How to Enable Sparkforge Rentals (Public Beta)

Sparkforge Rentals is a scheduling and booking system in public beta, built for businesses that book cars, equipment, properties, or any rentable asset. It handles multi-day bookings, inventory variants, pricing rules, and a public booking page.

What's in Rentals

• Multi-day bookings: hours, days, weeks, or months with flexible duration controls.
• Listings and categories: detailed listings, organized categories, and status management.
• Inventory and variants: track quantity across multiple units; define variants for different versions of a listing.
• Pricing and discounts: rules by season, day of week, hour of day, duration, or quantity. Auto-apply discounts for long-term or bulk bookings.
• Calendar view: filterable day, week, and month views; spot overlaps and blocked slots.
• External calendar sync: keep availability consistent across third-party platforms.
• Global settings: business hours, booking defaults, payment preferences, communication templates in one place.
• Payments and invoicing: collect payments at booking, auto-generate invoices, handle security deposits.
• Customer booking page: public page showing listings, categories, pricing, and real-time availability.

Enable Rentals for a single sub-account

1. From the Agency dashboard, click Sub-Accounts in the left nav.
2. Find the sub-account, click the three-dot icon (⋮) in the bottom right of the panel, and select Manage Client.
3. Open Calendar Settings from the top navigation.
4. Toggle Turn On Rentals.
5. Click the blue Save button.

If the Rentals toggle is missing on the sub-account, use the bulk-action method below with a single checkbox.

Enable Rentals for multiple sub-accounts

1. From the Agency dashboard, click Sub-Accounts.
2. Check the boxes for the sub-accounts you want to activate.
3. Click Bulk Actions in the upper right and pick Setup Calendars.
4. Toggle Turn On Rentals.
5. Type CONFIRM, then click Save.

Coming soon

• Snapshots support (import/export listings and configuration).
• SMS and WhatsApp notifications.
• Blocked-off slots.
• Booking and revenue reporting.
• Mobile app support.
• Conversation AI and Voice AI support.

Known limitations

Rentals is in public beta, so expect minor UI inconsistencies and some features still in progress. After recording a payment, the Payment Summary and Invoices/Transactions may take a moment to refresh — reload the page if totals don't update.