I was not 100% sure which category to post this under. It is I guess a Product Vendors request however development on Product Vendors alone would not really work here I imagine. Currently global availability is just that, its set at a global level by site admin. Ultimately the way the plugin is coded it may need to be refactored in the future to allow global availability work at a Vendor admin or Vendor level inside Product Vendors.

Obviously if a Vendor sets their global availability it should only work for their products they have created and right now if they set it, it would literally work across the entire website which of course is not scalable from a marketplace perspective. Right now the developers of Product Vendors have simply switched off the global availability setting to vendors which is of course all they could do for now but it really limits the marketplace working with Woocommerce Bookings. Vendors will want global availability settings and they will want to change them from time to time but of course only effect their own bookable products and not site wide.

Likewise with resources. I feel this is most certainly a time to refactor the woocommerce bookings plugin in order to make it more seamlessly integrate with other extensions like product vendors. I believe anyone creating a marketplace will discover this limitation early on and its really a dissappointing limitation as it definitely could be a big big plus to have this work better with Product Vendors. I hope others fine this useful and maybe others have seem this limitation also. Look forward to hearing any other thoughts on this or how best to make this work moving forward. thanks for your time as always.

When people use the layered navigation plugins that are available they dont want to know if you make a product in their size they want to know if you HAVE a product in that size! :) If it could only show items that are still in stock the world would be a better place!

I noticed that the layered nav widget uses the attributes values to function.
This works fine for most products. However, for variable products, shouldn\'t it use the variations values data instead to show what\'s available?
In a test I did, I edited a variable product, and removed all variations but 1. I left the attributes as is (most were selected). Instead of showing just 1 size as available, all sizes were displayed as being available, only because the attributes were present in that variable product.
A quick fix would be to remove attributes which aren\'t available from each product. However, it\'s not ideal either. When a product goes out of stock, it\'s still listed as being available by the layered nav widget even though it\'s not (and it will be until something is done manually).

This feature request is most definitely for Product Vendors and WooCommerce Bookings working together more seamlessly and I am wondering if others need the same thing. Currently WooCommerce Bookings does 'work' with Product Vendors and its a big improvement on the first version albeit a little limited and I do understand from speaking to the great team and woo that product vendors currently is more suited to physical products. However typically service providers who need a booking system in a marketplace type scenario will want to use one booking calendar to organise their week/month/year of bookings.

1. A simple scenario is this; A customer rings up the vendor and says I want to book tomorrow at 3pm, the vendor would of course check their calendar to make sure their are no conflicts and then pencil the person in. The issue is the vendor right now cannot pencil this person in from the backend of the website, they would literally need to tell the customer to go to the website and make the booking online in order to have one unified calendar view of their week of bookings. Of course the vendor could write down the booking and say come in for your booking tomorrow at 3pm but then their is an online calendar that has a free slot at 3pm tomorrow and immediately their could very well be a conflict.

2. A person does book through the site and then comes into the vendor for their appointment. The vendor then says you need to come once per week for 2 more weeks. Again the vendor is left with no choice but to write it down with pen and paper as their is no way to just book in the customer for say the same time next week and the week after. I am actually not talking about recurring bookings here at all to be honest, I am just saying their is no way right now to manually create a booking for next week and then the week after in two separate steps even. Also if you could do this the customer would get their reminders via the website the next week and the week after, they would get their receipts and they would ultimately get used to the idea of booking online and using the site more often.

So the solution as far as I can tell is that a Vendor should be able to see users that have booked his or her service from the User area of the backend of the website. Right now the user area is entirely turned off but of a bookings website this is not ideal at all of course. Also the Vendor should be able to add new users who have never booked on the website through the user area of the backend of the website - just like an overall administrator would but of course that user that has been added is just added as a regular customer.

This would mean that the vendor could potentially use the woocommerce booking plugin as their unified calendar for all their bookings. It means more bookings are taken on the website and no more pencil and paper organising. Currently adding product vendors and woocommerce bookings just means another calendar that the vendor has to manage and try to avoid conflicts on. It would be amazing to allow vendors add customers and of course only see customers that have booked their services. This is definitely for me right now a number one feature request for product vendors. I am not 100% sure of its application inside a physical store, I imagine its not really a requirement at all, but maybe I am wrong as my head is solely here testing out the Bookings element and product vendors. Any ideas and thoughts are most welcome. thanks for your time everyone.

For those offering Quarterly Subscriptions, an option to setup a subscription product to automatically renew on certain dates throughout the year (every quarter) would be very helpful. Instead of customers being billed 3 months after they sign up for a subscription, they would be charged a renewal fee on a specified date every quarter no matter when they signed up. For instance, if I wanted all subscribers to be charged on the same day each quarter (i.e. January 15th, April 15th, July 15th, October 15th), then this would make it easier to forecast inventory and ensure that physical subscription products would be reserved for current subscribers before new subscribers purchased or reserved the subscription product with a new signup.