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Booqable alternative: why WooCommerce store owners choose Rental Products instead
If you’re running a rental business on WooCommerce and researching Booqable, you’ve probably noticed it’s a completely separate platform. That means migrating your entire operation away from WooCommerce, or running two disconnected systems. For the 15,000+ stores already using Kestrel plugins, that’s a non-starter. Here’s why Rental Products for WooCommerce makes more sense for existing
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How to handle rental quotes with WooCommerce Rentals
WooCommerce rental quotes let you review orders before accepting payment with Rental Products for WooCommerce. Customers submit requests, you evaluate them, and stock only gets reserved when you approve. This workflow makes sense for rental businesses that need to verify availability before committing inventory, adjust pricing for specific requests, or control which orders get fulfilled
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WooCommerce rental inventory: the complete guide
Rental Products for WooCommerce powers camera gear rentals, bouncy castle empires, wedding dress try-ons, ski equipment shops, party supply warehouses, tool libraries, costume rental businesses, and at least one company that rents out tiny houses on wheels. If you’re renting something we haven’t seen yet, we’d genuinely love to hear about it. But the plugin
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WooCommerce membership store credit: a better perk than discounts
Most membership programs offer the same tired perks: a percentage discount, early access to sales, free shipping. These work, but they’re passive. Your members receive them whether they engage or not. Membership store credit changes this dynamic. When actual money lands in a member’s wallet every month, you create a reason to come back, browse,
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Setting up video content restriction for paying members with WooCommerce
Whether you’re running an online course, a coaching program, or a private community, embedded restricted video helps you connect more deeply and keep people engaged. But there’s a common problem with video content restriction in WooCommerce: once a video is embedded on your site, anyone with the link can share it elsewhere. Constellation is Kestrel’s
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$20K in 48 Hours: Building a WooCommerce Reservation System That Actually Works
Imagine 250 homeowners vying for 21 prime lake buoys, with a reservation system held together by spreadsheets and good intentions. That was the reality for one homeowners’ association (HOA) until Brian Anderson of Tahoe Web Company stepped in to help with a custom built WooCommerce reservation system. This case study covers how Brian helped a
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Order Delivery Dates for Smarter WooCommerce Stores
Order Delivery for WooCommerce (3.0+) is now the most flexible, production-ready delivery plugin, with built-in support for: time slots, custom cutoffs, local pickup workflows, and even WooCommerce Subscriptions. And in 3.0+, support for the WooCommerce block checkout. Whether you deliver fresh flowers on weekends, ship subscription boxes monthly, or handle pickups on a specific day
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Amazon S3 Storage for WooCommerce: Overhaul and a Fresh Start
When Kestrel acquired the Amazon S3 Storage for WooCommerce plugin, we saw real potential in a niche but essential tool: enabling WooCommerce merchants to serve large digital products with speed, scale, and confidence. We inherited a plugin with great bones but an aging codebase, a long feature backlog, and some stubborn bugs. Over the past
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We’re now shipping AI-powered translations in our plugins
Here’s the short version: Kestrel’s WooCommerce extensions will be bundled with AI-powered translations going forward. Conventionally, most WooCommerce extensions are served in English, as the primary language and, in the majority of cases, the sole language. This is also true for many plugins downloaded from the WordPress plugins directory. While the WordPress.org directory allows anybody
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Another acquisition announcement from the team at Kestrel
Last year we welcomed extensions from acquisitions from Barn2, KoiLab, CheckoutWC, and a few more into our suite of products, each one enhancing areas like product organization, inventory management, and checkout. We’re kicking off 2025 with yet another acquisition: 99w’s set of 11 extensions have been added to the Kestrel suite. The 99w acquisition Rental
