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WooCommerce Bookings vs Rental Products for equipment rental
WooCommerce Bookings sells time on a resource, including hourly slots, while Rental Products follows physical equipment out the door and back again. Here’s how to tell which one your store needs.
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Rental Bundles for WooCommerce: Hire out complete kits as one bookable product
If you run a rental store on WooCommerce, you already know the problem. Customers rarely want to rent just one item. They need complete setups, which is where WooCommerce rental bundles make all the difference. The photographer needs a camera, a lens, a tripod, and a bag. The event planner needs tables, chairs, and a…
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Booqable alternative: Why WooCommerce store owners choose Rental Products instead
If you’re running a rental business on WooCommerce and researching Booqable, you’ve probably noticed it’s a completely separate platform. That means migrating your entire operation away from WooCommerce, or running two disconnected systems. For the 15,000+ stores already using Kestrel plugins, that’s a non-starter. Here’s why Rental Products for WooCommerce makes more sense for existing…
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How to handle rental quotes with WooCommerce rentals
WooCommerce rental quotes let you review orders before accepting payment with Rental Products for WooCommerce. Customers submit requests, you evaluate them, and stock only gets reserved when you approve. This workflow makes sense for rental businesses that need to verify availability before committing inventory, adjust pricing for specific requests, or control which orders get fulfilled…
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WooCommerce rental inventory: The complete guide
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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$20K in 48 hours: Building a WooCommerce reservation system that actually works
Imagine 250 homeowners vying for 21 prime lake buoys, with a reservation system held together by spreadsheets and good intentions. That was the reality for one homeowners’ association (HOA) until Brian Anderson of Tahoe Web Company stepped in to help with a custom built WooCommerce reservation system. This case study covers how Brian helped a…
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Another acquisition announcement from the team at Kestrel
Last year we welcomed extensions from acquisitions from Barn2, KoiLab, CheckoutWC, and a few more into our suite of products, each one enhancing areas like product organization, inventory management, and checkout. We’re kicking off 2025 with yet another acquisition: 99w’s set of 11 extensions have been added to the Kestrel suite. The 99w acquisition Rental…
