This section covers Overview for FW Rental for WooCommerce.
FW Rental for WooCommerce turns WooCommerce products into rentable items without replacing anything WooCommerce already does. A shopper picks a pickup date and a return date on the product page, sees what that period costs and how many units are available, and books through the ordinary WooCommerce cart and checkout. Rental products are standard WooCommerce ...
Before You Begin WooCommerce must be installed and active before FW Rental for WooCommerce can be activated. WordPress enforces this requirement directly, so install WooCommerce first if it is not already present. Installing the Plugin Install and activate WooCommerce. In the WordPress admin, go to Plugins > Add New, search for FW Rental for WooComm...
...far in advance a customer must book. Find them at WooCommerce > Settings > Rental, in the Availability group. Setting Default What it does Show availability Yes Show how many units are free for the chosen dates on the product page. Paid orders hold dates Yes Booki...
...at a Shopper Sees The rental form renders inside WooCommerce's own add-to-cart form, so your theme's button and layout are used exactly as they are everywhere else on your shop. A shopper on a rental product page sees the following. A calendar with the chosen date range highlighted, moving from pickup to return as the shopper adjusts their selection. Da...
...n record for that period. Rentals do not consume WooCommerce stock WooCommerce's stock arithmetic is left entirely alone for outright sales and is bypassed for rental lines. A rental occupies dates rather than reducing a stock count. Without this separation, the system would refuse a booking for dates that are genuinely free, simply because units are booke...
...ow Add-ons Arrive Paid add-ons for FW Rental for WooCommerce are delivered inside a pack — an ordinary WordPress plugin that you download from your client section on fastw3b.com. Install it the same way you would install any plugin: go to Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin, select the downloaded file, and click Install Now. Once you activate the pack...
...s can be overridden from your theme, the same way WooCommerce's own templates work. Copy the file you want to change into a fw-rental-for-woocommerce/ folder inside your active theme, then edit that copy. The original file in the plugin is left untouched and your changes survive plugin updates. The available templates are: product/rental-form.php — th...
This Site and the Store WooCommerce > FW Rental is the plugin's own screen. It shows what this site is registered as, which add-ons are installed, and what a subscription adds. Connecting Is Optional Every rental feature works on a shop that never connects, and the plugin updates through WordPress.org either way. What connecting does is register this s...
...his section covers Installation for FW Rental for WooCommerce.