Magento Rental System Version 1.1.1 Released

This is a smaller release, but includes support for Magento 1.8. It also has some admin speed improvements. If you already have a support/updates subscription please contact us for the files. If not, you can subscribe here: 

If you have not yet purchased a Magento Rental Booking software license, you may do so here. 

New Rental Business Marketing & SEO Web Site

We have launched a new website for rental buiness wishing to learn about marketing & seo. Right now the content is slim, but we plan on greatly expanding this website. Checkout the first article on 10 ways to improve your search engine rankings and a rental software directory. 

Rental System Warehouses Module Add-On Now Available

Need to manage products in multiple warehouses, and intelligently fulfill orders from the proper warehouse given the customer’s address? This module handles all of that.

• Add/edit/delete warehouses
• Each warehouse can have its own address which can be used to estimate shipping costs
• Set how an order is assigned to a warehouse – closest to customer address, or priority order that you set
• Inventory report shows for rentals the quantity per warehouse (rather than combined of all warehouses)
• Orders and Shipping page shows what warehouse the order is for
• (optional) Customer can chose the warehouse they want for their order, but this can be disabled
• If the whole order can’t be fulfilled for one warehouse, order can be split between 2 warehouses
• Each warehouse can have an email address assigned so they are informed via email for their orders
• Orders, invoices, and shipments can be viewed by warehouse

More Info: http://rental-e-commerce-software.com/magento-warehouse-inventory-rental-system.php

Installments / Partial Payments Magento Extension Now Available

What Is The Installments/Partial Payments Module?

This module allows you to increase your sales by not forcing your customer to pay for all of the order upfront. This is very common for rental / hire stores especially. The customer can pay for part of the order, then later comeback to the order and pay for the rest. All the information is recorded in the admin for how many payments have been made, and how many remain.  We have updated installments / partial payments module so that it can now work not just from the customer side, but also from the admin side in the admin create order page. The admin can choose to have the order use installments.

• Admin can set how many installments a customer can make for an order
• Customer can make payments from the customer side
• Admin can submit payments from the admin side for each installment
• Separate invoice is generated for each installment payment made
• Installments report page in the admin showing installment payments made – can be exported to CSV
• Customer can still choose to pay for the whole order at once if they want
• On admin order page, a new installments tab showing all the installments, the amounts, and if they are paid or not

More Info: http://rental-e-commerce-software.com/magento-installments-partial-payments-extension.php

Useful Magento Modules Free and Paid

Free:

Blog: http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/blog-community-edition.html

Google Trusted Store: http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/google-trusted-stores.html

Ebay/Amazon Integration: http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/ebay-magento-integration-order-importing-and-stock-level-synchronization.html

Google Shopping Integration: http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/google-content-api-for-shopping.html

System Configuration Search: http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/system-configuration-search.html

Multi-Table Rates: http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/site-management/shipping/webshopapps-matrixrate-1-multiple-table-rates-extension-certified-bug-free.htmlbased on weight, price, quantity

Admin Order Gride Customizer: http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/enhanced-admin-grids-editor.html

Mail Chimp Integration: http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/marketing/email-marketing/mage-monkey-mailchimp-integration-4865.html our recommended solution for your email marketing

Product Tabs: http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/magento-easytabs.html allows more advanced configuration for product info page

Allow Deleting Orders: http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/asperience-deleteorders.html

SMTP Email Settings: http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/aschroder-com-smtp-pro-email-free-and-easy-magento-emailing-for-smtp-gmail-or-google-apps-email.html

Paid:

RMA $149: http://ecommerce.aheadworks.com/magento-extensions/user-experience/rma.html

Points & Rewards $299: http://ecommerce.aheadworks.com/magento-extensions/featured/points-and-rewards.html has some very nice features like awarding points for reviews, referrals, purchases

Gift Cards $130: http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/gift-cards.html

Live Chat (Zopim) $11.20/month http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/zopim-live-chat.html

Facebook/Twitter/Google+ discounts for likes/tweets/+ $90: http://amasty.com/facebook-twitter-promo.html

Special Occasions coupons $79: http://amasty.com/special-occasion-coupons.html

Extra Checkout Fields $119: http://www.aitoc.com/en/magentomods_checkoutfieldsmanager.html

Extra Address Fields $79: http://amasty.com/address-attributes.html

Menu Editor: $65: http://store.paradoxlabs.com/easy-menus-for-magento.html or $59 Flexible Menus: http://amasty.com/flexible-menu.html

Multi-Fees $149: http://www.mageworx.com/multi-fees-magento-extension.html

Development Toolbar $49 Commerce Bug 2: http://store.pulsestorm.net/products/commerce-bug-2

CRM ZenDesk Integration $39.99 + Zendesk Monthly Fee: http://turbobird.net/pricing-versions

Email Forms $89: http://mageme.com/magento-extensions/webforms-professional-edition.html

PDF Related

PDF Customizer Fooman PDF makes it easier to edit and customize your order, invoice, and other PDFs $61.50: http://store.fooman.co.nz/magento-extension-pdf-customiser.html

Order QR Code Generator Moogento Pickpack $89 allows generating a pick sheet PDF with QR codes for each product: http://www.moogento.com/magento-pickpack-picklist.html

One Page Checkout

Aheadworks $89: http://ecommerce.aheadworks.com/magento-extensions/one-click-checkout.html

Apptha $99: http://www.apptha.com/category/extension/Magento/OneStepCheckout#ratings_review

Magestore $149: http://www.magestore.com/magento-one-step-checkout-extension.html

Aitoc $129: http://www.aitoc.com/en/magentomods_one_page_checkout_booster.html#reviews

Webtex $139.95: http://www.webtexsoftware.com/step-by-step-one-page-checkout-magento-extension

Shipping Labels

UPS Labels $149: http://www.infomodus.com/magento-extensions.html

FedEx Labels $179.99: http://www.cobbconsulting.net/magento-fedex-extension.html

Shipping Manager (Auto Generate & Pay For Shipping Labels For Various Carriers)

Shipworks ($15 - $50/month Depends on Volume): http://www.shipworks.com/shipworks/

Ship Station ($25 - $145/month Depends on Volume): http://www.shipstation.com/features/

SEO

SEO Suite Pro $149: http://www.mageworx.com/seo-suite-pro-magento-extension.html

SEO Suite Ultimate $399: http://www.mageworx.com/seo-suite-ultimate-magento-extension.html

Aheadworks SEO $149: http://ecommerce.aheadworks.com/magento-extensions/ultimate-seo-suite.html

Affiliate Programs

$99 Magestore: http://www.magestore.com/affiliateplus/pricing.html/

$99 Aheadworks: http://ecommerce.aheadworks.com/magento-extensions/magento-affiliate.html

Quickbooks Integration Options

T-hub atandra order manager with quickbooks export $300: http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/t-hub-for-quickbooks.html

Cartspan $500 http://www.cartspan.com/Frontpage/

eBridge starts at $1000: http://www.ebridgeconnections.com/blueprint/

Traxian depends on volume: http://www.traxian.com/account/buynow/magento.html

Magnetic One Store Manager $499 + Quickbooks $129: http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/store-manager-for-magento.html & http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/quickbooks-integration-addon-for-store-manager-8305.html

Netfira $99/month: http://www.netfira.com.au/Products/magento.aspx

Rent Master Sales Igniter Version 1.0 and 1.1 Updates

Version 1.0 (For Release May 21)

• Added send & return email notices for rental queue products
• Import/export support using regular import/export which can run faster than import/export profiles
• jQuery conflict fixes for custom templates
• Solved bug on sales > orders for filtering by start/end date
• Fix for authorize.net to authorize only deposit amount for deposits
• Is Reservation is now a required field
• Don’t show the deposit sub-total on checkout unless there is a deposit
• PDF shows just start/end date once per order not per product if there is only one start/end date for the order. Same for admin view order page
• Default send/return report to today’s dates
• Adjust rentals admin menu putting stuff under Rental Queue or Reservations for better organization
• Error check if admin adds serial numbers that the product is set to serial number tracking
• Allow $0 rental prices (some clients want to rent out stuff for free)
• Fix for IE on product page for IE versions 9 or older it was not loading the calendars correctly

Version 1.1 (For Release July 2)

• Send & Return overhaul for faster management - will all be done from Sales > Orders and be quicker to do. Click "Ship"  or "Return" and put in the quantity of each item you are shipping and returning. We will also be adding on new filters to this page for late shipments or late returns.
• Site wide blackout dates
• Only show start/end date once on the order view and PDF invoice if the order uses the same start/end dates for the whole order to save space
• Email logging/debugger for checking that your send/return emails and return reminders are sent
• Quantity calendar icon on manage products page to quickly check the availability by date of products without having to go to the separate quantity report
• Global rental dates on customer side - a setting allowing customers to chose the rental dates once for the whole order rather than on the product page
• Extend rental & buyout rental product features

Responsive (Mobile Friendly) Professional Rental Hire Magento Template For $199

Looking to get started with a professional design template? That default Magento template is pretty tired - we'll have to agree! We can install a Rocket Theme Magento template for you for $299. Checkout the designs below.

Templates:

NOTE: Each Design has styles you can chose to vary the colors (chose the style drop down Style changer usually on the top right of each template):

• Graffito
• Kirigami
• Ximenia
• Momentum
• Clarion
• Ionsphere

Of course you still need to purchase a license for our rental system if you don't have one already :) for $499 if you want to use our rental system, but this could be the way to go if you don't want a full customized template. If you need help customizing the designs our hourly rates are $85/hour for things like changing the logo, putting in custom images, etc however the admin panel for the template will probably get you by mostly for doing these type of changes without needing knowledge of web programming.