Steps:
Create a Rental Category
Set up your rental gear as individual products in the Stock feature
Add the Rental Gear stock item into your POS setup
Create a member benefit for free rentals
This lets you:
Add a price for the rental & create free member or member discounted rentals on premium items such as lead ropes.
Track inventory (e.g., how many shoes or harnesses you have)
Use barcodes or SKUs if needed
Organize items with categories for easier POS use
This guide is a series of notes as useful points to setup rentals, it assumes you know how to add a product, edit your POS and create discounts.
Guides on these are:
Step 1. Create a new product category
Navigation: Products > Stock > Categories (in the new navigation lane)
Step 2. Set up your rental gear as individual products in the Stock feature
Navigation: Products > Stock > Products (in the new navigation lane)
recommendations:
Title - Give it a clear title, and use the word rental in, to allow text search.
Toggle Favourites to ON
Turn Sell Online to the OFF position
Use the Variants feature to add in the different size rental shoes you have, or different Belay devices you have
Step 3. Configure the POS
Navigation: Settings > Point of Sale
recommendations:
Give the POS item a clear name, such as "rentals"
do not input more than 6 products into the rentals sections, this is to avoid a cluttered screen
drag the "rentals" POS menu item by the 6 black dots next to your Day Passes menu to increase front desk efficiency
Save your changes!
Step 4. Create a member benefit
Navigation: Products > Discounts
recommendations:
Make this a member benefit - toggled ON
Standard rentals can be set to 100% discount
Create a tiered membership discount structure for premium rentals:
A VIP membership could get 100% discount on premium rentals
A Standard membership could get 50% discount on premium rentals
A Basic membership gets no discount on premium rentals.
A premium rental could be a lead rope, Grigri, nicer rental shoes.