Run a video, dvd, or blu-ray rental store? Why not more easily manage your reservations and bookings as well as increase sales by using our online reservation system? Our online video reservation system allows customers to use an online booking calendar to make their reservations. Everything is managed online and easily. You can view bookings, inventory, orders, and bill customer’s credit cards. Sales Igniter Rental System Features:
- Reservation system for online bookings
- Customer management including their credit cards stored securely
- Admin booking system for creating orders from the admin side using a calendar
- Complete Video Rental Solution
- Rental Queue management
- Sell DVDs, blu-rays, or other products online and rent them too
- Marketing system using social media and email newsletters
- Very powerful E-commerce backend. Our rental system extends the already powerful Magento shopping cart
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Rental, Queues and Memberships for Media Libraries
Media rental has a shape nothing else does: high-volume, low-value items, short loan periods, waiting lists for the popular titles, and customers who want a subscription rather than a transaction. Sales Igniter handles all four, which is why it suits video, game and board game libraries better than a general booking plugin.
Rental queues for in-demand titles
When every copy of a title is out, customers join a queue instead of leaving. As copies come back, the next person in line is served automatically — demand you would otherwise lose becomes revenue you have already banked.
Memberships and subscriptions
Sell recurring plans — two discs at a time, four games a month, unlimited board games for a monthly fee — with automatic renewal billing. Predictable monthly income instead of unpredictable weekend footfall.
Copies tracked individually
Track each disc, cartridge or box by barcode. You know exactly which copy is out, with whom, how many times it has been rented and when a well-loved title needs replacing.
Scan titles out and back at the counter, charge late fees automatically, and sell pre-owned stock, new releases, accessories and merchandise from the same catalogue you rent from. Customers reserve online for collection, browse by genre, platform, player count or age rating, and manage their own queue and membership from their account. Your admin side handles walk-in rentals through a POS screen, so the shop counter and the website share one inventory.
Run It on WooCommerce or Magento 2 — Same Rental Engine, Your Platform
Queues, memberships and barcode tracking come with both platforms. The choice is about catalogue size and scale.
Sales Igniter ships as two products built on one rental engine: the WooCommerce rental and 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 movie and game rental plugin
Best for single stores and specialist libraries who want online reservations, queues and memberships without heavy cost.
- Rental queue, subscriptions and barcode check-in on WordPress.
- 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 movie and game rental booking extension
Best for large catalogues, multiple branches, or a national subscription service with serious traffic.
- Tens of thousands of titles, per-branch stock and high-traffic performance headroom.
- 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 Game and Media Rental Software Has To Handle
A media library is the one rental vertical where demand routinely exceeds stock on the same title, and where the business model is usually a subscription rather than a one-off hire. Both of those break a plain booking calendar immediately.
Many copies of one title, counted honestly
A popular release is one catalogue entry and eleven physical copies. Quantity tracking counts them properly and draws each one down per date, while anything you need to identify individually – a console, a rare boxed set – can be tracked by serial number in the same catalogue.
A queue for when every copy is out
The interesting question in a media library is what happens when the answer is no. The rental queue holds customers in order against a title and works through them as copies come back, so a sold-out release captures demand instead of losing it to a competitor.
Memberships and monthly billing, not just single hires
Most media libraries sell a plan – so many titles out at a time, billed monthly. Memberships define what a tier allows and recurring billing charges it automatically, so a member browsing the site sees their allowance and their queue rather than a shopping cart.
Fast turnaround, late returns and condition
Titles move quickly and margins are thin, so a copy sitting unreturned is the whole problem. Turnaround buffers can be set in hours, return reminder and overdue emails go out automatically, and a deposit or stored card token covers a disc that comes back scratched or not at all.
A Media Library Website, Not Just a Booking Screen
Because the catalogue runs on WordPress or Magento 2, the library is a real storefront rather than a booking widget:
- Cover art, synopsis, platform, player count and age rating on every title, with live availability and a queue position if it is out
- Members signing in to see their allowance, what they have out and where they sit in the queue for a title
- Your own SEO across the catalogue, so individual titles and genres can rank
- Member records, billing history and the site stay on your server rather than a subscription platform’s
A membership business is only worth building if the members are yours. Running it on your own store means the customer relationship and the recurring revenue both stay with you.
What Game and Media Rental Software Costs Over Five Years
A media library runs on small transactions and thin margins, so a monthly platform fee and a slice of every booking are felt harder here than almost anywhere else. 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 $25 average hire and 6,000 hires a year, a 3% per-booking commission costs about $4,500 annually – over four times the entire five-year cost of a one-time licence, on a business where every dollar of margin counts. 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.
Age Ratings, Platform Details and Checks on High-Value Hardware
Most of what a media hire needs to know is small but not optional. Which console, which region, how many controllers, and whether the person taking an 18-rated title is old enough to be taking it. Asking at the point of booking keeps the picking list accurate and keeps an age-restricted title from going out on an assumption.
- Platform and generation, region or disc format, and the number of controllers or handsets included
- Age confirmation on restricted titles, recorded as a checkbox alongside the customer’s date of birth
- Membership or account number, and whether the hire is collected in store or posted
- Preferred return method and date, with postal insurance offered as a priced option
- Player count and age range for board games, so what comes off the shelf matches the group
Because product-page fields belong to the cart line, a single order covering a console, a headset and three titles keeps the platform and controller count on the hardware line and the age confirmation on the title that needs it. For high-value hardware — a current-generation console bundle, a VR headset, a projector — an identity document can be collected at checkout and approved from a queue before the item is picked. That is a sensible control on a first-time console hire and an absurd one on a boxed board game, so it is applied per product or per category rather than across the whole catalogue, and the same is true of the damage waiver: worth switching on for hardware, worth leaving off for discs and cardboard. See custom fields and ID verification for game and media rentals.
Game and Media Rental Software Questions
Can I hold several copies of the same title?
What happens when every copy of a title is out?
Can I sell monthly memberships rather than single rentals?
Can I chase late returns automatically?
Can a title go back out the same day it is returned?
Is there free game rental software?
Do you take a percentage of each rental?
Ready to Take Bookings?
Turn waiting lists into recurring revenue. See the queue and membership system in the live demo.