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Add a rental product with photos, pricing, and physical stock. · 0:53
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Let's add a rental item with a picture in RentalBench. Check the location in the top left, then open Inventory.
Click Add product and keep Rental item selected. Enter a clear name and a description of what is included in the kit.
Choose a product picture from your computer. Wait for the upload to finish, and check the image preview before continuing.
Categories and tax profiles are optional here. We'll leave them unassigned for this example and continue to the final step.
For this kit, enter twenty five dollars per day, one hundred dollars per week, and a seventy five dollar deposit. Leave unused rental periods blank. Click Add product to save.
The product now has one available rental unit. Reload the page to confirm the picture and pricing were saved. You can manage additional variants and physical stock from this product page.
Open Inventory, select Add product, and choose whether the product is a rental or consumable. This choice determines how stock, pricing, checkout, and returns behave.
Enter a customer-facing name and description. Add product images, categories, tags, and any organization-defined product custom fields. Assign an existing tax profile or create a reusable profile inline.
For a rental, add daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly cadence prices and an optional deposit. Saving a rental without submitted variants creates one available physical item. When variants are submitted, RentalBench creates an available physical item for each submitted variant.
For a consumable, enter the sale price and variant SKU information. A default variant is created when no explicit variant is supplied. New consumable variants start with one unit on hand unless a quantity was entered.
After saving, open the product to manage images, variants, physical items, stock quantities, categories, and availability. A product-level QR code identifies the rental product; individual rental items also carry unique QR and barcode payloads.
Add an item step by step
- Check the selected location, then open Inventory and start the new-product form.
- Choose Rental or Consumable and enter a recognizable name and description.
- Add product photos and review the image order. Use real product and variant imagery so customers can identify what they are selecting.
- Enter the relevant rental cadence prices and optional deposit, or the consumable sale price. Choose a tax profile when needed.
- Save, reopen the product, and check that the expected variant and stock exist at this location.
- Add any additional rental units or consumable quantities before offering them to customers.
For variants added later, follow variants and stock. A successful product save is not proof that the desired number of units is available for every date. Check availability before creating an order.