Appointments Payments - How To - Let Users Purchase Time Credit

How To - Let Users Purchase Time Credit

Note: this guide covers features actual for the Booking Payments Add-on version 2.1.0.

Learn more about the Time Credit feature in this use case guide:

Appointment Booking Calendar - Use Case - How to Set Up User Time Credit

Introduction

The Appointment Booking Calendar plugin allows users to book appointments using Time Credit - a certain amount of minutes which can be either added by the admin or purchased by the user. This feature works as an alternative for booking free or paid slots. This feature can be enabled either for specific users or for all users at once.

Settings

Purchasing Time Credit requires setting up a price for the base product for 15 minutes. When you set the price, a relevant product will be automatically generated in the chosen payment plugin. The add-on works with either WooCommerce or Easy Digital Downloads.

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Learn more about choosing the payment option and about configuring each one:

To do this, navigate to Admin Dashboard → CM Appointments Booking Pro → Settings → Time Credit tab.

When the Booking Payments add-on is installed and activated, you will see 2 options related to the Time Credit purchasing process:

Price for 15 minutes - Set the price for purchasing 15 minutes of Time Credit. The product will be automatically created in the relevant payment plugin.

Example of the created product in EDD

Product name on the confirmation page - Define the nice-looking name to display in the checkout.

Example of the product name in EDD checkout

When you configured this option, click the button Save Changes on the bottom of the page.

How to Purchase Time Credit

To display the functionality of purchasing minutes on the front-end, you need to use the shortcode [cmeb_purchase_time_credit] .

Result on the front-end:

Here the user can see his current balance, the price for 15 credits (defined by you in the plugin settings), and the buttons "-" and "+" to choose the amount of minutes to buy.

When clicking "+" or "-" the user can also see the total price that he will have to pay.

After clicking Buy the user will be redirected to the checkout page. Here the user can finalize the payment by clicking the button Purchase:

This amount of minutes will be added to the user balance, and he will be able to see a relevant record in the operations log under the Credits tab of his user dashboard:

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