To start using “People” options in your bookable products, you have to enable the People module from YITH > Booking > Modules.
Now, from YITH > Booking > Configuration > “People” you can create new person types.
You will only have to add the name of the person type and the description (if needed), and you are done. These texts are not visible to customers.
For more information on how to use these person types in your bookings, go to this page here.
To start using “Services” option in your bookable products, you have to enable the Services module from YITH > Booking > Modules.
Now, from YITH > Booking > Configuration > Services, you can create and manage your services. Services can be added to each booking optionally or not, increasing (or not) the total cost.
On the left-hand side you can start creating your new service, on the right-hand side you see the services already created.
Open your booking product from “Products” and go to the “Booking Services” section. , find and select the service you wish to add, from the list of existing ones.
You can either select the services you want one by one or use the button “select all” or “deselect all”.
All of the selected services (unless they are marked as “hidden”) are visible on the product page.
In this example, we have selected 1x the ‘Gift on arrival’ service for 2 adults and 1 child.
From YITH > Booking > Settings > “Booking form” you can manage the way you want to show your services in the booking form.
By not selecting the option “included services”, you can use the [booking_services type=included] shortcode, and show the included services anywhere on the page. e.g. in the product description.
To print booking services in the product page you can use the shortcode [booking_services]
The attributes are:
To start using “Resources” in your bookable products, you have to enable the Resources module from YITH > Booking > Modules.
Now, from YITH > Booking > Configuration > Resources you can create and edit your booking resources.
What is a resource and how can it be used?
A resource is basically anything you can think of that you may need to share among multiple bookable products or something that you want your users to select on the product.
Each resource may have its own availability settings.
Resources are for example staff members that can perform the same service across multiple bookable products, like a hairstylist working in a salon who can work on a haircut and blow-dry, which are though managed as separate products.
A resource can also be a boat that is shared for two kinds of boat tours, one for half a day and one for a full day.
In the case of a composite product, a resource should always be the smallest unit.
Example: you have a house with 3 rooms of the same kind and you offer the option to either rent the full house or single rooms.
You’ll have two bookable products:
The room will be the resource with availability value = 3. This resource will be shared among both bookable products, so, if someone books the full house, none of the 3 rooms will be available for the same dates.
Let’s see which options are available to set up your resources:
Here you can add:
IMPORTANT: resource availability will be merged with the availability of the product where the resource is used, so when the resource is selected, the product availability will be automatically updated to make sure only dates and slots are shown where that resource is available.
For example, you have a hairdressing salon with five hairstylists employed. You want to give your customers the option to choose the hairstylist when they book a haircut appointment, and you need to manage the hairstylists’ availability in an advanced way.
Now, you can add these resources to your bookable products. Please, refer to this page for more details about this step.
For more examples of resource configuration, please, refer to this page.
From this page, you can also open the resource calendar with one click, by clicking on the calendar icon.
This will take you to the Calendar page with the resource filter already selected.
To start using “Costs” options in your bookable products, you have to enable the Extra costs and discounts module from YITH > Booking > Modules.
From YITH > Booking > Configuration > “Costs” you can create and manage the titles of global costs you want to add to your booking products.
You will only have to add the name of the cost and the description (if needed), and you are done. The title is visible for customers if you enable the ‘Totals’ (you’ll see the costs in totals, with their titles). The description will not be shown anywhere.
This is a nice tool to use for global costs, like a certain tax or cleaning fee. This way, when you add the costs to the booking products they all appear in the same way.
For example, you want to add costs for the end-cleaning to all rooms. Using this option you can see the same title on all products: “Cleaning fee”. Instead of seeing “cleaning fee” for room A and “cleaning costs” for room B.
Note: You cannot set prices from this tab, this is just a way of creating labels for costs. You can set prices for costs on the product edit page.
To start using Search forms, you have to enable the dedicated module from YITH > Booking > Modules.
Now, from YITH > Booking > Configuration > “Search Forms” you can create and manage your search forms.
Showing a search form helps users quickly find the stay (or any other bookable product) that best meets their needs. The plugin allows you to create endless search forms which you can later add in a widget or insert as a shortcode.
When we click on “+ add search form” a new page opens with a list of search fields that are available by default. Search fields can be enabled/disabled by simply using the toggle.
Note: when using the horizontal layout, the services are forced to show as “selector”.
In the section below you can set up some additional options for the search form.
You can also customize the following layout and colors:
If you go to YITH > Booking > Configuration > “Search forms” you can directly copy the shortcode related to the search form that you want to show on your page. For example: [booking_search_form id=1]
If you want to set the search form only for bookable products of a specific category, you have to use the attribute cat=current in the shortcode. For example: [booking_search_form id=1 cat=current]
In this case, please, keep in mind that you would have to add the shortcode in the respective category page.
You can insert the shortcode of your choice in the Gutenberg blocks, on the page you want, wherever you want.
The frontend will show the form as you have set it up in the search form settings.
Within the form-creation page, you are able to manage the colors of the form.
Any of the search forms created can be added to your theme sidebar or topbar sidebar, using the “Booking search form” widget.
For this example, we have created 2 different search forms, one to be used vertically and one to be used horizontally.
If you enable the “Categories” field in the search form, you can give your users the possibility to filter search results based on the selected category.
From YITH > Booking > Settings > you can set which categories to show in search forms:
From YITH > Booking > “Tools” you can find synchronization and debug settings.
Important: we suggest keeping the “Booking cache” option enabled; disable it only for testing purposes.
(Please note: you can disable this option only for 24 hours; it will be activated automatically 24 hours after disabling it).
These are tools added to be managed by developers, it is preferable not to use them if you do not need to.
From YITH > Booking > Tools > “Logs” you are able to see all logged information. Some logs are mandatory.
Some logs (like Google Maps ERRORS) are mandatory.
