About this plugin
Patsch9 Rental Engine adds rental and equipment booking workflows to WooCommerce. Rental products can use date-based availability, configurable pricing, refundable deposits, rental terms, documents, accessories, physical inventory assignments, and handover/return workflows.
The plugin supports the classic WooCommerce checkout as well as Cart and Checkout Blocks and declares High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS) compatibility.
Trademark notice: WooCommerce® is a trademark of Automattic Inc. This is an independent third-party extension and is not produced, sponsored, or endorsed by Automattic.
Features
- Rental periods with start/end dates and configurable times.
- Server-side availability and capacity validation.
- Weekday and weekend pricing, blocked weekdays, and advance booking limits.
- Refundable deposits with multiple deposit handling options.
- Versioned global and product-specific rental terms.
- Rental contracts, deposit receipts, and handover/return protocols as PDF documents.
- Accessories, consumables, and rental-bound add-on products.
- Physical inventory assignment and handover/return workflow.
- Customer pickup and optional delivery/collection workflows.
- Classic Checkout and WooCommerce Cart/Checkout Blocks.
- HPOS compatibility.
Requirements
- WordPress 6.9 or newer.
- PHP 8.2 or newer.
- WooCommerce 10.9.4 or newer.
Configuration
Most rental settings are configured directly on the WooCommerce product. These include rental duration, times, prices, deposits, accessories, delivery options, and handover rules. Global rental terms, inventory, document, and workflow settings are available in the plugin’s WooCommerce administration screens.
External Services
Google Routes API
com/directions/v2:computeRoutes. This feature is disabled by default.
When enabled, the configured origin address and the delivery address entered by the customer are sent to Google together with the technical connection data required for the request. Route responses are not persistently cached by this plugin.
com/maps-platform/terms
com/privacy
The site operator is responsible for providing the required privacy information and for complying with the applicable Google terms.
Privacy
Core rental functionality runs locally in WordPress and WooCommerce. Delivery addresses are sent to Google only when the optional automatic route calculation is explicitly enabled.
The plugin stores rental booking data required for availability management and may create immutable business-document snapshots containing order, rental, deposit, and accepted-terms data.
Compatibility
- WooCommerce HPOS compatibility is declared.
- Classic Checkout and Cart/Checkout Blocks are supported.
- Historic prerelease storage identifiers are recognized during upgrade and migrated to the canonical rmwc_ namespace.