Recurring Bookings, with Reschedule feature
I'm currently using Birchpress for my bookings with WooCommerce. I've only stayed with them because they have promised a recurring booking feature. However, they don't seem like they are going to develop this feature anytime soon, so if you would develop this recurring function, I'd be more than happy to switch over.
I run a school, where we do private tutoring. Clients sign up for a time slot and they have their class the same day and same time every week. It is impossible for us to manually enter every client, every week. We very much need to have a recurring booking, where we can add a client indefinitely and assign them to a staff member, as well as a room.
In addition, it would be great to see 1. A rescheduling function, where clients or staff can reschedule an appointment one time, or for all future events, just like google calendar does. It would also be nice to see a limit on the number or reschedulings a client is allowed to make 2. Integration with subscriptions - since our clients pay a monthly fee, they should be charged like a subscription to have access to the reschedule and scheduling features.
Jason S.
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UnlimitedIT
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My client has a similar need. They run a community centre and make rooms available for activities. Some of those activities recur on a regular basis. Rather than marking the rooms as unavailable for casual booking it would be preferable to make a recurring booking for the activity in the room. Then billing for that recurring booking could also be achieved via WooCommerce Bookings.
So when might we expect to see this functionality? I know it's on the roadmap but an indication of its place in the development schedule would be helpful so that I can manage client expectations.
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CC
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Integration with Subscriptions extension is also very important for us...
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Steve
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Recurring bookings seems a pretty fundamental feature of a booking system. Any idea when we might see this?
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rockie667
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We also need this feature - in our case for setting up courses. A customer should be able to book a course, which is conducted on several days, by one booking. So, at the moment the bookings plugin is pretty senseless for course management.
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Anonymous
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This is essential. The products is worthless for me without it.
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David
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I've needed something like this since I started using WC nearly 4 years ago... We're so close!
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Costa Caruso
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Also needed for room rentals. Rooms are rented by the month and they choose how many months they expect to stay. They all can't afford to pre-pay.
So if they choose eg. 6 months, they have to then remember to login and pay at the beginning of every month -- ouch.
So either recurring billing or subscriptions need to be integrated with Bookings.
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Alex commented
I too would love this feature. I see it's in the roadmap, how long should we expect to wait?