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Prices, peak hours, member discounts and booking rules are all options on one booking form. Set them here and watch the real booking page change. When it looks right, copy the shortcode into WordPress, or send it to us and we will set it up.
What an hour costs when no other rule applies. Leave it empty and bookings are free: the payment step disappears.
Charge a different hourly price at your busiest times, or a lower one when it is quiet. A booking is priced by the time it starts.
Give a day of the week its own base price, its own peak hours, or both. Any day without its own setting uses the general ones above.
Give members a discount and their own booking limits. Each customer account has a role; the rules here apply to the roles you list.
Adds a guest counter to the booking form and this fee for each guest. Leave it empty for no guest fee.
Your own wording, used on the form, in the price summary and in emails. Needs a guest fee.
Show only some of your spaces: a page per room, say, or a members-only bay. The preview uses a sample facility with six.
How far ahead a booking has to be made. With 30, the earliest time on offer is half an hour from now.
Staff addresses that get a copy of every booking made on this page, separated by commas.
Live preview on sample data. Nothing is booked or charged.
[gic_booking pricing="40" peak_pricing="55" peak_ranges="16:59-21:59" email_customer="1"]Paste it into the WordPress page where bookings should appear. No WordPress? We set it up for you on a hosted site.
[gic_booking pricing="40" peak_pricing="55" peak_ranges="16:59-21:59" email_customer="1"]Pricing Logic
Every time slot runs through the same four steps, so a day's own settings always win over the general ones.
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If that day of the week has its own price or peak periods, they replace the general ones for the day.
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A booking that starts inside a peak period is charged that period's price. Any other booking is charged the base price.
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A signed-in customer with a listed role gets that role's discount, as a percentage or an amount off per hour.
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If the page has a guest fee, each guest adds it to the total.
One booking page with a weekday rate, an evening peak, and weekends priced on their own:
[gic_booking pricing="40" peak_pricing="50" peak_ranges="16:59-21:59" day_pricing="sat:60,sun:60" day_peak_ranges="sat:07:59-11:59|15:59-19:59" day_peak_pricing="sat:80|90"]| Day | Base Price | Peak Price | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday to Friday | $40 | $50 from 5 PM to 10 PM | The general price and peak period. |
| Saturday | $60 | $80 from 8 AM to 12 PM, $90 from 4 PM to 8 PM | Its own price and its own peak periods. The general ones are ignored. |
| Sunday | $60 | $50 from 5 PM to 10 PM | Its own price. With no peak periods of its own, it keeps the general one. |
Reference
Each option is an attribute on the [gic_booking] shortcode. All of them are optional, and the builder above writes them for you.
What a booking costs, and when it costs more.
pricingThe hourly price when no other rule applies. Leave it out and bookings are free, with no payment step.
pricing="40"peak_pricingThe hourly price during each peak period, in the same order as the periods.
peak_pricing="50,60"peak_rangesWhen each peak price applies, as 24-hour start and end times. A booking is priced by the time it starts. Each time is written a minute early so periods that meet never overlap: 8 AM to 1 PM is 07:59-12:59.
peak_ranges="07:59-12:59,14:59-22:59"day_pricingA different base price on chosen days of the week (mon, tue, wed, thu, fri, sat, sun).
day_pricing="sat:60,sun:60"day_peak_rangesPeak periods that replace the general ones on a chosen day. A day's periods are separated with a pipe.
day_peak_ranges="sat:07:59-11:59|15:59-19:59"day_peak_pricingThe prices for that day's peak periods, in the same order.
day_peak_pricing="sat:80|90"Discounts and booking limits for the kinds of customer you choose.
rolesThe customer roles the rules below apply to. Golf In Club adds Member (golf_in_club_member) and Guest (golf_in_club_guest), and any other role on your site works too. Every list below follows this order.
roles="golf_in_club_member,golf_in_club_guest"roles_discount_percentagePercent off for each role. 100 makes bookings free for that role. Use this or the flat discount, not both.
roles_discount_percentage="100,0"roles_discount_flatAn amount off per hour for each role.
roles_discount_flat="10,0"roles_bookings_per_dayThe most bookings each role can make for one day.
roles_bookings_per_day="2,1"roles_bookings_per_monthThe most bookings each role can make in a calendar month.
roles_bookings_per_month="10,4"roles_total_booking_limitThe most upcoming bookings each role can hold at once.
roles_total_booking_limit="5,3"roles_advance_booking_daysHow many days ahead each role can book.
roles_advance_booking_days="14,7"roles_bufferThe notice each role has to give, in minutes. It takes priority over the general notice below.
roles_buffer="0,30"Charge for the people a customer brings along.
guest_feeA fee for each guest. Setting it adds a guest counter to the booking form.
guest_fee="15"guest_count_labelYour own wording for the guest counter on this page, also used in the price summary and booking emails. Without it, the label from Settings is used, then “Number of Guests”.
guest_count_label="Guests Joining You"Which spaces a page offers, and how late a booking can be made.
baysShow only these spaces, by ID. Leave it out to show them all. The attribute is always called bays, whatever you call your spaces.
bays="1,2"bufferMinutes between now and the first time that can be booked. It replaces the Booking Buffer set on the dashboard for this page.
buffer="30"gic_enable_previous_start_timeKeeps the slot that has just started bookable: at 7:01 PM, the 7:00 PM slot is still on offer. Best with the notice set to 0.
gic_enable_previous_start_time="1"Who hears about each booking.
email_customerSends the customer a confirmation email for each booking.
email_customer="1"emailOther addresses that get a copy of every booking made on this page, separated by commas with no spaces.
email="manager@yourclub.com,frontdesk@yourclub.com"More Shortcodes
Booking is one of five building blocks. The other four are a single shortcode each, placed on a page of their own.
A sign-up form that creates the customer's account with the role you choose, free or for a one-time fee paid through Stripe.
rolepriceredirect[gic_registration role="golf_in_club_member"][gic_registration price="99.99" role="golf_in_club_member" redirect="https://yourclub.com/welcome"]
The signed-in customer's upcoming bookings, each with the option to cancel.
[gic_user_bookings]
A space-by-space schedule of current and upcoming bookings. Signed-in customers can cancel their own from here.
days[gic_tee_schedule days="60"]
An interactive calendar of every booking across all of your spaces.
[gic_tee_calendar]Dashboard Settings
Hours, breaks and limits live on the Golf In Club dashboard rather than in a shortcode, so they hold on every booking page.
Questions about the plugin, pricing, or a custom integration? We're here to help, and we usually reply within 24 hours.
