Author: Ian Misner

  • WooCommerce rental inventory: the complete guide

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    Rental Products for WooCommerce powers camera gear rentals, bouncy castle empires, wedding dress try-ons, ski equipment shops, party supply warehouses, tool libraries, costume rental businesses, and at least one company that rents out tiny houses on wheels. If you’re renting something we haven’t seen yet, we’d genuinely love to hear about it. But the plugin

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  • Rental products availability checker setup

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    Nothing kills a rental sale faster than a customer finding the perfect product, adding dates, and discovering it’s unavailable. The availability checker in Rental Products for WooCommerce flips this so your customers select dates first, then browse only products available for their timeframe. Adding the availability checker The availability checker is added to your site

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  • Using the Rental Products calendar with your team

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    Your delivery driver checks one app, the warehouse uses another, and you’re stuck fielding “what’s going out today?” calls. The iCal feed in Rental Products for WooCommerce exports bookings to Google Calendar, Outlook, or Apple Calendar—giving everyone visibility without WooCommerce access. Enabling the calendar feed Once enabled, a Feed button appears on the Rentals →

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  • Creating rental bundles for WooCommerce

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    Renting a camera, lens, and tripod separately means three bookings, three availability checks, and confused customers. Rental bundles solve this by packaging multiple products into a single rentable unit with unified pricing and automatic availability tracking. Rental Products for WooCommerce handles the complexity behind the scenes. Creating a bundle Each bundled item must already be

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  • Setting up rental pricing with WooCommerce

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    Charging $50/day but customers only see a confusing total? Rental pricing controls how costs are calculated and displayed. Rental Products for WooCommerce offers three distinct pricing models—choose based on how your rental business operates. Pricing types Type How it works Best for Period Base price × number of periods Equipment rentals charged per day/week Period

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  • Security deposits for WooCommerce rentals

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    Lost a $2,000 lens to a careless renter? Security deposits give you recourse. Security deposits protect your inventory by collecting a refundable amount at checkout. If equipment comes back damaged, you have funds to cover repairs. If it returns in good condition, you refund the deposit. Enabling deposits Deposits are configured per product: The deposit

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  • WooCommerce membership store credit: a better perk than discounts

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    Most membership programs offer the same tired perks: a percentage discount, early access to sales, free shipping. These work, but they’re passive. Your members receive them whether they engage or not. Membership store credit changes this dynamic. When actual money lands in a member’s wallet every month, you create a reason to come back, browse,

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