WordPress WooCommerce Booking and Reservation

MODULE:

—Dynamic:

• event creation
• time setting
• event display

—User-friendly interface for both admin and customers.

ADMIN:

• Can create bookable products.
• Manage bookable products.
• “Availability” tab is displayed when adding or editing a product.
• Can create two kinds of bookable products: Many Bookings in One Day & One Booking For Many
• Set a period available for bookings and reservations, e.g. bookings can be made only from 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM or 14 Sep 17 to 20 step 17.
• Configure booking status for each slot (open or close).
• Added an open and close panel with slider counter which will follow the module minimalist approach.
• Add start and end date, number of items available for each slot.
• For date selection, Date Time Picker is also enabled in the input field.
• Flexible exclude days rules to prevent bookings for certain time slots and days (disable particular time slot, random days, and continuous days).
• See all bookings in Booking customers list page.
• WordPress’ inherent date-time functionality.
• Functionality to alter booking schedules for customers.
• Retrieve the PDF invoice for the customer’s booking.
• Sending emails for rescheduled and canceled bookings.
• Admin can enable or disable the extend booking or remaining booking cancellations.
• Admin can add penalty rules according to the hours or days.

CUSTOMER:

• Booking calendar is displayed in the front end, where customers can view availability and can make bookings.
• The customers can get SMS notifications.
• Booking calendar allows selecting the date to book any product.
• Check the availability, they can set the quantity of the bookable product while booking.
• Click on the calendar’s days or time slots to select the booking period they want.
• See booking/reservation details in the shopping cart before placing the order.
• Allow selected one or more timeslots.
• Allow multiple bookings for the same time slot based on the available quantity of the bookable product.
• They can extend the booking for next slots for both many booking for one day and one booking for many days.
• They can also cancel the booking for the specific period from their booking slot for both many booking for one day and one booking for many days..

Note : This module is now compatible with WooCommerce’s new High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS) feature.

After the installation, the admin can create Bookings and Reservations. For this, the admin will have to navigate the Webkul WC Addons-> WC Booking System tab in the admin panel.

Under the WC Booking System tab, the admin will see three options as shown in the image below.

• Booking Product
• Booking Orders
• Configuration

General

• Module Status: The admin can Enable/Disable the module as per the choice.
• Google API Key: Here, the admin is required to give the Google API key and then click on the “Save Changes” button.
• Allow Booking Cancellations: Before this time the user can cancel the booking.
• Allow Booking Reschedule: Users can reschedule the booking before this time.
• Allow PDF: Customer can download the booking details pdf.

SMS

• Account SID: Here, the admin needs to enter the account SID.
• Auth Token: The admin has to provide their Auth Token which they receive from Twilio.
• Phone number: Under phone number, the admin gives their phone number.

Template

• Configure Template: Here, the admin can configure the template.
• SMS Notification: The admin can Enable/Disable SMS Notification.

Booking Configuration

• Enable Extend Booking: Here, the admin can enable or disable the extended booking for customers.
• Enable Remaining Booking Cancellations: Here, the admin can enable or disable remaining booking cancellations.

Penalty Rules

Penalty rules for Cancellation Remaining Booking.

Edit Penalty Rule

• Rule Name: Here, the admin can set the penalty Rule Name as per their choice.
• Penalty Type: Select either Fixed or Percentage.
• Penalty Unit: Select the penalty unit either days or hours.
• Status: Admin can enable or disable the penalty rules functionality.
• Penalty Amount: Admin can set the desired penalty amount.
• Penalty Per Unit: Enter the unit for the penalty in days or hours.

Note: Penalty rules will be applicable as per days or hours.

After all the changes are done by the admin, then need to apply them by clicking Save Changes.

Many Booking In One Day

The admin can easily create the multiple time slots for “Many booking in one-day” type Bookable product. For this, the admin will add a product by navigating to Products>Add New.

While adding a product, the admin will select the Bookable Product as a product type from the drop-down list.

The admin can configure the fields as under:

• Select Booking Type: Select the “Many Booking in one day” option from the drop-down list.
• Start Date: Set the date for the “Many Booking in one day” to be active from.
• End Date: Set the date for the “Many Booking in one day” to get inactive.
• Booking Stock per Slot: Defines the stock which can be booked in per slot. The customer can only book the product stock on the frontend, up to the limit defined by the admin at the backend.
• Location: Can enter the location where the booking is to made.
• Status: Enable/ disable the status “Many Booking in one day”.
• Time Slot: Set the time span of a slot.
• Break Time Slot: Set the break time between the slots.
• Booking Break Time Between Bookings:  Enter the break time between bookings so that there is a specific time while making next booking.

In the grid, the admin sets the available times for bookings and reservations for each day as per the choice, e.g. reservations can be made only from 11:50 AM – 10:00 PM.

Note:

After creating the Bookable product, the user can view the manage slots page, from where the slots for the product can be edited.

Then, click on the “Edit Slots” button against the created product and navigate to the “Slot List” page as per the below image.

The admin can see all the slots, as well as, can “Open” or “Close” the slots for the customers on the front end and update the status at once.

Instead of disabling the complete bookings and reservations for a particular day, the admin can disable a particular time slot of a day.

The admin simply selects the “Close” option for any time slot from the available drop-down list as per the image.

At the front end, the bookings will disable for that particular time slot.

The admin simply selects the “Close” option for any time slot from the available drop-down list as per the image.

At the front end, the bookings will disable for that particular time slot.

For instance, if the admin disables a slot 14:40 pm to 15:55 pm for Wednesday, the booking for that slot displays as Unavailable as shown in the image below.

To disable the bookings for random days, the admin will click on the “Disable Time Span” tab as per the image.

The admin will select the random dates from the calendar and can also select the time slot to be closed at a particular time and then click on the “Update Status” button.

At the front end, the bookings will get disabled for that random day for that particular time slot.

To disable the bookings for continuous days, the admin will click on the “Disable Days Span” tab as per the image.

Here, the admin will:

• Select the “Closed From” date from the calendar.
• And then select the “Closed till” date from the calendar.
• Proceed further by clicking on the “Update Status” button.

The admin can disable the bookings for multiple continuous days by clicking on the “Add ” button. The admin can also enable the bookings by clicking on the “Remove” button.

At the front end, the bookings will get disabled as per the below image.

Front End

Once the admin has created the “Many booking in one-day” type Bookable product, the customer can see it on the product catalog page as shown in the image below.

The Bookable products will have the “BOOK NOW” button so that the customers can easily differentiate the Bookable products.

The customers will click on the desired Bookable product for booking and reservation.

This redirects the customers to the product page as per the below image.

On clicking the ‘Book Now’ tab, customers will get a pop-up window as shown in the image below.

Customers can:

• Select the date from the calendar for which they want to book the slot. Days from the Start date to End date will be enabled and rest of the dates will be disabled in the calendar.
• Select the slot for the selected date and set the quantity.
• Then click on “Add To Cart” button.

The admin can easily create multiple day’s slots for “One Booking for many days” type Bookable product. Firstly, the admin will add a product by navigating to Products > Add New.

While adding a product, the admin will select the Bookable Product as a product type from the drop-down list.

Then, Availability option becomes visible as per the image.

Here, the admin will:

• Select Booking Type: Select the “One Booking for many days” option from the drop-down list.
• Booking Status: Enable/disable the “One Booking for many days”.
• Start Date: Set the date for the “One Booking for many days” to be active from.
• End Date: Set the date for the “One Booking for many days” to get inactive.
• Booking Stock Per Slot: Defines the stock which can be booked in per slot. The customer can only book the product stock on the frontend, up to the limit defined by the admin at the backend.
• Booking Location: Enter the location where the booking is to be made.

After this, the admin will create the slots as per the image.

Here, the admin can:

• Select the weekday, enter the start time, select the end day, enter the end time.
• Remove the existing time slots by clicking on the “Remove ” button & can even add bookings by clicking on “Add Booking” button.

After creating the Bookable product, the user can view the manage slots page where the product slots can be edited by the user.

Then, click on the “Edit Slots” button against the created product and get navigated to the “Slot List” page as per the below image.

The admin can open the slots or close any slot as need be.

Instead of disabling or removing the complete bookings and reservations for a particular day, the admin can disable a particular slot accordingly.

The admin simply selects the “Close” option for any time slot from the available drop-down list as per the image.

To disable the bookings for continuous days, the admin will click on the “Disable Days” tab as per the image.

Here, the admin will:

• Select the “Closed From” date from the calendar.
• And then select the “Closed till” date from the calendar.
• Proceed further by clicking on the “Update Status” button.

The admin can disable the bookings for multiple continuous days by clicking on the “Add More” button. The admin can also enable the bookings by clicking on the “Remove” button.

Front End

Once the admin has created the “One Booking for many days” type Bookable product, the customer can see it on the product catalog page as per the image.

The Bookable products will have the “BOOK NOW” button so that the customers can easily differentiate the Bookable products.

The customers will click on the desired Bookable product for booking and reservation purpose. They will be redirected to the product page as shown in the image below.

The customer will get a pop-up window by clicking the “BOOK NOW” button as per the image.

Here, the customers will:

• Select the date from the calendar for which they want to book the slot. Only the Start date of every slot will be enabled and the rest of the dates will be disabled in the calendar.
• Select the slot for the selected date and set the quantity.
• Then click on the “Book Now” button to book the slot.

The admin can easily view the booking details of the Bookable products. Collectively from a single page. For this, the admin needs to navigate to the “Booking Orders” option.

After clicking on the place order button, the order gets placed and redirected to the order detailed success page.

Extend Booking

Now, the customer can extend the booking by clicking Extend Booking in order details. After clicking on extend booking the customer will again redirected to the cart page along with the extended booking order.

Cancel Remaining Booking

Now, the customer can also cancel the remaining booking by clicking on Cancel Remaining Booking Button.

After cancellation, the customer will receive the details such as booking refund amount, booking till, previous booking, and booking status in order details as you can see in the below image.

SMS on Customer’s End

Order Confirmation Notification

The customer will receive the confirmation  SMS for their booking along with the booking details as shown below.

That’s all for the WordPress WooCommerce Booking and Reservation plugin. Still, have any issue, feel free to add a ticket and let us know your views to make the plugin better at webkul.uvdesk.com