Take your appointment booking system to the next level by allowing your customers to book multiple services within a single appointment slot. The Bookly Collaborative Services (Add-on) is designed for businesses that offer bundled packages, multi-step treatments, or complex service combinations, ensuring a seamless experience for your clients while maintaining perfect organization for your staff.
Key Features
- Multi-Service Bookings: Enable customers to select and schedule multiple services in one booking flow, reducing the time spent navigating the booking form.
- Unified Appointment Slots: Automatically calculate the total duration of all selected services, ensuring the calendar reflects the combined time required for the entire session.
- Flexible Staff Allocation: Assign multiple services to the same staff member or allow the system to distribute services across different providers if your business model requires it.
- Seamless Integration: Works natively with the core Bookly Pro plugin, ensuring that your existing booking settings, notifications, and payment gateways remain fully functional.
- Enhanced User Experience: Simplify the checkout process by grouping related services, which helps increase conversion rates by making it easier for users to book everything they need at once.
- Customizable Display: Control how services are presented to your customers during the booking process to ensure your branding and service hierarchy remain clear and professional.
Use Cases and Who It’s For
This add-on is an essential tool for service-based businesses that frequently perform more than one task during a single client visit. If your business relies on efficiency and providing comprehensive care, this plugin removes the friction of multiple separate bookings.
Beauty and Wellness Salons: Perfect for clients who want to book a haircut, a hair coloring treatment, and a blow-dry in one go. The plugin ensures the staff member has enough time blocked off for the entire sequence.
Medical and Dental Practices: Ideal for clinics where a patient might need a routine check-up followed by a cleaning or a specific diagnostic test. It ensures the schedule accounts for the total time required for all procedures.
Professional Consulting: Useful for firms that offer tiered service packages, such as an initial consultation followed by a strategy session, allowing clients to book both stages of the process in a single interaction.
Automotive Services: Great for repair shops where a customer might need an oil change, a tire rotation, and a safety inspection performed during the same visit.
Setup and How It Works
The Bookly Collaborative Services add-on is designed to be intuitive, allowing you to enhance your booking flow without needing advanced technical knowledge. Follow these steps to get started:
- Installation: Ensure you have the core Bookly Pro plugin installed and activated on your WordPress site. Upload and activate the Collaborative Services add-on via the WordPress plugin manager.
- Configuration: Navigate to the Bookly settings menu. You will find new options specifically for the Collaborative Services add-on, allowing you to enable the multi-service selection feature.
- Service Mapping: Define which services can be booked together. You can configure specific combinations or allow free-form selection depending on your operational requirements.
- Frontend Display: Once configured, the booking form will automatically update to allow customers to select multiple services. The system will then calculate the total duration and availability based on your staff’s calendars.
- Verification: Test the booking flow from the customer’s perspective to ensure the total time and staff assignments align with your business logic.
Similar Plugins
While the Bookly ecosystem is highly specialized, other booking solutions offer similar multi-service functionality through different architectures. Alternatives include Amelia, which offers built-in support for service packages, and various WooCommerce-based booking extensions that allow for cart-based service selection. However, if you are already invested in the Bookly ecosystem, this add-on provides the most direct and compatible path to achieving multi-service functionality without migrating your entire scheduling infrastructure.