Dear Amelia Team,

we really like the new 2.0 Catalog Booking Form. It is really a great improvement and much better design.

We only noticed one downside. In case there there are several service categories available the "old" category selection screen is shown by default (see screeenshot).

Is there an option or short-code element that will allow to skip this unnecessary step as the category can anyway be picked in the category sidebar in the new booking form. To have this option available would be greatly appreciated, or is there already a way to do that.

Please note that not a specific service category should be selected via the category=X  shortcode option. Alle categories and services should be shown in the new 2.0 booking form without the initial step to select a category.

Greetings, Christoph

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Dear Marko,

thank you for your quick reply. I will explain what I mean:

When using the [ameliacatalogbooking] shortcode on a website initially a screen is shown that displays the selection of categories. Please see the screenshot "Category Selection.jpg".

After a category is selected by pressing the "View All" button of a category, the booking view screen with the services of the category is shown. On the left side of the window a category selection bar is shown. Please see the screenshot "Booking View.jpg". Other categories can be chosen by selecting different categories in the category selection bar.

My question is if there is a possibility that the initial display and selection of the categories as displayed in the screenshot "Category Selection.jpg" is skipped (as it is not really necessary). That would reduce one step in the booking process and would display the very nicely designed 2.0 Catalog Booking Form immediately.

Greetings, Christoph

Hello Marko,

thank you for your quick response. I understand it is not possible to skip the (manual) category choice. I will make then an improvement suggestion at the right forum.

The problem currently is that when using the [ameliacatalogbooking] shortcode on the website initially always the (not at all good looking) category choice screen is shown. All the available shortcode additions are making selections, what is not intended because all categories should be available for customer selection and the customer can pick one from the category side bar that is shown anyway in the screen the follows.

So it would simply need a shortcode addition to preselect the category (while still showing all the other categories that are available; exactingly same behavior and display of screen as the customer would have picked one category manually in the category selection screen.

This option would greatly improve the presentation on the website and remove the unpleasant category selection screen which is not absolutely necessary as the customer can (fortunately) pick another service category in the next screen.

Thank you for help,

Christoph