Compound Services Add-on

With the Bookly Compound Services (Add-on), you can combine existing services with spare time to create a separate complex service that your clients can book as any regular appointment.

Compound services will be added to the Services drop-down menu in your online booking form, just like other services.

All the client has to do is pick a date and time from the list of available time slots that the Bookly system has already calculated to accommodate all appointment segments.

Each service within a complex appointment can be performed by an individual service provider who will be booked only for their part of the service.

When your client books a compound service, your Bookly Calendar and Appointments section will display separate appointments per each service involved in one booking. Click on the appointment to see if the booking was made as a part of a compound service.

On the front end, customers cannot choose staff members for each part of the compound service. The system displays and allows to choose an employee only for the first service within the complex appointment, other employees are assigned automatically.

Setup and configuration

1. Purchase, download, install and activate the Compound Services (Add-on) in Plugins.

2. To create a compound service, go to the Services section, click on the Add service button, and select Compound. Next, enter the title and click Create service.

3. To open and configure the created compound service click Edit on the right.

You'll see a drop-down menu at the bottom of the service card. Choose services from the list and include spare time if needed. Bookly will consider waiting times between appointments as free time slots for other bookings.

4. Several appointments in a compound service can be performed by one staff member. If you enable this option and the customer selects a staff member on the first step of the booking form, then Bookly will use only this staff to search available slots for all sub-services.

If you'd like to use a service only as a part of a complex appointment (compound service), make it unavailable for booking directly by setting its visibility to private.

Compound services can be booked only via front-end booking form. An administrator cannot create appointments with compound services in the back end but can manually add each appointment as part of the compound service.

Get the Compound Services (Add-on) here.

Try this demo to get a better understanding of how the Compound Services (Add-on) works.

Watch this video tutorial about quick set up of the plugin:

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