both barcodes and rfid tags do similar things. They track a unit of inventory by a serial number. So say you have 5 of the same camera but you want to track each separately rather than use quantity based tracking. You could assign each a serial number in our rental system like camera_001, camera_002, camera_003, camera_004, and camera_005 where “camera” is the unique identifier or SKU of your product.
Now when you go to check-out and check-in products you can input in our rental system the serial number. To input it you either start typing the first few numbers, or use your barcode or rfid tag scanner and it will output it to the screen.
We have a screencast showing more information about how rental inventory tracking works and using our system with barcodes or rfid tags.
License (3)
A license entitles you to use our rental system, or other Magento module for one Magento installation. We can license a domain name or ip address. Some Magento stores run multiple stores from the same admin panel using the multi-store feature – this is fine and not against our license. You can also have licensed your dev server. You may not however purchase our extension and use it in multiple installations of Magento that are all live stores.
Yes we do. You can receive a 10% discount on your 2nd license purchase, and 20% discount on 3+ licenses.
No you are not limited you can have UNLIMITED numbers of products, categories, or admins no catches or strings attached.
Both our regular and pro license does not limit adding rental products, categories, or administrator logins. This is a big advantage to using our rental booking software when you compare us to the other systems available. Most other rental systems limit how many products, categories, or admins you can have, and usually charge you more for having them.
Magento (3)
We recommend going with the Magento 2.x version since the Magento 1.x version will stop receiving security updates eventually (there is not an official date for this, could be 1 – 2 years away). Here is a comparison of the two: https://rentalbookingsoftware.com/magento-1-9-2-4-rental-booking-system-vs-magento-2/ Please be aware that there is no easy upgrade path from Magento 1.9.x -> Magento 2.x path you will need to start over again with a fresh store.
Magento Community Edition is a free open source shopping cart, it does not cost anything. Our Rental Booking System is a extension for Magento shopping cart that adds on all the features that are needed for rentals. This gives you many advantages. First you can not only rent products, but also sell them if you want to. Second, Magento has a huge user base so there are lots of other extensions, templates, and developers that can enhance your store.
Our rental booking software runs as a module / extension for Magento. This means that we have extended the core functionality of the Magento E-commerce shopping cart so that it can handle rentals.
There are many other Magento modules / extensions available besides our rental booking software extension. These Magento extensions do things like integrate social networks, payment systems, shipping systems, customer relationship management systems, and many other features that would take too long to list here.
Pricing (1)
We list out all of our pricing on our pricing page. The pricing listed there is the real final price. You can choose either our fixed price, or monthly leased plan.
Our rental system is a plug-in to the free and open source Magento Community Edition. There is no licensing cost or extra fee to use it. So to know your monthly or yearly cost, you have:
- License fee for Sales Igniter Rental System (basic is $499) – lifetime license
- Your web hosting cost. You may host with us ($25/month or $250/year) or with your preferred Magento compatible web host. Your web host is what holds your files and runs our rental system. If you use our monthly leased this is already included in the monthly price.
- Decide if you want to subscribe to updates/support after the included free support/update time (3 months with basic, 6 months with pro / multi inventory). This cost $99/3 months if you choose to continue. This is completely optional and not required. If you use our monthly leased this is already included in the monthly price.
- If you accept credit cards online directly (and not via Paypal) then you will want to get a merchant account. Many clients choose Stripe for their merchant account as they have no monthly fees or hidden fees that other merchant accounts do.
Programming Customization (3)
The recommended way is to add a link on your website that says something like “online bookings” and it links to the Sales Igniter rental booking website. It is also possible to iframe the Sales Igniter rental booking site to your existing site, but this is a bit more difficult and requires the help of a web developer.
We offer custom Magento 2 Programming Services if you are interested in having features added or having a professional setup your E-commerce website. Having a good Magento developer to help you customize or manage your site is a great idea if you want to go beyond the included functionality of our module. You can also use a developer to enhance your site, change around the design, apply security patches, do upgrades, etc. If you want to get a quote and check on our availability please fill in our custom Magento Development request form.
If you decide to bring in your own Magento developer that is fine too! Here are some tips:
Developers usually charge by the hour or project. If by the hour – they can use a time tracking tool like upwork.com or Time Doctor. To price your project first make a detailed description called a request for proposal of what you need, add screenshots marked up if possible using a screenshot markup tool like Awesome screenshot.com or similar. After your initial project is done other work you can usually just pay them by the hour to do what you need.
Important note: Make sure your developer does customizations for your rental system without changing the core files so that your rental module can be upgraded easily. For more info please see our programming guidelines.
Yes. Our rental system is 100% open source and you are free to modify it as you wish. If you hire a developer look for a Magento developer. Magento is PHP / MySQL based. We have a small programming guide available, and it should be made very clear to your developer not to modify directly the rental system source code, rather to use a local module so that if you want to upgrade your rental system later your custom changes will not be overwritten. Magento is very developer friendly in this regard and it’s possible to do modifications and keep them seperate.
Service & Support (1)
If you purchase a license you get 3 months of updates and support included. After that support & updates is $149/3 months or $299/year. Support and updates includes:
- Access to the latest version of the module you purchased
- Support tickets for any bugs or issues
- Help with questions you have on how the system works
What support & updates does not include:
- Updating your Magento site or updating our rental module, if you want us to do that for you please contact us for pricing
- We do not provide support for localhost environments, you must provide us ftp access
- Customizations
- Fixing issues or conflicts with other Magento extensions or modules. If another extension conflicts, we will analyze it for a few minutes, and if there is a quick fix we will do it, but if not you will need to hire a developer to help you.
- Fixing theme or template conflicts – we do provide best effort help though, but if it’s because of a special module the theme uses (like one page checkout or ajax add to cart) extra billed time may be necessary
- Phone support & live training
We can help you with the issues above like fixing a conflict with some other extension, design themes, and phone support but it is billed hourly.
Theme & Design (3)
Yes. Most templates/themes (95%) work out of the box just fine. Included with support/updates is up to 1/2 hour of time to help you get your theme working if it doesn’t out of the box. Theme issues that may need extra time are:
1) ajax add to cart modules (usually these can be turned off if not compatible, but many already work with no changes)
2) Some themes add homepage featured products and these are hardcoded to use a simple product price rather than a call to the magento getPrice(). If changes are needed for this beyond the included 1/2 hour it would need to be billed
3) Some themes remove default Magento functionality from the product page (bad programming techniques). Most themes do not, but if yours does it may need customization time to fix.
Our rental module has been installed into a variety of themes including Plaza Themes, Ultimo, and many from Theme Forest without issue. If we find any themes that are not compatible because they are very poorly coded we will list them here:
Venus Themes – these usually cause issues and we like to avoid them
The basic theme included with the regular package can be seen below. This has some banners added to it, categories, and products. It also has some content in the CMS for the homepage.
Here is how the basic theme looks with no products or categories:
For the pro design template we use the Ultimo Theme, you can check it out here: https://themeforest.net/item/ultimo-fluid-responsive-magento-theme/3231798 You can see the different variations and chose one from: http://ultimo.infortis-themes.com/demo/select-demo/
Web Hosting (6)
The server currently has php 5.3 -> 7.4 available. You can switch the version used by going to your cpanel > multi version php manager and editing the php used for your website.
For command line / SSH
It will use the version of PHP that you choose in multi php manager
SPF and DKIM are ways to make sure that email sent from your email address really comes from you and not some spam server. We recommend enabling this in your cpanel and it will also improve your chances of not getting marked as spam. To do so go to cpanel > authentication and from there click the enable buttons next to SPF and DKIM
Magento 2 has different web hosting requirements than Magento 1.9. Usually value priced web host will not provide the performance needed to host a Magento 2 website. We recommend a Magento specialized web host. We offer this service, or you can try Nexcess or Mage Mojo. Higher priced Host Gator or Siteground plans will also work as long as you get SSH access.
Please do not use Amazon AWS or similar unless you have a lot of experience setting up servers – we do not include install to Amazon AWS in our install package.
Hosting Requirements for Magento 2.4:
- PHP 7.4
- MySQL 8.0
- Elasticsearch
- SSH Access
More info: https://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.4/install-gde/system-requirements-tech.html
DNS is the domain name server for your domain name. This points your domain name to use a certain server to host your website. To update your DNS you go to where you registered your domain name (for example GoDaddy, Network Solutions, Namecheap, etc.) and login. After logging in there should be a place to manage your domain name. From there edit the nameservers for your domain. Our nameservers are:
ns1.itwebexperts.com
ns2.itwebexperts.com
After that please let us know what domain name you set to use our web hosting so we can make sure it’s setup. You can add it yourself if you want in cpanel > parked domains. If you want your Magento site to use your domain name set it in system > configuration > web > unsecure url and secure url section. Here are a couple youtube videos for popular registrars:
How To update GoDaddy DNS
How To update Network Solutions DNS
To run our rental software the requirements are basically the same as they are to run Magento 2. Here are what they are:
- PHP 7.4+
- MySQL
- Elastic Search
- Full details: https://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.4/install-gde/system-requirements.html
- PHP Extensions needed: PDO_MySQL, simplexml, mcrypt, hash, GD, DOM, iconv, curl
Please note that low cost hosting providers may not provide good speed – try our hosting, Nexcess, MageMojo, or a Cloudways Magento plan.
SSL may seem difficult to setup, but it’s really quite easy. Don’t fall for companies that charges lots of money to setup SSL. You will need a few things to setup SSL:
- An SSL certificate. SSL certificates do not need to be that expensive. The cheap $10/year ones are just fine, and offer the same level of encryption as even the $699/year ones do. If you pay lots of money, you are just paying for the name brand appeal of having say a “Verisign” branded SSL certificate.
- A CSR or Certificate Signing Request generated from your web host. If you are hosting with us, you can go to your cpanel > ssl/tls manager to generate your CSR. Then you can copy and paste it to the place where you buy your SSL. if the SSL place asks for server type, choose cpanel from the drop down choices, or Apache if cpanel is not available as an option.
Where can you get SSL certificates? Our personal favorite is http://www.namecheap.com/ssl-certificates.aspx the Comodo and Geotrust $9 – $10 a year ones are fine.
This product was perfect for my audio rental business. Being on the novice side I probably needed more assistance than normal to get it setup. Kevin was great to work with. The training was customized for my situation and he responded promptly and offered helpful suggestions answering my usage questions that saved me tons of time as I completed the product entries and figured out functionality.
Everything operates exactly as promised with no bugs and it has worked perfectly since day one. My only regret is that I didn’t find this product sooner.
Overall: Awesome Extesion with awesome support!
Pros: The cheapest and best option to run an online rent shop! Lots of functions and excellent support!
My experience for over 10 years with Kevin and Sales Igniter has been wonderful! He was easy to work with during set up and installation of a brand new website and the rental system was icing on the cake. He was always available to help with customizing the site according to my specific business needs and always notified me of updates and changes. I would recommend Sales Igniter to anyone running a rental service store!
Sales Igniter has allowed us to move our entire reservation system online and in one place.
We use Sales Igniter for Vacation / Holiday rentals, Day Fishing Booking and Self Storage Containers. Sales Igniter is incredibly flexible and allows us to control our availability across this spectrum of activites. The inventory control is excellent.
Sales Igniter is the only reservation software for Magento which accomplishes all these tasks. It copes with rentals for single day, part of the day, several day increments etc with flexible and seasonal pricing which is essential in the leisure industry.
I have been using Sales Igniter software for about 7 years since migrating from a basic information only website to a fully functional rental booking website. Sales Igniter created my website by merging the new design files with their rental booking software. From the very first interaction the service and support has been exemplary. Any questions (and there were many), or help needed, was always attended to promptly and with detailed explanations. I recently upgraded aspects of the website and once again Sales Igniter handled the task brilliantly and super fast.
Sales Igniter makes it so much easier for me to run my holiday hire business with features such as the ability for customers to book and pay online, the comprehensive admin backend, and the invaluable inventory tracking feature.
A great solution for converting Magento into a rental booking platform!
We are using Sales Igniter to run one of the largest photography rental services in India and we have been able to make a drastic reduction in the time our executives were spending over phone, making reservations on behalf of customers. Our customers are also happy about how great our site looks and the fact that it works without hiccups!
Sales Igniter has deep functionality that small rental businesses may not need but that is crucial to the operation of any rental business that expects to grow beyond 50 or 100 SKUs. The team is also proactive about adding new features and most of the time, these features work out of the box. The best thing about Sales Igniter, however, is the phenomenal product support!
Experience has been great, Prompt replies from emails and support questions.
We’ve been using the software for the past 4 years. A good thing about the software is it does everything and it is now our reservation system and we use it daily to look after our rental hires, customers etcetera The inventory tracking has been a godsend and totally stopped us from double booking and managing our quotes better. Being totally online means i can monitor from my phone and am not wondering how my staff are coping in the office
“We started a very difficult project couples months ago with Sales Igniter and they exceeded all my expectations, I’m very specific and perfectionist on what I want and the response from the Sales Igniter team was an amazing, what I love the most is their flexibility and the understanding of what you need. My next project will be without hesitation with Sales Igniter.
Thank you again for the great service!”
Our company does sound production and rentals. Before this software became available, we tried pretty much every SAAS option and other online rental solution out there hoping it would work for us… Once we found this one, all of our needs were filled. It was a huge relief to know that high quality online rental software exists in an affordable package.
Highly recommended!
If you are looking to run a rental website, look no further! The extension comes with all the features you will need to run a rental website. But, just in case there isn’t a feature already available, the extension can be customized to fit your needs.
Kevin, the developer, is great to work with and very responsive. We wanted to get rid of the reservations calendar – no problem, Kevin made it happen. We wanted to give our customers the ability to extend their rental periods – Kevin made it happen. We wanted to have our customers be able to renew their items without ever having to open an account – Kevin made it happen. We are yet to come up with any request that he is not able to fulfill! And, all of our requests have always been fulfilled in a timely manner.
We would definitely recommend this extension and Kevin to anyone looking to run a rental website (well, may be not our competitors!)
“I started working with Kevin in January 2014. Before that point I had no luck in finding a complete rental solution. Although it sounds simple the rental process is very complex. In our case we used it for audio video and lighting rentals and it worked great. The equipment we rent is expensive and we have to make sure we are protected.”
Kevin and his team have been instrumental in helping me launch my camera rental store, www.lenslends.com.The features that he built into his module exactly line up with what we need to get going:
–Easy, accurate inventory management
–Easy send and receive
The module is highly customization, and Kevin and his team produce excellent results from custom development as well.
“I told my web developers that this program is awesome and that for other businesses who inquire they should really give you guys a looksie before spending thousands elsewhere. This rental system has been a lifesaver for me. It’s been working perfectly..absolutely perfectly…”
I would very highly recommend Sales Igniter Software. We tried various companies including companies outside the USA and they were all a waste of time and money. Their rental backend is very reliable. Their customer service is absolutely outstanding. We needed a lot of revisions and addition and it was very capably handled. Regular upgrades and speed updates were very readily handled (including moving our hosting plan 3 time at no cost). I have absolutely NO HESITATION in recommending Sales Igniter Software and especially Kevin who handled our project. If you have any other questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.”
“Kevin, I just wanted to say how much we LOVE the new update. In particular, the calendar on the dashboard is a lifechanger for us!! We were creating something like that manually to help schedule our work, and it was a painful, slow process. Also love the ability to alter rental dates, and the new pricing options. Thank you very much for getting this update out!”
“We recently used SalesIgniter for a client’s rental site. It worked as described, and was easy for our Developers to install. The only ‘bug’ we ran into so far was a conflict with the 3rd party theme, which was quick to resolve (and that type of conflict is typical). This was in a Magento CE 1.9 store (there was no option for that in the menu) with very minimal customizations so far. If you are running into issues with your store’s customizations, a Magento Certified Developer might be able to help diagnose the issue(s) quickly. Each Magento store is unique and conflicts with other extensions could occur that need to be resolved.”
“We’ve been using the Calendar Rental plugin for over a year now and are extremely pleased with the results. We purchased the plugin with a 1-year support package and have been pleased to to see the module updated several times during this period with extra functionality and features.
Magento is not a turn-key solution i.e. expecting everything to work instantly out of the box.
There will always be bugs when multiple plugins are applied and a custom template added. It makes up for it, by being extremely powerful, flexible, adaptable and free for the community edition.
Magento is a large and complicated platform, the rental module saved me a considerable amount of time (compared to developing a similar module myself) and allowed us to launch a rental site rapidly.
Kevin was extremely helpful with debugging and support.
In summary, I am happy with the module and strongly recommend it.”
“The product is exactly what I needed to rent my wedding inventory online. The customer service rep, Kevin, was extremely patient with me. He walked through everything I needed to do to get it up and running. He even helped with my external problems that had nothing to do with him. Believe me, I bugged him a lot and he was always kind and willing to help. I would definitely recommend this software to everyone.”
“Magento and Sales Igniter have been with us from day one of CameraRenting.com Kevin Javitz has always been helpful and attentive with any and all of our needs. Thanks for the continued support!”
“I am not a huge fan of Magento but Sales Igniter is a very user friendly booking software for rental equipment. If I ever have a problem it is taken care immediately. Thank you so much Sales Igniter for helping my business grow!”
Customer Side
http://newdemo.rent-manager.com
To test rental queue use customer account:
user: kjavitz@gmail.com
pass: 111111
Admin Side
http://newdemo.rent-manager.com/index.php/admin
Username: demo
Password: demo111
