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Store settings

Store settings apply across every rental product you create. Open Rentshelf → Settings in the admin to edit them.

Currency

Section titled “Currency”

Defaults to your Shopify shop currency. Rentshelf uses this for:

  • All prices shown on the rental picker
  • Line-item properties in the cart (Rental quote, Due today)
  • The Bookings screen and emails

If you sell in multiple currencies via Shopify Markets, Rentshelf always uses the primary currency. Markets-based conversion happens at Shopify checkout as usual — the rental picker doesn’t show converted values.

Timezone

Section titled “Timezone”

Defaults to UTC. Set this to your business timezone so rental dates are interpreted correctly. For example, a customer in London picking 9 Oct → 11 Oct in your picker should result in a booking for those exact days, not a UTC-shifted range.

Default minimum days

Section titled “Default minimum days”

The smallest rental duration a customer can pick, before per-product overrides. Default is 1.

Useful for shops where every rental must be at least, say, 3 days (weekend packages). Individual products can go lower via their own minDays field.

Default maximum days

Section titled “Default maximum days”

Largest duration. Default is 30. Keep this reasonable — Shopify carts abandoned for weeks turn into stale bookings.

Default buffer days

Section titled “Default buffer days”

Gap between consecutive bookings on the same unit, for cleaning / maintenance / transport. Default is 0.

If set to 1, a booking ending on the 10th blocks new bookings from starting on the 11th — the next available start date becomes the 12th.

Deposit defaults

Section titled “Deposit defaults”

Two global deposit toggles:

  • Require a deposit by default — when linking a new product, this determines the initial deposit state.
  • Default deposit percent — used when requireDeposit is on but a specific product doesn’t override it.

Products can override these from their own detail screen.

Customer-facing contact

Section titled “Customer-facing contact”

Use Customer-facing contact to set the support email and optional phone number shown to customers.

The support email is used as the Reply-To address on Rentshelf customer emails, including booking confirmations, pickup reminders, return reminders and test emails. The email must be verified before customer emails can be sent.

If the address is not verified, Rentshelf shows a warning and blocks customer email sending until the merchant confirms the verification link.

See Support email verification for the full verification flow.

Notification schedule

Section titled “Notification schedule”

Use Notification schedule to control automated reminder timing:

  • Pickup reminder days before the rental start date
  • Pickup reminder send time
  • Return reminder days before the rental end date
  • Return reminder send time
  • Delivery-method filters
  • Extra pickup and return message copy

Email reminders require a paid plan and a verified support email.

Saving

Section titled “Saving”

Click Save. A green confirmation banner appears. Changes are applied immediately — new products use the new defaults, and the storefront picker picks up currency / timezone changes on next page load.

See also

Section titled “See also”