Appointment Hour Booking Blog

Adding quantity dependent fields

The conditional logic or dependent fields feature allows to show or hide fields depending on a user's selection. This article is a work around to extend that functionality to the calendar "Quantity" drop-down field.

Setting different prices per quantity

The default behavior in the plugin is to multiply the quantity by the unit price of the service to get the total price. In some cases a non-linear relation of the prices and quantity is needed, for example to set a lower price after some quantity number. This article explains how to setup different prices linked to the quantity selected in the calendar.

Setting different prices per number of time-slots selected

The default behavior in the plugin is to multiply the number of slots by the unit price of the service to get the total price. In some cases of use is needed to set a lower price per time-slot if multiple time-slots are selected. This article explains how to setup different prices linked to the number of different time-slots selected in the calendar.

Remove or Ignore Old Bookings

In some cases is needed to remove or ignore old bookings from the availability verification. The most common reasons are performance issues (slow loading) due to a large number of past bookings and the need to comply with policies about old data (like the GDPR requirements). The add-on "Remove or Ignore Old Bookings" can be used for this purpose.

Integration of the Appointment Hour Booking with the Calculated Fields Form plugin

This documentation page is related to the Appointment Hour Booking plugin and to the Calculated Fields Form plugin. It requires the Platinum version of the Calculated Fields Form and a commercial version of the Appointment Hour Booking.

Requesting a password for appointments

If you need to request a password to make a booking a solution may be to put the booking form in a password protected page, however the Appointment Hour booking plugin has a Password for making bookings add-on that offers the option to request the password directly as part of the booking form and the options to manage the passwords from the plugin interface.

Require explicit quantity selection

The default behavior of the plugin is to have the quantity selection starting at 1. If you need to require a more explicit selection of the quantity then a solution is to set the default quantity to 0 making the user select a quantity before selecting a time-slot in the calendar.

Address auto-complete fields using the Google Maps API

The add-on "Address auto-complete (Google Maps)" allows to convert form fields into address auto-complete fields using the Google Maps API. This way the customer start typing the address into a field and the correct address will be suggested/auto-completed using the Google Maps API.

SMS notification for bookings with the MMD Smart service

The Appointment Hour booking plugin includes some add-ons for sending SMS notifications when a new booking is made and for booking reminders. The add-on "MMD Smart SMS notifications for bookings" is one of those add-ons and it offers integration with the MMD Smart service.

Changing the selectable max quantity in the booking form

The quantity fields - when enabled - allow the selection from 1 to the maximum quantity available. The following workaround lets you set a smaller quantity in the case you want retrict that value for each booking.

Auto-select the only available time for a date

If you have only one time-slot available for each day you can make it to be selected automatically after clicking the day, no need to use two clicks in this case.

Sharing booked times between different calendars

While the default behavior is to have a separated availability management for each booking form, in some cases is needed to have different booking forms/calendars sharing the same resource, so a shared availability is needed in this cases. The Shared Availability between Calendars add-on helps to share the booked times between different calendars.

Using the QRCode Image - Barcode add-on

The "QRCode Image - Barcode" add-on allows to generate QRCode images with the Appointment Hour Booking plugin. These QRCodes can be customized to contain specific information about the booking or to change the status of the booking when scanned.

Edition / Booking modification for customers

The add-on Edition / Booking modification for customers can be used to allow the customer modify the booked date or other booking info after the initial submission. Using this add-on you can give the customer a booking modification link into the confirmation email or into a custom list of bookings.

Data-lookup and auto-filling form fields

If you need to auto-fill some field based in info from previous bookings then you can use the Data Lookup add-on. The data lookup feature searches for specific data using one of the form fields already entered, for example you can auto-fill the phone number after entering the email address, in the case that there is a previous booking with that email address.

Adding custom statuses for the bookings

The Appointment Hour Booking plugin has the following status in the default installation: Approved, Pending, Cancelled, Cancelled by customer, Rejected and Attended. In some cases of use you may need additional statuses, for this purpose you can use the Additional Booking Statuses add-on.

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