How to Setup an eLearning Store using WooCommerce Bookings and Appointments plugin?

In this article, we will check out how easy it is to set up an eLearning store using WooCommerce Bookings and Appointments plugin. It will also cover the functionalities of the plugin like the Assets and Resources, in order to set up a perfect online store where you can sell lessons to your customers.

Business Case…

So considering the eLearning store, there are a few things that you would require to set up the store. These things include,

• Number of Teachers
• Different Types of Lessons
• Lesson Availability and Duration

Number Of Teachers

An online learning store can have multiple teachers which may have a limited number of lessons per day available for the students. Hence, it becomes difficult to handle different teacher’s appointment such that the bookings would not get overlapped.

In order to set up different teachers, you can easily use the Bookings Assets feature of the WooCommerce Bookings and Appointments plugin. Click here to read more about the Booking Assets and How To Create an Asset.

Different Types of Lessons

Similar to the teachers, you also require to list out all your lessons so that the students can easily distinguish and proceed with the booking for the required lesson only.

For listing out the lessons, you can use the Booking Resources feature of the WooCommerce Bookings and Appointments plugin. Click here to read more about the Bookings Resources and How To Set up Resources.

Lessons Availability and Duration

Once you are done with setting up the teachers and lessons, the next most important task is to define the booking availability and the duration of the lessons.

This can be achieved using the Booking Availability feature of the WooCommerce Bookings and Appointments plugin. You can click here to read more about How To Set Bookings Availability.

Setting Up eLearning Store using WooCommerce Bookings and Appointments plugin

Say, the lessons provided are Maths, Physics, Chemistry, and Computer Science. And the teachers who teach these courses are Sarah, Mary, and Lisa who can only provide 5 tuitions per day.

1. You have to create the assets containing the names of all three teachers with quantity 5 allocated to each of them.
   To do that, visit Assets under the Bookings Settings and create different assets as shown in the image below.
   Now, if someone books for Sarah, then Sarah will only have 4 more tuitions to provide in a day.
2. Now for the lessons, you can visit the product page and create different lessons as Resources as shown in the image below, and then update the product.
   
3. So when someone wants to learn Maths from, say Sarah, this is how the cart page will look like (if the cost of one lesson is $100)
   You can clearly see all types of lessons displayed at the bottom of the calendar as well as the drop-down selection for different types of teachers. The customers will be able to choose their preferred lesson as well as any available teacher and then place the booking easily.

Final Thoughts…

So, this article covered WooCommerce Bookings and Appointments plugin and its features like the Booking Assets and Resources in order to set up an eLearning store. The plugin allows you to define custom booking period and availability based on days, months, hours and minutes. This way you can choose from a variety of options for the booking duration fo the lessons.

The WooCommerce Bookings and Appointments plugin is a flexible plugin that can be used to set up a variety of online bookings or appointments systems based on WordPress. If you are also looking for a robust and reliable solution for your online learning store, you can read more about the WooCommerce Bookings and Appointments plugin and the amazing features this plugin provides.