The Booking & Appointment Plugin for WooCommerce allows you to add and view resources. It lets you add a resource to multiple services and share its availability among all the products. The availability of resources will be global across all bookable products.

For instance, a Resource refers to a Beauty Salon expert who can be booked for several hours for a specific occasion, such as a birthday or Christmas party. 

Moreover, this same resource can provide services for multiple nights for a destination wedding. Hence, the same resource can provide more than one service, but not at the same time.

Similarly, a Product (Party Hall) can be booked for different events at different times. The same hall can be booked for birthday parties, corporate events, marriages, etc., but not all at the same time.

*Note: Resources feature will only work with all the default product types provided by WooCommerce. 

1. Add Resource Tab

2. View Resource Tab

1. Add Resource Tab

To add or edit resources, go to Bookings > Resources and then to the submenu Add Resource.

Adding resources at the global level

Here, you will find the following settings:

1) Name: Here, you will enter the Resource’s name, such as Nathan.

2) Available Quantity: The value added here is the resource quantity available at any given time. If 1 is entered here, it would mean that only 1 resource named Nathan can be added to a bookable product.

3) Menu Order: This decides where the Resource will appear in the Menu. For instance, if 2 is entered here, the Resource Nathan will appear 2nd in the Menu order.

4) Meeting Host: This setting appears when you enable the integration with Zoom Meetings. Here, you select the Zoom Meeting host from the dropdown. This means the online bookable product with this particular resource will be assigned to the selected host to start the Zoom meeting.

5) Availability: This setting lets you configure the resource’s availability based on different ranges.

Click on the Publish button once you’re done. Your resource is ready to be used.

2. View Resource Tab

Similarly, you can add several resources according to your requirements.

The View Resource Page will thus look like this:

a) Types of Resources 

The ‘All’ Page shows all the resources regardless of whether products use them.

The ‘Trash’ page shows those resources which were deleted:

b) Search Box

You can use the Search Resource section to look for a specific resource.

Add the Resource’s name you are looking and click the Search button:

c) Bulk Actions

i) Under ‘All’ Resources Page

You can carry out Bulk Actions such as moving Resources to Trash. 

Simply select the resources and choose the Trash option from the dropdown. Then, click the Apply button to apply it to the selected resources.

Press the Yes button.

You will get the following success message, and the resource will now moved to the Trash Page:

Here’s the Resource on the Trash page:

i) Under ‘Trash’ Resources Page

You can carry out bulk actions such as restoring or permanently deleting the resources.

If you choose to restore the resource, the following message will be displayed:

Clicking the Yes button will move the resource to the ‘All’ resources page.

d) Dates filter

You can also Filter your resources by selecting the specific dates and clicking the Filter button. 

e) Resource Table

Lastly, you have the ‘Resource Table’ indicating the following:

i) Resource Title

The names given to the Resources will appear in this column.

You can use the up arrow to sort them in the ascending order:

You can use the down arrow to sort them into descending order:

ii) Number of Products

Here, you will find the ‘Number of products’ that are assigned to a specific resource.

For instance, the resource Tanisha has been assigned to 4 products.

When you click this number, it will show you the list of products that have this resource assigned to:

iii) Date

This indicates the date when the resource was created.

You can use the up arrow to sort them in the ascending order:

You can use the down arrow to sort them into descending order:

iv) Actions 

Using this column, you can either Edit or Delete a Resource.

Clicking the Pencil icon of a particular resource will take you to its Edit Page:

Clicking the Bin icon will move the resource to the Trash Page: 

In this way, you can add a resource for your bookable products using our plugin.