Surf & SUP Rental Software

A rental shop on your own website

Rental products get their own Rentals tab on your SurfSlot booking page, next to your lessons, and the same booking page embeds on your website. Customers pick a start date (and an end date for multi-day hire), add items to a cart and pay, without messaging you first.

If you only rent and don't teach, choose the shop account type when you sign up. Setup skips the instructor and beach steps that a surf school needs, so you go straight to products, stock and payments.

Price by the day, by the hour, or both

Each rental product is priced by the day or by the hour, and a product can offer both, so a customer can pick two hours on a softboard or a full week on a SUP. On top of the base price you can add duration tiers as upsells:

• 1 hour / 3 hours / all day for boards and SUPs
• 3 days / 7 days for surf-trip customers
• Any label and price you like

Daily rentals are charged per day across the dates the customer picks, so a Friday-to-Sunday hire is priced correctly without you doing the maths.

Live stock, so you never rent the same board twice

For every item you set how many you have available per day: six 8ft softboards, four inflatable SUPs, ten 4/3 wetsuits in medium. When a customer chooses dates, SurfSlot counts every confirmed rental that overlaps those dates and shows only what is left. If two people try to take the last SUP for the same weekend, the second one sees it is gone before paying, not when they turn up at the shop.

That matters most on the busiest days of the year, which are exactly the days you don't have time to check a spreadsheet.

Combo deals: board and wetsuit together

Most surf rentals are really a pair: a board and a wetsuit. You can set up bundles that combine items at a combined price, or offer one item as an add-on to another. When the right items are in the cart, the booking flow suggests the combo, so customers see the deal without you upselling at the counter.

Pickup points that customers can actually find

Every rental needs a collection point. Add the address, a Google Maps link and short instructions (opening hours, where to park, what ID to bring). If you run more than one brand or base, each brand gets its own pickup point, so a customer renting from your beach hut is not sent to your town shop.

Payments and pricing

Rental payments go straight to your own Stripe account. There is no subscription, no setup fee and no lock-in: a SurfSlot booking fee is added to the customer's total at checkout, so a quiet month costs your shop nothing. See SurfSlot pricing for how the fee works, including the different setup in Australia.

Rentals and lessons in one account

For surf schools, rentals sit in the same account as your lessons: one Stripe account, one customer list and one dashboard. Rental bookings have their own list in the dashboard, which updates as new bookings come in and can be filtered to upcoming rentals. For the boards and wetsuits your lessons use, equipment tracking holds kit against each lesson booking.

Getting a rental shop online: what to set up first

1. List what you rent, one product per item type and size that customers choose between (e.g. "Softboard 8ft", "Wetsuit 4/3 M"). Add a photo of each.
2. Set daily stock to the number you are happy to have out at once, keeping one or two back for breakages and walk-ins.
3. Choose day or hour pricing and add the two or three tiers customers ask for most.
4. Create the obvious combos, starting with board + wetsuit.
5. Add your pickup point with a map link and clear instructions.
6. Embed the booking page on your website and link to it from Google Business Profile and Instagram.

If you would rather not do it yourself, our team can set it up for you during onboarding.