Introduction to WooCommerce Bookings

The WooCommerce Bookings extension allows you to offer appointment-based bookings, rentals/hires, reservations, and time-based services directly through your online store. The content linked below teaches how to use WooCommerce Bookings.

• Installing the WooCommerce Bookings Extension – Once you know your site meets the above requirements, you can move on to purchasing, installing, and activating the WooCommerce Bookings extension.
• Store Manager Guide – This guide provides an overview of the features available to a store manager, with links to other resources.

• Creating a Bookable Product – Learn to create a bookable product.
  • Availability settings – You can define availability rules based on specific dates, time slots, or custom ranges.
    • Understanding How Priority Affects Availability Rules – Availability rules are given a numerical priority, which affects how they are applied.
  • Persons for Bookable Products – Persons settings allow shoppers to make bookings for multiple people at once, and for you to define different types of people with different costs. (e.g. children or adults)
  • Costs for Bookable Products – There are flexible pricing options, allowing you to set different rates for different periods, or offer discounts for certain bookings.
  • Resources for Bookable Products – Resources can represent staff, equipment, venues, or anything you need.
  • Export Bookings – To troubleshoot Booking issues faster in support, you can export and share the Bookable product with WooCommerce.com support.
• Bookable Product Templates – Several pre-configured product templates are included so you can get a quick start.

• Managing Bookings – A collection of links to the below resources
  • All Bookings – The All Bookings page in the admin dashboard is where you can review bookings made on your store.
  • Add Booking Product – The Add Product page in WooCommerce Bookings enables you to create a new bookable product from scratch or by using templates
  • View or Edit a Booking – How to view and edit the details of bookings on your site.
  • Relationship Between Bookings and Orders: Understanding the Connection
  • In Cart Bookings – How to view and clear bookings that are currently in customer carts, but not yet booked.
  • Manually add a booking – You can manually add bookings from your admin area.
  • Bookings Calendar View – Use the calendar view in your admin area to filter and view bookings.
  • Bookings Coupons – The extension adds a new type of coupon for per-person discounts.
  • Booking Emails – Learn about the different emails Bookings sends, and how to send manual booking notifications.

• Booking Settings – An outline of the settings and menu items added by WooCommerce Bookings
  • Store Availability – Store Availability settings establish the times when customers can make bookings for your products or services.
  • Timezones – Timezones settings control how Bookings showcases the timezone to customers.
  • Calendar Connection (Google Calendar) – Sync your site’s bookings with a standard Google calendar, or a custom Google Calendar API app.
  • Accommodation – (If the free Accommodation Bookings extension is enabled) Set a site-wide check-in and check-out time.
• Customer Booking Process – What your shoppers will see when making a booking with WooCommerce Bookings.
• Translating WooCommerce Bookings – Information on available translations and translating the WooCommerce Bookings extension.
• Bookings FAQ – Answers to commonly asked questions about WooCommerce Bookings.

• Integration with other extensions – A listing of other WooCommerce extensions and compatible integrations with Bookings.
  • Product Add-ons – Enhance your bookable products by offering additional free or paid options for customers.
  • Product Vendors – Enhance your marketplace by allowing vendors to offer bookable products like appointments, rentals, or reservations.
  • WooCommerce Deposits – Allow customers to make an initial deposit to hold their booking.
  • WooCommerce Zapier (Multiple Calendar Integration) – Use Zapier to sync bookings from your site to as many calendars as you need.
  • WooCommerce Twilio (Send SMS Notifications) – send SMS notifications for bookings to administrators and customers via Twilio.
• Add-on extensions – Extensions that add functionality specifically for WooCommerce Bookings.
• Any payment gateway – Bookings works with any payment gateway.

• Use Cases – Examples of many use cases that display how to utilize the various features of Bookings.

WooCommerce Bookings is very flexible and can be used for many different purposes. Examples of possible use cases for bookable products include:

• Booking services and appointments
• Appointment-based bookings, Scheduling/Booking services, Reservations, or Time-based services
• Hotel reservations: the free WooCommerce Accommodation Bookings add-on can help you manage hotel reservations.
• Rentals/Hires

There are some specific scenarios where WooCommerce Bookings may not be the most suitable choice. Two examples of such use cases are:

1. One-off event tickets: If you need to sell tickets for a single event, utilize the existing virtual products functionality or consider using the WooCommerce Box Office extension. Since an event is distinct from a booking, WooCommerce Box Office can better cater to the specific requirements of selling one-time event tickets.
2. Recurring events: If you have an event that occurs on a regular basis, such as a weekly/monthly occurrence, WooCommerce Bookings is not designed to handle recurring events.

Suggest a feature

Bookings is always being developed. If you’d like to see something added that’s not already available in the extension or one of its add-ons, share your idea on the Feature Request Page for WooCommerce Bookings. Our developers refer to the feature requests to prioritize additions to new releases

Add a custom feature

If a feature you want has limited appeal, the good news is Bookings makes it possible for a WordPress or WooCommerce developer to add nearly any feature. If you need a developer to add a feature to Bookings, search for a Woo Agency Partner to help implement your vision.

The following is developer-level documentation that provides explanations of the filters, functions, CSS Customization, REST API etc. for WooCommerce Bookings. An understanding of WordPress development is required.

• Bookings Snippets: Tips and Tweaks – Pre-written snippets to help customize and extend Bookings.
• Creating Bookings Programmatically – How to use the create_wc_booking function.
• Bookings: Action and Filter reference – Actions and filters specific to WooCommerce Bookings.
• WooCommerce Bookings REST API Documentation – Allowing Bookings data to be read using requests in JSON format.
• WooCommerce Bookings Pages and Emails Customization – The location and a description of each template Bookings uses.
• WooCommerce Bookings Calendar CSS Style Elements – CSS classes to modify the different calendar elements.
• Embedding Bookings Calendar on a custom page/post – A method to display the bookings calendar on a single page.
• WooCommerce Bookings Helper – A free tool for importing and exporting availability rules and bookable products. Useful for troubleshooting.

Note: We are unable to provide support for customizations under our Support Policy. If you need to customize a snippet or extend its functionality, we recommend working with a Woo Agency Partner or finding a WooCommerce developer on Codeable.