Add Booqable rental booking to your website
Booqable adds rental products, live availability and a checkout to a site you already have, which is what separates a rental business from a contact form and a spreadsheet.
Quick answer
Booqable lets you embed your products, real-time availability, and checkout into an existing website. Copy the embed codes or shortcodes from Booqable and paste them into your pages: on WordPress there is a plugin that adds the cart and checkout automatically, and on Squarespace, Webflow and Shopify you paste the code into an embed block. Payments run through Stripe, Square, PayPal or Mercado Pago.
Step-by-step
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Set up your products and availability first
Add your rental items with quantities, rates, and any minimum hire period before you touch the website. Availability is the thing customers are actually checking, so a live date picker over an inaccurate inventory creates double bookings rather than saving you calls.
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Set your rental terms in Booqable, not in prose
Deposits, hire periods, late fees, and collection or delivery windows belong in the booking flow where a customer agrees to them, not buried in a terms page. Rental disputes almost always come from a term the customer never saw at the point of booking.
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Connect a payment provider
Booqable integrates with Stripe, Square, PayPal and Mercado Pago. Pick the one you already use, and decide whether you take full payment or a deposit at booking. For higher-value equipment, a deposit at booking is what converts a casual reservation into a collected hire.
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Paste the embed into your site
Booqable gives you embed codes and shortcodes to display products, availability and checkout. On Adviita, open the AI editor and say: 'Add this HTML block to the hire page', then paste the code. On WordPress the plugin adds a rental cart and checkout automatically and you place shortcodes on any page; on Squarespace and Webflow you paste the code into an embed element.
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Put a date picker on the page people land on
Rental customers arrive with dates in mind. A date picker and live availability on the product page answers their only real question immediately. Making them submit an enquiry to find out whether you have a camera free next Saturday loses the booking to whoever answers instantly.
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Test a booking across a real date range
Run a genuine booking on a phone across a multi-day range that spans a weekend, pay whatever a customer would pay, and check the item shows as unavailable for those dates afterwards. Then cancel it and confirm the stock returns. Rental bugs only appear across ranges, not single days.
Tips & best practices
- Show the deposit and the hire period next to the price. Unclear rental terms are the biggest source of abandoned bookings.
- Keep quantities accurate. Overselling a single item is far more damaging in rentals than in retail, because the customer has planned around it.
- Add collection and return times to the product page, not just the confirmation email.
- Photograph items in use rather than against a wall. Rental customers are picturing their event, not your shelf.
Common questions
Do I need a separate rental website?
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No, that is the point of the embeds. Booqable is designed to add products, real-time availability and checkout to a website you already have, whether that is WordPress, Squarespace, Webflow, Shopify or a site built elsewhere. You keep your own pages and branding.
Can customers pay online, or is it enquiry only?
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They can pay online. Booqable integrates with Stripe, Square, PayPal and Mercado Pago, so you can take full payment or a deposit at the point of booking. Enquiry-only is an option, but for standard items it costs you the bookings that go to whoever could be paid immediately.
What kinds of business is this for?
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Anything hired out by the day or the weekend: camera and lighting kit, event and party equipment, bikes and outdoor gear, tools, furniture and props. The common factor is that availability changes by date, which is exactly what a normal shop checkout cannot handle.