Practice ice Booking
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Steve Mackey
The bowling industry have a few app providers that have solved this problem. They have leagues that they block lanes for. They have busy times they charge more for. They allow clients to book multiple lanes with multiple players and age groups.
Sutherland Curling Club
Hey Curling I/O Crew - any updates on the ice booking? We used google appointments this season but were having troubles with googles use of timezones. Would love to be able to have something in Curling I/O that both members and non-members could book from.
Dave Rapin
Sutherland Curling Club: We have big plans for this. It's not a small undertaking, but we should be able to get started on it soon. We've been evaluating what's out there and the generic options all feel pretty bad.
Dave Rapin
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Dave Rapin
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Steve Copeland
TSA Curling Club has set up a booking system on a wordpress site using the easy appointments plugin. This plugin has a lot of features, including those listed below. You can check it out at tsaplays.ca. It can link to woocommerce to enable payments. We have not implemented this capability.
Dave Rapin
Steve Copeland: Thanks Steve, I'll take a look.
Dave Rapin
Capturing some notes as I gather requirements for this feature:
- Because booking will actually block off that time, only online payments will be supported.
- Availability must take capacity into consideration, or potentially it needs to be granular down to the sheet level. I prefer a capacity setting (E.g. 4 for 4 sheets) so that clubs who don't care about capacity (always rent the entire ice) can simply set it to 1.
- Should encompass more than just ice. Allow clubs to create their own "venue" entries that can be booked. So a club could enable booking for ice (or individual sheets), rooms, the bar, etc. as separate venues that can be booked.
- Potentially might need a package deal where you can book all venues together (and not selecting each one separately).
- Will price ever vary by time of day or by day of year? E.g. could it be more expensive to book ice for 7 PM than for 2 PM? Weekend vs. Weekday?
Dave Rapin
planned
Ron Pelkey
Please consider allowing a fee to be charged for practice ice bookings. Also as an enhancement to this feature please consider booking windows (e.g. number of days in advance of the booking date) which are different for different categories of curlers. At our club shareholders can book up to 7 days in advance while non-shareholders can only book 3 days in advance. Thank you.
Janice Froese
Yes please!
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jdoolan@cataraqui.com
Great, let me know when you have something worked out.
John
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