Import & Configure a Rental Product

Importing and configuring your first rental product via the Quickstart Guide

This page only relates to completing the Quickstart onboarding displayed when you first install the app. For more general guides, visit Importing Products or Configuring Products

The Quickstart within the app makes this step fairly straight-forward.

First you're asked if you already have a Product set up within Shopify to import as a rental.

If not, you can create one, just as you normally would, but with a couple of recommended settings to make it suitable for rental and Product Rentals Pro. Just keep in mind that setting up a Duration option is only necessary when using Predefined Durations, which is the default/recommended mode within PRP. The guide to setting up Products in Shopify is below:

Setting up your Products in Shopify

Import the Product

Once your product is ready, you can click the Select Product for Import button, which will open the Product Picker modal. From here you can scroll or search to find the product you want to import, tick it, and click the Select button.

New Variant Options

After import, you may see a popup saying new variant options have been discovered. This will happen if you've imported any product that has variant options, assuming you haven't imported products with the same options before.

It won't open if you've chosen a product without variants or if you've chosen a product with variant options that've been imported before.

Any new options found will default to Affects Units.

If you chose to use Predefined Durations, and any of the options are the option you've set up to represent the number of days the product is being rented for, then set that one to Affects Duration. Note, if you chose Manually-selected Date Ranges, then the "Affects Duration" column won't be shown.

The setting for each variant option can always be changed from the Options & Variants Settings screen, and more detailed explanation of the settings is also on that page.

Configuring the Product

After import, your product needs to be configured. This really only means setting how many units you have available for rent, and if using Predefined Durations, how many days each duration option value represents. For a detailed explanation of the settings on the Configure Product screen, see:

Configuring Products

Once your product is configured, you can come back to the Quickstart and tick the checkbox to proceed to the next step.