For better plugin performance, you will find some features in our YITH Booking and Appoint plugin disabled by default. In the tab Modules, you can find all the modules you can enable to get additional options. Let’s briefly review each of them.
The available modules are:
- People
- Services
- Resources
- Extra costs and discounts
- Search forms
- Google Maps
- Google Calendar
- External synchronization
People
With this module, you can create unlimited “people types” and set specific rules or prices for them (e.g.: Adults, Under 18, Children, Students, Over 60, Military Veterans, Members, etc.).
When enabled, the module allows you to manage additional options as described below:
- Booking form – Check how to create people types here and how to show them in the booking form here.
- Count people as separate bookings – If you have specific units for a bookable product/service that can’t be exceeded – for example, a mountain bike tour with limited bikes available for rent. Go here to learn how to configure the plugin.
- Prices – You can create global or product price rules based on the people types. Go here for global price rules settings or here for product settings.
- Search form – You can show the People field in the search form and allow users to enter the number of persons, even by people type. Go here to learn how.
- Label – You can rename the default label by entering the text you prefer in the related field (People) available in the Customizations tab. Go here to see the option.
Services
With this module, you can create free or paid services to associate with your bookable products (e.g.: parking, breakfast, daily cleaning, chauffeur, insurance, etc.).
When enabled, the module allows you to manage additional options as described below:
- Booking form – Check how to create services here and how to show them in the booking form here.
- Costs – For every service you create, you can optionally set a cost as shown here.
- Product price – You can decide whether to include the costs in the bookable product price shown on the shop page. To do it, you must enable the option that you find here.
- Search form – You can show the Services field in the search form and allow users to select those they are interested in so only products with the selected services will show in the search results. Go here to learn how.
- Label – You can rename the default label by entering the text you prefer in the related field (Additional services) available in the Customizations tab. Go here to see the option.
Resources
With this module, you can create unlimited “resources” to associate with your bookable products (e.g.: equipment, staff, technology, software, etc.).
When enabled, the module allows you to manage additional options as described below:
- Booking form – Check how to create your resources here and how to show them in the booking form here.
- Bookable products – Resources can be added to your bookable products and configured as you need. Go here to learn how to add them.
- Use of resources – Go to this page to see how to use resources.
Extra costs and discounts
With the ‘Extra costs and discounts’ module, you can create unlimited costs to apply to your bookings (e.g.: insurance, visitor’s tax, cleaning service, etc.) and set discounts for weekly or monthly bookings.
When enabled, the module allows you to manage additional options as described below:
- Extra costs – Check here how to create the global costs for your bookable products.
- Set prices – You must set the prices for the created global costs from the dedicated tab on the product edit page. You can optionally multiply the costs by duration and/or people. Check the settings here.
- Discounts – Go here to learn how to create weekly, monthly, and last-minute discounts correctly.
Search forms
With the ‘Search form’ module, you can let your users search for specific bookable products and you can choose which filters to enable for each form (dates, people, services, etc.).
When enabled, the module allows you to manage additional options as described below:
- Search forms – Check here how to create your search forms.
- Shortcode – Go here to learn how to add a search form to your pages through the shortcode.
- Widget – Go here to learn how to add a search form to your sidebars through the widget.
Google Maps
With the ‘Google Maps’ module, you can set the location for your bookable products, show a Google map on the product page, and allow your users to search for products by location.
Go here to see how to integrate Google Maps to show the location of your bookable products.
Google Calendar
With the “Google Calendar” module, you can synchronize your bookings with your Google Calendar.
Go here to see how to integrate Google Calendar and let the admin view the bookings also in their calendar based on what is configured in the one-way synchronization settings.
External synchronization
With the module ‘External synchronization’ you can enable the auto-sync for the availability of your bookable products with external platforms like Booking, Airbnb, and HomeAway.
Go here to see how to iCal calendars of external services to prevent overbookings for your products thanks to a two-way synchronization.
