CarRentory – Car Rental Booking

CarRentory is a car rental booking system for WordPress. Manage vehicles, fleet availability, locations, pricing, extras, customers, and bookings directly in WordPress — without WooCommerce or an external booking platform. Customers can search pickup and return dates, compare available vehicles, choose extras, and submit a booking through a responsive booking flow. CarRentory Free includes the complete offline booking workflow with pay on arrival and bank transfer. CarRentory is built for independent car rental businesses and small fleets that want a focused vehicle rental and booking system inside WordPress.

• CarRentory website
• Documentation
• Live Demo - The demo may include CarRentory Pro features.

Complete Free booking workflow

• Create and manage vehicles, categories, rental locations, and fleet quantities.
• Check availability across the selected pickup and return period.
• Configure business hours, closed weekdays, and closed dates.
• Set base daily prices, currency display, and optional booking extras.
• Guide customers through responsive search, results, filters, and booking forms.
• Accept pay on arrival and bank transfer without an external payment service.
• Store and manage bookings, customers, payment status, and booking status in WordPress.
• Review bookings through basic calendar and availability screens.
• Send HTML booking confirmation emails.

Multilingual and fully translation-ready CarRentory is multilingual and fully translation-ready, with prepared translations for English, German, Greek, Spanish, French, Italian, and Dutch. Customer-facing text uses the active WordPress locale where available, and emails can use the booking's saved locale. The multilingual runtime includes Polylang-aware page and locale handling. WPML is not supported. Built for conversion-focused rental journeys CarRentory is purpose-built for vehicle rental instead of adapted from a generic product cart. Rental details stay visible, results keep the booking action clear, and the booking page groups customer details, extras, payment, terms, and price into a guided flow. No plugin can guarantee a conversion increase, but CarRentory gives you a focused booking experience designed around clarity, responsive use, and fewer unnecessary decisions. Control every customer-facing template Every customer-facing Free template can be overridden from a theme or child theme, including search, filters, results, vehicle cards, notices, booking sections, payments, pricing, and confirmation. For example, copy: wp-content/plugins/carrentory/templates/search/form.php to: wp-content/themes/your-child-theme/carrentory/search/form.php Keep the same relative path inside the theme's carrentory directory. Keep business logic in plugin services and hooks, not templates. Developer extension points Developers can adjust template data and template locations without editing core files. Useful extension points include:

• carrentory_get_template_args
• carrentory_locate_template
• carrentory_before_template
• carrentory_after_template
• carrentory_frontend_view_data
• View-specific search, vehicle, booking, payment, and pricing filters.

See the documentation for examples and the supported template structure. CarRentory Pro CarRentory Pro is the released, optional, separately licensed add-on for businesses that need more pricing control, online payments, financial visibility, and faster booking administration. CarRentory Pro includes:

• Seasonal Pricing with date-based daily rates per vehicle.
• Pickup and drop-off Location Fees.
• Stripe Checkout with webhook payment confirmation.
• Inclusive VAT calculation controls.
• Financial dashboard summaries.
• Payment and outstanding-balance reports.
• CSV exports for bookings, calendars, payments, and balances.
• Printable booking views.
• Quick booking status and payment actions.

CarRentory Free remains fully usable without Pro. Pro licensing, account management, downloads, and updates are handled only by the separate Pro add-on. Data and privacy CarRentory stores booking and customer information in the site's WordPress database. Site owners are responsible for privacy notices, legal terms, retention, access controls, and compliance. Business details entered in settings may appear to customers and in emails.

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.