We understand that you might want to keep certain booking options hidden from your Vendors, and we’ve made this easy to manage. Our Booking and Appointment for WooCommerce plugin includes a special feature designed to give you, as the Site Admin, more control over what your vendors can see and do.

This feature is available to all three vendor integrations – Dokan Pro, WC Vendors, and WCFM Vendors. 

To hide the booking options on the Booking Meta Box for the vendors, go to Booking & Appointment > Settings > Vendor Options

You will find the following sections:

1. General Tab Options

2. Availability Tab Options

3. Resource Tab Options

4. Persons Tab Options

5. Integrations Tab Options

1. General Tab Options

Here are the different settings that can be found under this tab:

All vendor booking settings appear in the Booking Metabox by default. The Booking Metabox can be found by logging in as a vendor and going to the Bookings Section > Create Bookable > Booking tab.  

Here’s how the General Tab appears in the Booking Metabox when a vendor tries to create a Bookable Product :

1. a) Hide the ‘Enable Booking’ option

Enabling this setting will hide the Enable Booking toggle from the Booking meta box.

This is how it will reflect in the meta box:

Thus, making this particular product bookable will not be possible.

1. b) Hide General -> Booking Type dropdown

This setting will let you hide the booking types from the Booking Meta Box.

You can select different booking types from the drop-down and hide them specifically. The vendor will not be able to able to choose the booking type for their products.

For instance, you can hide Fixed Time or Duration Based Time as shown here:

You can select as many types as you want.

In the above case, the Fixed time & Duration based booking types will be removed for the vendors.

When you go to the General -> Booking Type dropdown as a vendor, these two booking types won’t be available in the booking meta box as shown in the image:

1. c) Hide General -> Enable Inline Calendar option 

This option will let you remove the ‘Enable Inline Calendar’ setting from the booking meta box.

Without it, the inline Calendar used by the customers will only be displayed when they click on it.

1.d) Hide General -> Purchase without choosing the date option

This option will let you hide the ‘Purchase without choosing date’ setting.

As a result, the vendor cannot enable or disable the setting for the bookings being purchased by the customer even without the booking date.

1. e) Hide General -> Requires Confirmation option

When you tick the checkbox for this setting, vendors cannot enable bookings that require confirmation.

1. f) Hide General -> Can be cancelled? option 

Using this option, vendors will not be able to allow their customers to cancel a booking. 

2. Availability Tab Options

By default, the Availability Tab will have the following settings:

2. a) Hide Availability -> Advance Booking Period (in hours) option 

You can enable this option if you wish to hide the ‘Advance Booking Period’ setting from your vendors.

2. b) Hide Availability -> Number of dates to choose option 

This setting will hide the ‘Number of dates to choose’ option from your vendors, as shown below:

2. c) Hide Availability -> Maximum Bookings On Any Date option 

This setting will hide the maximum bookings from the vendors.

Without this option, vendors will not be able to set a maximum limit for their bookings.

2. d) Hide Availability -> Minimum number of nights to book option 

With this setting, vendors will be hidden from the ‘Minimum number of nights to book’ option.

2. e) Hide Availability -> Maximum number of nights to book option 

Enabling this setting will let you hide the ‘Maximum number of nights to book’ option from your vendors.

3. Resource Tab Options

The Resource Tab in the Booking Metabox will appear like this by default:

Turning on the Hide Resource option, admins can hide the Resource setting from the booking meta box for the vendors.

vendors will no longer be able to configure settings for Resources.

4. Persons Tab Options

By default, the Persons setting will be found in the Booking Metabox here:

However, when you enable the ‘Hide Persons’ option, the Persons feature will be hidden from your vendors.

Thus, they would not be able to configure the ‘persons’ functionality for any of the bookable products.

5. Integrations Tab Options

While creating a bookable product, when your vendor ticks the Virtual product checkbox, then by default, under the Integrations tab, they’ll be able to see the following integration settings:

5. a) Hide Integrations -> Google Calendar Export option

If you wish to hide the Google Calendar export option setting from your vendors, then enabling this will ensure that only import settings are visible to them. It will look like this:

5. b) Hide Integrations-> Google Calendar Import option 

Similarly, if you wish to hide the Import settings of your Google Calendar from your vendors, then enabling this setting will only show the Export booking settings to your vendors:

5. c) Hide Integrations-> Zoom Meetings option 

If you wish to hide the settings of Zoom meetings integration from your vendors, then choosing this setting will make the Booking meta box appear as such:

5. d) Hide Integrations-> FluentCRM option 

Similarly, using this setting, you can hide the FluentCRM integration settings from your vendors, as shown below:

5. e) Hide Integrations-> Zapier option 

Lastly, using this setting, you can hide the Zapier integration settings from your vendors, as shown below:

To conclude, in this section from the Add-on Settings tab, you can show/hide various booking settings that appear on your vendor’s dashboard. This feature helps you maintain control over your booking system while still allowing your vendors the freedom to manage their bookings effectively.