You
have a room you would like make available for booking and you would like to collect a 25% deposit during checkout to hold the room.
We’ll need to first create a Bookable Product.
- In the sidebar of your WordPress Admin, click on Products.
- Click on the Add New button on the top.
- Under Product data select
Bookable product.
- To the side of the Product data box you will then tick the checkboxes for Virtual.
You’ve created a basic Bookable Product that we can use for our example. Now it’s time to configure the product. There are primarily rour tabs that we are concerned with.
- Product is
Virtual (no need to ship anything).
- Product
Has Persons.
- Product has Fixed blocks of
1 Day(s).
Setting the
All dates are… to
not-available by default is often the best approach when creating complex availability rules. It’s easier to add what is available, then to add what is and what is not.
- Product has All dates are…
not-available by default.
- Product has availability configured for Range of days set to
Monday to Sunday and Bookable set to Yes.
This is where you configure Persons. Enabling person types allows you to specify different prices and set minimum and maximum allowed. For our example we want to charge more for Adults, and we want children to be free, but still counted since the room’s capacity is 5 people.
- Product has Min persons
1.
- Product has Max persons
5.
- Product has Enable persons types checked.
- Product has three person types. Adult, Young Adult and Child. Each has it’s own price.
WooCommerce Deposits allows you to take a deposit as a percentage, as fixed amount and as a payment plan. For our example, we do not need a payment plan since we will collect the rest when our customer checks in to their room. We are going to choose percentage, but we could easily chose a fixed amount, it just depends on preference.
- Product has Enable Deposits
Yes - deposits are required.
- Product has Deposit Type
Percentage.
- Product has Deposit Amount
25.
- Product has Default Deposit Selected Type
Pay Deposit. The other options is Pay in full.
Publish the booking and you’re set!
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