Reach customers you’d otherwise lose
Some customers want the product but not the upfront price. Rental gives them a way to say yes instead of leaving.
Give customers another way to get your products.
Add Rent Now alongside Buy Now on your Shopify store.
Some customers want your products, but not the full upfront price. Sloop gives them another way to get and use them. We handle the customer checks, contracts, payments and agreement lifecycle. You keep the customer, the product and the retail relationship.
trailhouse.com.au/products/premium-e-bike
Bikes / E-Bikes
Premium E-Bike
Free shipping across Australia. Ships in 2–3 business days.
One product. Two ways to get it.
Your existing product page, with another option.
The customer chooses how they want to get the product.
Buy Now isn't going away. Sloop adds another way to use it.
Premium E-Bike
$2,999
Buy NowAlready on your store
$2,999
Own it today.
Rent NowAdded by
From$45/week
52-week term · $2,340 total
Use it without buying upfront.
From application to rental, Sloop handles the heavy lifting.
Rent NowA customer chooses Rent Now.
- 01
Apply
Customer provides their details and completes the application.
In progressRental applicationPremium E-Bike
52 weeks · $45/week · trailhouse.com.au
Step 1 of 3 · Your detailsFull name
Jordan Mitchell
Mobile
0412 345 678
Email
jordan@email.com
Residential address
Fitzroy VIC 3065
Employment
Full-time
- 02
Check
Sloop verifies identity and assesses eligibility and affordability.
VerifyingCustomer checksPremium E-Bike
52 weeks · $45/week · trailhouse.com.au
CompleteIdentity verified
Via APLYiD
CompleteAffordability assessed
Income and expenses reviewed
CompleteEligibility confirmed
Agreement can be offered
- 03
Agree
If eligible, Sloop generates the rental agreement for the customer and merchant to sign.
Ready to signRental agreementPremium E-Bike
52 weeks · $45/week · trailhouse.com.au
Rental AgreementCustomer
J. Mitchell
Signed
Merchant
Trailhouse
Signed
- 04
Pay
Payments are collected through Stripe.
ActivePayment setupPremium E-Bike
52 weeks · $45/week · trailhouse.com.au
Weekly subscription
Collected through Stripe
$45
First paymentPaidCard•••• 4242Next paymentIn 7 days - 05
Fulfil
You fulfil the order as you would any other customer order.
Ready to fulfilMerchant fulfilmentPremium E-Bike
52 weeks · $45/week · trailhouse.com.au
New approved rental
Order #1042 is approved and paid. Ready for you to fulfil.
Pick and packDoneShip to customerNextSame as any other order on your store.
- 06
Manage
Sloop tracks the agreement and payment lifecycle through completion and return.
ActiveAgreement lifecyclePremium E-Bike
52 weeks · $45/week · trailhouse.com.au
Payments collected
18 of 52
On track
AgreementActiveCompletionWeek 52ReturnScheduled at completion
Your part:approve it and ship it. Sloop does the rest.
Give customers a reason to say yes.
Create another revenue opportunity
Turn a single product into an ongoing revenue opportunity rather than relying on one upfront transaction.
Get more from your inventory
Put higher-value products to work for longer and create another way for them to earn.
Everything you need to offer rental.
Nothing you need to build.
Identity
Customer identity verification through APLYiD.
Decisioning
Affordability and eligibility checks before an agreement is offered.
Contracts
Digital rental agreements generated and signed between you and your customer.
Payments
Recurring payments collected securely through Stripe.
Lifecycle
Agreement, payment and return events tracked from start to finish.
Shopify
Works alongside your existing store. No re-platforming required.
Short hire or long-term rental. One workflow.
Sloop handles the customer checks, signed agreements and payments for every term, so you can offer a weekend or a year-long rental from the same product page.
1 day to 18 months.One product. Multiple opportunities to earn.
An illustrative example
Imagine a product with an RRP of $450.
Gross revenue, one product
$0
Rental 0 of 4
One outright sale
$450
One 12-week rental at $35/week
$420
Same product rented 4 times in a year
$1,680
Illustrative example only. Not a performance claim or Sloop data. Actual returns depend on utilisation, pricing, product lifecycle, operating costs and residual value.
Rental, without becoming a rental business.
You
- You remain the merchant.
- You sell the product.
- You fulfil the order.
- You keep the customer relationship.
- You retain ownership of the inventory.
Sloop provides the infrastructure behind the rental.
You don't need to build a rental platform, create the customer journey or stitch together the operational systems yourself.
You keep running your business. Sloop makes rental possible.
No monthly fee
Sloop only charges when you make money.
No setup costs, no subscription and no lock-in. You only pay when a customer is approved, signs their agreement and starts paying for their rental.
$0
Monthly platform fee
Add Rent Now to your store at no ongoing cost.
$20
Per successful rental customer
Charged once, only for customers who are approved and start paying.
4%
Of monthly rental payments
A transaction fee on each rental payment collected through Sloop.
Give your customers another way to get your products.
Bring rental to your store with Sloop.