Hello Juan,

Thank you for reaching out to us.

Unfortunately, currently, this feature is not built-in in Amelia. All appointment needs to be booked at a certain time and date and paid for at the end of the booking process.

I'll kindly ask you to add it as a feature suggestion on this page. 

Features are pushed up on our "to-do" list when there are a lot of customers requesting those features, so having your vote as a customer can be beneficial to this feature being developed sooner.

If you have any more questions please open another ticket and we will gladly help you there.

Hello Bruce,

Thank you for reaching out to us.

There are 2 options to configure how many appointments the customer must book upon buying the purchase.

“Minimum bookings required” is the option where you set the required number of appointments for the chosen service that the customer needs to book in order to be able to book the package. You can set 0 if you don’t want to restrict customers and as a maximum number here you can set the number chosen in the “Number of appointments” option.

“Maximum bookings required” is the option where you set the maximum number required for booking. It is added here to allow you to have one more option – to allow customers to purchase a package without any booking. This is possible if you set 0 as both, minimum and maximum required bookings, in that case after the customer chooses a package our plugin will automatically redirect the customer to the info and payment step, skipping the calendar.

The rest of the appointments can be booked from the Customer panel or booked from the back-end by an admin.

Please let me know if you have any other questions.

Hello Bruce,

The customer can book an appointment from the package from the Customer panel.

Hope this helps you.

Please reach out to us if you have any other questions.

Hello Bruce and Juan.

Sorry for the delay.

As Uros explained, if you configure the package so both the "Minimum bookings required" and the "Maximum bookings required" are set to "0", the customer will only be able to purchase the package.

All services within the package and all appointments configured for this package will not be bookable during the package purchase. In order to book those appointments, a customer would have to log into their Customer Panel and book them from there.

If you want to give the customers an option to book appointments straight away or leave the appointment booking for a later time, you'd need to set the "Minimum bookings required" to "0" and set the "Maximum bookings required" to some other value.

You're welcome Bruce.

Just a quick note - If you set the minimum to 0 and the maximum to something else you should have an option to book an appointment but you should also have an option to simply click on "Continue", to skip appointment booking.

If 0 minimum and 0 maximum works for you, there's no need to test it, but I just wanted to let you know that this works too (although it's not that intuitive, I agree).

HI, again Bruce.

That is not possible

I have a "Yoga Sessions" package with 3 services included like this:

As mentioned in my previous response - it's not very intuitive, so in case there are multiple services like here, you'd see an option to skip booking by clicking on "Next Service" until you see "Continue".

So, the first service (Yoga):

When I click on "Next Service", I move to the next one (Cardio):

Then, the last one (Aerobic), where "Continue" is displayed:

As you can see in the next screenshot, there are no appointments booked:

If you only see the "Back" button, you've misconfigured something, and I can't say what that is without taking a look at your website.

I could do that, of course, if you can provide me with a temporary wp-admin user (Administrator) for your website. However, since this is Juan's ticket you won't be able to provide your credentials here (they would be visible to all customers), so you'd need to open a new private ticket in order to share credentials with us.