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Booking Customization on Training Sessions based on WooCommerce Bookings

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Booking Customization on Training Sessions based on WooCommerce Bookings

Booking Customization on Training Sessions based on WooCommerce Bookings

Anything Backend, Custom Plugin Development, Plugin Customization, Plugins, Project, WooCommerce Booking, WordPress

Challenge

Our client had a website which sells bookings for training sessions to customers. They have the booking feature implemented with WooCommerce Bookings accompanied by some other plugins. But the system was not flawless. They wanted to send automatic invoices for unpaid bookings from the website, wanted a new order status that lets the client send some reminders to pay and also solve some Google Calendar sync issues with mobile devices to better monitor unpaid bookings.

Our task mainly was to:

  • Send invoice after a booked session time is passed automatically
  • Implement new order status that allows us to send reminder mails where users can pay
  • Implement Google Calendar sync for unpaid bookings
  • Bulk booking feature for booking timeslots in advance for a certain period of time
  • Test the implementations as real life customers

Our Solution

The project had some insightful details and complex problems to solve.

Here’s how we solved the problem:

Automatic Invoice

When the session time for a booked timeslot is passed, client wanted to send automatic invoice messages to their users so that they don’t have to send it manually. For doing this automatically, we have created an internal file to run with a cronjob.

Custom Order Status

Client wanted a special order status to be separate from other statuses. This status is like a dummy status that does not do anything. They wanted this status to be set to unpaid users. When this status is set, he will be reminded through messages to pay his dues.

Google Calendar Sync

Client wanted to be notified through their Google Calendar about the new bookings so that they can see the bookings at a glance and prepare accordingly. We have used references to WC Bookings plugin’s ability to handle Google Calendar and applied tweaks to place events on the client’s calendar.

Bulk Booking

We have implemented a Bulk Booking feature on top of WC Bookings. It allowed for a user to book some events in fixed timeslots for years in advance. This is a feature which was available in the backend for admins, but we had to mimic the same feature on frontend.

Testing Bookings

Client insisted that we test the implementation with them. We lend a hand in testing the various complex booking situations that might occur. We found minor issues on the way and fixed them properly with code patches.

Putting it all together

At the end, we delivered an automated system that syncs to client’s Google Calendar, keeps track of unpaid bookings, and sends reminders when necessary. A system what client client wanted for many days.

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Troubleshooting Booking Calendar when Next Day is Booked

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Troubleshooting Booking Calendar when Next Day is Booked

Troubleshooting Booking Calendar when Next Day is Booked

Anything Backend, Custom Plugin Development, Plugin Customization, Plugins, Project, Troubleshooting, WooCommerce Booking, WordPress

Challenge

Our client was selling a service based on booking in advance. They were using Booked plugin by Boxy Studio for this feature. Unfortunately it was not working properly for them. The problem was that when someone books a full day, the previous day cannot be booked. The previous day appears as unbookable or “blocked”. It was a strange problem that got us worried what could be causing this. We took the job and started troubleshooting.

Our task mainly was to:

  • Test to see if the problem really exists
  • Check if it’s caused due to misconfiguration
  • Isolate the problem and see if the problem persists
  • Find the reference code for the feature and investigate
  • Prepare a fix plugin without editing the core files (as much as possible)
  • Implement to client’s situation and test

Our Solution

The problem was simple, but we had to dig in deep into the code to get the solution.

Here’s how we solved the problem:

Replication & Configuration

We applied the steps client pointed out and was able to replicate the issue. We tried in many ways a user can book the plugin and even tried some tricks with browser devtool, but it did not help. We looked into configuration to check if it is correct. We found no faults there.

Isolation Test

We setup a separate installation with just the minimum plugins to mimic the setup. We configured it like our client site and ran similar tests. This is to see if some other plugin was causing the issue. The result was not so hopefull. We got the same result as our client site. We have fiddled with configuration but it got us nowhere.

Diving into Code

We started looking into the code. It is the first time the project has seen some lights. We found out there was a mistake in the plugin code when it sets the time for the full day booking. It books the full day event starting 1 minute early from the previous day. So the calendar thinks that the day is not bookable for a full day booking.

Prepare a Fix

We tried some manual editing on MySQL database directly and increased the start time by 1 minute. And our investigation turned out to be fruitful. With the result from our investigation we found out that a fix is not possible without editing the plugin files. We edited and added a hook and modified the time values with that hook from our fix plugin so that editing is minimal as possible.

Test Scenarios

We copied our client site, implemented our fix and tested. We tested with multiple scenarios as much as we could. At the end, our fix was successful. It solved the problem perfectly.

Putting it all together

Finally we delivered the solution to the client. Although it needed plugin file edits, we tried to keep it minimal and let our fix plugin do the main thing. It got the job done and client’s site was working fine again.

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