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.
- 1Stitching together subscription apps for monthly billing with manual tracking
- 2Building a custom booking app combined with a marketing site
- 3Using expensive, clunky specialist storage platforms
- 4Using QuickBooks Online with class tracking
- 5Using lightweight landlord tools like Turbo Tenant or Stessa alongside separate manual tracking
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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