Bookings Use Case: Fishing Lake Rental (Example with Shared Resources)

This use case will walk you through using WooCommerce and WooCommerce Bookings to set up a bookable product that makes use of shared resources and multiple products to tie them together.

Scenario

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James has a lakeside cabin that people can rent for a fishing trip. It can accommodate 10 people at any time. He wants to create three available time slots:

Availability A: 7:00 am to 7:00 pm
Availability B: 7:00 pm to 7:00 am
Shared Resource Availability: 24-hour slot of 7:00 am-7:00 am

If someone books Availability A, the availability blocks need to be decreased both for Availability A and Shared Resource Availability. If someone books Availability B, the availability blocks need to be decreased both for Availability B and Shared Resource Availability. If someone books Shared Resource, the availability blocks need to be decreased for all three.

Head to Bookings > Resources from your dashboard
Click on Add Resource
In the window that opens enter Spaces in the Bookable Resource Name field
Set the Available Quantity to 10

Create the First Bookable Product

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In the sidebar of your WordPress Admin, click on Products.
Click on the Add New button on the top.
Under Product data select Bookable Product.
Select the options for Virtual, Has Persons, and Has Resources as each is required for this use case.

Configure the General Tab for Product #1

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Name the product Fishing Lake Rental – 24 Hours and this will be used for our shared availability
Select the dropdown menu next to Booking Duration and select Fixed Blocks Of, enter 1 in the next field, and select Days as the measurement of time in the final dropdown.