# Rental settings

Your store-wide rental rules. They apply to new rental products unless you override them on an individual product.

## Max calendar days

How far into the future customers can book. For example, **365** lets customers book up to a year ahead.

## Reserve button destination

Where customers go after they reserve a rental. The rental and its fees are always added to the cart first.

- **Cart page**: Opens the full cart page (the default).
- **Cart drawer**: Opens your theme's cart drawer. If the theme has no compatible drawer, the cart page opens instead.
- **Checkout**: Sends the customer straight to Shopify checkout.

## Variant labels

The Shopify option names the app uses to find sizes, rental durations and sell variants.

- **Size Variant Name**: The option name used for sizes. The default is **Size**. Options named Duration are never shown as sizes.
- **Duration Option Name**: Always **Duration**. Option values can be formatted like **4 Days**.
- **Rental Duration Fallbacks**: Up to five comma-separated day counts, for example **2, 4, 7**. Only used when a product has no Duration variant.
- **Enable Sell Variant**: Allow a variant to be bought outright (not rented) when its title contains the sell label.
- **Sell Variant Label**: The label to look for, for example **Buy**. It must be a full slash-separated part of the variant title, so **Large / Buy** matches.
- **Block Buy when upcoming rentals exist**: Hide the Buy option while a product has active or upcoming rentals. Products can override this.

## Rental duration model

How a rental's length is set for products that don't override it:

- **Fixed durations**: Customers choose a rental length (for example 4 or 8 days) from a list, priced per Shopify variant. [Guide](https://thedressrentalapp.com/docs/duration)
- **Next business day**: No duration picker. Customers choose a start date and the return date is set to the next weekday. [Guide](https://thedressrentalapp.com/docs/next-business-day)

## Storefront calendar default

What the calendar shows when it first opens: **Today's date** (the current month), or **Next available date** (jumps to the first month with a bookable date, skipping fully booked or blocked months).

## Price matching

Tick **Enable price match requests** to show a price match link in the rental widget after customers choose their dates, size and duration. Requests appear in [Quote Requests](https://thedressrentalapp.com/docs/quote-requests).

## Bond default

The default refundable security bond. Choose **Flat Rate** to charge the same amount on every rental, or **Percentage** to calculate it from the product or rental price. Products can override this.

## Cleaning fee default

Covers standard dry cleaning, laundry or garment care. Products can override this.

![Rental settings showing Max Calendar Days, Variant Labels, Bond Default and Cleaning Fee Default](https://thedressrentalapp.com/images/docs/settings-rental-defaults.png)

## Inventory default

| Option | Best for |
| --- | --- |
| **Inventory by Product** | One-off items. The whole product is one rental item. Set **Quantity** to how many units you own, and the app uses it to prevent overbooking. |
| **Inventory by Variant** | Dresses in multiple sizes or colours. Availability is tracked separately for each variant. |

![Inventory Default card with Inventory by Product selected and Quantity 1](https://thedressrentalapp.com/images/docs/settings-inventory-default.png)

## Cart rules

- **Force Same Dates on Cart**: Every rental in the cart must use the same start and return dates. Useful if each order is for one event.
- **Lock rental quantity to 1**: Customers can only rent one unit per product or variant. Recommended for dress hire.
- **Prevent Duplicate Rentals**: Off by default. When on, customers who add a product that's already in their cart see a popup asking them to remove the existing rental first.

![Force Same Dates on Cart card with Enable ticked](https://thedressrentalapp.com/images/docs/settings-force-same-dates.png)

![Lock Rental Quantity card with Lock rental quantity to 1 checkbox](https://thedressrentalapp.com/images/docs/settings-lock-quantity.png)

Source: https://thedressrentalapp.com/docs/rental