1.Overview

Bookings for WooCommerce is an outstanding plugin that enables online retailers to quickly create an online booking system and turn their products into booking solutions that are available to their customers for a specified period of time. This plugin is simple yet effective because it is a one-stop shop for providing online booking solutions for nearly any form of business. It can be used to reserve a hotel room, rent a product, reserve a course or class, sell a tour package online, buy event tickets, make an appointment, and much more with WooCommerce booking plugin..
You can easily perform the following listed functions with ease whilst installing the WooCommerce bookings plugin on your store-
  • Create extra booking fees and services with ease from the backend.
  • Unit, basic, and extra costs can all be specified for WooCommerce bookable products.
  • Create a simple list of forthcoming bookings using the Booking Calendar.
  • Set the start and finish times for booking appointments  for the day with simplicity.
  • You can simply establish the maximum number of  WooCommerce appointments per day using the HMS unit.
  • Make it simple for your clients to cancel their booking appointment requests using WordPress Appointments plugin.

2.Plugin Installation

1. Automatic Installation

WordPress is the easiest to use when it comes to automated installation. For that you just need to-

  • Sign in to your WordPress Dashboard using your username and password.
  • Then, in the left panel of your dashboard, go to Plugins > Add New.
  • Click the Upload Plugin button at the top of the page.
  • From the Choose File menu, select the .zip file for the Bookings for WooCommerce, then press Install Now.
  • If the plugin has been successfully installed, activate it.

2. Manual Installation

Manual installation is another option for installing the plugin in your WordPress environment. The manual installation phase entails using their preferred FTP client to download and upload the  Bookings for WooCommerce plugin to the webserver.

  • Upload the Bookings for WooCommerce folder to the /WP-content/plugins/directory.
  • Navigate to the Plugins menu in WordPress to activate the plugin.
  • That is all there is to it.

3.How to Setup Plugin Backend?

WooCommerce Bookings plugin setup is quite easy and quick, you just need to pay attention to the details and the functions of each option here. So, let’s start then-

After installing the plugin, simply traverse towards your WordPress Dashboard and find WP Swings –  Bookings for WooCommerce icon on the sidebar. Hit on the icon to launch the plugin backend settings panel.

For better understanding, you may also check out the screenshot given below.

Note: You can also launch the plugin backend, making use of the WooCommerce Bookings plugin’s Settings option available in the installed plugin listing page.

After launching the plugin backend, the actual setting required to set up the plugin functionality begins. Let’s check out.

3.1.General Settings

This is the initial setup option available on the WooCommerce bookings plugin backend, in order to open the general settings option just navigate WooCommerce Dashboard > WooCommerce Bookings > Settings. This general settings tab offers multiple setting options like-

1. Enable Plugin

This option comes with a toggle button that you can use to Enable or Disable the Plugin feature in your store by simply turning it on or off.

2. Enable Bookings

This option comes in booking appointment plugin handy with a toggle button along, you just need to toggle that button on/off in order to Enable or Disable the Bookings feature within your store. This setting is quite crucial in its aspect also, this helps you easily allow your customers to begin your WooCommerce bookings; otherwise, your consumers would be unable to do so.

 

3. Disable Book Now Button On Empty Form

There is a useful feature that allows you to disable the “Book Now” button in the event that the form is empty. Additionally, this feature can also be configured to disable the “Book Now” button until dates have been selected on the calendar. 

You just need to toggle that button on/off in order to Enable or Disable the Book Now button within your empty form. 

3.2.Configuration Settings

This tab refers to a group of four setup options that together make up the plugin’s configuration setting in actual, the sub setup available with this tab include-

3.2.1.Booking Form Settings

This is a secondary setting option offered in the Configuration Settings tab, this option allows you to control the booking form display at the frontend. Some of the options it includes are-

1. Display Included Services

This toggle button option allows you to show or hide the included services from the frontend booking form means from your customer’s display. This option must be enabled in order to display your booking services over your booking form.

 

1. Display Totals

This toggle button allows you to enable or disable the totals booking cost display at the frontend booking form. If you want your customers to learn about their booking total cost at the booking for itself whilst placing a request. You must enable this to display the total booking cost for different services and quantities during booking.

 

3.2.2.Availability Settings

This is the very next tab in the WooCommerce bookings plugin’s settings. I.e. Availability Settings. You may use this option to simply define the exact start and end dates/times of your booking. Let’s have a look at how-

Daily Start Time

Enter your daily start time for the booking requests to be made at your website end. Customers cannot place requests before the specified time.

Enable Availability Settings

This toggle button lets you easily enable as well as disable your availability settings. Just toggle switch ON this setting option and apply availability settings on your product. 

Daily End Time

Enter your daily end time for the booking requests to be made at your website end. Customers cannot place requests after the specified time till the very next day.

3.2.3.Additional Costs (Add New Booking Cost)

This is another setting option offered in the Configuration Settings tab, this option allows you to create your own set of custom booking costs and display at the frontend booking request form. 

In order to create additional booking costs for your product, you need to first fill this form a whole. 

This form would thereby allow you to create different types of additional booking costs for your booking products. There are multiple options available-

1. Name

This option allows you to input a unique identifier name for the additional booking cost that you’re supposed to be creating.

2. Slug

The “slug” is the URL-friendly version of the name. It is usually all lowercase and contains only letters, numbers, and hyphens. Add a slug of your choice that you want to add for your additional booking costs created.

3. Description

This input box allows you to enter the description for the additional booking costs that you’ve created. 

4. Booking Cost

This input box allows you to enter the booking cost price with respect to the added cost of your bookable product, resource, or service. This option includes different conditions along with- 

5. Multiply Cost by Number of People

If you toggle switch ON this option available, this clearly states that your created additional booking cost will be multiplied by the number of people added to the booking.

6. Multiply by Duration

If you supposedly toggle switch ON this option this clearly means that you allow your created additional booking cost to be multiplied with the duration of the booking placed.

After you’re done with the options, just hit the Add New Booking Cost button to save the booking cost created. You can conceivably create as much as cost that you desire.

3.2.4.Additional Services (Add New Booking Services)

Likewise the above mentioned setting option offered in the Configuration Settings tab, this option also allows you to create your own set of custom booking services and display at the frontend booking request form.

In order to create additional booking services for your product, you need to first fill this form a whole.

This form would thereby allow you to create different types of additional booking services for your booking products. There are multiple options available-

1.  Name

This input option allows you to enter the name of the booking service that you want to create for your WooCommerce bookings.

2. Slug

The “slug” is the URL-friendly version of the name. It is usually all lowercase and contains only letters, numbers, and hyphens. Add a slug of your choice that you want to add for your booking service created.

3. Description

This input box allows you to enter the description for your booking service created.

4. Service Cost

This option allows you to enter the cost of the booking service that you are including in your booking resources. This option includes different conditions along with-

5. Multiply Cost by Number of People Per Booking

This option  in bookings appointment plugin allows you to calculate your booking service cost according to the people included in that booking. When nothing is specified, then the default service cost for that particular people type will be applied.

6. Multiply Cost by Duration

If you toggle switch ON this option it means that the service cost of your bookable resource i.e. product or service would be multiplied by the duration. Checking out this option enables your customer to place bookings based on timely schedules.

7.  If Optional

If you toggle switch ON this option, your created additional booking service cost would become optional while making a booking request, and if you left it unchecked, your service included cost would become optional, vice versa.

8. If Hidden

This option if toggle switch ON allows you to hide your included booking service created from the customer at the time of placing a booking request. There’s a catch that this hidden option only works for included services not for the additional services created.

9. If Has Quantity

In WooCommerce booking plugin this option enables you to calculate the service booking cost for the booking on the basis of the quantity of the bookable resource available. If you supposedly toggle switch ON this option then two more options are enabled-

10. Minimum Quantity

This option allows you to input the minimum quantity allowed for the bookable resource to place a booking request.

11.  Maximum Quantity

This option allows you to input the maximum quantity of a bookable resource allowed in order to place a booking request.

After you’re done with the options, just hit the Add New Booking Service button to save the booking cost created. You can conceivably create as much as additional booking services that you desire.

3.2.5.Bookings Calendar

This is the very next tab in the bookings plugin’s settings. I.e. Booking Calendar. This is not an actual setting tab rather a tab for the booking request overview. 

Admin managers can easily check out the detailed booking calendars for different months available here, and determine with ease- How their month is shaping up.

This calendar displays the booking request made by your customers, one can make use of that to schedule their WooCommerce bookings further and plan their workflow.

4.How to Create Bookable Resources?

Creating a bookable resource in order to receive further booking requests is no rocket science. You can easily create a bookable resource i.e. service or a product as the same as you create a simple product, just the difference lies in the settings further.

Don’t stress, let me tell you that in detail-

In order to create a bookable resource for your bookings, you need to first navigate towards your Dashboard > Products > Add New. After that, you automatically are driven to the Add New Product window, which somehow resonates with the screenshot below-

Add New Product

Just create a new product by entering the product name, featured image, description, etc. Once you’re done with all that, proceed to the very next step i.e. Product Data Setting section. 

The Product Data Setting section is located just beneath the product description area. Tap the dropdown button beside the Product Data and update Product Type with Booking Product.

Then proceed with the settings further detailed below-

 

4.1.Product Data General Settings

These are the extra product parameters that will become available after you pick Booking Product as your product type and press the General Settings tab. Within this set, there are numerous settings available-

Booking Type

The merchant can now toggle between single calendar and dual calendar. With this WooCommerce appointment plugin feature the merchant gets a chance to toggle between Single or Dual Calendar based on the requirements of your organization.

If a merchant decides to go ahead with the Dual Calendar, he will be in a position to mention the dates of booking which are unavailable and the days which are unavailable on a weekly basis (weekly off). The users can choose “to” and “from” dates for booking.

But if a merchant decided to go ahead with the Single Calendar, he will be in a position to mention the dates of booking which are available. The customer can choose multiple dates

NOTE: If you have more unavailable dates, then you can go for the dual calendar, but if you have more available, you can go for the single calendar.

Front-end for Dual Calendar:

dual calander frontend

Frontend for Single Calendar:

single calender front end

Quantity 

This option in the General Settings tab determines the booking quantity determination type for your booking product. 

All you have to do now is tap the dropdown menu. It would display two different sorts of booking quantity determination units, identical to those shown in the screenshot below.-

booking unit types

Customers Can Choose

You can easily define your booking quantity as Customers Can Choose type, this depicts that your booking-based quantity determination can be custom assigned by the consumer at the frontend while placing a booking request. i.e. booking duration on the front end is chosen by the customer.

Fixed Unit

This is also a type of booking quantity, if you supposedly set your booking quantity type to be fixed, that clearly means that your booking duration is predefined to 1 i.e. booking quantity, and that cannot be altered by the customer while placing a booking request.

Max Booking Per User

You can use this option to limit the number of quantities a user can book for a specific booking product, service, or resource.

Booking Unit

This dropdown option lets you easily determine the unit type for your booking orders to be placed for the specified booking product, service, or resource.

It has two options likewise, depending on the booking product you own or for which you’re specifying.

Enable Dates Selection

If you wish that your user makes use of the date picker calendar in order to determine your booking requests at the front end, then do enable this checkbox option available.

Enable Time Selection

If you want your users to be able to use the time picker option to determine their booking requests on the front end, make this checkbox option checked.

Booking Confirmations

This checkbox option allows you to easily enable admin privileges for the booking request made over the website. If you enable this checkbox option then all booking requests for the product require admin confirmation.

Cancellation Allowed

This is a quite effective yet straightforward option for the booking requests made over your website. As you enable this option, you offer an ability to your customer to cancel their placed booking requests with all ease.

In order to make the settings in action, just enable the checkbox option available and mention the Order Status in the box beneath for cancellation processings.

Daily Booking Start Time On Calendar

This setting offers you to specify your booking start time for your specified booking product. You can enter your specified booking start time here. The entered would be displayed in the frontend within date and time picker calendar,

For more clearer understanding, you can refer the screencast (dual calendar) below–

Daily Booking End Time On Calendar

This setting offers you to specify your booking end time for your specified booking product. You can enter your specified booking end time here. The entered would be displayed in the frontend within date and time picker calendar,

For more clearer understanding, you can refer the screencast below–

4.2.Product Data Costs Settings

These are the additional product settings that would be enabled after you tap into the Costs tab. This set includes multiple settings within-

  • Unit Cost: It is basically the bookable resource per unit cost or the main cost that is designated by the store owner itself. The booking unit cost can be anything in numerals, just you need to manually input it in the text box given beside.

This option Unit Cost includes two contradictory further options available for your unit cost calculation, that are-

  • Unit Cost Per People: This is a contradictory further option available with respect to the unit cost of the bookable resource. If you check this option then, your unit cost is calculated with respect to the number of people for whom the service is to be requested for booking.
  • Base Cost:It is primarily the base rental fee or optional cost of a bookable resource unit.  Because the base cost is an optional expense, it is entirely up to the user to decide whether or not to utilize it.This option Base Cost includes a further option for calculating your base cost, that is-
  • Base Cost Per People:If you pick this option, the base cost would be determined by the number of people counting availing of that booking service.If you want to add further additional costs other than this booking unit and base cost for the booking product, you can do so just by following the further approach.

1. Add Booking Cost To Product 

As you’ve created the additional booking costs in the earlier Configuration Settings tab, now it’s time to append them within your booking product. 

To do so, you are just required to make use of the right sidebar widget of your booking product edit page named Booking Costs

 

                                         

After that, just append as many additional booking costs in the box in the form of tags and hit Save.

4.3.Product Data People Settings

These are the additional product settings that would be enabled after you tap into the People tab. This set includes multiple settings within-

  • Enable People Option: If you wish to offer the people an option for the ease and comfort of your consumers for placing booking requests, then do enable the checkbox setting available here.
  • Minimum No. of People: This option lets you easily define the minimum number of people to be allowed for booking certain booking products from your website for an order.
  • Maximum No. of People: This option lets you easily define the maximum number of people to be allowed for booking certain booking products from your website for an order.

4.4.Product Data Services Settings

These are the additional product settings that would be enabled after you tap into the Services tab. This set includes multiple settings within-

1. Add Extra Services 

This option enables your customers to choose additional booking services in addition to the product’s predefined booking services when making a booking request.

If you want to add further additional services other than this booking included services for your booking product, you can do so just by following the further link given here or make use of the Configuration Settings tab > Additional Services option in the bookings plugin backend settings.

2. Add  Booking Services To Product:

As you’ve created the additional booking services earlier utilizing the Configuration Settings tab, now it’s time to append them within your booking product. 

To do so, you are just required to make use of the right sidebar widget of your booking product edit page named Booking Services

booking for woocommerce

After that, just append as many additional booking costs in the box in the form of tags and hit Save.

4.5.Product Data Availability Settings

These are the additional product settings that would be enabled after you tap into the Availability tab. 

In order to define booking availability, you need to traverse towards Admin Dashboard > Plugin Backend > Configuration Settings > Availability Settings tab.

 

Availability Tab Settings

In the tab perform the booking slots timeframe configuration by providing the start and end booking time slots for the day.

This option not only defines the availability but can also act as an effective resource to restrict your booking slots and offer easy booking management for unavailability.

In case of choosing the dual calendar type, the admin will be in a position to only show the unavailable dates, but if he decides to go ahead with the single calendar type, he then gets a chance to show the number of available dates.

Screenshot for Dual Calendar Availability Settings,

dual calendar availability settings

Screenshot for Single Calendar Availability Settings,

single calendar availability settings

Choose Upcoming Holiday to disable Booking on that Day

This setup option let’s you mark a day unavailable for your bookings. You can effectively mark your upcoming event, a holiday or anything just by opting the date for that particular day.

The frontend view of this setting option would be like—

5.How can Customer Process Booking Requests & Admin review them?

You might be curious about that- How do your customers be able to place booking requests/orders using the frontend?

Need not worry, let me detail you that in an easy stepwise manner.

Let’s start then.

5.1.Find A Booking Product or Service

In order to place a booking request or order, initially, the consumer needs to place a booking request. For that, he/she is required to fill a booking form. 

Just hit the View Details button beneath the bookable resource i.e. product or service available in the store and proceed.

For better understanding do check out the screenshot below-

 

booking product or service

5.2.Place Your Booking Request

After that, you would automatically be directed to the bookable resource i.e. product or service Description page. Here, you are supposed to fill out the booking form available, based on different options sets allotted by the store manager itself.

Do refer to the screenshot below for better understanding-

 

booking request

Just fill the Booking Request form given there based on your preferences for booking a certain bookable resource and hit the Book Now button in order to proceed further.  

5.3.Checkout

After hitting the Book Now button, you’ll be automatically redirected to the Checkout page to process the booking order checkout.

 

checkout details

Add the Checkout Details in the form given and opt for the preferable Payment Options available there, and proceed to payment in order to complete the booking order.

That’s it, after successful completion of the Payment Process your Booking Placement Process would also be completed simultaneously.

Note: Customers can avail of unpaid booking requests by opting for the payment method as “COD” or Cash on Delivery.

5.4.Booking Placed Notification

Customers can receive booking notifications via email from the booking store manager after the successful completion of their booking orders. 

Mostly the notification email is to be supposedly sent in order to inform the customers regarding their pending payments or to update them about their booking status.

So, that’s all for the booking setup and process.

 

6.How do admin managers can Review their customer Booking Requests?

As a booking store manager itself, How supposedly you can review the booking requests received using your backend panel?

This might be a question that you might think of now. 

Basically, you can review your booking orders or requests received in two possible ways using your Backend Dashboard Area

How? let me detail:

Dedicated My Bookings Tab

Yes, our Booking plugin has a special My Bookings Tab for managing your booking requests easily. Your website’s My account section contains a link to this tab. You can easily visit there and check the information for all of your upcoming reservations.

One can place bookings and can refer or review them just by referring to this tab, let me show you how—

Other than this, our My Bookings tab also offers an specialized button option to Add your Booking to Google Calendar. Yes, you heard me right. 

You are just required to click on the +Add to Google Calendar button for your booking order and get it added to Google Calendar right away.

6.1.Bookings Calendar View

The first way to review your placed booking orders or requests in an easy manner is using the Bookings Calendar View. In order to access the calendar view area, you just need to get towards the Dashboard > Bookings > Bookings Calendar tab.

You can review the screenshot given above in order to have a better understanding.

bookings calendar view

Here, you can now conveniently review all the booking orders or requests placed monthly on this view. If you want to review the particular booking status or details just click over the booking name. 

6.2.All Bookings Listing Panel

Another way to conveniently review the booking orders or requests placed is by making use of the Booking Listing Panel. You can navigate towards your WC booking listing panel easily in possible two ways-

First, just hit the Bookings button on the top of your booking dashboard panel and you’ll be redirected. This button also displays the number of booking requests placed.

For more understanding, do refer to the screenshot below-

Other than that, you are required to navigate towards your Dashboard > WooCommerce > Orders tab.

For instance, do refer to the screenshot given below-

 

booking orders

In the given WC Booking list view, you can easily evaluate all of the booking orders or requests that have been placed. Simply click on the booking order to discover the status or details for that specific booking or even edit that on your own.

Here’s where you’ll find a particular Bookings tag for simple sorting of your among the rest of the orders you’ve received through your website.

7.WPML Compatibility

In order to facilitate easy translations and localization within the Bookings for WooCommerce plugin, we have now made the plugin perfectly interoperable with the WordPress Multilingual i.e. WPML Plugin.

Yes, now you can effectively translate your plugin-based strings effectively in your preferred language. In order to initiate the translation process, just you have to first extract all your plugin based strings effectively and then proceed with the following steps-

  • First head on to your WordPress Backend and then navigate towards WPML > Themes Plugins Localization.
  • After that select your specified plugin from the list of plugins available there and hit on Scan Selected Plugins for Strings.
  • As the scan progresses and completes, thereby you receive the total number of your plugin-based required strings that can be translated into numbers.
  • Then click on the number of strings that are highlighted in front of your plugin name in order to initiate the process further.
  • After that you’ll be routed to a page with a list of all the plugin’s strings, from that you can then translate each and every one.
  • When you arrive at this page, tap the + button beside each string in a sequence to manually process and select a string for the translated version. A pop-up window will appear, spurring you to input the substring translated version.
  • Once you’ve finished writing the translation, it will be automatically saved, and then when the customer chooses a different dialect, the English translation of the string will appear.
  • In this way, you can effectively translate all your plugin-based strings and hence enjoy multilingual integration benefits. It is better advised to generate your required string translations beforehand to avoid linguistic issues.

8.Premium version Settings

Bookings for WooCommerce PRO is an outstanding approach to turn your ordinary WooCommerce store using WordPress Appointments plugin into an effective booking solution provider. Making use of bookings plugin features, you can create an online booking system that caters to all your customer’s requirements with ease.

WHAT PREMIUM VERSION OF BOOKINGS FOR WOOCOMMERCE PRO OFFERS

  • Offers a distinct Booking List.
  • You can create different People Types for your bookings.
  • Provide specific status settings for paid Bookings to confirm after days.
  • Admin can also reject Bookings after days.
  • Render setting to show/hide the Additional Booking’s details.
  • Advance Bookings setting options.
  • Can define maximum bookings per hour/day.
  • Admins can offer Early Bird Discounts.
  • Customizable business type Templates.
  • Determine upcoming holidays and week off unavailability with ease.
  • Layout a distinct Booking Search page.
  • Opt for multiple upcoming days to mark unavailable for bookings.
  • Admin can Manage Booking for registered customers from the backend.
  • To change the total Booking cost, offer Global Cost Rules.
  • Can offer Booking Reschedule settings.
  • Export your Booking Order Data in a .csv format.
  • The Booking Service setup tab has a Start Time and an End Time.
  • Admin can easily offer Unavailability for Bookings on Weekdays.
  • Email and SMS Reminders before service avail.
  • Display Unavailability/Availability using custom color codes
  • Easy Booking Social Share button available integration with Facebook.
  • Admin can easily provide Booking Refunds, easy RMA plugin compatibility.
  • Provide a specific Booking Policy Section likewise description tab.

TAKE ADVANTAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES OF WOOCOMMERCE BOOKINGS PLUGIN

  1. Get premium version of Plugin Bookings for WooCommerce Pro
  2. Visit the WooCommerce Bookings Documentation to learn more about the plugin’s Premium features and functionality.

9.Feedback and Suggestions

Don’t see a feature in Bookings for WooCommerce plugin that you think would be useful?

We’d love to hear it: Reach out to our Support query and we’ll consider adding it in a future release.

10.FAQs

Yes, the admin can reject unpaid bookings easily. This just requires to Enable the settings from the backend and navigate to Plugin Settings > General Option > Reject Unpaid Booking after the selected specified days.

The admin can easily review all of the bookings that have been made by heading to the Booking Tab, where we have included all of the booking sections for the admin to check.

Yes, the admin can set the booking and non-booking days as required. We have a setting called Global Availability Rules for this.

Yes, there is a way to do it. Go to Plugin Settings > General Options > Update Status to change the status of a booking. Adjust the status to check whether the customer has already paid the booking fees, either manually or automatically after the specified days.

To do so, just go to Admin Dashboard > Booking Tab > Services and assign that according to your preferences.

Yes, using our plugin, you can add hidden services. Just go to the Admin Dashboard > Booking Tab > Services >Add Services (enable if hidden).

Yes, for that you just need to navigate towards the Admin Dashboard > Booking Tab > People Type and set the people type for booking.

To the Admin Dashboard > Products > New Product > Select Data Type > Select MWB Booking and make the settings accordingly.

In our plugin, there are two types of booking units-

  • Fixed Unit
  • Customer Selected Unit

 

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