What's new

Track every physical unit, not just the product. Hand out and take back rentals by scanning a code with the free Android Companion app.

• Each machine is now its own unit, with a serial or QR code, service log and engine hours.
• A booking records which unit went out, so rental counts and service intervals are per machine.
• Availability counts free units, so a machine under repair drops out automatically.
• Bulk setup: paste a list of serials and create all your units at once.

• Scan a code to hand out a rental: the app finds the booking, you confirm, and the unit is on its way.
• Scan again on return: engine hours are added to the machine and a condition note can be left.
• Works offline in the yard — confirmations sync when the signal comes back.
• Pair a phone with a one-time code from your admin. Revoke any device from the same page.
• Label your gear the easy way: stick any barcode on a machine and scan it into the app. No printer setup needed. Or export a CSV for a label printer, or print a QR sheet.

Existing shops keep working exactly as before. Units are optional — add them when you are ready.

• Customer account block: customers see their booking and can cancel it right in their Shopify account — in their own language.
• Rental guard: a checkout rule that blocks rental products from being ordered without rental dates. Closes the "Buy again" and direct add-to-cart side doors. Enable once under Settings → Checkout → Checkout rules.
• Rental product marker and an automatic Rentals smart collection that always mirrors your configured rental products. Rename it freely; deleting it is respected.
• The booking calendar block now renders only on configured rental products — add it to your product template once.

• Refund watch: when a customer cancels a paid booking, HyreKit now verifies that the gateway refund actually completed and retries automatically if it didn't — and emails you if manual attention is ever needed.
• Background reliability: bookings, emails and refunds keep running no matter how long the admin stays closed.

• Free cancellation window per product and a secure self-service cancellation page, linked from the booking confirmation email — in all ten calendar languages.
• Cancelled bookings free their dates instantly and refund to the original payment method.

• Finnish is now the tenth calendar language, joining English, Estonian, Russian, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Portuguese.

• Multi-day hires are priced correctly in the cart again: the price always reflects the full number of rental days. Found by an early tester, fixed and shipped the same day.

• Calendar feed (iCal) event titles now show the customer name and order number, so a glance at your phone calendar tells you who is coming and for what.

• Standing customer discounts: give a customer a personal percentage and it applies automatically to their whole cart at checkout and in draft orders. Ideal for loyal renters, staff and partners.

• Long-hire discount, rebuilt on Shopify's native discount system so it works on every Shopify plan: set a percentage and a minimum hire length per product, and qualifying bookings get an automatic discount at checkout.

• Customer lifecycle emails: booking confirmation, a return-day reminder and a late-return notice — each sent automatically, once per booking.

Refundable deposits are now exact and never skipped.

• Deposits charge the exact amount you set, instead of defaulting to zero.
• The deposit product publishes to your storefront automatically, so a deposit is never missed at checkout.

• Bookings now use your store's own timezone instead of a fixed one.

• Import in-progress bookings from a CSV when moving from another rental app — no reserved dates are lost.
• Manual booking payment link: create a booking in admin and email the customer a Shopify invoice to pay.

• The date picker now lazy-loads, keeping product pages fast.

• Date picker reduced to under 10 KB gzipped for faster product pages.

• Manual bookings available on the Standard plan.
• Product limits applied consistently across plans.

The first public version of HyreKit: rent or book products by the date range, with the whole window reserved so items never double-book.

• Date-range rental and booking on the product page; the whole window is reserved.
• Cart hold during checkout to prevent concurrent double-booking.
• Multi-unit availability: stock several units of one item, each tracked separately.
• Per-product settings: units, minimum and maximum hire length, lead time, turnaround buffer.
• Refundable security deposit with explicit buyer consent before add to cart.
• Booking extensions: extend a confirmed booking and bill the extra days.
• Configurable per-day late-return fee.
• Admin Bookings view with manual booking entry.
• iCal feed for Google Calendar, Apple Calendar and Outlook.