bookingactivities / booking-activities

Wordpress plugin booking system
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=== Booking Activities === Contributors: bookingactivities, yoancutillas Donate link: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=7EKU434L7NEVC Tags: booking, reservation, booking form, woocommerce booking, booking events Requires at least: 3.6 Tested up to: 6.6 Requires PHP: 5.3 Stable tag: 1.16.11 License: GPLv3 or later License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html

Reservation system specialized in activities: sports, leisure, courses, events, tourism, and more! Works great with WooCommerce.

== Description ==

Booking Activities is a complete booking tool designed for activities. It is very easy to use:

  1. Drag and drop your activities onto your schedule.
  2. Copy / Paste a shortcode to display a booking form. Or integrate it with WooCommerce products.
  3. Pick an event on this calendar and book it.

Try this reservation tool live on the demo website, or generate a temporary site to test the backend!

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7gbK5i4DPU]

Video made with v1.1.1. Booking Activities is constantly evolving.

= Main features =

★ = Unique feature only Booking Activities has.

Editor

Booking forms

Online payments with WooCommerce

Manage reservations

Availability options

Notifications

Translation ready

The best inside

See the whole features list here.

= Extend these features with add-ons: =

See the whole add-ons list here

= This plugin is great for... You? =

To know if Booking Activities is made for you, you just need to understand how it works:

  1. You place events on a calendar
  2. Customers pick them and book them

If this fits your business then give it a try!

This booking system has been specially designed to fulfill the needs of most activity providers:

= We are listening =

You are the developers. You have always been.

Booking Activities has been designed and developed in collaboration with activity providers.

Now it is getting better thanks to you.

Then feel free to tell us if you miss a feature, if you find a bug or anything to make your booking system better!

= Requirements =

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= I am not an activity provider, can this plugin still meet my needs? = 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 and fill your first calendar = Create your first calendar

  1. Go to Booking Activities / Calendar Editor page
  2. Click on the big '+' button
  3. Set a title
  4. In the "Editor" tab, you can set your working hours
  5. Click on the dialog OK button, the calendar is loading!

Create your first activity

  1. Click on the '+' button in the 'Activities' area
  2. Set a title, an availability, a color and a duration
  3. Click on the dialog OK button, the activity is added to the list!

Create your first event

  1. Drag an activity from the list and drop it on the calendar
  2. Drag and drop the event to move it
  3. Mouseover the event and click on its settings wheel to edit its properties

Congrats! You have created your first event schedule

= Display a reservation form = Make sure to have at least one calendar, one activity and one event at a future date

  1. Go to Booking Activities / Booking forms page
  2. Select the desired form or create a new one
  3. Click on the setting gear on the "Calendar" field to set the calendar(s) to display (and many other settings)
  4. Copy the shortcode given in the "How to integrate this form" area (it looks like [bookingactivities_form form=""])
  5. Past this shortcode in any post or page you like
  6. 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.

= Display the calendar only = Make sure to have at least one calendar, one activity and one event at a future date

  1. Go to Booking Activities / Booking forms page
  2. Select the desired form or create a new one
  3. Keep the "Calendar" field and remove all the others (like "Login/Register", "Quantity" and "Submit" fields)
  4. Copy the shortcode given in the "How to integrate this form" area (it looks like [bookingactivities_form form=""])
  5. Past this shortcode in any post or page you like
  6. Go on this post / page frontend, the calendar appears alone!

= Display user's booking list = Make sure the user has bookings and he / she is logged in, otherwise it will not show anything

  1. Past this shortcode in any post or page you like: [bookingactivities_list]
  2. 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!

= Use it with WooCommerce = Make sure to have at least one booking form with one event available at a future date You also need to activate WooCommerce and create one product

  1. Go to Products / Your Product
  2. In 'Product data' area, check 'Activity', a new 'Activity' tab appears
  3. In 'Activity' tab, bind the desired booking form to the product
  4. 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.

= Does this plugin accept reservation online payments? = Yes, you can accept payments for bookings through WooCommerce. Booking Activities is perfectly integrated to WooCommerce:

= Should I accept payments for bookings? = Here is a pros and cons analysis:

PROS:

CONS:

We recommend to accept online payments since it's a great way to automate your business management and make it grow.

= Events are not "Booked" after booking form submission, they are "Pending", why? = 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 your customer 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 status turn automatically to "Booked" if the payment is complete, or "Cancelled" if not.

= Cart expires but events are still booked = A bot cleans 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.

= My events appear to be booked, but no bookings appear in the list = 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 "Delivered", "Booked", "Pending" and "In cart". Then, just click on "Apply Filters". Now you can see all kind of active bookings.

= Cancelled bookings disapeared from the list, I need to see them! = Go to the "Bookings" page. Under the "States" filter, select all the available status. Click on "Apply Filters" and then you will be able to see inactive bookings (cancelled, expired, removed, refunded, refund requested).

= Email notifications are not sent = If you enabled "Asynchronous email" option in Booking Activities settings ("Notifications" tab), emails will be sent the next time someone (anyone) loads 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.

= Ask for support = We answer within 48h. You can contact us in many ways:

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.

== Screenshots ==

  1. Drag and drop to edit. Click to book. Works both with a shortcode and WooCommerce.
  2. WYSIWYG calendar editor. Simply drag and drop events. Click on events for additional settings (availability, repetition...).
  3. Create daily, weekly or monthly repeated events. You can add exception dates to the repetition.
  4. Grouping your events is simple: just select multiple events and click on 'Add a group'. Or select an existing group and start editing it right away.
  5. Create and customize your booking form. You can combine events and settings of multiple schedules. You can make each form unique.
  6. Use a shortcode to display a booking form (or a calendar alone). Your customers can log in or register as they book, they can also book without account.
  7. When a customer clicks on a grouped event, the whole group is selected. If the event is part of several groups, the customer has to choose one from a dialog.
  8. There is also an option to allow your customers to pick multiple events of their choice at once.
  9. Easily bind a reservation form to a WooCommerce product. You can set a different event calendar to each variation.
  10. A reservation form appears automatically on desired WooCommerce product pages.
  11. WooCommerce cart expiration system: when time is up, bookings are cancelled and cart emptied. You can also disable it.
  12. Your bookings are displayed on a calendar, when you mouseover an event, and in a list that you can filter, sort and customize. Manage your bookings: change state (cancel, validate), reschedule, refund...
  13. Synchronize your bookings and display them in your Google Calendar events' description
  14. Customers also have their booking list and calendar thanks to a shortcode. They can cancel, reschedule or ask a refund by their own (if you allow them).
  15. Your customers can manage their bookings from their WooCommerce orders as well.
  16. Orders status are bound to their bookings status. If bookings are cancelled / booked / refunded, so do the order (and vice-versa).
  17. Email notifications are automatically sent to the customer or the administrator when they need to be informed of a change.
  18. Make your emails look just like you want thanks to the HTML editor and special tags. You can also choose to deactivate a notification.

== Changelog ==

= 1.16.11 - 2024/06/26 =

= 1.16.10 - 2024/06/19 =

= 1.16.9 - 2024/06/11 =

= 1.16.8 - 2024/05/28 =

= 1.16.7 - 2024/05/01 =

= 1.16.6 - 2024/04/29 =

= 1.16.5 - 2024/04/17 =

= 1.16.4 - 2024/04/12 =

= 1.16.3 - 2024/04/05 =

= 1.16.2 - 2024/04/04 =

= 1.16.1 - 2024/03/26 =

= 1.16.0 - 2024/03/21 =

= 1.15.20 - 2024/02/09 =

= 1.15.19 - 2024/01/25 =

= 1.15.18 - 2024/01/17 =

= 1.15.17 - 2024/01/03 =

= 1.15.16 - 2023/12/13 =

= 1.15.15 - 2023/10/18 =

= 1.15.14 - 2023/06/08 =

= 1.15.13 - 2023/05/23 =

= 1.15.12 - 2023/05/04 =

= 1.15.11 - 2023/04/14 =

= 1.15.10 - 2023/03/08 =

= 1.15.9 - 2023/03/01 =

= 1.15.8 - 2023/02/24 =

= 1.15.7 - 2023/01/30 =

= 1.15.6 - 2023/01/09 =

= 1.15.5 - 2022/11/24 =

= 1.15.4 - 2022/10/06 =

= 1.15.3 - 2022/09/13 =

= 1.15.2 - 2022/09/08 =

= 1.15.1 - 2022/09/02 =

= 1.15.0 - 2022/08/31 =

= 1.14.0 - 2022/06/08 =

= 1.13.0 - 2022/03/01 =

= 1.12.0 - 2021/08/23 =

= 1.11.0 – 2021/05/05 =

= 1.10.0 - 2021/03/12 =

= 1.9.0 - 2021/01/27 =

= 1.8.0 - 2020/05/12 =

= 1.7.0 - 2019/03/01 =

= 1.6.0 - 2018/11/29 =

= 1.5.0 - 2018/05/05 =

= 1.4.0 - 2018/02/24 =

= 1.3.0 - 2018/01/28 =

= 1.2.0 - 2017/10/12 =

= 1.1.0 - 2017/07/16 =

= 1.0.0 - 2017/03/25 =

See changelog for all versions

== Upgrade Notice ==

= 1.15.8 = Requires MySQL 5.7.22 or later, or MariaDB 10.5.4 or later

= 1.15.0 = Major changes in code:

= 1.12.0 = Major changes in code:

= 1.9.0 = Major changes in code:

= 1.1.0 = Major update with breaking changes. To be safe, make a backup of your database. You need to update your Booking Activities add-ons in the same time (if you have any) as they will not be compatible anymore.

= 1.0.4 = If you are using Booking Activities with WooCommerce, make sure you are using 2.6.0 or later, and try to update to WooCommerce 3.* as soon as possible since BW compatibility functions are now deprecated