With Booking & Appointment Plugin for WooCommerce v5.10.0, WCFM Vendors can easily manage resources for different bookings.
Go to your WCFM Dashboard and find the Booking section.
Click the “Manage Resource” option here:
Find the “Add Resource” option and click on 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 in a person’s name here. Let’s go with Apeksha.
Available Quantity: This will let select the number of resource that will be available at any given time. Let us go with 1.
Menu Order: This decides the order in which the resource will appear on the Menu. If you enter 1, the resource will be the first in the list.
Range Type: Here you can select a range for your resource person. For instance, your resource “Apeksha” is available to book only from 15th December 2021 to 20th December 2021. For this, select the “Date Range” type. Different range types such as Range of months, weeks, days, and even Time ranges are available for you. You can learn about them in-depth by referring to our documentation here.
From: This indicates the start period of the range. For instance, you can add 15th December 2021.
To: This is the end period of the range. Here you can add 20th December 2021.
Bookable: To make this range bookable, you will have to select the checkbox. If you haven’t, your booking for this range will be unavailable. For instance, let’s not select the checkbox to block the dates from 15th December to 20th December 2021.
Priority: This will indicate which range of the Resource will get a priority. 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.
Once you have filled in the details, it will look like this:
Once you “Save Changes” your resource will be added.
Similarly, you can create different resources and all of them will appear like this under the “Manage Resource” section:
Here you will also find the option to search for a resource. For this, 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.
Give a name, for instance, “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 visible after doing this.
You can now give a label to the resources. For eg, ‘Teacher’.
Configure the other settings by referring to the in-depth documentation here.
Click the dropdown that says ‘New Resource’ and choose the resource to add.
Click the “Add/link Resource” button for this. Once filled, your details will appear like this:
Add the Base Cost of the resource. This means the customer is charged a certain amount for the selected resource alongside the booking amount.
Once done, click the “Save Changes” button and “Submit”.
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 15th December to 20th December will not be available since those days are “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, WCFM Vendors can easily add resources to their booking products and even manage them with Booking & Appointment Plugin for WooCommerce!