To import another company's rentals in Papalocal, open the Inventory tab and tap Import from a website. Type their address and tap Read the website. It finds each item's name, description, price and photo. Add your markup, untick what you won't rent, confirm you may use their photos, and import. They arrive as drafts.
Step by step
Before you start: the other company's yes to rent out their things, and their website's address.
0:00Open the import. On the Inventory tab, tap Import from a website. In the video, the partner is Millbrook Tent and Table, which has said yes.
0:10Read their website. Type their website's address and tap Read the website.
0:14See what it found. Their rentals are listed in their own groups, each with its name, description, price and photo.
0:21Add your markup. Under Add to their prices, type a percent. At 20%, their $450 is crossed out, and yours, $540, shows beside it.
0:27Leave things out. Untick anything you won't rent out, like their catering.
0:31Confirm and import. Tick that you own the photos and descriptions, or have permission to use them. Then tap Import.
0:36Keep working. It copies them in, with their photos. You can close the box while it does.
0:42Make them bookable. They come in as drafts, so customers can't see them yet. Look them over, then tap Make all 12 bookable.
0:48Pay your partner yourself. You pay Millbrook outside Papalocal. Nothing here keeps track of what you owe them.
Good to know
What you agree to. The box reads: I own these photos and descriptions, or I have permission from their owner to use them, and I'm responsible for how they're used.
Photos and counts. Choose First photo or All photos. How many of each do you own? sets them all at once, and you can change any single item.
How the markup rounds. At $20 and over, your price rounds up to the next whole dollar. In the video, an $8 chair becomes $9.60.
Some websites need AI. When a site can't be read directly, it offers Read it with AI, which uses your business's credits. The site in the video was read without it.
Other names for it. Renting out another company's items is often called a subrental.
Millbrook Tent and Table, Pinewood Party Rentals and the prices in the video are made up.
Written with AI from this video's script and screens.
Partner rentals are one part of running your rental company on Papalocal.
The everything app. As simple as you want it, or as complete as you allow it to be.
Looking for party rental software? A partner's items can sit in your inventory beside your own.
The plan holds, in one place:
Your customer list: each lead and customer, with their quotes and jobs on one page
Quotes, jobs and schedule
Invoices and pay links
Your website, on a domain you own
Google Business Profile sync, for your first location
Reviews: links, QR codes and an embed
Time clock, team chat and training
The same account holds your own side too: music, books, messages, your money and your people. Some of it has paid upgrades.
Free to sign up, no card. Your account and your business page have no monthly charge. One thing is on from the start: AI replies to your reviews, $0.15 each plus AI usage. You can pause them.
Once you turn the plan on: $30 a month (one person; each added employee is $10 a month), plus 1.25% of payments your customers make through Papalocal, plus Stripe's processing fee. It's billed daily from a prepaid balance. Once your card is saved, it's charged a top-up within the hour, and again each time the balance falls under a month's charges plus 15%. You choose the top-up amount ($25 or more; $100 until you change it). You can cancel the plan online after its first 30 days; cancel any add-ons on it first.
Papalocal's founder, Garret Merkley, has started 7 local service businesses in 16 years. He bought one, sold one and closed some.
Yes, with their permission. Import them from their website, look them over, then make them bookable.
Do I have to use their prices?
No. Add your markup under Add to their prices. Their price is crossed out, and yours shows beside it.
Can customers see the items right away?
No. They come in as drafts. Look them over, then make them bookable.
Does Papalocal pay the partner?
No. You pay them yourself, outside Papalocal. Nothing here keeps track of what you owe them.
What does it cost?
It's free to sign up, with no card. Your account and your business page have no monthly charge. One thing is on from the start: AI replies to your reviews, $0.15 each plus AI usage. You can pause them. The plan starts only when you turn it on: $30 a month (one person; each added employee is $10 a month), plus 1.25% of payments your customers make through Papalocal, plus Stripe's processing fee.
How is it billed, and can I cancel?
It's billed daily from a prepaid balance. Once your card is saved, it's charged a top-up within the hour, and again each time the balance falls under a month's charges plus 15%. You choose the top-up amount ($25 or more; $100 until you change it). You can cancel the plan online after its first 30 days; cancel any add-ons on it first.
Will Papalocal find me customers?
No. Papalocal gives you the tools. Finding customers is your work.
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