With Booking & Appointment Plugin for WooCommerce v5.10.0, WC Vendors can easily manage resources for different bookings.
Go to your WC Vendors Dashboard and find the Booking section.
Click on the “Manage Resource” option here:
Find the “Add Resource” option and click it:
It will appear like this:
You will find the following values included here:
Add Resource Title: Here you can add the name of the Resource. For instance, you can add a person’s name here. Let’s go with Apeksha.
Available Quantity: This will let you select the number of resources that will be available at any given time. Let us go with 1.
Menu Order: This decides where the Resource will appear in the Menu. For instance, if 2 is entered here, the Resource Apeksha will appear 2nd in the Menu order.
Meeting Host: If you have connected the plugin to your Zoom account, you can select the meeting host of the online booking over here. You will not see this option if you have not linked it to Zoom.
Range Type: Here you can select a range for your resource person. For instance, let’s say that your resource “Apeksha” is available to book only from 20th December 2021 to 25th December 2021. In this case, you will select the “Date Range” type. There are different range types such as Range of months, weeks, days, and even Time ranges. Learn about different range types such as the Range of months, weeks, days and even Time ranges by clicking here.
From: This indicates the start period of the range. For instance, here we will add 20th December 2021.
To: This shows the end period of the range. Here we will add 25th December 2021.
Bookable: To make this range bookable, you will have to tick the checkbox. An unticked checkbox means that the booking for this range is unavailable. For instance, if you wish to block the dates from 20th December to 25th December 2021 for this resource person, you will keep the checkbox unticked.
Priority: This will indicate which range of the Resource will be prioritized. The range with lower priority numbers will override those with higher priority. For instance, if one range’s priority is set to 9 while the other’s is 10, the one with 9 will be given the first preference.
Add Range: This option will add another range for this resource.
Your resource gets added once you click the “Save Changes” button.
Similarly, you can create different resources. They will appear like this under the “Manage Resource” section:
Here you will also find the option to search for a resource.
Type the resource name in the field and click the “Search Resource” button.
If you wish to edit any resource, click the Edit Resource icons under “Actions”.
Now, go to the Edit Product Page of the booking product where you wish to add your Resource.
For instance, to add a resource to your product “Guitar lessons for beginners”, scroll down to the Booking Metabox.
Tick the checkbox for “Booking Resource” as shown here:
A new tab called “Resource” will be available:
Give a label to the resources. For eg, the label can be ‘Teacher’.
Configure the resource position, selection type, sorting, etc here.
Next, click the dropdown that says ‘New Resource’ and choose a resource to add.
Click on the “Add/link Resource” button for this. Once filled, your details will appear like this:
Next, you can add the Base Cost of the resource.
This means you’re charging a certain amount for the selected resource with the booking amount.
Once done, click the “Save Changes” buttons.
Let’s see how the resource added appears on the front end.
If a customer selects this product, they will get the option to choose the resource they want.
Let’s say that they went with the resource Teacher: Apeksha.
Once this resource is selected, only the days when this resource teacher is available will be visible to the customers.
For instance, when they try to choose the booking date, the dates from 20th December to 25th December will not be available. This is because those days were made “un-bookable” for this resource.
If the customer goes with any other booking dates, then they will get to select the booking time and make a booking!
To conclude, WC Vendors can easily add resources to their booking products and even manage them in this way with Booking & Appointment Plugin for WooCommerce!