Take bookings on your own website

Most rental shops already have a website. Almost none of them can take a booking on it — the site says "call us or drop by," and every booking costs a phone call, a WhatsApp thread, or a walk-in gamble.

StructuRent's booking widget fixes that with one line of HTML. Customers pick dates on your site, see live prices from your own rate cards, choose their gear, and book — with payment up front if you want it. The booking lands in your rentals and on the availability sheet like anything else, so your team never juggles a second calendar.

Here's the whole setup, start to finish. It's an afternoon of work, most of which is deciding what to put online.

1. Set your working hours#

Setup → Working hours. Open and close times for each day, including closed days. The widget only offers pickups and returns inside these hours — nobody books a return for 8 pm if you close at 6.

2. Make sure your prices are complete#

The widget quotes from the same rate cards you use at the counter: daily rates per category, plus any short in-day durations you offer. Every category you put online needs its daily prices fully set — the readiness checklist in the next step will flag any gaps.

3. Choose what's bookable#

Setup → Reservation widget. Tick the categories and items you want customers to see. Keep the battered backup bikes, staff gear, and counter-only categories offline — hiding them from the widget doesn't touch your fleet.

4. Activate#

The widget page runs a readiness checklist — visible items exist, prices are complete — and won't let a half-configured widget in front of your customers. Fix what it flags, then activate. Deactivating later is one click; the embed on your site simply shows the widget as unavailable.

5. Paste the embed#

The widget page gives you a copy-paste snippet:

<iframe
  src="https://your-app-domain/widget/your-widget-link"
  style="width:100%;min-height:640px;border:0"
  loading="lazy"
></iframe>

Paste it into any website — WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, or hand-written HTML — wherever the booking form should live. The live preview on the widget page shows exactly what customers will see before you publish anything.

6. Decide how you get paid#

Connect your Stripe account from the widget page and customers pay when they book — into your account, not ours. You choose the deposit: a percentage up front with the rest at pickup, or 100% online. Prefer cash at the counter? Leave Stripe disconnected and the widget takes reservations without payment.

That's it#

From here, online bookings show up alongside walk-ins — same rentals list, same availability sheet, no separate inbox to check. Your website goes from a brochure to a booking channel you fully own: no marketplace, no commission, your brand end to end.

The widget is part of the Pro plan — see pricing for what's included, and the widget docs for the fine print. Not on StructuRent yet? Start free and you can be taking bookings this week.