Do you rent sporting equipment like skis, snowboards, kayaks, bicycles, or boats? You surely know it’s important to have an E-commerce rental presence as well, as many of your potential customers are searching online for sporting good rentals. Sales Igniter allows you to run both your online and offline businesses from our Rental Management Solution. It can be difficult tracking your rental inventory because it can be with many different clients. Also your equipment can get damaged or lost. Sales Igniter allows you to track all your sporting equipment, rent it both online and offline, and collect payments. In addition, Sales Igniter also allows you to:
- Track all your sporting equipment inventory and view it on a calendar in order to see past and future reservations
- Create orders in POS mode or allow customers to rent online
- Create PDF invoices and estimates that can be emailed to customers or printed out
- Scan barcodes to send and return your sporting equipment after it’s been rented
- Charge extra fees for after hours delivery
Checkout http://www.snowlab.co.uk for an example of a snowboard shop using our rental booking system.
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Built for Seasonal, Size-Driven, Weather-Beaten Rental
Sports rental compresses a year of trade into a few months, and the stock is sized: a 158cm board is not a 165cm board, and a size 42 boot will not do for a size 45 foot. Sales Igniter tracks every length, size and grade separately, so what the website promises is what the shop can actually hand over.
Size and length are separate stock
Skis by length, boards by size, boots and helmets by size, wetsuits by size, bikes by frame. Customers pick their size and see availability for that size on their exact dates — no queue-side disappointment.
Pre-book online, collect in store
Guests reserve and pay before they arrive, often weeks ahead from home. Your morning queue turns into a collection line, which is the difference between serving 60 people and 200 on a peak Saturday.
Barcode check-out and check-in
Scan each item out and back with a standard scanner. Condition, damage and late returns are recorded against the specific item and the specific customer, with a full filterable history.
Season passes, multi-day discounts and package pricing (skis plus boots plus poles plus helmet as one price) are all supported, along with insurance and damage-waiver add-ons, delivery to hotels or chalets, and out-of-hours collection fees. Service turnaround time after each hire covers waxing, edging, drying and checks. Hire agreements are signed at checkout as a PDF, and deposits can be held as card tokens rather than charged — much easier on a customer who is already paying for lift passes.
Run It on WooCommerce or Magento 2 — Same Rental Engine, Your Platform
Sizing, packages and barcode workflows are identical on both platforms. Pick the one that suits your operation.
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 sporting equipment rental plugin
Ideal for a single shop or resort base wanting pre-season online bookings without a big platform bill.
- Per-size availability, package pricing and pre-paid collection 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 sporting equipment rental booking extension
Ideal for multi-resort and multi-country operations where each base holds its own boots, boards and bikes.
- Per-base Multi-Source Inventory and multi-language storefronts for an international guest mix.
- 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.
Ski Rental Software on WooCommerce
Ski rental software on WooCommerce has to solve a problem most booking plugins never consider: your inventory is sized. A shop does not have forty pairs of skis, it has forty pairs across a dozen lengths, and a booking is only real if the right length is free on the right day.
Sales Igniter models size and length as genuine inventory dimensions, so the availability calendar answers the question the customer actually asked. Season-long hires and multi-day passes price differently from single days, waxing and drying turnaround is held between hires, and damage deposits cover the boards that come back with a core shot. All of it inside a WooCommerce store you own, with no per-booking commission during the eight weeks a year that pay for the year.
See the full WooCommerce rental plugin feature list and pricing, or read why it is open source rental software you host and own outright. Prefer Adobe Commerce? The same engine ships as a Magento 2 rental booking extension.
What Ski and Sporting Equipment Rental Software Has To Handle
Sports hire looks simple until you count the stock properly. Almost nothing is one product: it is one product in fourteen sizes, each of which can be out on its own. Add a season that pays the year’s rent in twelve weeks and a customer base that arrives in groups, and the requirements sharpen quickly.
Size and length are inventory, not a dropdown
A 168cm ski and a 178cm ski are different pieces of stock. Boots run through half sizes, helmets and buoyancy aids through S/M/L, wetsuits through both height and chest. Configurable and variable products let one catalogue entry carry every size while each size holds its own availability, so the calendar can tell a customer their exact boot size is gone that weekend rather than discovering it at the counter.
A season that does not price like the rest of the year
Half-term, the first good snow week and a bank holiday do not cost what a wet Tuesday in November costs. Special pricing attaches to specific date ranges, and rates are entered by hour, day, week or month, so a two-hour paddleboard hire and a seven-day ski package live in the same catalogue without a workaround.
Same-day turnaround, tuning and drying
Skis come back for a wax and an edge, wetsuits need to dry, kayaks need rinsing. Turnaround buffers can be set in hours rather than days, so a morning hire can genuinely go out again in the afternoon while anything needing a service block stays off the calendar until it is ready.
Groups, families and multi-day packages
Sports hire is rarely one person hiring one item. A family of five taking skis, boots, poles and helmets for six days is one order drawing down twenty separate pieces of stock across sizes. Bundles let that go out as a package while every component still counts against its own availability, and the waiver is signed online before anyone reaches the shop.
A Hire Shop Website, Not Just a Booking Screen
Because this runs on WordPress or Magento 2, the hire catalogue is your website rather than a widget bolted onto it:
- Every size, length and grade on the product page, with live availability for the customer’s actual dates
- Pre-booking online at 11pm the night before a powder day, without a phone call or a deposit form
- Your own SEO for your resort, lake or town — the pages rank for where you actually are
- Customer records, order history and the site itself stay on your server
It also means the shop is yours. Hosted platforms hold your customers and bookings on their infrastructure; here the store is yours and the rental engine is a one-time licence installed into it.
What Ski and Sporting Equipment Rental Software Costs Over Five Years
Seasonal hire concentrates a year of revenue into a short window, which makes a monthly subscription and a per-booking commission bite hardest exactly when you are busiest. 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 $120 average hire and 3,000 hires across a season, a 3% per-booking commission costs about $10,800 a year — roughly ten times the entire five-year cost of a one-time licence, and it is charged in the twelve weeks you can least spare it. If you are weighing specific platforms, our Booqable alternative for rental businesses and Checkfront alternative without per-booking fees each include a section on when the competitor is genuinely the better choice.
Ski and Sporting Equipment Rental Software Questions
Can I hold stock by size and length?
Can I charge more in peak season?
Can I turn equipment around the same day?
Can a family or group book everything in one order?
Can customers sign a waiver before they arrive?
Is there free ski rental software?
Do you take a percentage of each booking?
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