Comparing Shopify rental apps?

Most booking apps were built for appointments and later stretched to cover rentals. HyreKit is built for one job — renting your products by the day. Here is how that focus shows up.

Install HyreKit — free plan See migration guide

Coming from another app? We migrate your existing bookings for free. No per-booking cut, ever.

What focus on rentals changes

Set up yourself, no developer

HyreKit installs as a Shopify theme-app-extension and finds your product's add-to-cart form on its own. No paid installation, no theme surgery — the calendar appears on the product page once you switch it on.

Deposits are native, not pasted code

With many apps, taking a refundable bond means adding custom code to your theme to drop a deposit product in the cart. HyreKit adds the refundable deposit at checkout as its own clear line, with buyer consent — nothing to paste, nothing to break on a theme update.

A calendar your customers can read

The booking calendar renders on the product page in 9 languages — English, Estonian, Russian, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese — and builds dates in your shop's own timezone.

Built for by-the-day hire

Pick a start and end date and HyreKit reserves every day of the window, not just the first — so two customers can't book the same item for overlapping days. The item is held in the cart through checkout.

Honest, simple pricing

Free Basic plan, Standard at $14/mo, Premium at $29/mo. Multi-unit, turnaround buffers, deposits, extensions and late fees as you grow — billed flat on your Shopify invoice, never a slice of your revenue.

Modern and maintained

A clean, fast widget that works across themes and stays current with Shopify's latest extension platform — not a tool that feels frozen a few years back.

Rental-focused vs general booking apps

	HyreKit	Typical booking app
Setup	Self-serve, no code	Often needs a developer / paid install
Refundable deposit	Native, at checkout	Custom theme code required
Storefront calendar languages	9 languages	Usually English only
By-the-day, whole window reserved	Yes	Geared to appointment slots
Free plan with multi-day	Yes	Often limited on free
Migration	Free, we help (CSV)	Usually on you

Being fair: general booking apps often do more than HyreKit — complex multi-resource scheduling, hourly appointment slots, POS and APIs. If your business needs those, one of them may be the better fit. HyreKit is deliberately narrow — modern, no-code, by-the-day rentals — and that focus is the whole point.

Bring your rentals across — free

Install HyreKit, send us your current bookings, and we'll get your store live without losing a reservation. Your data stays in Shopify.

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