Product Rental Widget

This guide walks you through configuring a rental product in BookThatApp. The rental widget lets customers select a single date or a date range, and supports three pricing models: fixed duration variants, a flat daily rate, or daily rate breaks based on rental duration.

Before you start: Make sure you've enabled the BTA Booking Widgets App Embed for your Shopify theme. See Enabling the BTA Booking Widgets App Embed for instructions.

There are 4 parts this guide will cover:

1. Creating the product in Shopify
2. Configuring the product in BookThatApp
3. Configuring Operating Hours
4. Setting up the product Rental Widget for your store

Example: https://bookthatapp-demo-store.myshopify.com/products/boat-rental

1. Create the product in Shopify

Start by creating the product that will represent your rental service in the Shopify admin.

1. Create a new product in your Shopify admin.
2. Under Inventory, disable Track quantity. BookThatApp manages availability through its own Capacity settings.
3. Add variants if applicable (e.g. Color, Size, Duration) and set pricing based on one of the three scenarios below.
   
   
4. Select Save.

Choose a pricing scenario

Your pricing setup in Shopify determines how you'll configure duration and capacity in BTA. Pick the scenario that fits your rental model — you'll reference it throughout the rest of this guide.

For a detailed breakdown of how each pricing model works in Shopify, see Pricing scenarios for rental products.

Once your Shopify product is saved, go to the product page and select More Actions → BookThatApp Configuration to import it into BTA.

2. Configure the product in BookThatApp

After selecting the BookThatApp configuration from the Shopify product configuration page, you will be redirected to the Service configuration page in the BTA app.

1. If this is your first configured service, you can close the Import Product Settings window. This option can be used later on to copy and apply the service settings from another existing service and ignore the remaining steps below.

2. Under Booking type, choose "Product" to set your Product Rental service booking type. 
   

    

3. Enter the Capacity for the Service (max number of the product available at any 1 time):
   
   3.1 If you hold a single model of the item to rent, leave the capacity Basis set to Product and insert your inventory/number of items:
   
   
   3.2 If you created variants to represent different models of the same item i.e.: Color,  Size, set capacity Basis to the Variant level instead (variants ):
   
   
   Note: Variants that represent Rental Durations should not be set as the basis of capacity Make sure the checkbox for the duration variant option is unchecked if you have one configured for the product.

4. Enter the Duration for the Rental:
   
   4.a) Fixed Durations - If the service has fixed duration(s), keep the duration basis set to a "Variant" level (or "Product" level you did not create any duration variants):
   
   
   4.b) Fixed Daily Rate - to offer a daily rate you will set the duration basis to a "Product" level and set the value to 1 full-day:
   
   
   4.c) Price Breaks Based on Rental Duration - To implement this, base the Duration off of "Variant". Select the "Variants represent date range?" checkbox and enter the duration values in the Range From and Range To fields.
   

   Other Service settings
   
    

5. Add Lead or Lag times (if applicable).

6. Enter the minimum and maximum values for the Date Range, and select to either Count days or nights. The Count days or nights will impact how the selection will be represented through the Widget:
    

   "Count Nights" suitable for overnight bookings:	"Count Days" suitable for full-day bookings:

   
   

7. Add a cutoff date or future date (if applicable);
8. If desired, choose a set of colors for the product.  This allows you to differentiate products and events by color on the Booking Overview Calendar.
   
   
    
9. Select Save.