The Best of Booking Wordpress Plugins for WooCommerce

WooCommerce is becoming a huge player in global online e-commerce, and online bookings is an important sub-niche. Hotels, travel operators, tours, spas, personal trainers etc etc all need a booking system for their website.
So which WooCommerce extensions are best for bookings at the moment?
Unlike other niches, there’s not much to choose from at the moment. In fact, there are only two leading solutions for WooCommerce bookings.
The first to arrive on the scene (and most flexible) extension is the WooCommerce Booking & Appointment Plugin from Tyche Softwares.

WooCommerce Booking & Appointment Plugin

WooCommerce Booking & Appointment plugin transforms your WooCommerce shop to a full-fledged Booking platform. It lets you capture the Booking Date & Time for each service.
It is “fully integrated” with WooCommerce. It can be used to create & manage all types of booking services. You can sell tickets, tours, hotel bookings, appointments and much more with this plugin.
Some of the salient features of this plugin:

• The Booking Process will be “fully integrated” with your WooCommerce shop.
• Flexible labels to name your bookings the way you want.
• Choose the booking calendar of your language.
• It allows you to sell vacation rentals & volume discount rentals.
• You can accept booking orders over the phone or emails.
• You can easily sync your bookings with calendar applications.
• You can take advantage of more than a 100 payment gateways available with WooCommerce.
• You can get real granular with the way you set booking options for each service.
• You can set Global & Product Specific “exclude days” rules. It is similar to blackout days. You can prevent bookings for some of the dates.
• You can create time slots, e.g. bookings can be made only from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM & so on.
• You can specify the date and time of availability. This makes it useful for services that are available for limited time period such as a play or movie.

WooCommerce Bookings

The second plugin we can take a look at is the official extension from Woo themselves. It works very well but is more flexible than the plugin from TycheSoftwares, and is also more expensive.
This powerful extension allows you to sell your time or date based bookings, adding a new product type to your WooCommerce site. Perfect for those wanting to offer appointments, services or rentals.
Notable Features:

• Create booking slots
• Multi-person bookings
• Customer email notifications
• Have bookings made either right away, or sent to you for approval.
• Filter and update bookings, as well as booking availability, directly from your WordPress admin.
• Create bookings manually via the WordPress admin, mirroring the frontend bookings form your customers see.
• There is huge flexibility in defining costs per booking, resource, block, people or duration.
• Define when your booking is available to your customers.
• “Resources” per bookable product for added flexibility. Resources can also be created globally, to apply to multiple bookable products.
• Define global availability rules for all bookable products.
• Integration with the Product Add-ons extension letting you add extras for each booking.
• Send custom email notifications to people who have booked a product.
• View bookings in either list or calendar format.