Booking App by Webkul for Shopify

• An interactive dashboard to track the ongoing progress of your online store.
• Get notifications for all the actions performed in the app.
• View complete booking details of your customers. 
• Option to choose a booking type & add bookings to your store as per your business need.

Booking Types

Once Day Booking to offer one day cab booking service, etc.
Appointment Type to create an appointment scheduling system. Explore!
Rent Type to offer rental bookings. Explore!
Concert Type to offer day-wise bookings for live concert, event bookings, etc. Explore!

• Add custom fields to your booking product in case, you want your customers to provide their additional information at the time of booking.
• Manage customer’s cancel, reschedule booking requests.
  -Get the option to approve or deny requests from the app.
• An informative calendar view for all the bookings. 
  –Google Calendar feature to add customer’s booking events to Google Calendar.

• Manual Booking Option to create bookings on behalf of your customers. Explore!
• Overwrite specific days feature

Close bookings for some specific days or time duration, in case you are not available to receive customer’s bookings. Explore!

You can overwrite days in bulk also. Just select the booking products for which you want to overwrite days & perform the action in just a single step. Explore!

• Set Minimum Guest Limit per Customer in case of multi-user booking.
• Auto-approve customer’s reschedule booking request.

Integrated with Multi-vendor Marketplace for Shopify. Explore!

• The customer can request the admin to reschedule his booking.
• Moreover, Customers can view booking details from their respective “My Account” section.

Booking Product Listing

Have a separate page to list all the bookings products/services listed on your store.

• A separate section to list all your customers who schedule appointments & make bookings from your store.
• Customers can easily filter any booking type by days/week/year/month and also by date range.

• In Rent Type bookings, you can allow customers to choose the group days to rent a product. Thus, restrict them to rent an item for a fixed number of days. Explore!
• Update booking type for the products/services that are not yet booked by the customers.
• In the “Rent Type” or “Rent Type with time” bookings, the multi-user booking type is for unlimited guest users.
• You can select all variants and add them as booking products at a time.
• You can now lock the booking products/services in the customer’s shopping cart. Just enable the settings from the Booking Configuration menu of the app. Explore
• The app is now available with Shopify Point of Sale (POS). Explore
• You can restrict booking product features for your sellers in case you are using the Booking App with the Multi-vendor Marketplace app. Explore
• The app has now become Partner Friendly!
  You can now add the Booking App to your development store with 15 days Free Trial. So, even if you haven’t opted for any Shopify paid plan & you are in the app’s free trial, you can install the app to your development store.
• Configure booking dashboard labels on the seller end (Multi-vendor-Booking App Integration).
• Global Booking: Let customers create bookings from a separate Global Booking page. Explore

In order to install the Booking App to your store, all you need to do is just visit the Shopify app store and get the Booking App by Webkul.

Now, follow the below-given instructions:

• Click the Add app button of the Booking App by Webkul page of the Shopify app store.
• Clicking the add app button, you will be asked to enter your Shopify store URL. Enter your store URL & click the Login button.
• Once you click the login button, you will be straightaway redirected to your Shopify store.
• Click the Install button to install the app to your Shopify store.
• Once installed, you can see the booking app in the Apps section of your Shopify store.

That’s how you can install the booking app to your store effortlessly.

In this Booking App, you will have an interactive dashboard that represents your booking statistics, your earnings, your account information as well as all the notifications that you get from the customers.

You can schedule booking from the app in case you need our support in adding the codes or configuration.

Moreover, you can view all the six different types of bookings in the app from here:-

Admin needs to follow the below-given steps to add bookings to Products:

• Go to the Booking App by Webkul.
• Visit Booking Product Section.

• Click the “Add Booking Product” button.
• Select Your Store Product to which you want to add a booking.
• Now, Choose the Product Variant. You can add the booking to a single variant or all variants.
• Clicking the Proceed button, You will be straightaway redirected to the “Edit Booking Product” section.

There, you need to fill in the following details:

Product Information:

In this menu, you need to choose the booking type i.e. Single User Booking or Multi-user Booking.

Thus, you need to select if you want only one customer to book a slot at a time or if you want to offer the same time or date slot to multiple customers.

On the admin end, this section of the booking app is having a list of booking products. Now once you create any booking product, you can manage all the related details from this section.

You just need to select a product from this section and click on “Edit Booking Product” in the action menu.

You can edit all the booking product details in this section. Also, you can delete/remove the booking product from here.

Let’s understand it one by one.

1. Product Information

You can view all the booking product details in this section such as title, description, product image, and slot price.

Also, you can select the booking type as “Single user booking” or “Multi-user booking“.

2.  Location

In this section, the admin can choose whether he wants to provide the product booking service at any specific location selected by him or he chooses the customer’s preferred location for the same.

Now, if the admin chooses his own preferred location, he needs to enter the location (the address where he wants his customer to visit).

3. Availability

In this section, you can choose booking types and create the slots for your booking products.

Here, you can set the dates between which your bookings will be available and also select the days on which booking products will be available.

Let’s discuss the six different types of bookings in detail.

If you want to offer any service for a day, you can choose this booking type. Thus, customers will select the slot and book the service for a day.

Now, Let’s take an example: One Day Cab booking service: You as an admin can set a duration and the customers will select a slot to book for a day.

If you want to offer an appointment booking service then, select this booking type to create time slots in basic as well as advance slot management.

It allows you to select the time duration between which the booking product will be available. Also, you can set the Per booking timings as well as the rest time after each booking slot.

Per Booking Timings: It is the time taken for each booking slot.

Rest Time after per Booking Slot: It is the rest time available after each booking slot.

For Example:- Dentist Booking System, Doctor’s Appointment.

If You own rental business then, go with Rent Type of booking. You can set a duration for Your service and customers will select the slots to rent the product or service.

Important Note:- While adding rent type booking to any product, please make sure that the inventory policy of that product is “Don’t track inventory” from Shopify end.

Now, you can allow customers to select group days as you can restrict customers to rent products for a fixed number of days.

Once selected, enter the Minimum No of Days for which you want customers to select a continuous date in the calendar to rent the product.
Enter the Maximum No of Days for which you want customers to select a continuous date in the calendar to rent the product. For unlimited days enter the maximum days as ‘0’ and the slot price will be calculated on the basis of the highest group day rule.

Example- Suppose you want to restrict the customers to book a minimum of 3 days and a maximum of 8 days, then enter 3 in the minimum no of days and 8 in the maximum number of days.

GROUP DAYS RULES- You can set multiple rules for slot pricing between the minimum and maximum days. Suppose the minimum number of days is 3 and the maximum number of days is 8, then you can create rules like ‘3-5 = 1 unit’, and ‘6-8 = 2 units’, so if a customer books a slot for 3 to 5 days, the slot price will be calculated on the basis of 1 quantity, and for 6 to 8 days, it will be based on 2 quantities.

Thus, customers will select a date and if it is set to 3 then, automatically 3 continuous days will be selected and the product will be rented for 3 days. Accordingly, the price will be calculated. Refer the screenshot:-

To offer rental service for some specific date and time, you can go with this booking type. In this, you need to set duration and per booking timing i.e the time to be taken for each booking slot.

For Example:- Rent a bike, Rent a Dress

Important Note:- While adding “rent type with time” booking to any product, please make sure that the inventory policy of that product is set to “Don’t track inventory” from Shopify end.

NOTE:- While adding “Rent Type” or “Rent type with time” bookings to any product please make sure that the inventory policy of that product is set to “Don’t track inventory” on the Shopify end.

In this type of booking, You can create day-wise slots irrespective of the time and let your customers book the slot. Click here to know more about how to add the day-wise booking to products.

For Example:- Auditorium booking, Booking Halls for Seminar.

Additionally, you can create date time slots for your bookings and let the customers book their preferred slots with date & time.

For Example:- Ticket booking for Live Musical Concerts, etc.

Also, you will also get an option to add day-wise booking on products simply by choosing Concert Type booking.

Click Here to know about Day-wise booking in detail.

Have more flexibility to add bookings to your store with this feature!

Close Booking

You can now close bookings for the customers on some specific days or time duration that will overwrite the previous slots created for any booking product.

NOTE:- You can now close bookings for some specific time duration of a particular date in the appointment type as well as rent type with time bookings.

You can select a date range and add the time slots to close bookings on the selected date.

Let’s understand it with an example:
Suppose you select a duration from 24th-28th December (5 Days) to close the booking on a product. For that, you add the time duration from 8 A.M- 9 A.M and from 10 A.M – 11 A.M.
So, in this case, the booking on that product gets closed from 8 A.M to 9 A.M and from 10 A.M to 11 A.M on all the 5 Days (24th December to 28th December).

Schedule Updation

In the appointment type bookings, you can now update the time slots on specific dates in case you are not available to provide services on the previously created slots. This newly updated slots will overwrite the previous slots created for the booking product.

We have come up with the feature of bulk overwrite specific days. So, from now onwards, you can select multiple booking products at a time and create different slots for the selected booking products on specific days. This will overwrite the previous slots created for the booking product these days.

Select the products & click the “Overwrite Specific Days” button on the top. After that, select the overwrite type either “Duration” or “Particular Date” and create slots to close bookings.

NOTE- This will not work in case of concert-type booking.

This section lists all the customer’s bookings. Also, you will get the cancel or reschedule requests of your customers.

Once you click on the three dots in the action menu, you will get an option to edit your booking products.

Also, you can click on the “Edit Booking” button to view all the booking details and approve, cancel, or reschedule bookings as per the requirement.

From this section, you can click the “Approve” button to approve the customer’s booking request.

If the customer requests for booking, you will get notified for the same. You will receive an email after which you can approve the customer’s request from this section.

In Case Customer requested to Reschedule Bookings:

Clicking the reschedule button, You can enter the date and slot to which you want to reschedule Your customer’s bookings.

To cancel the customer’s bookings, just click the Cancel button and Proceed. The customer will get notified of the same.

You can have a calendar view of your bookings. Here, you can filter any product to make it visible in the calendar shown in this section.

Also, you can filter it by month, week or day to view the booking product on a calendar. You will get an option of a list view as well.

We have 4 Add-ons available in our booking app- Google Meet, Chatwhizz, ICS file download & Google Calendar.

Let’s have a look at all these add-ons in detail.

GOOGLE MEET

You can send the merchant to send the automated meeting links when merchants confirm the consumers appointment. Explore!

CHATWHIZZ

You can enable the live conference feature on your booking website & let users communicate over the chat system regarding their bookings. Explore!

GOOGLE CALENDAR

You can have the Google Calendar feature in the app to add customer’s booking events to Google Calendar. Explore!

ICS FILE DOWNLOAD

You can activate the ICS File Download add-on in the app to directly import booking events on your calendar or share information with others directly over email using ICS File.

With ICS File download, the admin can provide downloadable files to the customers. Thus, they can import the file on Google Calendar and remain updated with their upcoming booking events.

The configuration of the booking details includes six sections. There, you can configure your general details, booking details, email templates, booking widget, front labels as well as colors.

Make it clear with the screenshots below.

1 General Configuration

You can configure your general details from here.

Also, you can select the default “Timezone” as well as “Currency” in this section.

You can have your own email in the “from” and “reply-to” section of the email sent. Refer to the user guide for the same.

3. Booking Configuration

You can configure all your product booking details in this section such as:-

• Allow customers to enter the no of days after which you want to make the slots available for the customers.
• Auto-approve customer booking requests once a new request is raised.
• Let the customer request you to cancel his/her bookings.
• Auto-approve reschedule booking requests raised by the customers.
• Allow customers to create bookings even if the slot’s availability is less than the minimum guest limit set by the admin (in case of Multi-user booking). 

4 Availability Config.

You can set the blackout days for the rent type booking. You can set the days when to cut off the dates while accepting rental bookings. Those cut-off dates will not be available in the booking calendar for customers to rent items. Explore!

5 Email Templates

Admin can configure all the reminder emails/notifications send to the customers while booking any product.

6 Booking Widget

In this section, you will get an option to enable or disable the “Timezone” selector button which is visible to the customer at the time of booking any product, you can change the time format of the widget, and widget layout.

Now once you enable this feature, customer needs to select the “Timezone” before booking any product.

7 Front Labels

You can configure all the labels on your own to make them visible on the front end exactly the way you want them to appear.

In case you are using the Booking app with Multi-vendor Marketplace, You can configure the labels of the seller’s booking dashboard. To make the changes, you need to visit the Booking App>>Go to Configurations>>Front Labels>>Select Seller Side labels>>Change the labels>>Save.

In this way, the admin can configure the backend.

In order to visualize the effect of this booking app on your store, you just need to configure its frontend by copying the code and paste it to their respective files.

1. For Booking Widget

Now to display the “Timezone Selector” button on the frontend, just copy the given code and paste it below the product-template.liquid file.

        {% if product.tags contains "wk_booking" %}
        {% include 'bc-widget' %}
        {% endif %}

2. For Customer’s Booking Details

Now, to display customer’s booking detail options on the frontend, just copy the given code and paste it below the customers/order.liquid

{% if line_item.properties.wk_booking %}
        <p><u><a href="https://{{ shop.domain }}/pages/booking-information/{{ line_item.id }}?handle={{ line_item.variant_id }}">View Booking Details</a></u></p>
        {% endif %}

If you are using Online store 2.0 (Example- Dawn), you need to follow the steps to add the codes.

To show booking products on the product description page, add the below code into main-product.liquid template file:

{% if product.tags contains "wk_booking" %}
{% include 'bc-widget' %}
{% endif %}

To show booking details on the customer’s “My Account” page, add the codes into customers/order.liquid template file:

{% if line_item.properties.wk_booking or line_item.properties.slot_date or line_item.properties._Booking_slot_date %}
<p><u><a href="https://{{ shop.domain }}/pages/booking-information/{{ line_item.id }}?handle={{ line_item.variant_id }}">View Booking Details</a></u></p>
{% endif %}

In this way, you can configure your front end in the booking app.

In the Booking App, you can allow customers to cancel the bookings from their respective “My Account” section. You can configure the settings in the app.

Go to App>>Configuration>>Booking>>Enable “Allow Booking Cancellation option to customer“>>Save.

Thus, the customers will get the option to cancel bookings on their end if the booking is not yet approved by the admin.

As soon as the customer places an order, he/she can log in to the “My Account” section & view the order details to check the bookings.

Clicking the order ID, click the “View Booking Details“.

From here, the customer can check the complete booking details & get the option to cancel the booking.

Clicking the Cancel Booking button, a pop-up appears asking you to confirm the cancellation.

This way, the customer can cancel a booking.

As soon as the customer cancels a booking, the same will get reflected at the Bookings section of the app. You can check it from the app.

Customers will get the option to reschedule his/her booking from the “My Account” section until the booking is not approved by the admin.

CASE 1: In case the auto-approve reschedule option is enabled.

CASE 2: In case, the auto-approve reschedule option is disabled.

Once the customer requests the admin to reschedule his/her booking, all the requests will be listed in the “Reschedule Requests” section of the app. From there, the admin will approve the reschedule requests of the customers, if the status is Pending!

CLICK HERE TO CHECK THE BOOKING APP DEMO

Demo Store URL: https://booking-app-demo-store.myshopify.com/
Store Front Password: peucli

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