Product Rentals Pro
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  • User Guide
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Getting Started
    • Installation
    • Setting up your Products in Shopify
    • Onboarding
      • Set your Store Settings
      • Import & Configure a Product
      • Set Delivery Methods and Defaults
      • Add and Configure the Rental Widget
      • Select a Plan
  • Settings
    • Store Settings
    • Rental Settings
    • Options & Variants Settings
    • Notification Settings
    • Add-Ons - Insurance
    • Add-Ons - Deposits
  • Managing Products
    • Importing Products
    • Products List
    • Configuring Products
    • Setting up a Product for Rental OR Sale
  • Managing Rentals
    • Overview
    • Rentals List
    • Viewing & Editing a Rental
    • Rental Buffers
    • Rental Statuses
    • Blackouts
      • Blackout Form Fields & Options
    • Find All Rentals for a Product
    • Rental Calendar for a Product
    • Creating a Rental Manually
      • Shopify Order Creation
    • Linking/Unlinking from a Shopify Order
  • Fulfillments and Returns
    • Fulfillments
      • Automated Rental Status Updates
    • Returns
  • Rental Widget
    • Rental Widget - Configuration Options
    • Rental Widget - Unavailable and Blocked Dates
    • Rental Widget - Custom Styling
    • Rental Widget - Advanced Customization
  • Other PRP Components
    • PRP Cart Manager
    • cart-quantity-validation Function
  • Selling & Payment Options
    • Intro to Selling & Payment Options
    • Part-Payments / Down-payments
    • Refundable Security Deposits
    • Damage Fees, Late Fees & Non-return Fees (Security Authorisation)
  • Plans & Billing
    • Overview and Comparison of Plans
    • SMS Usage Pricing
  • Troubleshooting
    • General Troubleshooting
    • Overbookings
  • Other
    • Improving the Cart & Checkout Experience
      • Preventing Quantity Updates on your Cart page
      • Blocking Checkout Shipping/Pick-up options based on the option selected on the Product page
      • Updating the price on the default Shopify Price theme block when the variant is changed
    • Supported Languages
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  • How to Configure the Product in Shopify
  • How to Configure Product Rentals Pro
  • Orders for Excluded Variants
  1. Managing Products

Setting up a Product for Rental OR Sale

Offer customers both rental and purchase options without creating separate Products in Shopify

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Last updated 10 months ago

There may be a need for you to set up some (or all) of your Products to be able to be rented by the customer, or purchased outright. Product Rentals Pro allows you to do this seamlessly, without needing to create two separate Products within Shopify to support this.

Example

As an example, an item you've rented for a while might be getting a bit tired and you're willing to let it go for the right price. You want to move it on to make room for more rental stock.

At the same time, you don't want to deny anyone wanting to rent it from doing that, as it's still a revenue source for you.

You can configure the Product to offer both options to the customer.

How to Configure the Product in Shopify

The best way to do this is to have an Option on the Product which either allows the customer to select their rental duration, or to purchase the item.

The Option would have values of "3 days", "7 days" and "Buy Now (yours to keep)".

The Option could still be named "Rental Duration", and it would still make sense to the majority of customers.

However, you might want to rename it to something like "Rent or Buy", and set up values like so:

How to Configure Product Rentals Pro

Go to the Exclusions section on the screen, and create a new Exclusion. Select the relevant Option from the dropdown and type in the specific Option Value that you used. It will look something like the below:

Once your Exclusion is entered, click Save.

Now if you go to the Product on your store website and select a Variant which matches the exclusion rule - e.g. Size: Medium and Rent or Buy: Buy Now - the rental calendar will hide and the button beneath will update from your configured rental text, to "Add To Cart".

Orders for Excluded Variants

If an Order has been placed on your store for a Variant that matches an exclusion rule, then it will go through as a regular Shopify Order, with no link to Product Rentals Pro and none of the line item properties you would normally see on a rental (such as start & end dates).

You won't see a record in any of the Product Rentals Pro rentals screens.

To let Product Rentals Pro know that the "Buy Now" value is for a purchase, not a rental, you would set up an .

This can be done from the screen within Product Rentals Pro.

If you aren't seeing the relevant Option in the dropdown list, it will probably be because you haven't into Product Rentals Pro yet. The list only represents Options that have been found on imported Products.

Options & Variants Settings
imported the Product
Exclusion