Utilizing the Bookings for WooCommerce plugin you can now create an online WooCommerce booking system that can turn your products into booking solutions. Booking a hotel room, renting a product, reserving a course or class, selling a tour package, and event tickets, and booking a WooCommerce appointment, all become easy with just a flip of a coin. This WooCommerce scheduling plugin is simple yet effective because it is a one-stop-shop for free online easy booking system-based solutions for nearly any business. You can create, sell, or manage flexible WooCommerce booking plugin-based solutions over your website just by utilizing this plugin’s outstanding features. Below, we’ve listed some alluring features of our Bookings for WooCommerce plugin-     Benefits:

• A separate booking list is offered on the WC order listing panel with a specialized WooCommerce Bookings tag for easy sorting.
• A precise number of booking cancellation and processing days can easily be defined.
• Effortlessly show/hide the additional booking form details using render settings.
• Provide booking service location navigation through the booking location feature.
• Early Bird Discount coupons can easily be offered.
• Before the service is available, you will receive email and SMS reminders.
• Fully customized email/SMS templates for different business types.
• Unit, basic, and extra costs can all be specified for WooCommerce bookable products.
• Create a simple list of forthcoming WooCommerce bookings using the Booking Calendar.
• Set the start and finish times for booking WooCommerce 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 the WooCommerce Appointments plugin.

We have mentioned the installation process for both the Free and Premium Versions. The customers can refer to the one that is relevant to them.

It is important to note that before activating the plugin – Bookings For WooCommerce Pro, you should have the Bookings for WooCommerce – WordPress plugin installed, as the plugin will not function without it.

So, if you don’t already have it, you can download it directly from here:

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1. Automatic Installation

When it comes to automatic installation, WordPress is the most user-friendly.

To do so, all you have to accomplish is-

Utilizing your username and password and Login to your WordPress admin area. Then navigate to Plugins > Add New inside the leftmost column of your dashboard. There at the top of the front page, click the Upload Plugin option.

Choose the Bookings for WooCommerce-based .zip file from the Add New Plugin option, then push Install Now. Activate the WooCommerce booking plugin once it has been properly configured, to make the plugin features in action.

2. Manual Installation

Another way to install the WooCommerce appointments plugin in your WordPress environment is to use the manual installation option. Manual installation involves downloading and uploading the Bookings for WooCommerce plugin to the web server using their preferred FTP client.

• 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.

The very last tab in the Bookings for WooCommerce PRO plugin is License. This tab is an activation panel for your plugin license.

To accept WooCommerce booking requests from your customers, make sure you activate your plugin license before setting up your plugin backend.

There isn’t any special setting available here, just one that is license activation. As soon as you purchase the PRO plugin from the site, you receive an activation code.

After Purchasing the premium version navigate to My Account > Orders > Your Order. There you’ll find the License Key. The License Key is also sent to you on your mail ID.

Please confirm your purchase code by copy-pasting it in the given Enter Purchase Code text field and hitting the Validate button, so that you can utilize the plugin’s features conveniently even after the 30 days of plugin activation.

Note: Even if the license is not activated, you can use the Bookings for WooCommerce PRO plugin capabilities for 30 days. After that, the PRO plugin features would be automatically disabled, and you might end up losing your customer’s booking data, therefore it is a must to activate the license before the trial period ends.

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-

 

4.1 Bookings General Settings (FREE)

4.1.1 Enable WooCommerce Appointments 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.

4.1.2. 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.

4.1.3. 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. 

Frontend Representation,

(You can see how the “Book Now” button is disabled because there are no dates selected).

4.2 Bookings General Settings (Premium)

4.2.1. Enable Booking Location SitePremium

This option includes a toggle button; all you have to do to enable or disable the Bookings Enable location feature.

This feature is crucial since it makes it simple for your clients to navigate to the booking service location. Businesses that accept reservations for events, salon services, booking an appointment, or physical storefronts can benefit from using this option.

Frontend Representation

4.2.2. Change Status To ProcessingPremium

This option is a very effective resource for you, just enter the number of days you want and all your paid WooCommerce bookings placed will automatically be set to processing status after the specified period.

To do so, just toggle ON the Change Status to Processing button and specify the number of days in the Enter the Days text box.

4.2.3. Change Status To CanceledPremium

This option in the WooCommerce scheduling plugin, allows you to enter the number of days required to automatically reject the unpaid booking placed and set the booking status to cancel.

To make the setting in action, just toggle ON the Change Status to Cancelled button and specify the number of days in the Enter the Days text box available.

4.2.4 Disable CategoryPremium

Marketers can utilize this setting to disable the default “booking category” of the bookable resources. This further gives them the flexibility to select the category that suits your product the best.

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You can see in the screenshot below, how the first bookable resource has a different category mentioned and the second resource has the default category.

4.2.5 Integrate Your Bookings With The Google CalendarPremium

Set Up Google Calendar With Bookings For WooCommerce Pro – Guide

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-

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-

5.1.1. 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.

5.1.2. 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.

• Please Select The Language For Calendar: Admins can conveniently select the language that sits well with the requirements of your booking website.

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• Please Select The Start Day Of The Week: The merchants can also select the “start day” of the week, as per the global location of your booking website.

Frontend Representation –

5.1.3. Display Additional Services DetailsPremium

You can easily Enable this toggle button to provide additional WooCommerce service booking details while hovering over it on the booking form.

5.1.4. Display Booking PolicyPremium

You can easily display your WooCommerce booking policies along with the booking form utilizing this feature of the plugin.

To do so, you are just required to turn On the Show Booking Policy toggle button, and then input your booking policies there in the Booking Policy text box available.

5.1.5. Set Color For Available Dates In The CalendarPremium

Admins can set the color for available dates in the calendar so that the customers will see when they are making an appointment.

5.1.6. Set Color For Unavailable Dates In The CalendarPremium

You can easily set the color for unavailable dates in the calendar so that the customers will see when they are making an appointment.

5.1.7. Set Text Color In The CalendarPremium

The color of the text that will be displayed on the calendar can also be changed dynamically.

5.1.8. Set Border In The CalendarPremium

Admins can enter border code (e.g. 1px solid brown ) available for a Single calendar (Days) for the calendars, that can be seen over the frontend.

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-

a) . Name

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

b) . 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.

c) . Description

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

d) . 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- 

e) . 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.

f) . 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.

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-

a) .  Name

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

b) . 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.

c) . Description

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

d) . 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-

e) . 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.

f) . 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.

g) .  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.

h) . 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.

i) . 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-

j) . Minimum Quantity

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

k) .  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.

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. Admins can utilize the filter to filter out the bookings by choosing them as per their preference, these being On-hold, pending, processing, or completed. This further helps streamline the booking management process convenient for the websites.

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.

This is the very next tab in the WooCommerce bookings plugin’s configuration 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-

We will first go through the settings that are provided for the FREE version of the bookings plugin, 

12.1 Enable Availability Setting

The admin can enable this to apply the availability setting for the mentioned booking products over your website. Your products will appear only in the mentioned time set up by you.

12.2 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.

12.3 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.

We will then go through the settings that are provided for the PREMIUM version of the bookings plugin,Premium

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.

This availability settings tab offers multiple setting options like-

12.4 Availability By DaysPremium

Using the plugin settings, you can easily define your booking Start, End, and Lunch Hours depending on the weekdays.

To do so, you just need to specify the particular day-wise Morning, Lunch In, Lunch Out, and Night time slots utilizing the time range picker available there.

12.5 Please Select the Unavailable Dates ( List of Holidays )Premium

This setup option is quite effective in handling your unavailability depending on a different set of holidays.

Note- We also have a separate front-end WooCommerce bookings form where the availability dates are displayed separately. These days are displayed on the date picker calendar in different colors based on their status, with green denoting availability for booking and red denoting unavailability on that date. Please see the screenshot below for more clarification—

12.6 Enable This If You Want To Close Days Of Particular MonthsPremium

This is a toggle-based option that allows store owners to enable availability schedules for booking days based on month-wise sorting. Booking under this setting involves days specifications that are unavailable out of selected months.

12.7 Please Select The MonthsPremium

This option involves listing out the unavailable month-wise listings within. The months specified would be set as unavailable or not available in the specified booking place.

12.8 Please Select the DaysPremium

This option involves listing out the unavailable day-wise listings within. The days specified would be set as unavailable or not available in the specified booking placed for different months.

12.9 Enable This If You Want To Unavailable Booking Of Particular MonthsPremium

This option can be utilized if you want to make particular months unavailable for a specified period.

12.10 Please Select the Unavailable MonthsPremium

Utilize this option to specify the months that you want to make unavailable for booking for the customers.

12.11 Please Select The Unavailable DaysPremium

Utilize this option to specify the days that you want to make unavailable for booking for the customers.

12.12 Please Select A Product To Exclude This FunctionalityPremium

The admins can also exclude certain booking products from being unavailable for particular months.

NOTE: This particular setting is only “If You Want To Unavailable Booking Of Particular Months” not for other settings.
You can easily define the list of your holidays and define your booking’s availability with ease by utilizing the calendar picker available there.

12.13 Please Select Product To Include This functionality

The admins can use this setting to make (or include) certain booking products unavailable for specific months.

NOTE: This particular setting is only “If You Want To Unavailable Booking Of Particular Months” not for other settings.

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.

This section involved different setting options within they are-

13.1 General Settings

(Some features of the General Settings are different for Single Calendar and Dual Calendar)

Refer to this Screenshot for Dual Calendar for Days – booking unit

Refer to this Screenshot for a Single Calendar for hour – booking unit

• Booking Type

The merchant can now toggle between a single calendar and a 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 that are unavailable and the days that are unavailable every week (weekly off). The users can choose “to” and “from” dates for booking.

But if a merchant decides to go ahead with the Single Calendar, he will be in a position to mention the dates of booking that 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 WooCommerce Booking Calendar

Frontend For Single Calendar

• 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 appointment quantity determination units, identical to those shown in the screenshot below.-

Customers Can Choose

You can easily define your WooCommerce booking quantity as the Customers Can Choose type, this depicts that your booking-based quantity determination can be custom-assigned by the consumer at the front end 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 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.

• Booking Confirmations

This checkbox option allows you to easily enable admin privileges for the booking appointment 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 quite an effective yet straightforward option for the WooCommerce booking requests made over your website. As you enable this option, you offer the ability to your customer to cancel their placed booking requests with ease.

To make the settings in action, just enable the checkbox option available and mention the Order Status in the box beneath for cancellation processing.

• Order Status

To make the settings in action, just enable the checkbox option available and mention the Order Status in the box beneath for cancellation processing.

• 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 three options likewise, depending on the booking product you own or for which you’re specifying.

If you decide to go with the “hour” option, you will see the following settings (these are related to hours)

• Daily Booking Start Time On Calendar

This setting allows 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 front within the date and time picker calendar.

• Daily Booking End Time On Calendar

This setting allows 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 front within the date and time picker calendar,

The admin will see the following option if you select “hours” under the booking unit settings,

• Max Booking Limit Per Hour

The maximum booking limit can be set using this checkbox option based on booking hours. You can enter whatever number you choose here to prevent being overloaded for the day with the sum of your maximum occupied and unoccupied hours.

• Enable Max Booking Limit Per Slot For All The Time Instead Of Per HourPremium

Admins can enable this setting, if they want to enable the maximum number of booking slots infinitely instead of per hour.

NOTE: You can only see this feature if you “Single Calendar” selected with calendar type, and “hours” selected for booking unit.

The admin will see the following option if you select “days” under the booking unit settings,

• Enable To Show Check-In And Check-Out Time With Date On Calendar

If you wish that your user make use of the date picker and time selection options on the calendar to determine your booking requests at the front end, then enable this checkbox option available.

• Max booking Per Day

The maximum booking limit can be set using this checkbox option based on booking hours. You can enter whatever number you choose here to prevent being overloaded for the day with the sum of your maximum occupied and unoccupied hours.

• Max Booking Per Date

The admins can also restrict the users by mentioning the maximum booking number on a particular date.

• Booking LocationPremium

This checkbox option allows you to enter Location which will be shown on a single product page while placing a booking request. Customers can make use of the location feature to track their booked service location.

• Share on FacebookPremium

This checkbox option allows you to enable the product to be shared on Facebook, for this you integrate your Facebook credentials with the plugin settings available in the Integration Settings tab.

• Allow for Single Date Booking Only

This functionality enables the merchant to allow their customers to make the booking for a single date/day. This option works only for single calendar bookings.

•  Rescheduling AllowedPremium

This option enables your booking product to be rescheduled if the customer places the rescheduling request.

• Rescheduling Order StatusPremium

This option is available only if you enable the rescheduling checkbox setting, and define your specific order status on which rescheduling can be specified.

13.2 Unit Cost

It’s essentially the per-unit cost of the bookable resource or the business owner’s main expense. A booking unit’s cost can be any amount you like; you only have to manually type it into the text field next to it.

• Booking Unit Cost

Utilize this field, to enter the unit cost for a particular service that you are opting to book for.

• Booking Unit Cost Per People

In terms of the unit cost of the bookable resource, this is a contradicting additional choice. If you select this option, the fee per unit is computed based on the number of people for whom the service is being ordered.

• Hide Base Cost From Product Page

The admins can utilize this feature to hide the base cost of the booking product from the customers.

• Base Cost

It is primarily the cost of a bookable resource unit’s base rental fee or optional cost. Because the base cost is an optional charge, the user has complete control over whether or not to use it.

This is a viable possibility. A new option for calculating your base cost is included in Base Cost.

• Base Cost Per People

If you choose this option, the base price is set by the number of persons that use the booking service.

If you wish to include additional fees in addition to the booking unit and base cost for the booking product, simply follow the steps below.

Note: If you want to add further additional booking costs other than booking included costs for your booking product, refer here.

• Day-Based Pricing Rule For Unit Cost (Dual Calendar)

Merchants can offer day-based discounts (for dual calendar), both fixed and variable, to encourage their customers to make bookings for longer time frames.

For example, offer a $20 discount for 1-5 days, and a 30% discount for 5-10 days.

This strategy will definitely motivate customers to extend their stay and increase your revenue over time. These are the settings that you will have to configure –

1. Minimum Days – Specify the minimum days
2. Maximum Days – Specify the Maximum days
3. Type Of Discount – Specify if you are doing ahead with the fixed discount type or percent discount type
4. Value – Mention the value for the discount that you are offering

• Show Notice Of Cost Range On Product Page: Enable this setting, if you want showcase a message over the product page, specifying the discount rules for that particular booking product. 

Frontend Representation –

• Early Bird Discount

This is an outstanding feature of the plugin that lets the admin manager offer an easy discount based on a different set of coupons for their customers. To do so they are first required to create coupons and append them in the early bird discount section of a particular product to make it in action.

Note: To Add early bird coupons please visit here, create the coupons, make sure to choose this

13.3 People Settings

These are the additional product settings that will 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 enable the checkbox setting available here.

13.5 Services Settings

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

• 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.

Note: If you want to add further additional services other than booking included services for your booking product, refer here.

13.6 Fields

• Enable Fields: Admins can enable this functionality, to add custom fields to the existing booking forms. Further, you can choose from different “input fields options” and customize the booking form as per your requirements.

Here is how you add different options:

Frontend Representation of the custom input fields over the live booking form,

13.6 Availability Settings

These are the additional product settings that will be enabled after you tap into the Availability tab. There will be color codes in the date picker calendar for single & dual calendars.

To define booking availability, you need to navigate to Admin Dashboard > Plugin Backend > Configuration Settings > Availability Settings tab.

Note: In case you require an understanding of the Availability feature of the plugin, just refer here. (Refer to this for the Dual Calendar Booking Type, all the mentioned settings will be reversed for the single calendar type)

• Choose Multiple Dates To Disable Booking On That Day

The admins can choose the dates, you want to disable the booking for your customers.

• Choose Day To Make Booking Unavailable On That Day In Every Week (Weekly Off)Premium

Simply pick one day from the list of available days to use as your booking service week off. This setting is entirely optional; you are free to use it or leave it as it is.

• Choose A Scheduled DatePremium

Enter a date here, and it will be taken into account as the start date of your booking services availability.

(Refer to this for the Single Calendar Booking Type )

• Booking Slot Format

The admin can use this setting to set the timing format that will be shown on the frontend when customers are making the booking. The available formats are 24-hour and AM/PM.

Frontend Representation –

• Choose Scheduled Date

The booking window will start from the selected date.

• Set Days Availability

Bookings will be available on the specified dates, and minutes.

• Sets Days Availability Up To Particular Date

Admins can mention the availability window or set the day availability up to a particular date by using this feature.

• Set Days Availability and Days Availability Up To Together

Admins can now make particular dates available up to a particular time. For example – you can make Saturdays and Sundays available up to December.

• Booking Slot Format

The admins can enable this functionality if they want the timing to show AM/PM, time formatting.

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• Hide/Disable Unavailable Slots:

Merchants can utilize this functionality to completely hide the unavailable slots to avoid confusion.

13.7 Unit Cost For Year

The WooCommerce bookings plugin enables the admins to set different prices for different dates throughout the year. By utilizing this section, admins can set different prices for a variety of dates. Further, it provides the admins with the flexibility of providing the customers with dynamic pricing.

From this section, the admin can put different prices for the mentioned dates.

NOTE: The dynamic pricing will only be shown when the admin puts the prices if the space is left blank, then the parent pricing will be shown. The admins can use filters to make bulk edits over these dates.

13.8 Slots Per Day

Utilizing this functionality of the WooCommerce bookings plugin, admins will get a chance to schedule appointments for a particular day. This setting allows the admins to be flexible with their booking slots.

For example, if the admin wants to create extra slots for December 23rd, they can click on that particular date, which will open this window.

Utilize this window to add as many slots as you want for one particular booking product and a particular day. After adding the slots, you must update the product for it to be showcased in your WooCommerce store.

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You can now manage the per day slots by using this functionality of “Slots per day” on the same day.

For Example: If you are serving a spa service, and you want to schedule it on every Thursday from 11:30 AM to 12:00 PM, all you need to do is select Thursday from the dropdown, enter the time slot once (like 11:30 – 12:00), and apply it to all Thursdays for the selected month in just a click.

This functionality will helps you in:

1. Offering your services on a repeated schedule.

2. Quickly update your availability for specific days.

3. Avoid chances of manual errors when managing bookings.

With this configuration, you will have complete control over your calendar with minimal effort, and your clients will always see the proper open slots when making reservations.

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.

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-

 

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-

 

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

 

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.

 

Customers can view their bookings in a centralized manner. They can see the name of the booking product (which is clickable), the payment method they used, the option to add the booking to their Google Calendar, the booking status, and the cancellation option (if the merchant has enabled this functionality). Furthermore, customers can also select whether they want to view the bookings in a list or grid format.

 

List View – 

Grid View – 

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.

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.

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. 

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-

 

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.

Merchants can utilize this functionality to seamlessly incorporate a Global Booking Calendar on any page they want. This eliminates the problem of creating multiple calendars.

To do so, follow these steps – 

Navigate to “Global Bookings” > “Add new Booking” through the sidebar of the admin’s dashboard.

• You can now “create a new global calendar.”
  
  
• Admins will now add the following information related to the global calendar.
  

Booking Settings 

1. Maximum Booking Per Date: The admin can set the maximum number of booking per date. NOTE: This limit will apply to every date.
2. Cost: Specify the cost for booking a slot on the Global Calendar
3. Available Days: Mention the available dates. 
4. Non-Available Days: Mention the non-available dates. 
5. Calendar Colour: Choose the colour for your calendar. 

After mentioning all the related data, click on the “update” button to publish the calendar.

After successfully curating the calendar, the administrator will see the “shortcode for the created calendar” at the “Global Calendar Booking” dashboard.

Simply copy the shortcode for the created calendar, and paste it where you want to show this calendar.

After successfully incorporating the global calendar, this is how it will look on the frontend.

The customers can easily make the booking for the dates they want, and the said bookings will be handled by the admins in the same fashion as for other bookings made over the site. 

Frontend For Customers making the booking –

Backend for the admins receiving bookings –

To understand the working of this functionality – Documentation for Syncing Global Calendar with Airbnb.

To understand the working of this functionality – Sync Global Calendar With Third-Party Websites.

 

With the WooCommerce Bookings plugin, you can also use additional plugins for enhanced features:

19.1 WPML Compatibility

To facilitate easy translations and localization within the Bookings for WooCommerce appointments 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 in your preferred language. 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.

19.2 Compatibility With Return Refund and Exchange for WooCommerce

To process easy booking refunds for your customers, we’ve made our plugin capable of handling both manual and automated booking refund requests.

You can either let your customers have refunds for their orders using a manual procedure or through a specialized and automated process i.e. utilizing a plugin for that. Our Bookings for WooCommerce PRO plugin is all compatible with an outstanding RMA i.e. Return Refund and Exchange For WooCommerce Free And RMA Return Refund & Exchange for WooCommerce Pro Plugin.

Make use of this outstanding plugin and offer easy refunds for your customers, whose booking order fails or cannot be fulfilled due to unspecified issues.

19.3 Compatibility with Upsell Funnel Builder

WooCommerce bookings plugin is compatible with Upsell Funnel Builder. This allows admins to upsell booking-related items or whatever best suits the requirements of their online booking business.

 

19.4 Compatibility With Points and Rewards for WooCommerce

This compatibility with Points and Rewards for WooCommerce and Points and Rewards for WooCommerce Pro enables merchants to reward customers with reward points on bookable products. 

Frontend Representation of this Compatibility –

19.5 Compatibility With Gutenberg Block

Compatibility with Gutenberg Block allows merchants to seamlessly add the global calendar, just by entering the calendar ID to incorporate the calendar into different pages. This eliminates the need to copy and paste the unique global calendar shortcodes.

19.6 Compatibility With Elementor

Elementor Page Builder is compatible with the WooCommerce bookings plugin. This compatibility lets you use Elementor’s capabilities to add the “global calendar” to different pages without copying shortcodes.

19.7 Compatibility With Subscription For WooCommerce

Our Bookings plugin is compatible with Subscriptions for WooCommerce and Subscriptions for WooCommerce Pro. This allows merchants to list subscription-based booking products on their websites. They can charge sign-up fees and make it a recurring booking product, which also allows one-time payment scenarios.

19.8 Compatibility With Gift Card For WooCommerce

WooCommerce Bookings is compatible with Ultimate Gift Cards for WooCommerce and Gift Cards for WooCommerce Pro. This enables merchants to run offers wherein they can offer gift cards for salons, spas, etc, along with their booking products.

19.9 Compatibility With Wallet System For WooCommerce

Bookings for WooCommerce plugin is compatible with our Wallet System for WooCommerce. This allows customers to make bookings through the wallet frontend panel and recharge their wallets to use the balance for future purchases.

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.

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