Thanks to the integration with YITH Booking and Appointment for WooCommerce, you can now configure deposit options specifically for bookable products. Let’s see those options…
1 – By going over to YITH > Deposits / Down Payments > Balance Options, you’ll find two new deadlines for the balance payment, on the booking start date and on a specific time range before the booking start date:
Both options are really popular among booking platforms since they allow customers to pay the balance the day their booking begins or a specific number of days before that. Let’s say we have an apartment for rent and customers can rent it with a deposit. The standard options to pay for the balance on a specific date or a range of days after paying the deposit are not good enough here as customers might be renting the apartment for the following week or three months from today. This is where we need those useful deadlines that are much more specific to bookable products.
2 – We can request the balance payment, for example, seven days before the booking start date just like Airbnb does:
And so, the balance payment deadline would change according to each booking start date:
Of course, you’ll find the same options inside each bookable product’s edit page, by going over to Product Data > Deposit & Balance > Override balance options. This way, you’ll be able to override the global settings and set different deadlines for each bookable product you offer:
Finally, in YITH > Booking and Appointment > Settings > Cart & Orders, you’ll find a helpful option to decide when to mark the bookings as paid, either when the deposit is paid or when the balance is:
