CarRentory – Car Rental Booking

Your fleet. Your bookings. Your rules. CarRentory turns your WordPress website into a purpose-built car rental booking system. Give customers a clear path from choosing their rental dates to selecting a vehicle and completing their booking, while you manage vehicles, availability, pricing and reservations in one place. Built for independent rental businesses, CarRentory combines a customer-friendly booking experience with practical tools for everyday fleet management. No WooCommerce required. No separate booking platform needed. Start with a complete Free booking workflow. Add advanced pricing and Stripe with CarRentory PRO, or accept PayPal through the separate PayPal add-on. Explore CarRentory | Documentation | Live Demo The demo may include optional paid features. A complete rental booking workflow, included Free

• Manage your fleet: Add vehicle images, specifications, categories, fuel types, daily prices and available quantities.
• Check rental availability: Match available vehicles to the customer's selected pickup and return period.
• Work across locations: Configure pickup and drop-off locations, business hours, closed weekdays and closed dates.
• Make vehicle selection easier: Offer standard or compact search forms, useful filters and vehicle cards with clear specifications and pricing.
• Offer useful extras: Let customers add services and equipment, with per-day or per-booking pricing and quantities where configured.
• Accept offline bookings: Include Pay on Arrival and Bank Transfer with your own customer instructions.
• Keep bookings organized: Manage rental details, customers, booking status and payment status directly in WordPress.
• See the day ahead: Review pickups, returns and recent bookings from the dashboard, with calendar and availability screens for planning.

New rental rules. More control over every booking. Your fleet has requirements. Your booking system should understand them. Configure minimum and maximum driver ages, minimum licence experience and automatic, itemized young-driver fees. Offer included protection plans and optional upgrades, with your own coverage descriptions, exclusions, terms and damage or theft excess amounts. Assign protection plans to vehicles and use fleet-readiness guidance to identify missing assignments. Display pickup-deposit requirements separately from the booking price; these are informational, not online deposit collection or card pre-authorisations. Driver requirements, young-driver fees and protection plans are included in Free and disabled by default. Enable only what your business needs. CarRentory PRO: more pricing power, online payments and financial visibility Take your rental operation further with the optional, separately purchased CarRentory PRO add-on:

• Seasonal Pricing: Set date-based daily rates for individual vehicles.
• Location Fees: Apply pickup and drop-off charges as part of the rental calculation.
• Stripe Checkout: Accept online card payments through hosted checkout, with verified payment updates and optional automatic booking confirmation.
• Tax and financial tools: Configure VAT-inclusive pricing where applicable and review payments and outstanding balances.
• Exports and administration: Export booking and financial data to CSV, print booking documents and use quick status and payment actions.
• Stripe troubleshooting: Use configuration diagnostics and privacy-safe support reports to investigate payment setup issues.

CarRentory Free remains fully usable without PRO. PRO extends the booking system; it does not replace it. PayPal payments, with or without PRO Give customers another familiar way to pay with CarRentory PayPal, an independent paid add-on:

• Accept full booking payments through PayPal's hosted checkout.
• Receive verified payment updates and optionally confirm fully paid bookings automatically.
• Manage full or partial refunds from the booking administration screen, with separate Sandbox and Live configurations.

PayPal works with CarRentory Free 1.1.0 or later, with or without PRO. It is purchased and licensed separately and is not included in a PRO licence. Payment-provider accounts, configuration and applicable transaction fees are separate. Built for your website and your customers CarRentory provides responsive booking screens, clearly organized rental information and customer and administrator booking emails. Compatible online-payment add-ons use the shared completion-email workflow so notifications reflect the verified payment and resulting booking status. Use CarRentory in English, German, Greek, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch or Swedish. The plugin is translation-ready and includes Polylang-aware page and locale handling. WPML is not supported. Developers can customize the customer-facing Free templates through theme or child-theme overrides and use documented extension points without editing plugin core files. Booking and customer records are stored in your WordPress database. Site owners remain responsible for their privacy notices, rental terms and legal obligations. Make your website work as hard as your fleet. Start with CarRentory Free and build the booking experience your business deserves.

1. Install CarRentory from the WordPress Plugins screen and activate it.
2. Open CarRentory > Setup and create or select the search/results and booking pages.
3. Configure currency, business hours, closed dates, emails, and offline payment methods.
4. Add locations, vehicle categories, vehicles, quantities, base prices, and any extras.
5. Confirm that the required CarRentory shortcodes are present on the selected pages.
6. Complete a test search and booking before accepting customer requests.

Updating to 1.1.3 Vehicles with missing or invalid base daily prices, or an explicitly saved quantity of 0, cannot accept new bookings. Review those vehicle records and enter the intended price and available quantity. A deliberately entered numeric price of 0 keeps its existing behavior. Existing bookings and their saved amounts are not rewritten. Theme and child-theme template overrides are not replaced by updates. Compare any overrides under carrentory/booking/ with the corresponding plugin templates under templates/booking/ and merge the relevant changes while preserving your customizations, hidden security fields and validation/recovery controls. In particular, an overridden customer-details.php needs the updated Privacy Policy block to display the configured link.

1.1.4

• Reissue of 1.1.3 because its WordPress.org download was unavailable. No functional changes from 1.1.3.
• Updated the plugin homepage and the Explore CarRentory link to the new CarRentory website.

1.1.3

• Prevented missing or invalid vehicle base prices from creating unintended zero-price quotes or bookings, including administrator booking changes.
• Corrected zero-stock availability and final booking checks while preserving existing bookings and legacy vehicle data.
• Clarified minimum rental duration and preserved entered booking details when customers correct their rental dates.
• Improved first-time setup, safe booking-page connections and Standard/Compact search-form selection with a preview.
• Made vehicle photos, transmission selection, age choices and date guidance easier to use while preserving existing vehicle and rental data.
• Improved protection-plan setup and fixed activation on the first settings save.
• Improved the mobile booking summary and booking administration, with accessible filters and rental details that remain reachable without JavaScript.
• Displayed the configured Privacy Policy link beside customer details in the default booking form.
• Updated translations and guidance for custom booking-template overrides.

1.1.2

• Improved standard and compact search with consistent field sizes, aligned labels and layouts that adapt to narrow theme containers.
• Improved translated search and calendar labels while preserving full accessible field names.
• Replaced the rental-summary arrow with a rental-duration indicator and improved its mobile layout.
• Unified date and time display in Free search and booking forms, administration and booking emails, preserving stored ISO dates and booking calculations.
• Use WordPress date and time formats by default and remove the separate editable CarRentory format fields.
• Preserve existing CarRentory display preferences until an administrator explicitly selects Use WordPress formats, without changing WordPress settings or booking data.

1.1.1

• Fixed protection-plan price updates before exact driver details are entered, using the selected search-age group for the provisional quote.
• Automatically open the selected protection plan's details and keep its selection and keyboard focus consistent after price updates.
• Keep exact driver details and all booking eligibility checks required when submitting the booking.

1.1.0

• Added configurable driver age and license-experience requirements, itemized young-driver fees and protection plans, all disabled by default.
• Added protection-plan management, vehicle assignments, informational pickup deposits and fleet readiness guidance.
• Improved standard and compact search with accessible driver-age selection, required-field validation and clearer rental summaries.
• Refined vehicle cards with aligned titles, consistent icons and clearer driver requirements and price breakdowns.
• Added managed fuel types while preserving existing vehicle fuel values.
• Reorganized payment-method settings and booking, vehicle and extra editors.
• Redesigned the dashboard around today's pickups, returns and recent bookings.
• Improved customer and administrator booking emails and saved driver/protection summaries on booking confirmations.
• Added a shared currency code, verified full-payment recording and capture/refund financial data for compatible add-ons.
• Send online-payment completion emails after verified payment and booking updates, with duplicate suppression; compatible payment adapters are required.
• Preserved notifications with older online-payment adapters and corrected inventory handling for separate payment-ledger connections.
• Fixed translated-field text preservation, mobile translation layouts and Swedish customer-email overflow; completed supported-language translations.

1.0.3

• Fixed the Stripe Checkout handoff so successful online-payment bookings redirect before theme output begins.
• Prevented duplicate booking and payment-provider processing when reusing the prepared submission result.
• Improved the booking admin layout so long payment identifiers and Checkout URLs wrap without horizontal overflow.
• Hide the optional Extras section when no extras are active and keep checkout section numbers consecutive.
• Clarified the booking summary with grouped rental details, readable pricing and the final total at the end.
• Stabilized booking and results typography so theme text sizes and weights do not distort plugin controls.
• Extended consistent typography to booking confirmations and aligned vehicle image heights in results.
• Display actionable settings validation messages on the CarRentory settings page.

1.0.2

• Strengthened booking-return privacy and protected terms-page handling.
• Added final spreadsheet-safety protection for CSV export values.
• Added Swedish and bundled the reviewed compiled translations for all prepared languages.
• Added payment-specific booking action labels, including the secure-payment handoff used by compatible gateways.

1.0.1

• Improved booking validation and protection against invalid rental requests.
• Added protection against duplicate and repeated booking submissions.
• Improved inventory handling to prevent concurrent overbooking.
• Improved booking availability performance.
• Fixed search filters when using Plain Permalinks.
• Improved responsive layouts inside narrow WordPress theme containers.
• Added compatibility with WordPress 7.1.
• Added general stability and security improvements.

1.0.0

• Prepared CarRentory Free for its first public release.
• Completed the responsive search, results, filters, booking, and calendar experience.
• Added complete frontend template overrides and a reviewed, contract-tested developer extension API.
• Completed multilingual catalogs for seven languages.
• Hardened webhook request matching, shortcode output, payment returns, and admin notice scoping for the public release.
• Kept Seasonal Pricing, Location Fees, Stripe, financial reports, exports, print, and quick actions in the separate Pro add-on.