Sidekick is Shopify's own AI assistant in your Shopify admin. Miko Product Rentals lets Sidekick read your bookings, your rental products and your rental revenue, so you can ask about your rentals in plain words and get answers from your real data.
Where to find it
Open Sidekick in your Shopify admin and ask your question. You do not need to name the app. On the app's Bookings page there is also an Ask Sidekick button at the top that opens Sidekick with the question "Which rentals are overdue right now, who has them, and how late is each one?"
How to set it up
There is nothing to switch on. Once the app is installed, Sidekick can use it wherever your store has Sidekick.
Open Bookings
In Apps → Miko Product Rentals, choose Bookings.Click Ask Sidekick
Sidekick opens and asks which rentals are overdue, who has them and how late each one is.Keep asking
Ask follow-up questions in the same conversation, for example what is booked for next week.
Options
What you can ask
| Ask about | What Sidekick tells you | Example question |
|---|---|---|
| Overdue rentals | Rentals past their return date that have not been marked as returned, with the order, the customer, their email or phone, and how late each one is. | "What is overdue?" |
| What is out now | Rentals that are out with a customer right now, with who has what and when it is due back. | "What is out right now?" |
| Upcoming bookings | Bookings that have not started yet, soonest first, with the customer and the dates. | "What is booked for next week?" |
| Availability | Whether a rental product is free for a date range, and how many of its units are free. With no dates it checks the next seven days. | "Is the kayak free from 1 to 5 December?" |
| A customer's bookings | Every booking for a customer, found by name or email, in any status. | "What has Sam rented?" |
| Your rental products | The products set up for rental, with their units, daily price and deposit. | "How is the camera priced?" |
| Revenue and deposits | Rental revenue and the number of bookings since the start of this month, and the deposits you are holding right now. | "How much rental revenue this month?" |
What Sidekick does not do
- It never changes anything. It cannot edit or cancel a booking, issue a refund, charge a late fee or change availability. Do those from the booking in Bookings.
- It does not open app pages for you. It answers in the Sidekick conversation.
- It works from what is stored on the booking. It does not read live Shopify order data beyond that.
- Long lists are shortened. A list shows up to 10 bookings, and Sidekick gives you the full total alongside.
An empty answer is a real answer: no overdue rentals means nothing is overdue.
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