Appointment Booking Calendar - Appointments - Multiple Bookings Choice
Multiple Bookings Choice
Since the version 1.8.0 of Appointment Booking Calendar, users are able to make a multiple choice of bookings in the calendar.
Users can choose a whole day for booking and they can also choose multiple individual slots.
Settings
To configure the multiple bookings choice, navigate to Admin Dashboard → CM Appointments Booking Pro → Settings → Plugin Options tab.
Scroll down and find the following options undeer the Multibooking Settings section:
- Book whole day allow - Choose Yes to display buttons that allow users to book whole day.
- Book whole day button title - Here you can edit the text of the button for the whole day booking.
- Allow multiple bookings (days and slots) - Choose Yes to allow users make multiple bookings of individual slots and whole days.
- Merge booked slots - Each booking slot can have multiple spots, so a few people can book the same slot. When some user books a sequence of slots, you can choose it to merge them into one slot or not. Merging slots can be useful in cases if you want booked sessions to be uninterruptible. Note: this option was introduced in version 2.5.0.
Difference
- Remove text tooltip - Choose Yes to hide the text tip about how to make the multiple selection on the front-end.
Don't forget to click the button Save Changes at the bottom of the page.
You can also edit the front-end labels related to multiple bookings choice functionality. Learn more: Appointment Booking Calendar - Settings - Labels (Changing The Front-End Text)
How It Works?
A few ways how to make a multiple choice:
- To choose the whole day the user needs to click the button Book Day that is related to the needed one.
- To choose more than one booking slot, the user needs to hold the Shift button and click on the needed slots.
- The user can combine booking whole days with individual slots by choosing needed slots and needed days.
When the user starts making a multiple choice of bookings, a pop-up window appears on the bottom left with two buttons: Book and Cancel.
The button Cancel removes selection of all chosen booking slots, and the button Book leads the user to the submit form.
TIP: Click and Drag for Multiple Selection
Since the version 2.3.6 it is also possible to choose multiple slots within the day by just clicking and dragging the cursor.
How The Slots Are Booked?
All slots that go consequently in time without any breaks are combined into one slot.
So, for example, the user books four 1-hour slots at 10 am, 11 am, 12 am and 3 pm:
They will be booked as two bookings:
- The first one with a start time at 10 am and duration 180 minutes.
- The second one with a start time at 3 pm and duration 60 minutes.
It works the same with booking of the whole day that can have some breaks during the day - lunch-breaks in a schedule or some booking slots can already been booked by someone else.
For example, there is a working day that starts at 10 am and ends at 7 pm, and it has a 1-hour lunch-break at 1 pm.
So, when the user books the whole day, there will be two bookings:
- The first one with a start time at 10 am and duration 240 minutes.
- The second one with a start time at 2 am and duration 240 minutes.
Each of these two bookings will be registered in the back-end as two separate bookings:
And there will be separate email notifications for these two bookings:
Mobile Version
Multiple booking is also available for mobile devices. Users have the same option for booking the whole day using the button Book Day. And for multiple booking of individual slots users can tap the button MULTI.
When they tap on it, it changes the color. After first chosen slot a floating window appears with buttons Book and Cancel.
This is how it looks like on the Front-end:
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