Looking for the old WP Car Rental theme demos?
They were retired along with the theme. The demos below run the stack that replaced it.
Two environments
Front end and dashboard
A rental site has two halves, and they are worth judging separately. The first
demo is the half your customers see. The second is the half you live in.
01
Live booking demo
What your customers see
A working rental site built with Hello Elementor, the free version of
Elementor and RentoKing. Search by pickup and return location and dates,
compare the rental classes that come back with live prices, add insurance
and extras, and go through the checkout.
Open the live demo →
02
Admin in your browser
What you manage it with
A complete WordPress installation booted in a browser tab, with RentoKing
already active. Nothing is installed on your machine and nothing you do
there persists, so it is a safe place to break things.
Launch the dashboard →
What to look at
Worth five minutes each
Rental software is easy to demo badly, because the hard parts only show up once
dates and locations are involved. These are the places where the differences
between systems actually appear.
Availability across dates
Search a range, then an overlapping one. A rental class that is fully booked drops out rather than accepting a reservation it cannot honour.
One-way rentals
Pick up at one location and return at another. Distance pricing between the two applies automatically where it has been configured for that pair.
Seasonal pricing
Move the dates into a different period and watch the daily rate change. Price plans override the base rates for any range you define.
Duration and early-bird discounts
Extend the rental, or push it further into the future. Longer bookings and earlier bookings can each carry their own discount.
Extras and insurance
Add a child seat or an insurance tier at the second step. Add-ons can be priced per day or per booking, and can carry their own stock limits.
The checkout itself
Complete a booking as a guest. No customer account is required, and the confirmation carries a secure link back to the reservation.
Fleet and locations, in the admin
In the dashboard demo, open a rental class and a location. Both are ordinary WordPress editing screens, not a separate application bolted on the side.
Bookings and pricing, in the admin
The booking list, the calendar view, and price groups shown as a Gantt chart. This is where most of the day-to-day work actually happens.
Honest notes
What the demos do not show
Both environments are shared and reset periodically, so the data you see is
whatever the previous visitor left behind. The prices, locations and rental
classes in the demo are illustrative — they are not a pricing recommendation.
The browser dashboard runs WordPress inside your own browser rather than on a
server. It is genuinely the real admin, but it starts cold every time and will
feel slower than the same software on real hosting. Payments are not connected in
either demo, so the checkout completes without money moving.
Some screens belong to the Pro version and appear but are inactive. Everything
listed above is in the free version.
After the demo
Running it on your own site
The free version installs from the WordPress plugin directory like any other
plugin. It creates its own booking page on activation, so there is a working
booking flow before you have configured anything at all.
If you are coming from the Car Rental System plugin, your existing fleet,
locations, pricing, customers and bookings can be imported rather than re-entered
by hand. The migration guide walks
through the whole process.