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Rent and Buy Product Wordpress Theme with Plugin

by protechonline
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Hello Everyone, I need help with a project I am doing. Please read through, anyone can help give ideas, solutions or suggestions.

About the project: I am in the process of trying to build an Online Website using Wordpress for my Bridal Shop that I own.
I need members to be able to login and then pay or go on a subscription to rent or buy the product (wedding dress) for a limited amount of time which they will then come pick up in person from our shop with their receipt showing that they have paid for the product and then when their product time ends they get emailed (to their wordpress user email) that time is out and they have to either bring back or renew their product.

That is giving you a basis of what I am building, now what I really need help with in the project is creating the rent product part. Is anyone able to give me some solutions on how I can set-up a product rental system using wordpress plugins, themes and if needed custom coding, or what applications or plugins there are that can help me with this.

NOTE: They are either to Rent or Buy the product. When they click rent, they pay a different price and when they click buy, they pay a different price.

Thanks so much, I need all the help I can get..
Great Wordpress Community by the way
#buy #plugin #product #rent #theme #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author Tywest01
    You can set up an online store that has the option to rent or buy, but may I suggest a different solution for the functionality you think you need as far as expired time rental notification? Instead of worrying about sending an automated email to those who have rented when it is time to return a dress, simply stipulate in the rental agreement that after a certain amount of time has passed, the total charge for the dress will be charged to the credit card on file. This will keep the responsibility of returning the rented merchandise on the customer. One less hassle.
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    • Profile picture of the author protechonline
      Originally Posted by Tywest01 View Post

      You can set up an online store that has the option to rent or buy, but may I suggest a different solution for the functionality you think you need as far as expired time rental notification? Instead of worrying about sending an automated email to those who have rented when it is time to return a dress, simply stipulate in the rental agreement that after a certain amount of time has passed, the total charge for the dress will be charged to the credit card on file. This will keep the responsibility of returning the rented merchandise on the customer. One less hassle.
      So do you have an idea of any wordpress theme that can achieve that?
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      • Profile picture of the author Tywest01
        It's really less about the theme, and more about the payment processing gateway you are using. For instance PayPal uses a process called Authorizing and Capture, which you can see here:

        https://developer.paypal.com/docs/cl.../auth-capture/

        The credit card your customer is using is authorized to cover the full price of your product, and you can process a portion of that charge immediately ( Rental Fee ). The remaining amount would be processed up to 29 days later. So, if your merchandise is returned, you could conceivably cancel the the transaction, and your customer would avoid the full charge. If your merchandise was not returned within the 29 days, the full charge would be applied.

        Again, this would all be set up within your PayPal account.
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  • Profile picture of the author RobinInTexas
    You can do that with just about any theme and a shopping cart plugin.

    For each item in inventory you need to set up an SKU with a sale price and a second SKU with a rental price,
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    • Profile picture of the author protechonline
      Originally Posted by RobinInTexas View Post

      You can do that with just about any theme and a shopping cart plugin.

      For each item in inventory you need to set up an SKU with a sale price and a second SKU with a rental price,
      Thank you but the problem I am only allowed to use 1 SKU.

      How do you think I can achieve this?

      Can I achieve this using Wordpress, OpenCart or Magento?
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      • Profile picture of the author RobinInTexas
        No reason you can't use 2 SKU's Depending on the shopping cart, you might have to be a little creative, but you should be able to make it work.
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        • Profile picture of the author protechonline
          Originally Posted by RobinInTexas View Post

          No reason you can't use 2 SKU's Depending on the shopping cart, you might have to be a little creative, but you should be able to make it work.
          So what do you suggest I do?
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