Maximize your revenue and streamline your booking process with the Bookly Service Extras add-on. This powerful extension allows you to offer additional services, products, or time-based upgrades directly within your existing Bookly booking flow. By giving your customers the ability to customize their appointments with add-ons—such as specialized equipment, extended session times, or premium product pairings—you not only enhance the client experience but also significantly increase the average value of every booking made on your WordPress site.
Key Features
- Flexible Service Association: Easily link specific extras to individual services or apply them globally across your entire service catalog, giving you full control over what options appear for which appointments.
- Customizable Pricing: Define unique prices for each extra, allowing you to charge flat fees or scale costs based on the quantity selected by the customer.
- Quantity Selection: Allow customers to choose the number of units for a specific extra, perfect for businesses that need to track inventory or resource usage per booking.
- Duration Adjustments: Configure extras to automatically extend the total duration of an appointment, ensuring your calendar accurately reflects the time required for the primary service plus any selected add-ons.
- Seamless Checkout Integration: Extras are presented clearly during the booking process, allowing customers to select their preferred options before finalizing their appointment in a friction-free interface.
- Detailed Reporting: Track which extras are most popular, helping you make data-driven decisions about your service offerings and inventory management.
Use Cases and Who It’s For
The Bookly Service Extras add-on is designed for any service-based business using Bookly that wants to upsell or provide more granular booking options. It is an essential tool for:
Beauty and Wellness Professionals: Salons and spas can use this to offer add-ons like premium hair treatments, aromatherapy upgrades, or extended massage durations, allowing clients to tailor their self-care sessions.
Fitness and Personal Training: Trainers can offer supplemental items like protein shakes, specialized equipment rentals, or additional 15-minute consultation blocks to be added to standard training sessions.
Home Services and Maintenance: Cleaning companies or repair technicians can allow customers to select specific “extra” tasks, such as deep carpet cleaning, appliance maintenance, or additional room coverage, ensuring the booking reflects the exact scope of work.
Photography and Creative Services: Photographers can offer add-ons for additional edited photos, faster delivery times, or physical prints, allowing clients to customize their packages during the initial booking.
Setup and How It Works
Getting started with Bookly Service Extras is designed to be intuitive for any WordPress site administrator. Follow these steps to integrate the functionality:
- Installation: Ensure you have the core Bookly plugin installed and activated, then upload and activate the Bookly Service Extras add-on zip file through your WordPress dashboard.
- Configuration: Navigate to the Bookly menu in your dashboard and locate the new “Extras” tab. Here, you can create your custom add-ons, set their titles, descriptions, and pricing structures.
- Assignment: Within the service settings, select the extras you wish to make available for that specific service. You can choose to make certain extras mandatory or optional for the customer.
- Client Experience: Once configured, your booking form will automatically update. When a customer selects a service, they will be presented with a list of available extras to choose from, which will be calculated into their final booking summary.
Similar Plugins
While the Bookly ecosystem is highly specialized, other booking solutions for WordPress offer similar upsell or add-on capabilities. Alternatives often include Amelia, which features built-in service extras, or WooCommerce Bookings, which utilizes the vast library of WooCommerce product add-on extensions to achieve similar functionality for businesses deeply integrated with the WooCommerce ecosystem.