> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://app.docs.circuly.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Set Up a Rental Product

> Make a Shopify product rentable: pick the product, set its rental capacity, and assign a pricing template.

## Overview

Setting up a rental product makes one of your existing Shopify products available to rent. A short guided wizard walks you through three steps: choose the product, set how many units you have to rent, and pick the pricing template that decides what customers pay.

Once a product is set up, it appears in your **Rental inventory** list and — after you add the rental calendar block to your theme — customers can pick rental dates right on the product page.

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## Before you start

Make sure both of these are in place before you open the wizard.

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="A pricing template exists" icon="tag">
    At least one rental pricing template must already exist. Templates live
    under **Rentals → Pricing** and define what customers pay per rental period.
  </Card>

  <Card title="The product exists in Shopify" icon="box">
    The product you want to rent must already exist in your Shopify catalogue.
    The wizard uses Shopify's product picker to select it.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

<Note>
  If no pricing template exists yet, the wizard shows a warning and you won't be
  able to finish setup. Create one first under **Rentals → Pricing**, then come
  back. See [Rental pricing templates](/docs/mintlify/rental-pricing-templates).
</Note>

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## Open the wizard

1. Go to **Shopify Admin** → **Circuly Rental & Subscriptions** → **Rentals** → **Inventory**.
2. Click **Add a rental product**.
   * On your first visit, the page is empty and shows a **Set up your first rental product** panel with the **Add a rental product** button.
   * Once you have rental products, use the **Add rental product** action at the top of the **Rental inventory** page.

The **Add a rental product** wizard opens in a single window. Later steps stay locked until the earlier ones are filled in.

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## Walk through the wizard

<Steps>
  <Step title="Choose a product">
    Click **Select product** to open Shopify's product picker, then choose the
    product you want to rent. After picking, the product title is shown — use
    **Change** if you selected the wrong one.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Set rental capacity">
    In **Units available to rent**, enter how many of this product you have on
    hand to rent out. This must be a whole number of **1 or more**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Pricing & inventory">
    Choose the **Pricing template** that should apply to this product — this
    decides what customers pay. Then confirm the **Inventory mode**:

    | Inventory mode | What it means                                                                            |
    | -------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
    | **Separate**   | Keeps rental stock independent from your buy-now inventory. This is selected by default. |
    | **Shared**     | Same product for rent and buy. *Coming in v1.1* — not yet available.                     |
  </Step>

  <Step title="Add to rental inventory">
    Click **Add to rental inventory**. We create one inventory record per
    variant, and the product becomes rentable.
  </Step>
</Steps>

<Warning>
  If the chosen product or variant has Shopify stock tracking turned **on** with
  "stop selling when out of stock", the wizard blocks setup. Rental availability
  is tracked by Circuly, not by Shopify's stock count, so you must turn that
  tracking off for rental products. See the
  [rental inventory model](/docs/mintlify/rental-inventory-model) for the full
  explanation.
</Warning>

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## After setup

<Steps>
  <Step title="Add the calendar block to your theme">
    For customers to book rentals, the rental calendar block must be added to
    your product page in the Shopify Theme Editor. See
    [Theme extension setup](/docs/mintlify/theme-extension) and the
    [rental booking flow](/docs/mintlify/rental-booking-flow).
  </Step>

  <Step title="Find it in the inventory table">
    The product now appears in the **Rental inventory** list with its capacity
    and assigned pricing template, alongside live counts of how many units are
    available, rented, on hold, or out of service.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Edit capacity later">
    To change a product's rental capacity or pricing template, open it from the
    **Rental inventory** list and update it there.
  </Step>
</Steps>

<Info>
  Already have active rental subscriptions from before? Use **Sync from active
  rentals** on the **Rental inventory** page to import them instead of setting
  each one up by hand.
</Info>