What is the circuly Rental & Subscription app?

circuly Rental & Subscription app extends Shopify's native capabilities by adding the operational logic required for subscription businesses—especially for consumer durable products—such as billing cycles, contract management, asset tracking, and returns.

How does the circuly Rental & Subscription app integrate with Shopify?

circuly Rental & Subscription app integrates with Shopify products, customers, and orders using native Shopify app blocks. This allows you to seamlessly offer long-term subscriptions (e.g. bikes, electronics, furniture, or equipment on monthly or multi-month plans) and short-term rentals (e.g. equipment or products rented for a few hours, days, or weeks). All while keeping your Shopify store as the single source of truth for your commerce data.

How does I start with the circuly Shopify app?

To get started: Install the circuly Subscription & Rental app for Shopify from the Shopify App Store. Open it in your Shopify admin. Create a subscription plan by creating a payment plan. Assign it to a product and a product variant and define its pricing. Add the subscription widget to your product page. Add the subscription option to the customer portal. Configure additional settings around refunds, cancellations, returns etc. You can start offering subscriptions immediately, no onboarding required.

Is the circuly Subscription & Rental app the same as the circuly Hub?

No. The circuly Subscription & Rental app for Shopify is a plug-and-play solution that works directly inside Shopify. You can install it from the Shopify App Store, set up subscription plans, and start offering subscriptions within minutes without needing a separate system. circuly Hub, on the other hand, is a more advanced platform designed for businesses who want to manage complex subscription operations and need advance integration capabilities with their ERP, bookkeeping, accounting & logistics systems.

What if I want to move out of Shopify, can I still use circuly?

circuly offers both the circuly Rental & Subscription app and circuly Hub. This means you have two options: Use Shopify as your storefront and extend it with the circuly app, or use circuly Hub as your core system, with or without Shopify. circuly Hub has its own checkout, a customer self-service portal, and a complete subscription and rental management system. It supports both long-term subscriptions (e.g. bikes, electronics, furniture, equipment) and short-term rentals (from a few hours to several weeks).

How are paments processed?

Payments are processed through Shopify Payments using the standard Shopify checkout. If you're happy using the payment methods supported by Shopify (such as credit cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, etc.), there is nothing additional you need to set up—everything works out of the box.

How long does it take to set up subscriptions or rentals?

Setting up subscriptions or rentals with the circuly app is designed to be quick and straightforward—you can be ready in just a few minutes. Once the app is installed, the setup typically involves three simple steps: Create a subscription or rental plan using circuly's configuration options, assign products to that plan, and add the subscription widget (app block) to your product page. That's it—no complex setup or development work required.

When i use the circuly Subscription & Rental App, which checkout do I use?

You use the Shopify checkout when using the circuly Subscription & Rental app for Shopify. There is no separate or external checkout.

Does my Shopify store need to support subscriptions?

Yes—if you want to offer subscriptions through Shopify, your store needs to be compatible with Shopify's subscription infrastructure (selling plans). Most modern Shopify stores support this by default, but it's important to ensure that your theme supports app blocks (for displaying subscription options on the product page) and your setup allows for selling plans (Shopify's native subscription framework). If your store meets these requirements, you can start offering subscriptions right away with circuly.

solution

Build & scale any recurring
model you want with circuly.

Launch a new model or build multiple at the same time.
Rentals, subscription, membership, the choice is yours.

https://www.hub.circuly.io

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membership

Membership: Let customers build their own box or bundle, defined by you.

With a circuly membership, customers fill a box with any products you've made eligible — 3, 5, or 10 items, whatever plan sizes you define — and pay one recurring price for the whole box. You set the sizes, the prices, and what's on offer; they choose what's inside.

Install to set up your membership model

You set the rules.

Define your plan sizes, the price of each, and which products members can choose from. Customers can only check out a complete box, so every order matches a plan you've priced — no odd quantities, no manual review from your side.

One price, whatever they pick.

Members pay the plan price, not the sum of the products inside. circuly applies the bundle price automatically at checkout and bills it as one recurring payment — with the same automated payment schedule, invoicing, and charging as every other circuly subscription.

Swaps without support tickets.

Members manage their box directly from your storefront — swapping an item takes a few clicks and their price stays the same. Customers who can change what they get don't need to cancel to get something new, and they don't need to email you to do it.

Recurring delievery

Recurring delievery: Your product on repeat, on their schedule.

With recurring delivery, customers subscribe once and receive your product on a schedule they choose — every month, every two months, whatever frequencies you offer. Each cycle, circuly creates the order, bills the subscriber price, and sends the invoice automatically.

Install to set up a delievery model

Frequencies they can live with.

You define the delivery rhythms — weekly, monthly, every second month — and customers pick the one that matches how fast they actually use your product. Deliveries that fit consumption are the difference between a subscriber and a cancellation.

Every cycle runs itself.

On each delivery date, circuly creates the order, triggers the payment, and sends the invoice — the same recurring payment schedule, invoicing, and charging that powers every circuly subscription. No manual orders, no chasing payments.

A price that makes subscribing obvious.

Show the one-time price and the subscriber price side by side on your product page. The discount does the converting — and once someone subscribes, they can adjust their subscription themselves instead of writing to your support.

Try-before-buy

Try-before-buy: The full experience, without the full commitment.

With try before you buy, customers start with a monthly subscription instead of the full price tag. While they're subscribed, they can buy the product at any time — circuly calculates the buyout price automatically, with what they've already paid counting toward it — or send it back. Trial, purchase, and return are one flow, not three processe

Install to set up try-before-buy

A smaller yes.

A €2,000 product is a big decision; €89 a month is an easy one. Showing a subscription next to the purchase price converts the shoppers who would otherwise leave to "think about it" — and revenue starts with the first month, not the final decision.

Buyout built in.

Subscribers can buy their product at any moment, straight from their subscription. circuly calculates the buyout price automatically — so the upgrade from renter to owner takes one click, not a support conversation.

Every outcome is handled.

Keep subscribing? Recurring revenue. Buy it? A sale at the right price. Send it back? The return flow triggers automatically and the product goes back into stock for the next customer. Whatever the customer decides, nothing lands on your desk.

Fixed-term rental

Fixed-term rental: There when they need it, back when they don't.

With short-term rental, customers pick a start and end date directly on the product page and book your product for exactly that period — a weekend, a week, a whole season. circuly prices the period, takes the booking as a normal order, and blocks those dates so the same item is never promised twice.

Install to set up a delievery model

Booked from the product page.

A calendar sits right in your purchase selector: customers choose their dates, see the price for their period, and check out like any other order. No enquiry forms, no "checking availability" emails — the booking is the transaction.

No double-bookings.

Every booking blocks that item's calendar automatically. circuly keeps track of what's out, what's reserved, and what's free on any given date — so availability on your storefront is always the real availability in your warehouse.

One product, many rentals.

The same snowboard can serve a dozen customers a season instead of one buyer ever. Date-based rental turns idle days into revenue days — and every rental is a customer who now knows your brand when they're ready to buy.

Long-term subscription & rental

Flexible subscription: Let customers build their own box, defined by you.

With a long-term subscription, customers pay monthly to use your product for months or years. You set the minimum terms — with the monthly price dropping as commitment grows — renewals run automatically after that, and when the subscription ends, the product comes back, gets refurbished, and goes out to earn again.

Install to set up a subscription

Terms that reward commitment.

Offer 3, 6, and 12-month minimum terms with the monthly price falling as the term grows. Customers choose their commitment level, and after the minimum term the subscription renews automatically — no re-selling, no re-signing.

The product earns more than once.

A subscribed product isn't sold — it's working. It comes back at the end of one subscription, returns to stock, and starts the next one. Over its lifecycle, one product can earn multiples of its retail price.

Accessories ride along.

Cross-sell shows complementary products right below the subscription widget — the rain cover with the stroller, the lock with the bike. Customers add them to the same checkout, and every subscription starts with a bigger cart.