DRESS HIRE BUSINESS GUIDE

Dress Hire Websites & Rental Booking App for Australian Businesses

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Dress Hire Websites builds Shopify websites and provides a dress rental booking app for dress hire businesses across Australia. See our client work and service areas.
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THE START-UP GUIDE

Dress Hire Websites builds Shopify websites and provides a dress rental booking app for dress hire businesses across Australia. We're an Australian-based, woman-owned studio, and we've designed, built or worked on storefronts for 30+ hire businesses — from capital-city labels to regional and rural operators. If you run a dress hire business and want a professional site with real date-based hire bookings, this is what we do.

What we offer dress hire businesses

The dress rental booking app

Our rental app adds true hire functionality to Shopify. Customers choose an event date, the app confirms that garment is free, reserves the hire window plus a cleaning and transit buffer, takes payment or a bond, and tracks the return. It also runs try-on bookings, backup-size add-ons and multi-item hire orders — so you stop managing bookings in DMs and spreadsheets.

Shopify website builds

We design and build the full storefront: branding and layout, product and collection setup, your garment catalogue loaded and photographed-ready, payments and shipping, the rental booking app connected, and staff training at handover. Sites are transferred to you on completion — you own the store outright. We also migrate businesses from Instagram-only, Squarespace or older platforms onto Shopify.

Dress hire businesses we've built websites for

A selection of the Australian (and a few international) dress hire and rental businesses we've helped bring online:

Disclaimer: Our involvement with each website varies. Some sites were fully designed and developed by us; others received smaller updates or improvements. Since being transferred to their owners, these sites may have been changed, renamed or closed. We don't actively monitor this, so some links may no longer be active.

Where we work — dress hire website support across Australia

We work remotely with dress hire businesses in every state and territory. Common service areas include:

New South Wales

Dress hire website design and rental app setup for businesses in Sydney, Newcastle, the Central Coast, Wollongong, Byron Bay, Coffs Harbour, Port Macquarie, Wagga Wagga, Dubbo, Orange, Tamworth and Albury.

Victoria

Dress hire website design and rental app setup for businesses in Melbourne, Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo, the Mornington Peninsula, Shepparton, Warrnambool, Mildura and Traralgon.

Queensland

Dress hire website design and rental app setup for businesses in Brisbane, the Gold Coast, the Sunshine Coast, Cairns, Townsville, Toowoomba, Mackay, Rockhampton, Bundaberg, Hervey Bay and Ipswich.

Western Australia

Dress hire website design and rental app setup for businesses in Perth, Fremantle, Mandurah, Bunbury, Busselton, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, Albany and Broome.

South Australia

Dress hire website design and rental app setup for businesses in Adelaide, Glenelg, the Barossa Valley, Mount Gambier, Victor Harbor, Whyalla and Port Lincoln.

Tasmania

Dress hire website design and rental app setup for businesses in Hobart, Launceston, Devonport and Burnie.

Australian Capital Territory

Dress hire website design and rental app setup for businesses in Canberra, Belconnen, Gungahlin, Woden and Tuggeranong.

Northern Territory

Dress hire website design and rental app setup for businesses in Darwin, Palmerston, Alice Springs and Katherine.

Why work with an Australian-based studio

We know the Australian dress hire market — the events calendar, spring racing and formal-season peaks, Australia Post hire logistics, GST and local payment expectations. You deal with a small team in your timezone, not an overseas agency or a generic template shop.

Frequently asked questions

Do you only work with Australian dress hire businesses?

Australia is our home market and where most of our clients are based — from Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth to regional towns nationwide. We also work with dress hire and rental businesses in New Zealand, Ireland and beyond. If you run a hire business anywhere, we can help.

What does the dress rental booking app do?

Our rental app turns a standard Shopify store into a date-based hire system. Customers pick their event date, the app checks availability for that garment, blocks the hire period plus a buffer for cleaning and transit, takes the payment or bond, and manages the return. It also handles try-on bookings, backup sizes, and multi-item orders.

Can you move my existing website or Instagram-only business onto Shopify?

Yes. Most of the businesses we build for start on Instagram, a spreadsheet, or a basic site. We set up Shopify, design the storefront, load your collection, connect the rental booking app and payments, and train you to run it.

How long does a dress hire website build take?

A typical build runs two to four weeks from kickoff, depending on how many garments need loading and how much custom design is involved. We give you a firm timeline in your quote.

Do you provide support after the site launches?

Yes. Every build includes a handover and training, and we offer ongoing support plans for updates, seasonal changes and troubleshooting. Once a site is transferred to you, you own it outright.

How much does a website or the rental app cost?

Pricing depends on the size of your collection and the features you need. See our website packages and app pricing pages for current figures, or request a quote for a tailored estimate.

Start your dress hire website

See our website packages, explore the rental booking app, or request a quote for your dress hire business. Client list last reviewed August 2026.

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