In Supercycle 101, we briefly introduced the subscription rental method.

With subscription rental, a customer pays monthly for access to a single product. This is great for high-value products like phones and household appliances, especially those customers regularly upgrade.

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How subscription rental works

When a customer chooses a subscription rental plan, their card is billed for the price of the subscription on each billing interval until the item is returned.

As part of the subscription rental plan, the customer commits to a minimum rental period. They will not be able to initiate a return before their minimum rental period is up but you as the merchant can initiate an early return on their behalf.

Subscriptions can be billed on whatever interval you choose. The same interval must be used across all subscription rental products on your store.

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Getting ready for subscription rental

To get your store ready for subscription rental, you should make sure you’ve done at least all of the steps below.

Import products

Import products from Shopify and create Supercycle inventory

Choose a billing interval

Set a store-wide billing interval for subscription products

Create deposits

Create deposit amounts to be assigned to different subscription products

Set up products

Enable products for subscription rental and set up their pricing

Add subscription rental block

Display the subscription rental purchasing option on product pages

Billing management

Once you have your first subscriptions, use our billing management tools to reconcile customers’ payments