By Appointment

The Rental by Appointment type replaces the free date-range picker with a time slot selector. You define available slots for each day of the week (Monday through Sunday) — each with its own label, start/end time, price, and quantity. Customers pick a date and choose from the slots available on that day.

Use this type for any service where sessions have a fixed start time and duration: spa treatments, medical appointments, photography sessions, tutoring hours, studio bookings, and similar.

Aspect	Rental by Day	Rental by Appointment
Customer selects	Free date range	A date + a time slot
Duration	Customer-defined	Fixed by slot Start–End time
Pricing unit	Price per day	Price per slot
Seasonal overrides	Special time (ST)	Special Timeslots (override slot prices)
Inventory	car_count stock	Quantity per slot (per day)
Drop-off date	Customer picks	Auto from slot end time
GD / Daily plan	✓	— Not available
Locations	✓	— Not available

1: Quick Start

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Add General fields

Read in overview

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Choose Rental Type

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Pricing Settings

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Shared Fields

The following fields are shared across multiple rental types.

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Common Fields

The following fields are shared across all rental types.

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Customize Fields in Product Editing

You can add/remove fields in product editing.

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Publish

Set a WooCommerce Regular Price for display purposes, then click Publish. The actual booking price is always calculated by BRW settings.

2: Choose Rental Type

• Step 1: Add new product

• Step 2: Setup

  • Product data: Rental

  • Rental Type: Appointment

3: Pricing Settings

3.1 Time Slots (per weekday)

Define the available booking slots for each day of the week. Each day has its own independent table of slots. Days with no slots configured are treated as unavailable.

Use Location (use_location): Checkbox at the top of the Time Slots section. When enabled, a Location column appears in every day's slot table, allowing each slot to be tied to a specific place (e.g. Room A, Branch 2).

Per-day slot table columns — meta key pattern uses {day} = monday, tuesday, … sunday:

Column	Meta key	Description
Label	time_slots_label[{day}][]	Optional display name for the slot shown to customers (e.g. "Morning Session", "Slot A"). Leave blank to show only the time range.
Location	time_slots_location[{day}][]	Optional location name for this slot. Only visible when Use Location is enabled.
Start	time_slots_start[{day}][]	Start time of the slot (time input, e.g. 09:00). Shown to customers in the slot selector.
End	time_slots_end[{day}][]	End time of the slot (time input, e.g. 10:00). Optional — if blank, only the start time is displayed.
Price	time_slots_price[{day}][]	Price for this slot. This is the booking price charged when a customer selects this slot.
Quantity	time_slots_quantity[{day}][]	Maximum number of simultaneous bookings allowed for this slot on any given day. Acts as per-slot inventory.

You can add multiple slots per day. For example, Monday can have a 09:00–10:00 slot at $50 (qty 2) and a 14:00–15:00 slot at $60 (qty 1). Each slot is booked independently.

Days with no slots configured will appear as unavailable in the date picker — customers cannot select those dates. To close a specific date, use the Disabled Dates feature in Common Features → Availability.

3.2 Special Timeslots (ST)

Override the price of all slots within a specific date-time window. When a booking date falls inside an ST window, every slot on that date charges the ST price instead of its configured slot price.

Column	Meta key	Description
Price	special_price[]	The override price applied to all slots during this window. Replaces individual slot prices entirely.
Start date	special_startdate[]	Start of the special window (datetime picker — date + time).
End date	special_enddate[]	End of the special window (datetime picker — date + time).

Important: ST overrides all slot prices within the window — there is no per-slot ST price. Every slot on a date inside the window charges the same ST price. Slot availability (Quantity) is unaffected.

Example: Holiday surcharge — Dec 24 00:00 → Jan 2 00:00 at $80. Even if Monday normally has a $50 slot and a $60 slot, both will charge $80 during this period.

3.3 🏆 Pricing Priority

When a booking date falls within a Special Timeslot window, that price takes over. Otherwise the individual slot price applies:

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Example: Spa has Monday slots at $50 and $70. A Special Timeslot is set for Dec 25–Jan 1 at $90. A customer booking any Monday slot between Christmas and New Year pays $90 regardless of which slot they pick.

4: Shared Fields

The following fields are shared across multiple rental types and are documented on the Shared Fields page to avoid repetition.

Appointment type has a minimal set of shared fields — no Locations, no Drop-off date (slot end time determines it), no Inventory (slots have their own Quantity).

Click any card to go directly to that section.

Round-trip

Toggle + extra fee

Guests options

show/hide guest

Guests fields

Form fields + min/max

Pick-up date

Appointment date selector

Booking Conditions

Min/max days, preparation, advance

5: Common Fields

These features are shared across all rental types. Note: Inventory & Quantity in Common Features refers to the global stock counter — Appointment type uses per-slot Quantity instead of the global inventory.

Availability

Allowed dates, disabled dates, iCal

Services & Resources

Add-on pricing with /Day or /Order

Deposit

Fixed or percentage upfront payment

Insurance

Fixed fee added to every booking

Booking Form

Custom checkout fields

Map / Place

Maps pin on product page

Display & Layout

Price format, template, extra tab

Product Content

Specifications, features list

6: Customize Fields in Product Editing

When you create a product and want to remove unnecessary fields, you can follow these steps in Customize - Rental Type