Rental periods
Set the durations you rent for and price each one, from a weekend to a month. Drop the daily rate on the longer options and items stay out earning.
Methods
More ways to sell, fewer reasons to leave.
Run any combination of new, rental, resale, subscription, membership and trade-in from a single platform. Each product can have different methods enabled.
Calendar. Rent for an occasion. Customers book between two dates, within the periods and prices you set.
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Subscription. Keep it as long as they need it. Customers pay on your interval until they return it, with a minimum term you set.
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Minimum term
Offer a term for each commitment length, each with its own recurring price. Price the longer terms lower per month and customers keep items for longer, on revenue you can count on.
Start date
Let customers choose when their subscription begins, and the date they pick becomes the delivery date. Take preorders and book future rentals before the stock is even back.
Membership. Lend like a library. Members pay one recurring price and swap items within the allowance you set.
Swap allowances
Set how many orders and returns a member gets each period, on the billing anniversary or a cadence of your own. Most of the cost of renting is in the logistics, so the allowance is where you protect the margin.
Multiple memberships
A member can hold more than one plan and picks which one pays on the product page, each showing its name, its plan and the credits left. A second plan adds to the first rather than replacing it.
Membership plans block
Plans render as cards on any page from a collection you choose, with different blocks for different audiences. It's the one route to enrollment, so every member is wired up correctly.
Resale. Sell what has already earned, priced by condition.
Condition-priced options
Price each option by condition or by variant, so a refurbished frame sells for less than one nobody has ridden.
Serialized item
The sale transfers one specific item, with the cycles it has already been through and the work done on it. You know which item left the building.
Trade-in. Give store credit, get inventory. A few questions set the value, and the item comes back to rent or resell.
Condition grades
Set your own condition grades and what each one is worth, with your description under every option. Customers see the value as they answer, so the offer is never a surprise at the end.
Trade-in value
The credit they will get, confirmed before checkout. Supercycle handles the shipping details and crediting the account once the item arrives and is verified.
New. New and circular, one page. Shopify holds the new stock and Supercycle runs the rest.
Building blocks. More ways to shape every method around how you actually operate.
Item condition
Show your condition grades on the product page so a customer can take the unused one or the excellent one. Their pick hides anything scoped to a different condition, so they only see what they can have.
Pickup and drop off
Let customers collect from one of your locations through Shopify's local pickup, and hand items back in person instead of shipping them. Collection and drop-off days follow each location's opening hours, and a store can run pickup only.
Logistics buffers
Preparation, cutoff, delivery, reverse delivery and restock times sit around every rental, so the soonest date a customer can book is one your team can actually fulfill.
Blocked dates
Keep weekends, holidays or anything past your booking window off the date pickers, and take the whole store, a product or a single item out of availability. Repairs, shoots and shutdowns stop bookings without hiding the product.
Add-ons
Attach extras to a rental period or a subscription option: damage protection, a cleaning service, an accessory bundle. Optional ones the customer toggles, required ones stay checked, and both lift the value of the booking.
Refundable deposit
Hold a deposit against an item going out and refund it once the item is back. It carries its own line through the summary and the total, so higher-value stock can leave without pricing the rental up.
One period, a price per market
Target a rental period at specific Shopify markets, so the same product carries different prices, or different options entirely, by country, currency or B2B storefront.
Extend an active rental
A customer keeps an item longer and pays the difference, choosing a new end date from your own rental periods. No support email, no second order, and the Return by date moves with it.
Turn a rental into a sale
When a customer wants to keep what they are renting, convert the cycle to a purchase for the difference between the resale price and what they have already paid. The item is marked sold and upcoming cycles reallocate.
Frequently asked questions.
Can I run multiple methods on the same product?
Yes. Each product can have any combination of methods enabled. For example, you could offer calendar rental and resale on the same item. Supercycle manages availability and pricing independently for each method.
How does pricing work across methods?
Each method has its own pricing model. Calendar uses per-period pricing, subscription uses recurring billing, membership uses plan-based pricing, and resale uses condition-based pricing. You can configure all of these from a single product view.
Can customers switch between methods?
Customers choose their preferred method at checkout. They can rent an item on a calendar basis for one occasion and subscribe to a different item. It's all managed through a single storefront experience.
What happens when a rental item is returned?
Supercycle tracks the return, updates the item's condition and processing status, and makes it available for the next rental or resale. The full cycle is managed through the Supercycle admin or automated with Shopify Flow.
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