Description
Cozy Rental Catalog lets you build a beautiful, mobile-friendly rental item catalog in minutes — without any e-commerce setup.
If you rent items but don’t sell them online, this plugin is for you.
Who is this for?
- 📸 Photo studios — costume catalogs, kimono, dress, suit
- 👶 Baby & child gear rental — crib, stroller, car seat, bouncer
- ⛺ Outdoor equipment rental — tent, sleeping bag, lantern, chair
- 🏥 Medical & care equipment rental — wheelchair, hospital bed, walker
- 👗 Fashion rental — dress, suit, accessories
- 🎉 Party & event rental — table, chair, tent, sound system
- 📷 Camera & gear rental — camera body, lens, tripod
No shopping cart. No complex setup.
Many rental businesses don’t need a checkout or payment system — they just want to show what they have and let customers get in touch.
Cozy Rental Catalog is built exactly for that:
- Show your rental inventory beautifully
- Let customers browse and filter items
- Direct them to contact you or book via your booking page
- No monthly fees. No payment gateway. No bloat.
Quick Setup with Industry Presets
Choose a preset and your catalog is configured in seconds:
- 📸 Photo Studio — size labels, costume categories, color filter, gender filter
- 👶 Baby Gear — age range labels, baby equipment categories
- ⛺ Outdoor Equipment — capacity labels, gear categories
- 🏥 Medical & Care — size/type labels, medical equipment categories
- 👗 Fashion Rental — size labels, clothing categories, color filter
- ✏️ Custom — start from scratch
Key Features
- Beautiful 2-column mobile grid — large images, easy to browse on a smartphone
- Tap to open detail view — modal with full description, tags, and booking button
- Left/right navigation in modal — swipe or click through all items and photos
- Rental status — mark items as Available / Rented / Under Maintenance
- Flexible size system — fully customizable per preset (S/M/L, age ranges, capacity, etc.)
- Target note field — free text for age range, weight limit, or any note
- Color group filter — 9 color groups with visual dot indicators
- NEW badge — set an arrival date and display period; disappears automatically
- Smart filters — rental price, stock status, gender, size, category, color
- URL-based filters — link from other pages with pre-selected filters
- Multiple images per item — swipe through photos in modal
- Customizable gender options — Girl/Boy, Woman/Man, or any labels you need
- Multilingual preset support — presets automatically switch by site language
- Bilingual — full English and Japanese support (translation-ready)
Shortcode
[crcat_catalog] — Display all published items
[crcat_catalog category="Dress" columns="3"] — Filter by category
[crcat_catalog gender="girl"] — Filter by gender
URL Filters
/your-page/?crcat_category=Dress&crcat_size=M
Installation
- Upload the
cozy-rental-catalogfolder to/wp-content/plugins/ - Activate the plugin
- Go to Rental Catalog Settings and choose an industry preset
- Add items via Rental Catalog Add New
- Add
[crcat_catalog]to any page
FAQ
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Do I need WooCommerce?
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No. This plugin has nothing to do with WooCommerce or any e-commerce system. It is a simple catalog display plugin.
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Yes. Go to Rental Catalog Settings and enter the URL of your booking or contact page. A button will appear at the bottom of each item’s detail view.
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Can I show only available items?
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Yes. Use the “Available” filter on the catalog page, or add
?crcat_rental_status=availableto the page URL. -
Can I change the size labels and options?
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Yes. Go to Rental Catalog Settings and edit the size label name and size options. One item per line.
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Can I change the gender filter labels (e.g. Woman/Man instead of Girl/Boy)?
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Yes. In Settings Enable Features Gender filter, edit the options in
key=Labelformat. For example:
woman=👩 Woman
man=👨 Man
unisex=🌟 Unisex -
Does it work on mobile?
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Yes. The catalog is fully responsive. The detail view is a center modal optimized for smartphones. Images support swipe gestures.
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Can I link to the catalog with a specific filter already selected?
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Yes. Add query parameters to the URL:
/catalog/?crcat_category=Dress&crcat_size=M&crcat_gender=girl -
Does this plugin make external requests?
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No. This plugin does not connect to any external servers. All data is stored locally in your WordPress database.
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Contributors & Developers
“Cozy Rental Catalog” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Changelog
1.7
- Changed prefix from crc_ to crcat_ (4+ character prefix required by WordPress.org)
- Changed shortcode from [rental_catalog] to [crcat_catalog]
- Updated SortableJS to 1.15.7 (latest stable)
- Fixed i18n: removed variable usage in gettext functions
- Preset labels now load directly from language-specific JSON files without gettext wrapping
1.6
- Moved inline styles and scripts to external asset files (crc-admin.css, crc-admin.js, crc-front.css)
- Added currency symbol and position settings (USD, EUR, GBP, JPY, KRW, Krona, custom)
- Added spec labels feature — define custom spec fields per item (shown below description in modal)
- Fixed wp_unslash() missing on spec-related POST inputs
- Updated admin item list to reflect currency settings
1.5
- Bundled SortableJS locally (removed external CDN dependency)
- Added translators comments for i18n compliance
- Improved PHPCS compliance with inline documentation
- Version bump for WordPress.org re-submission
1.4
- Fixed save redirect bug (switched to admin_init pattern)
- Changed “Display Order” field label for clarity
- Added automatic comma conversion for size and category input fields
- Added My Preset support (custom-ja.json for Japanese sites)
- Added safe preset folder in uploads directory (survives plugin updates)
- Added image drag-and-drop reordering via SortableJS
- Fixed filter + modal navigation bug (buildFlat rebuild after filtering)
- Improved responsive grid (SP: 2 cols tablet: 3 cols PC: 4 cols, max-width 1200px)
1.3
- Added multilingual preset support — presets automatically switch based on site language (e.g. photo-studio-ja.json for Japanese)
- Added Japanese preset files for all 7 industry types
- Added translation files (POT, ja.PO, ja.MO)
- Added update notification system via smiling-studio.net
- Added version and custom_attributes fields to preset JSON format
- Security hardening: capability checks on all admin pages, sanitize/escape audit, XSS fixes in modal
1.1.0
- Added size filter to the catalog filter bar
- Added customizable gender options (Woman/Man/etc.) via settings
- Reorganized item edit form to single column for easier input
- Color group moved directly after image selection
- Size field and target note field consolidated
- Added clear save/update success message with next-action buttons
- Fixed image upload display in admin
1.0.0
- Initial release