1. Home
  2. Booking & Appointment Plugin for WooCommerce
  3. Booking & Appointment Plugin for WooCommerce Add-Ons
  4. Recurring Bookings Addon

Recurring Bookings Addon

The Recurring Bookings addon allows customers to create recurring bookings with the help of WooCommerce Subscriptions plugin.

Contents

  1. Pre-requisites
  2. Installation
  3. Setting up recurring bookings with different booking types
  4. How it works
  5. Reschedule bookings for a subscription

Note: Each image has pointers in red in the form of arrows & accompanying text. Please click on the image for an enlarged view of the screen or to view the pointers completely.

Pre-requisites

Installation

  • Download the zip file and install it from the Plugins->Add New Page
  • Activate the plugin in your WordPress admin area
  • Enter the license (you might have received after purchasing the plugin) at Booking->Activate Recurring Bookings Addon License.

License Page for addon

Plugin license option

  • After saving the changes, clicking on Activate License will activate the license for the plugin. Updates for the addon will only be available for valid licenses.

Setting up recurring bookings with different booking types

As you must know already, we have different types of bookings that we offer with our plugin. 

These booking types can be used to create recurring bookings with your Simple Subscriptions as well as Variable Subscriptions. Let us consider an example of recurring booking for the booking type Fixed Time for a simple subscription.

Let’s say that we are offering Piano lessons on an hourly basis every week. We will be creating a Simple Subscription with the help of WooCommerce Subscription plugin for the course as below:

Recurring Bookings Addon - Tyche Softwares Documentation

Simple Subscription

We have ensured that our simple subscription charges a price of $15 every week & that it expires Never. We have set the Booking interval as ‘every week’. This would be different from your subscription order interval & essentially would be the interval that you would be creating for your bookings. If you want, you can even Block any of your future bookings in the ‘Block Future Bookings’ section. For now, we have selected No bookings. If you wish to create future bookings for subscriptions for an x number of days, then you can fill that here.

The Booking details need to be configured based on the booking type for which you want recurring bookings. Here we will select the booking type as Fixed Time because we need to create fixed time slots for this product.

Recurring Bookings Addon - Tyche Softwares Documentation

Booking Type for recurring bookings

Now we shall be configuring other options for our weekdays and time slots. Clicking on the Availability tab gives us the option to add multiple configurations for a particular day and time slot. Here we will choose to set a special price of $10 for Wednesday. If you want you can add maximum slots for days too. Here we won’t be adding any.

Recurring Bookings Addon - Tyche Softwares Documentation

Applying special price 

Now we shall be adding lockouts for the time slots we have added so that we have fixed bookings for that time slot. Customers will not be allowed to book for that time slot once the count is reached.

Recurring Bookings Addon - Tyche Softwares Documentation

Time slots setting 

As displayed above we have 2 different time slots for all the days and we have maximum bookings for each time slot as 5. Once 5 bookings are done or if the quantity reaches 5 while placing the order, the time slot will not be available for further booking. Maximum bookings count will also work with Variable Subscriptions or with Simple Subscriptions with Attributes.

The piano lesson subscription is set to go and can start receiving recurring bookings.

Recurring Bookings Addon - Tyche Softwares Documentation

Product Page

On selecting a course start date and time slot, (Note: we do have the flexibility to change the labels from Booking -> Settings -> Labels & Messages) availability for the particular date and time will be displayed. Also if any special price is applicable for that day, the effective price shall be displayed. For example, we had a special price of $10 on Wednesdays, then selecting a date and time on Wednesday will have an effective price of $10.

Recurring Bookings Addon - Tyche Softwares Documentation

Product Page

How does it work?

Now that the subscription is ready along with the booking details, customers can start placing orders and start off with the course. Consider an order is placed for booking a slot on 23rd June 2021 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM. Here’s how the customer’s Checkout Page will look like:

Recurring Bookings Addon - Tyche Softwares Documentation

Checkout Page

It is important to note that if you have enabled Editing Booking (Booking > General Settings) for your Booking, then the customer will have the option of editing their bookings on the Cart Page or the Checkout Page. This setting will be applicable for both current orders as well as renewal orders. Proceeding further, here’s how the Thank You page will appear:

Recurring Bookings Addon - Tyche Softwares Documentation

Order Received Page

If you further scroll down on the Thank You Page, you will see not only your current booking subscription but also the Renewal Subscription under the title ‘Related Subscriptions’ as shown below:

Recurring Bookings Addon - Tyche Softwares Documentation

Related Subscriptions details

Now as per WooCommerce Subscription plugin, a renewal order will be created on 30th June 2021. This renewal order will have booking details one week after last order booking details (since we had subscription period as weekly) i.e. 30th June 2021 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM.

If the payment for subscription is set to automatic the booking will be automatically generated and added to the completed order.

If the payment for subscription is set to manual, customers will receive a Pay Now link in the email which will redirect to the checkout page.

Recurring Bookings Addon - Tyche Softwares Documentation

Order Invoice for the Renewal Booking Subscription

On clicking Pay Now the customer will be redirected to the checkout page as shown below:

Recurring Bookings Addon - Tyche Softwares Documentation

Checkout Page for the Renewal Booking Subscription

Back to Top

Reschedule bookings for a subscription

Along with the option to edit bookings for manual renewal of orders, customers can also be provided the flexibility to reschedule these bookings from My Account > Orders page. This setting can again be modified from Booking -> Settings page. Shop manager can enable or disable this flexibility and also set the number of days before which reschedule can be allowed.

Recurring Bookings Addon - Tyche Softwares Documentation

Reschedule Booking option for Renewal Booking Subscription

Back to Top

 

 

If you want to configure recurring bookings for other booking types then the process is similar to the one mentioned above. However detailed steps about the other booking types can be found here.

 

[page_promo style=”flat” heading=”Enable Recurring Bookings Addon for Booking and Appointment plugin” button_text=”BUY NOW FOR $39″ description=”The Recurring Bookings addon allows customers to create recurring bookings with the help of WooCommerce Subscriptions plugin.” url=”https://www.tychesoftwares.com/store/premium-plugins/recurring-bookings-addon-booking-appointment-plugin-for-woocommerce/”]

Was this article helpful to you? Yes 1 No

How can we help?