Online Kayak Rental in WooCommerce – WooCommerce Bookings and Appointments FAQs

Can I hire out canoes with minimum durations of 2, 3, or 6 hour slots, and ensure they are only bookable on a daily basis?

Yes, with the Custom Booking Interval add-on for the WooCommerce Bookings & Appointments plugin, you can set up your canoe hire business to have specific booking durations of 2, 3, or 6 hours. The add-on allows you to define custom booking intervals for each product, so customers can only select these durations when booking. This setup ensures that bookings are constrained to your required durations and are available on a per-day basis.

Can I use your software to set up three different types of canoes for hire, each with different prices, available in blocks of 2, 3, or 6 hours, all within my opening hours of 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.?

Yes, you can achieve this using the WooCommerce Bookings & Appointment plugin. You can create three separate bookable products, each representing a different type of canoe. For each product, configure individual pricing and define booking blocks of 2, 3, or 6 hours within your specified opening hours (9 a.m. to 6 p.m.). Comprehensive setup instructions are available in the plugin’s documentation: https://www.pluginhive.com/knowledge-base/setup-guide-woocommerce-bookings-and-appointments-plugin/#BookableProduct

How can I let customers select the quantity of a booking item, such as renting multiple kayaks at once?

To allow customers to book multiple quantities of an item (e.g., renting more than one kayak at a time), use the Booking Participants feature in the WooCommerce Bookings and Appointments plugin. Here’s how you can set it up:

1. Go to your WordPress dashboard and navigate to the product you want to enable quantity booking for (e.g., your Kayak rental product).
2. In the product settings, locate the Booking Participants section.
3. Enable participants and configure it so that each “participant” represents one unit of rental (e.g., one kayak).
4. Set the minimum and maximum number of participants allowed per booking, as per your rental inventory (e.g., minimum 1, maximum 10).
5. Save the product settings.

This setup will display a quantity field on the booking form labeled as “Participants,” allowing customers to choose how many kayaks they wish to rent for their booking. For detailed guidance, refer to the PluginHive knowledge base article: https://www.pluginhive.com/knowledge-base/how-to-set-booking-participants-using-woocommerce-bookings-and-appointments/