Some businesses offer time-based services. They provide discounted prices to their customers on special occasions like festive seasons or during the slack periods. One of them is a Salon & Spa.

If you have such an online business, you can set up such services with different rates in two ways with our Booking & Appointment Plugin for WooCommerce.

One way is by creating time slots for weekdays. The other way is by creating timeslots for certain dates.

Let’s see how to set up services on certain dates offering special hourly rates.

A. Admin Experience

At your Salon and Spa, you want your customers to be charged less than the normal price on particular time slots of a date.

Create this product from the Products > Add Product link.

Give it the product title Enrich Salon and Spa.

Set a regular price for it.

Scroll down to the Booking meta box.

Enable the Booking option and select Booking type Date & Time > Fixed Time.

In the Availability tab under the ‘Set Availability by Dates/Months’ option select range type ‘Specific Dates’.

Set the Specific dates.

You can add the 18th, 19th, and 24th of June 2020 as the Specific dates.

Once they are added, the table will look like this:

Scroll down to the Set Weekdays/Dates And Its Timeslots section.

Add the time slots for these Specific dates by clicking the Add New Timeslot option.

Specify all the timings and rates for your salon and spa.

For instance, you can add these timeslots with their prices:

• 11.00 AM to 01.00 PM: Rs 800
• 05.00 PM to 07.00 PM: Rs 900

Once added, the table will look like this:

You can also add more time slots by clicking the Add New Timeslot button.

After saving them, you can edit or delete timeslots as per your requirements:

Publish the product, once done.

The Enrich Salon and Spa will now be available for customers to book.

B. User Experience

Let’s say that a customer has decided to book an appointment for Enrich Salon and Spa on 24th June 2020.

After choosing the date, the available time slots displayed will be 11.00 AM to 01.00 PM and 05.00 PM to 07.00 PM.

After selecting the booking date and time, the price of the chosen appointment will be displayed.  The Book Now! button will be enabled.

Let’s say, the customer chooses the 05:00 PM to 07.00 PM time slot for their appointment.

Accordingly, the price of Rs. 900 will be displayed.

After adding the product to your cart, you can go to the Cart Page will look like this:

Next, click the Proceed to Checkout button to go to the Checkout page

The Checkout page will show the details of the appointment and the total amount of your booking.

After placing the order, the Order Received Page will look like this:

In conclusion, the Booking & Appointment Plugin for WooCommerce plugin helps you easily set bookable products with different prices according to the timings for certain dates.

Use it today for not just Simple products but also WooCommerce Variable products!