The plugin developer kindly provides this tutorial. You can access the complete plugin's documentation on this URL: https://boxystudio.ticksy.com/articles/7827/.
Install the Booked Plugin
The Booked plugin can be installed and activated during the theme setup from Appearance > Install Plugins.
The Booked Settings Panel
Head on over to the Appointments > Settings page to familiarize yourself with the settings panel for Booked.
GENERAL SETTINGS
1. Profile Page - As described above, you will choose the page you want to use for the profile from this dropdown.
2. Time Slot Intervals - When creating your default time slots (described below), you can choose the intervals at which you can choose your time slots. Just change it with this dropdown.
USER EMAILS
All emails can be turned off one by one by simply removing the content of the email in the fields. If nothing is there, then no email is sent. All emails have unique tokens you can use in place of actual content. This content is placed into the email when it gets sent. The tokens are listed above each email form.
1. Registration - This email is sent to your new users, welcoming them to your website.
2. Appointment Confirmation - This email is sent to the user when they book an appointment to confirm that the appointment has been submitted.
3. Appointment Approval - This email is sent to the user when their appointment is approved.
4. Appointment Cancellation - This email is sent to the user if the website admin cancels their appointment.
ADMIN EMAILS
1. New Appointment Request - This email is sent to the admin user when a new appointment is created and is now in the pending list.
2. Appointment Cancellation - This email is sent to the admin user when a customer cancels an appointment from their profile.
DEFAULT TIME SLOTS
Setting your default time slots is at the heart of the Booked plugin. Each day is given default time slots. For example, if your business is open Monday – Friday from 8:00 am – 4:00 pm, and you have two employees available every hour, you would create two times slots every hour from 8–4, Monday – Friday.
BULK TIME SLOT ENTRY
To quickly add a bunch of time slots, you can use the Bulk time slot entry option:
- Click "Add..." at the top of the day you're adding time slots.
- Switch to the "Bulk" tab.
- For the "Start time...", select "8:00am".
- For the "End time...", select "4:00pm".
- Leave the next dropdown as "Every 1 hour" to set your time slots every hour.
- Choose "2 time slots" as the last option, and then click "Add".
- Your available time slots for that day will then be added, and your customers can start booking appointments!
SINGLE TIME SLOT ENTRY
Alternatively, you can add a single time slot to any day/time:
- Click "Add..." at the top of the day you're adding time slots to.
- Choose a "Start time" and "End time", and then select how many time slots you want to add.
- Click "Add", and that time slot entry will be added as a default for that day.
CUSTOM TIME SLOTS
Adding Custom Time Slots
- Go to the Booked Settings panel and the Custom Time Slots tab.
- Click the "Add Date(s)" button.
- Choose the calendar you want to use (if applicable).
- Choose the Start Date.
- If this is a one-day setting, you can leave the End Date blank. If this is a date range, choose the End Date.
- Click the "+ Single Time Slot" button to add a single time slot. Click the "+ Bulk Time Slots" button to bulk add time slots.
- For single time slots, you'll choose how many available appointments for this time slot and then choose the start and end times. Alternatively, you can check the "All day" checkbox to make this an all-day time slot.
- To add bulk time slots, choose how many available appointments there are, choose a start and end time for the entire span of your day, and choose the time between each slot if you need a 10-minute break, for example. Then choose the interval for the time slots to be entered.
- Adding Vacation/Closed Dates
- Go to the Booked Settings panel and the Custom Time Slots tab.
- Click the "Add Date(s)" button.
- Choose the calendar you want to use (if applicable).
- Choose the Start Date.
- If this is a one-day setting, you can leave the End Date blank. If this is a date range, choose the End Date.
- Check the "Disable appointments" checkbox to make this a vacation/closed date.
- That's it
Create a Profile Page
If you would like your customers to be able to manage their appointments and edit their profiles, you'll want to activate the profile page. It's an easy process, though, just follow the guide below:
1. Create a page and give it a title. "Profile" works, but it can be whatever you want it to be.
2. Add the [booked-login] shortcode to the page so your users can log in to view their profile.
3. Go to the Booked Settings panel (Appointments > Settings) and choose this new page from the dropdown in the General Settings tab.
4. And that's it!
Step 2: How to add a Booked Calendar element
Please go to the page/post where you'd like to add the element, open the Vamtam Builder > click the Add Content button > and click on Vamtam > Booked element.
Please check this guide for more details on working with the Vamtam Beaver Builder: Guide to VamTam Beaver Builder.
Once you've added the element, please click on the Edit button (the pen icon) to set it up.
Please check this guide for more details on working with the Vamtam Beaver Builder: Guide to VamTam Beaver Builder
Translation
You can translate the plugin's strings into the book.pot file (located in /wp-content/plugins/booked/languages/booked.pot) using the POEdit Method How to translate a Vamtam theme in another language? or some plugin for the multilingual site (How to make a Vamtam theme multilingual?)
Booked Add-On: Front-End Agents
Full plugin's documentation: https://getbooked.io/
Front-End Agents — Your Booking Agents will have a new profile screen on the front-end that allows them to manage their incoming appointment requests.
Booked Add-On: WooCommerce Payments
Full plugin's documentation: https://getbooked.io/booked-woocommerce/
Payments with WooCommerce — Use Booked with WooCommerce to allow your visitors to purchase their appointments and checkout using WooCommerce.
Please check on the setup instruction here: https://boxystudio.ticksy.com/article/3820/.
Booked Add-On: Calendar Feeds
Complete plugin's documentation: https://getbooked.io/
Calendar Feeds — Display your appointments on Apple Calendar, Outlook, etc., with an iCal feed directly from your site. (not a two-way sync)