开发者 | megphillips91 |
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更新时间 | 2020年8月12日 20:51 |
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PHP版本: | 5.3 及以上 |
WordPress版本: | 5.3 |
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To accept credit cards, you will need a merchant processor (also known as Payment Gateway). We recommend Stripe or Paypal. They are both easy enough, not too expensive, and work great with WooCommerce. Once your account with the merchant is set up and active, navigate to WooCommerce->settings-payments and enable the payment gateway that you chose.
To accept cash at the dock, you enable cash or check payments within WooCommerce -> Settings -> Payments ->enable cash on delivery.
In short, yes. Charter Boat Bookings is based on the most common business model which is fishing or sailing any day that a customer wants to go out and the weather is good. So we’ve designed the settings to be as few and simple as they can be to meet that business model. When you create a charter booking product, it becomes available for booking every day. If you are running a business and rely on the charter income, you probably need to upgrade to Charter Bookings Pro which includes the option to be open on some days and closed on others. In the Pro Version, navigate to WooCommerce->settings->product-> Charter Bookings and set the days you are open.
Many fishing captain’s offer half day and whole day charters. Sailing captains usually offer half day, whole day, and sunset sails. You will set up each of these as a product within WooCommerce. If you offer per person and private, then you would set up each of those also - one for private and one for per person. An example of a common Sailing Product Assortment may be:
Charter Boat Bookings plugin is set up to require a minimum number of seats sold within the first booking, so the risk is pretty low. If you set the per-person rate higher than the pro-rata private rate for the same charter, the overall revenue potential is higher with per person charters. We’ve found that it helps grow your business by advertising “charters starting at $x.xx) which is the per person rate for the shortest charter. This way of speaking about your charter offering grows your audience by including customers who may wrongly assume a charter is out of their budget.
Charter Boat Bookings follows the standard WooCommerce workflow. Setting up charters is the same as creating any other product in WooCommerce. Check out these links within the WooCommerce Documentation
We offer a premium companion theme BoatWorks. This makes the styling of your charter boat website turn key and is designed to look great with Charter Boat Bookings. The charter product listing needs about 850px in minimum width for the desktop display. If your theme restricts the content area to less than that, you will need to make a theme revision with a little custom CSS to expand the content width. If the headlines are too large on the Product Listing and Availability calendar, you will need to make a theme revision with a little custom CSS for charter bookings single product pages. Some themes have styling within their CSS which causes the product listing 'Buy Now' to mis-align. This can also have a negative impact sometimes on the WooCommerce checkout page. Please reach out to our team on the support forum so we can take a look at your specific configuration and troubleshoot the styling of those views. If it is something pretty quick, we should be able to take a look and let you know.
The settings within the product admin screen allow you to set the amount of the final balance. The due date timing is static in Charter Bookings Lite at 3 days prior. It can be shifted, notifications cancelled in [Charter Bookings Pro] (https://wordpress.org/plugins/charter-boat-bookings/).
This is really a business decision, but we’ve learned from experience that 15% is a good starting point. This proportionately scales the reservation cost with the overall cost of the product and aligns with industry standard brokerage fees and booking commissions. Keep in mind that any amount paid up front for a reservation creates a psychological buy-in for the customer. Collecting final balance payments is not usually a problem as long as the weather is good. Our best recommendation is to use your gut and balance your priorities. If you find that holding enough reserves for large refunds is not a challenge, then you could set the reservation fee higher around 50%.