Plugin / Booking Activities

Booking Activities Team

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Yes of course. It is basically a reservation system based on event scheduling. In other words, you build your event calendar and allow them to be booked. You can find another purposes to it. To know if it actually meets your needs, simply try it, it’s free. If you are on a hurry, you can just check the demo website. Or read the full features description if you are looking for something in particular.
Create your first calendar Go to Booking Activities / Calendar Editor page Click on the big ‘+’ button Set a title, an opening date and a closing date In the “Agenda” tab, you can also set your working hours Click on the dialog OK button, the calendar is loading! Create your first activity Click on the ‘+’ button in the ‘Activities’ area Set a title, an availability amount, a color and a duration Click on the dialog OK button, the activity is added to the list! Create your first event Drag an activity from the list and drop it on the calendar Drag and drop the event to move it Mouseover the event and click on its settings wheel to edit its properties Congrats! You have created your first event schedule
Make sure to have at least one calendar, one activity and one event at a future date Go to Booking Activities / Booking forms page Select the desired form or create a new one Click on the setting gear on the “Calendar” field to set the calendar(s) to display (and many other settings) Copy the shortcode given in the “How to integrate this form” area (it looks like [bookingactivities_form form=""]) Past this shortcode in any post or page you like Go on this post / page frontend, the booking form appears! /!\ Reservation forms displayed via shortcode are not bound to WooCommerce at all. If you want to bind a WC product to a calendar, check “Use it with WooCommerce” in this FAQ.
Make sure to have at least one calendar, one activity and one event at a future date Go to Booking Activities / Booking forms page Select the desired form or create a new one Keep the “Calendar” field and remove all the others (like “Login/Register”, “Quantity” and “Submit” fields) Copy the shortcode given in the “How to integrate this form” area (it looks like [bookingactivities_form form=""]) Past this shortcode in any post or page you like Go on this post / page frontend, the calendar appears alone!
Make sure the user has bookings and he is logged in, otherwise it will not show anything Past this shortcode in any post or page you like: [bookingactivities_list] Go on this post / page frontend, the booking list appears! Depending on BA settings and bookings dates, actions like cancel or reschedule may appear. Try them!
Make sure to have at least one booking form with one event available at a future dateYou also need to activate WooCommerce and create one product Go to Products / Your Product In ‘Product data’ area, check ‘Activity’, a new ‘Activity’ tab appears In ‘Activity’ tab, bind the desired booking form to the product Go on this product page on the frontend, a booking form appears! For Variable Products, you need to check the ‘Activity’ checkbox and set a calendar and an activity for each variation.
Yes, you can accept payments for bookings through WooCommerce. Booking Activities is perfectly integrated to WooCommerce: Booking forms will appears automatically on product pages A cart expiration system is implemented to make sure that bookings in the shopping basket won’t stay in the basket forever, taking the place of someone else Bookings are automatically validated when the payment is received, or cancelled if not If you change order quantity or state, so do the bookings, and vice versa
Here is a pros and cons analysis: PROS: Customers are engaged, if they book, they come. Saves time: customers have already paid. Customers can come without money, they can offer the activity to a relative Automatic cashing, billing, accounting and stats CONS: May discourage customers, depending on the type of activity you provide and your target Takes more time for customers, and more diffult process, higher cart abandonment rate You will have to do much more development, administrative and legal procedures, and you will have more expenses (bank commission, maintenance …) We recommend to accept online payments since it’s a great way to automate your business management and make it grow.
Don’t worry, the reservation is well registered. Now, it is up to you to turn it to “Booked” right away or when your customer comes, or when he gives you the money… But you can just turn the default booking status to “Booked” in Booking Activities settings. Note that if you use WooCommerce and online payments, booking states turn automatically to “Booked” if the payment is complete, or “Cancelled” if not.
A bot clean expired bookings hourly. So just wait up to 1 hour. Usually, users are still on your website when their bookings expire, if so, they are immediatly removed. Else, they will be cancelled later, with the others in that case.
Temporary bookings (such as In cart events) take active slots but may not appear in the booking list. Go to the “Bookings” page, under the “States” filter select “Booked”, “Pending” and “In cart” (use CTRL+Click to select multiple row). Then, just click on “Apply Filters”. Now you can see all kind of active bookings.
Go to the “Bookings” page. Under the “States” filter, select all the available status (click on a status and press CTRL+A to select all rows). Click on “Apply Filters” and then you will be able to see inactive bookings (cancelled, expired, removed, refunded, refund requested).
If you enabled “Asynchronous email” option in Booking Activities settings (“Notifications” tab), emails will be sent the next time someone (anyone) load any page of your website. Then, you only need to refresh or visit any page of your website and then check your inbox. If you disable “Asynchronous email” option, then the loading will last until the email is actually sent.
We answer within 48h. You can contact us in many ways: – By email at contact@booking-activities.fr – On WordPress support forum – On GitHub issue tracker If you don’t receive a reply within 48h by email, a technical problem has probably occurred, please try again, or try on an other medium.

Ratings

4.9
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Version

1.7.11

First Released

25 Mar, 2017

Total Downloads

39,179

Wordpress Version

3.6 or higher

Tested up to:

5.3

Require PHP Version:

5.3 or higher

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