Description

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

The optional automatic delivery-distance calculation uses the Google Routes API at https://routes.googleapis.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.

Google Maps Platform Terms: https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/terms
Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.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.

Installation

Install and activate WooCommerce.
Upload and activate this plugin.
Edit a WooCommerce product.
Enable and configure the rental option in the product data section.

FAQ

Are rental products normal WooCommerce shipping products?: No. Handover, customer pickup, and optional delivery or collection by the rental operator are managed by the rental workflow.
Can rental-bound accessories be purchased separately?: No. Accessories configured as rental-bound items are offered only in connection with a compatible rental product.
Is a refundable deposit treated as normal rental revenue?: The plugin handles refundable deposits separately from normal rental pricing. The legal and tax treatment remains the responsibility of the site operator.

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Contributors & Developers

“Patsch9 Rental Engine for WooCommerce” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

2026.10.2

Limit dependency notices to plugin management, verify deposit settings nonce directly, and keep bundled German translations in the common GitHub/WordPress.org package.
Fix deposit field registration and synchronize the latest checkout selection after pending requests.

2026.10.1

Preserve legacy carts and deposit choices; verify upgrades and block rental checkout while a migration is incomplete.
Invalidate metadata and HPOS caches and check every migration database operation.
Improve English source wording and German translations.
When using Accounting Bridge, upgrade it to 2026.10.5 before upgrading Rental Engine.
WordPress.org review hardening: canonical rmwc_ namespace with safe migration from historic identifiers.
Corrected WordPress minimum-version metadata and Accounting Bridge integration hook.
Added English source strings with a complete bundled German translation and translation catalogue checks.

2026.10.0

First stable public release using the project-wide YYYY.M.PATCH versioning scheme.
Consolidates the functional and security changes from all previous internal prerelease versions through 2.0.29.
Revalidated Checkout Blocks integration, HPOS paths, protected document downloads, pricing and availability checks, and the optional routes integration.