How to create a rental bundle in WooCommerce

A rental bundle lets you sell several individually bookable items together as a single package. A customer books one product, the bundle, and all the items within it are reserved simultaneously. Each item can still be booked individually from its own product page if you wish – so you can rent out rooms in a house separately or all rooms together as a bundle.

To create a rental bundle in WooCommerce you need two plugins:

• Bookings for WooCommerce
• WooCommerce Product Add-Ons Ultimate

These are available together at a discount in the WooCommerce Bookings and Product Add-Ons Bundle.

What are the benefits of rental bundles?

The benefits of rental benefits for you as the store owner are:

• No double-booking. The bundle’s calendar is automatically blocked on any date when any item in the package is already reserved. You never have to check individual item availability manually.
• Less admin. Every item in the bundle is added to the cart and order in one action, so there are no separate transactions to manage.
• Upsell with confidence. You can offer a genuine discount on the bundle knowing the availability logic will prevent overselling.

The benefits for your customers are:

• Simple checkout. One product, one booking, one payment so the customer doesn’t need to find and book each item separately.
• Guaranteed availability. Customers only see dates when the complete bundle is free, so they never get part-way through checkout only to find part of the package is taken.
• A better deal. Bundle discounts reward customers for booking everything together.

How to create a rental bundle in WooCommerce

To create your rental bundle:

1. Create each item as a bookable product – check the tutorials below for some specific examples
2. Create the main bundle product as a bookable product
3. Add a new ‘Products’ add-on field and assign the items as products
4. Enable the ‘Rental bundle’ setting on the ‘Products’ tab

When you enable it, the plugin automatically:

1. Blocks the parent product’s calendar on any date when any child product is already booked or marked unavailable.
2. Automatically sets the field’s Products Quantities setting to Linked to ensure that the child products’ quantities always match the selected parent product’s quantity
3. Automatically sets the field’s Products Layout to either Checkboxes Images, Checkboxes List or Components List to ensure that multiple child products are selected
4. Pre-selects all child products in the booking form and prevents the customer from deselecting them – the bundle is always booked as a whole.
5. Adds every child product to the cart when the customer adds the parent product, reserving everything in a single action.

Take a look at these two example tutorials for more detailed information.

Tutorial 1: Whole house booking (rooms as child products)

In this scenario you run a holiday let with three individually bookable rooms, a Master Suite, a Garden Room, and a Standard Room, that can also be booked together as an entire house.

Step 1: Create the room products

Create a separate product for each room.

1. Go to Products > Add New.
2. Set the product name (e.g. Master Suite) and price.
3. In the Product data panel, select Booking from the product type dropdown.
4. On the Bookings Settings tab, configure:
   • Booking unit: Night, Day or Week, depending on your check-in policy
   • Standard price: The rate for that room alone
   • Minimum / Maximum booking length: Your minimum and maximum stay
   • Availability: Add any blocked dates, seasonal pricing, or booking limits as needed
5. Publish the product.
6. Repeat for each room.

(If you do not want to list each room individually on your site, set their catalog visibility to Hidden).

Step 2: Create the ‘Whole House’ product

1. Go to Products > Add New and name it Whole House.
2. Select Booking as the product type.
3. In the Bookings tab, set:
   • Booking unit: This needs to be the same as your individual room products
   • Standard price: The rate for the whole house (per day, night or week)
   • Minimum / Maximum booking length and any other settings
4. Open the Product Add-Ons tab (added by Product Add-Ons Ultimate) and click Add Group, then Add Field.
5. Set the field type to Products.
6. In the Products tab of the field settings, search for and select all three room products in the Child products selector.

Step 3: Enable the ‘Rental bundle’ setting

Still in the Products tab of the field settings:

1. Scroll down to the Rental bundle checkbox. It appears automatically once the parent product is a booking product and all selected child products are also booking products.
2. Check Rental bundle.
3. Save the product.

The Whole House calendar will now grey out any date on which any room is already booked. Customers can only select a date range when every room is completely free.

Step 4: Set bundle pricing

Because you’ve set a price rate for the Whole House in Step 2 above, you need to discount the price of the individual rooms when they are part of the bundle. This is to ensure that the customer only gets charged the Whole House rate:

1. In the Products field settings, click the Pricing tab
2. Set a 100% discount to ensure that only the Whole House rate applies:
   • Enter 100 in the Discount field
   • Choose Percentage in the Discount type field
3. Set Option Price Visibility to Hidden

This discount will only be applied when rooms are booked as part of the bundle. Their standard pricing applies if they are booked individually.

Step 5: Optionally hide child products on the bundle product page

It might be that you don’t need or want the customer to see each room on the bundle page. To hide the child products:

1. Click on the General tab
2. Choose Hide from customer in the Field Visibility setting

How it looks to the customer

Visit the demo product here to see exactly how this works.

• The customer visits the Whole House product page.
• The calendar shows only dates when all three rooms are free.
• All three rooms appear pre-selected in the booking form and cannot be deselected.
• Clicking Add to Cart adds the whole house and all three rooms in a single action.
• If a room is already booked on a particular date, those dates are blocked – preventing any double-booking.

You can also see our WooCommerce accommodation booking tutorial for how to accept direct bookings for rentals.

Tutorial 2: Kayak and equipment hire (Time Slot bundle)

In this scenario you run a watersports hire centre. Customers can hire a kayak, a wetsuit, and a paddle separately, each available in two-hour time slots, or book the complete Kayak Package at a discount. Because each item is hired by the slot, you need the bundle’s availability to check time slots, not just dates.

Step 1: Create the equipment products

Create a Booking product for each item.

1. Go to Products > Add New and name the first product Kayak.
2. Select Booking as the product type.
3. In the Bookings tab, set:
   • Booking unit: Day
   • Standard cost: Leave at 0 as pricing will come from the time slots
4. Open the Timings tab and enable Time slots.
5. Add your available slots — for example, 09:00–11:00, 11:00–13:00, 13:00–15:00, 15:00–17:00.
6. Set a Slot price for each slot (e.g. $25 per two-hour session).
7. Set Maximum bookings per slot to the number of available items that you have – e.g. if you have 10 kayaks, set this field to 10.
8. Publish the product.
9. Repeat for Wetsuit (e.g. $10 per session) and Paddle (e.g. $5 per session), using the same time slots.

As before, you can hide these individual products from your main shop catalog.

Step 2: Create the Kayak Package product

1. Go to Products > Add New and name it Kayak Package.
2. Select Booking as the product type.
3. In the Bookings tab, set:
   • Booking unit: Day
   • Standard cost: Leave at 0
4. Open the Timings tab and enable Time slots. Add the same slots as the individual products.
5. Set a Slot price for the package. For example, set $35 for a session (a saving compared with hiring all three items separately at $40 total).
6. Open the Product Add-Ons tab, add a Products field, and select the Kayak, Wetsuit, and Paddle as child products.

Step 3: Enable ‘Rental bundle’

In the Products tab of the field settings, check Rental bundle then save.

The Kayak Package’s time slot picker now automatically greys out any slot on which any of the three items is already booked. If the kayak is out on hire during the 11:00–13:00 session, that slot will be unavailable on the Kayak Package page – even if the wetsuit and paddle are free.

Step 4: Set bundle pricing

Because you’ve set a price rate for the Kayak Package in Step 2 above, you need to discount the price of the individual items when they are part of the bundle. This is to ensure that the customer only gets charged the Kayak Package rate:

1. In the Products field settings, click the Pricing tab
2. Set a 100% discount to ensure that only the Kayak Package rate applies:
   • Enter 100 in the Discount field
   • Choose Percentage in the Discount type field

This discount will only be applied when items are booked as part of the bundle. Their standard pricing applies if they are booked individually.

How it looks to the customer

Check the demo product here. A slot on which even one item is fully booked does not appear as available – no partial bundles, no double-booking.

• The customer visits the Kayak Package page.
• They pick a date from the calendar.
• The time slot picker shows only slots when all three items are free.
• All three items appear pre-selected in the booking form and cannot be deselected.
• Clicking Add to Cart reserves the package and all three items for that slot in one action.

You can also check out our surfboard hire tutorial for more information on renting out watersports equipment through WooCommerce.

Other rental bundle scenarios

The same pattern works across a wide range of hire and rental businesses. Here are a few more examples to illustrate what’s possible.

Photography studio set A photography studio rents out a backdrop, a key light, and a reflector individually by the hour, but also offers a Portrait Set bundle. Enabling Rental Bundle means the bundle’s time slot picker only shows slots when all three pieces of kit are free – so if the key light is already booked for the 2pm session, the Portrait Set shows that slot as unavailable.

See our tutorial on how to sell photography sessions here.

Party equipment A party hire company rents out a bouncy castle, a popcorn machine, and a candy floss machine separately, but also sells a Kids’ Party Package. With Rental Bundle enabled, a customer booking the package can only pick a date when all three items are free. The bundle can be priced at a flat day rate while still checking the availability of each individual item.

Campervan and accessories A campervan hire company rents its vehicles alongside add-ons – a roof tent, a bike rack, and an awning – each of which can be hired alone or as part of a Full Adventure Kit. Rental Bundle ensures that if the awning is already out on hire, the Full Adventure Kit is blocked for those dates too, and when a customer books the kit, all accessories are reserved automatically.

See our tutorial on renting out a campervan in WooCommerce.

Sailing day trip A sailing school offers a Skippered Day Sail that includes a boat, a skipper’s time, and a set of safety equipment. Each resource is tracked as a separate bookable product with its own availability. Rental Bundle ties them together so a day sail can only be booked when all three are free, and the customer books the whole experience in a single step.

See our tutorial on WooCommerce boat hire here.

Conference room with AV equipment A venue rents out a conference room, a projector, and a PA system individually but also sells a Full Meeting Room package. With Rental Bundle enabled by time slot, a customer booking the package for a morning session can only do so if the room, projector, and PA are all free for that slot – preventing any partial or conflicting bookings.

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