Change booking form, list names of customers, Translation, shortcode docs

Hello,

Many thank for you kind words about our plugin!

1. where can I change the booking form (I need just Nickname and E-Mail) ?

You can do it using integration with Contact form 7.

– create a new form in CF7 and put this code for the form:

<p><label for=”wbk-name”>Your First Name (required)</label>[text* wbk-name class:wbk-text id:wbk-name]</p>
<p><label for=”wbk-phone”>Your phone (required)</label>[text* wbk-phone class:wbk-text id:wbk-phone]</p>

– open the Service setting and the the form you crated to “Select form” option.
– open the General tab of Webba Setting page and set “Phone field is required in the booking form” to “No”

2. when there is just one service, is it possible to skip the step for choosing the service ?

Yes, you can use our shortocode builder to generate the shortcode for one service.

– open your page / post in dashboard
– click “Webba Booking form” button above the editor
– Select the service and click “add”

or use the shortcode directly: i.e. [webba_booking service=”7″] will render the form for the service with id=7

3. how can i list the names of the other students(who booked the class) in the work-flow of submitting, optimally in the booking form or at least in the notification to the student who booked the service

Unfortunately, we don’t have this feature in our plugin.

4. the service is offered at 2 evenings per week and each time just in a time slot. When I book all the seats, then the time slot disappears and this could confuse some students, how can I show the time slot as completely booked with no available seats anymore?

The option to show fully booked slots for multiple seats mode will be added in some of the new releases.

5. this maybe as a feature request, to have hover options for the buttons

Good idea, we will add this option.
Now it can be achived with a custom css:

.wbk-button:hover{
background: green !important;
}

6. do the wording under Translation settings get lost after updating the plugin ?

No, it won’t get lost. Backup is required only for translation done with po/mo files.

7. where do I find documentation for all the short codes in the notification to the admin and the booking student?
This part of the documentation is in the process of creating, so we post it here:

#service_name – the name of a service booked
#category_names – list of all categories of the booked service
#customer_name – customer name
#appointment_day – date of booking
#appointment_time – time of booking
#appointment_id – the id of an appointment (auto-ince
#customer_phone – customer’s phone number
#customer_email – customer’s email
#customer_comment – customer’s comment
#customer_custom – lits of all custom items with the value (for the case when custom fields used in CF7)
#items_count – the number of seats boooked
#total_amount – total price of the reservation (for the appointments that require payments)
#cancel_link – link to the cancellation page (for customer’s notification)
#tomorrow_agenda – for reminders sent to admin
#group_customer_name – the name of a customer added as secondary in the booking form
#admin_cancel_link – link for cancellation (for admin’s notification)
#admin_approve_link – link for approval page (for admin’s notification)
#add_event_link – link for adding appointment data to customer’s Google Calendar.

Thank you WebbaPlugins for your amazing quick support and implementation of feature requests ?? !

1. OK, custom form is working with CF7. Maybe as a feature request, to implement also the Jetpack forms too.
2. To generate the shortcode for just one service is actually very intuitive with the builder, but it is in docs also mentioned? Maybe you mention this in your demo for one service or under plugin Installation.
3. As I’m was searching for a booking plugin, I found out that other plugins do have this feature, at least in the pro version. In some situations or some closed communities the members wish to have the names of the event subscribers listed. Is it hard to implement this? Better to list just the nicknames and to mention the country privacy laws to check, when using this feature with full names.
4. Thank you, the feature is part of the free plugin now. Do you think to add also a color option for the time slot button, when the time slot is fully booked? Otherwise I think it can be done with css too.
5. Yes, button hover is easy with css to do, thx.
6. OK, the Translation under Settings does not get lost after plugin updates. I saw,the German translation is incomplete. Where do I find the files of the original wording and of the German translation. I’ll try next days to give something back to the community and to your plugin and complete the German translation.
7. Thx for the short code documentation

8. I have another feature request. I saw that there are just a few plugins for seat reservation, like for cinema, theater, concerts, events with numbered seats, etc. Do you think it could be easy to implement a seat reservation too, so while reserving the seat of the time slot, a table with seats could pop up to choose and reserve exactly the seats. What do you think about this?
9. Another feature request could be a better organization or grouping of the settings options under General, Translation, Appointments so there where you have a lot of options, the user can work more intuitive with them. With the time you’ll have more and more options so in my opinion a better grouping could help the users a lot to quickly find what they need.

Your support forum is high quality and I can do my work with your plugin for free. I wish you more than 100k installations soon ??

Greetings, Marius

Hello,

Thank you for your questions, ideas and feature requests!

1. We added Jetpack forms integration in our plan.

2. Documentation will be updated soon.

3. This will be implemented with the help of placeholders.

4. in the current version it can be done with css:
example:

.wbk-slot-booked {background: #aaaaaa!important}

6. please email us at [email protected] and we will send you the latest translation for German.

8. I think it can be done by developing the new type of custom field.
When the customer click on the field, the popup with a map of seats is displayed.
Could you, please give us an example, so we will think about how to implement this feature.

9. Yes, we will improve this.

Thank you again for the good support.

8. You could take a look to the plugins for seat reservation, there you’ll have some examples.
Rectangles ore circles could represent the seats and numbered rows/columns, like in a spreadsheet, or just numbering and colors for orientation and reservation. If you have a concert event in a bigger space, then some of the seats are for the press or special submitters, some of them for everybody but in front or more left, more right, back, and some of them are just empty for a better design of the map.
Maybe there are some JS libs or jQuery seating chart plugins for the user interface, that you could use for the user interface.

Hi,

It seems found – Full-featured Seating Chart Plugin With jQuery.

We’ll think about how to apply this solution.