Feature request: Appointment Packages

[Former user]

It would be great to be able to package appointments. Currently I can create a new product and select "grouped" but it doesn't allow more than one of the same type of appointment - I found an additional plugin that lets me do multiples of the same type, but the appointments tool didn't work with that - it listed all three, but there was no option to book, and when I went to the cart page, it gave me an error because I "need to pick a date above" first. This option would be ideal for clients who offer services, and want to offer, for example, something like "buy two, get the third half off" - ideally I could add three of the one appointment type, and it would add up all three into the regular price, then I would be able to do a 50% discount on the third appointment type. Ability to schedule all of them as normal - or choose to schedule the additional appointments later would be really nice as well.

Currently the only way I can do this is to set it up like the single appointment for the full price of all three minus the discount (i.e. if each appointment is $100, I put in $250 which is total price for all three minus half off). Then the single larger "package" allows the user to schedule one of them, with a note on the appointment type that they are scheduling one now, and the other two to be scheduled later. Not an ideal setup, but client doesn't want to pay for the WooCommerce "packages" add-on....

[Tim O'Donnell]

I have 2 use cases for this that would really help me (and would be a USP for the plugin):

1. Offer discounted bundles of appointments which the user then books up to the quantity purchased - at the most simple this would be really useful. Things that would make it even better if possible:

• not require user to book them right now, but able to come back and schedule some of them later

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1. if user has a specific subscription, allow them to book certain appointable products based on a rule e.g. Subscription Plan 1 gets them 1 “free” Consultation per month, Subscription Plan 2 gets them 2 per month etc - configurable - basically bundling appointments into existing subscription products (or even regular products - e.g. purchase course, get “x” monthly coaching sessions included)

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[Georgia Ferguson]

Can we pay you to program in this functionality?

We need this desperately. NO OTHER Woocommerce appointment plugin currently offers this functionality. We are using Smart Coupons for users to buy store credit at a discount. However, it’s very difficult when we are manually adding appointments to even FIND the coupon code for us to pay for their appointment. Even then, it’s very difficult to see how much credit they have left.

[Valentina R]

another request here:

Our Vendors would find these use cases very helpful if developed:
– customer to make an order of n appointable products and get a discount
– order a package that includes n appointable products – specifically chosen by the vendor – at a package price with the ability to set the dates of the appointments later on

[Serafín Danessa]

Upvoting this and leaving a related forum topic that I started, suggesting a small change in the code to open up the possibilities for this:
https://bookingwp.com/forums/topic/patch-code-to-support-subscriptions-bundles-etc/

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[Valentina R]

Another request here.