Availability on subsequent repetitions of subscriptions (maybe understanding)

Hello MJ,

The only way to decrease the availability of multiple events is to use groups of events (docs, demo);
if you group your repeated events, then your customers will be able to book them all at once.

However, this will create one booking per event.
If I understand well, you want your customers to have only one booking, for the selected event, but still decrease the other events’ availability without booking them. This is not possible unfortunatly.

This may be not the right solution to meet your need, but, can you explain what is your need exactly? I may be able to help you find another solution if I have more context.

Regards,
Yoan Cutillas

Hallo Yoan, thank you for helping.

Basically, we would like to sell ongoing courses by subscription.

This means that every following course at the same time of the week (eg every Wednesday at 6pm) also has one less seat available.

All other times / courses are not affected, no matter if it is a different course in content or the same (Zumba).

Only the course at this time is booked. Repeated weekly.

That’s what I want to achieve.

MJ

Ok thank you,
I think you can use groups of events then, is it ok for you?

The only problem is that you will need to remove the past events of the groups each week because there is currently no option to book only the future events of a group.

Hello Yoan

Unfortunately, we can not really use it that way. Manually grouping all upcoming weekly courses is quite cumbersome. With more than 20 courses every single one each week mark and page until the end of the year is very hard.

One way might be to disable/hide BA counting and use WooCommerce’s own.
I’ll try a few things.

MJ

Hello MJ,

Ok I understand,
I am sorry I can’t think of any good alternative,

Using WooCommerce product stock might be a good idea for subscriptions, but if you want your events to be sold individually too, you will need to
– manually decrease their availability when you sell a subscription,
– manually decrease your subscription stock when you sell an individual event

Making it automatic would require a lot of code to keep the availabilities relevant during the order process and after, when the order status or the booking status changes.

Regards,
Yoan Cutillas

Hello Yoan

It is not your fault. I will surely find a solution here.
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One question: If I have a calendar with only a single entry. Is it possible to preselect that?

At the moment I can only think of a detour via jQuery, which initializes a click on this entry.

I will mark the entry as done, because the main question is clarified.

Thank you!

My current solution is: I set my product (the price) as a ‘variable subscription’ and set as variants the corresponding times. This will give me a dropdown with the times (for example ‘Wed 5pm’).

I keep showing the calendar but hide all avalaibility info. For this I use the internal WooCommerce avalaibility setting. However, now is the extra click on the calendar superfluous.

It should be initialized along with the selection of the dropdown.

Thank you for sharing your solution!

Fortunately, I have already made a snippet of code for another customer to pick the first event when the calendar is loaded.

Add this code in a file named functions.js, at the root of your child theme:

$j( document ).ready( function() {
	// Pick the first event when the calendar is loaded
	$j( '.bookacti-booking-system' ).on( 'bookacti_after_calendar_set_up', function() { 
		var booking_system		= $j( this );
		var booking_system_id	= booking_system.attr( 'id' );
		var booking_system_data	= bookacti.booking_system[ booking_system_id ];
		if( booking_system_data[ 'events' ] !== 'undefined' ) {
			if( booking_system_data[ 'events' ][ 0 ] !== 'undefined' ) {
				bookacti_event_click( booking_system, booking_system_data[ 'events' ][ 0 ] );
			}
		}
	});
});

Then add this code in the functions.php file of your child theme:

function my_theme_enqueue_global_scripts() {
	wp_register_script( 'my_theme_js', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/functions.js', array( 'jquery', 'bookacti-js-global-var', 'bookacti-js-booking-system-functions' ), '1.0.0', true );
	wp_enqueue_script( 'my_theme_js' );
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_theme_enqueue_global_scripts', 15 );
add_action( 'admin_enqueue_scripts', 'my_theme_enqueue_global_scripts', 15 );

Thank you, Yoan.

It works like a charm.

So I can also read the data-tags and combine them with my properties dropdown.

Outstanding. Thank you!
MJ

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Edit: For following readers maybe useful: I still had to adjust the class so that it works with the form in the frontend. (.bookacti-wc-form-fields in my case)

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