Can you use Shopify for a rental or self storage business?
Traditional ecommerce platforms like Shopify lack native support for recurring unit availability, state management, and lease tracking. This forces business owners to search for workarounds or alternative software because standard tools cannot properly handle robust bookkeeping and rental operations.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
Found another way around this?
Share your steps and trade-offs so fellow engineers don't have to reinvent the wheel. No account required.
- 1Stitching together subscription apps for monthly billing with manual trackingDid this help you?
- 2Building a custom booking app combined with a marketing siteDid this help you?
- 3Using expensive, clunky specialist storage platformsDid this help you?
- 4Using QuickBooks Online with class trackingDid this help you?
- 5Using lightweight landlord tools like Turbo Tenant or Stessa alongside separate manual trackingDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“After some research, it looks like neither Turbo Tenant or Stessa is actually a robust bookkeeping software, so I am looking for something that will work for a single building land lord and will have the tools we need for robust bookkeeping.”source ↗
“Im curious if it can be made. If anyone knows any websites for self storage that uses shopify as the platform.”source ↗
Where this came up
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- 2Do I need to learn marketing and design to build an online shop?
- 10How to migrate scary legacy software nobody wants to touch
- 3Why standard CRMs don't work for event businesses