WooCommerce Bookings Store Manager Guide

Use this guide to find the instructions for setting up bookable products and managing customer bookings with WooCommerce Bookings. Start with product setup, then use the relevant guide for availability, pricing, persons, or resources.

Create a bookable product

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Set the booking duration and choose the options customers need to complete a booking. Follow Creating a Bookable Product to create or edit a product.

Bookings settings

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For the extension’s settings and admin pages, see WooCommerce Bookings Settings.

Availability settings

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Control which dates and times customers can book. Bookings Availability Settings explains product availability and how it works with store and resource rules.

Costs for bookable products

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Configure base and block costs, a displayed starting price, and custom pricing ranges. Costs for Bookable Products includes the settings, a worked pricing example, and checks for the calculated total.

Persons

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Use persons settings for bookings with participants, including different person types such as adults and children. See Persons for Bookable Products for setup and pricing options.

Resources

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Resources represent staff, rooms, equipment, or other assets needed for a booking. Resources in Bookings explains how to create and assign resources, set their availability and costs, and share them between products.

Managing bookings

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Use the Bookings menu in your WordPress dashboard to work with customer bookings. The Managing Bookings guide covers viewing, filtering, editing, and manually adding bookings, along with customer notifications and booking discounts.

For an optional workflow for unpaid confirmed bookings, see Cancel unpaid confirmed bookings automatically with AutomateWoo.

Customer booking process

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Review the customer’s journey from choosing a slot to checkout, including the separate approval and payment steps for bookings that require confirmation. See Customer Booking Process.

Integrations

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To use Bookings with another extension, check the available combinations and their requirements in Integrating Bookings with Other Extensions.

Use cases

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For worked examples of different booking businesses and configurations, browse WooCommerce Bookings: Use Cases.

Translating Bookings

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For language setup and translation options, see Translating WooCommerce Bookings.