In this guide, we’ll show you how you can leverage this feature to build an amazing calendar with bookable time slots in just a few clicks.

In order to get started, you will need to have EventON, Event Tickets, and Bookings addon installed and activated. You can get the EventON plugin by downloading it from your CodeCanyon account. You can follow our tutorial on how to install & activate EventON.

You can install the Bookings and Event Tickets addons by following our general guide on how to install EventON addons.

User Guide

Create a new event by heading to WP admin > Events > Add Event and activate event tickets.

Fill in the basic ticket information such as ticket price, sale price, ticket SKU and other event data such as the date and image.

Click on the Save draft button to save your draft event and reload the page by clicking on the ↻ icon on your browser. This step is necessary to load and expose more ticket settings.

Enable booking blocks on this event by toggling the option below.

Click on the Save draft button and reload the page once more to expose more settings.

Click on the Booking block manager button to load the block manager.

Click on the generate blocks button on the popup window.

This will open a new window where you can configure the following options:

• Date range – Select the start and end date of your event. If you have a single day event, you can select the same date on the date picker on both fields.
• Time range – Here, you can select the start and end time of your event depending on your schedule. For example, if your event will kick off at 8.00 am and end at 5.00 pm, you can select this on the dropdown field.
• Duration – Select the duration in hours and minutes for each time block. For example, if you’d like to have 45 minute time blocks, select 0H on the first field and 45M on the next one.
• Cost/Price – Enter the price or each time block so that your guests can purchase each one separately.
• Capacity – Enter the number of guests that can book a single time block.

Click on the Generate button to automatically create the blocks and then click the X at the top right to minimize the block manager.

Publish your event and preview it on the front end.

The post How to Use the Autogenerator to Create Booking Blocks first appeared on Documentation.

NOTE: Bookings addon requires the Tickets addon to work.

To get started head over to the Events post type from your WP-admin dashboard and select the event that you want to add booking time slots.

First Steps

Fill in the basic information, activate tickets for this event, enter the default ticket price, SKU. Then enter other event information under Event Details.

Publish the changes of click on update to save the changes made and refresh the page.

Setting Booking Values

Enable booking blocks for this ticket and click save changes on the page again. Once you do this you will see Booking block manager button.

In the Booking block manager lightbox, you can add a new booking block.

Fields:

Block start and Block end – you can enter the booking block start/end date and time. Under Other Block Data you can enter cost for one ticket or cost for 1 space in the booking block. And then block capacity, which refer to how many people can be reserved for this block.

Field Extensions

If you use our Variations & Options addon, which is compatible with the Bookings addon, you can also add booking block variations and extra ticket price options to each booking block. Eg. you could have different booking block prices for Kids and Adults.

Managing Blocks

Once you have added several booking blocks, you can easily delete, edit or view attendees on each booking block by hovering over each block as shown below:

Attendees for each block

When you hover over each booking block and click view attendees you will be able to see all the attendees for a particular block. You can also check guests for completed orders. The view attendee list will show other attendee metadata as well, if available.

From the Front-End

On the front-end of the calendar, your visitors will be able to see an amazing-looking calendar with available booking dates highlighted. Once clicked they will be able to select the available booking time slots for that date and add them to the cart.

The post Bookings General User Guide first appeared on Documentation.

v 1.4.8 (2026-4-15)
ADDED: blocks in cart notification on time blocks
FIXED: reorder booking blocks not saving correctly
FIXED: confirmation message hiding after adding to cart

v 1.4.7 (2025-5-2)
FIXED: Delete all blocks not working

v 1.4.6 (2025-1-9)
FIXED: booking calendar on fulcal lightbox not working
FIXED: block currency not formatting correct with , decimal value
UPDATED: minor admin UI Designs

v 1.4.5 (2024-10-4)
FIXED: Ticket v 2.4 compatibility

v 1.4.4 (2024-8-27)
ADDED: show remaining space count
FIXED: Selected block color not changing
FIXED: certain lightbox booking calendar not working
UPDATED: layout and styles for calendar

v 1.4.3 (2024-8-7)
FIXED: clicking on block loading data into other event booking sections as well
FIXED: cart error notification not hiding
FIXED: block date and time format to match that of website
FIXED: lightbox block calendar layout
FIXED: Lightbox block calendar switch month skipping a month

v 1.4.2 (2024-5-30)
FIXED: script loading and enqueue order in relation to tickets
FIXED: booking block manager styles
FIXED: click on times block reset error messages
FIXED: minor styles
FIXED: block date and time format to match that of eventON settings
FIXED: Able to add filled blocks by swiching block to cart
FIXED: update all available block capacity
FIXED: Time slot view styles
FIXED: Block information not showing in confirmation ticket
FIXED: Block Manager attendee count fix
UPDATED: Moved appearance settings to separate file
UPDATED: Event Ticket 2.3

v 1.4.1 (2023-8-3)
ADDED: eventon tickets environment setup check before initiate addon
FIXED: minor style issues
FIXED: reset ticket notice message when calendar date clicked
FIXED: block editor has variations incorrection tooltip
FIXED: init addon after tickets is initiated

v 1.4 (2023-7-12)
FIXED: public released incompleted seat feature by accident
FIXED: sold individually not honored in booking blocks
FIXED: Mobile syles
FIXED: lightbox booking calendar responsive styles
FIXED: PHP 8.2 errors
FIXED: calendar circle highlight overlaying on others
FIXED: tickets standalone button for events with booking not working
UPDATED: Moved booking manager to new dynamic lightbox system

v 1.3.2 (2022-1-25)
FIXED: ux_val=3a not loading booking calendar on event
FIXED: deleting block from block lightbox not showing success message
FIXED: auto generator variations not updating block stock

v 1.3.1 (2021-6-2)
FIXED: end time not working on timeslot view
FIXED: validate users can not add more than available blocks to cart by manipulation
FIXED: hide empty blocks on frontend not working
FIXED: front end calendar lang value not passing correctly
FIXED: calendar resizing for unopen booking calendars
FIXED: blocks in the cart quantity to be uneditable
FIXED: updating block stock to update ticket stock as well

v 1.3 (2021-2-18)
ADDED: Delete all time slots button on block edtior
ADDED: sanitize_text_field for XSS vulnerability
ADDED: booking editor compact view
ADDED: booking editor auto generator slots within time range for selected date range
ADDED: option to hide end time for booking slot
ADDED: option to show duration of booking slot on front end
ADDED: booking block manager edit button when hover over block
FIXED: booking slot month/day names not using translated text
FIXED: missing block time text string in cart
FIXED: booking editor when no slots
FIXED: booking editor sunday name not showing
FIXED: auto generator duration 0 minute option
FIXED: nomenclature clarification to blocks instead of slots

v 1.2.2 (2020-9-7)
FIXED: Minor admin post errror
FIXED: add new booking slot time reverting to 1970

v 1.2.1 (2020-6-12)
FIXED: Minor style issues resolved
FIXED: options not working in event edit page

v 1.2 (2020-6-11)
ADDED: timeslot view for frontend
ADDED: option to choose calendar or timeslot view for frontend
FIXED: slidedown eventcard not showing booking calendar
FIXED: correct text domain in text translations on wp-admin side
FIXED: after adding to cart calendar not hiding
REQ: eventON 1.8

v 1.1.1 (2020-3-3)
FIXED: minor style changes

v 1.1 (2020-2-19)
ADDED: Style appearance customization via eventon appearance settings
FIXED: calendar month switching not working for some users
FIXED: go to today button for the caledndar not working
FIXED: booking calendar appear squished in smaller eventcards
UPDATED: Booking calendar designs and UI improvement

v 1.0.7 (2019-11-12)
FIXED: If booking ticket show block time instead of event time for customer
FIXED: Ticket holder details to show only block time
FIXED: missing translation texts
FIXED: To hide sold out booking slots on frontend
FIXED: JSON stringfy issue on month navigation
FIXED: Compatibility with eventON 2.8

v 1.0.6 (2019-1-18)
FIXED: booking calendar not appearing sometimes on events

v 1.0.5 (2018-1-7)
FIXED: Months not showing correct number of days
FIXED: Calendar styles

v 1.0.4 (2018-12-21)
FIXED: december last week not splitting up correct in calendar view
FIXED: booking slot timeformat not adjusting to global values

v 1.0.3 (2018-12-11)
FIXED: bookable date with HTML start and end separation
FIXED: evobo script error for other ajax submissions
FIXED: Event block time to show under checkout additional ticket info
REQUIRED: Ticket 1.7.7

v 1.0.2 (2018-6-21)
FIXED: booking slot time showing incorrect for 24hr format
FIXED: Adjusted for the correct local time

v 1.0.1 (2018-5-29)
REMOVED: unused settings page
FIXED: Incorrect label for block form
FIXED: View attendees not highlighting block
FIXED: lightbox booking calendar styles
FIXED: events loaded via ajax not showing booking calendar

v 1.0 (2018-5-10)
ADDED: Admin variable ticket notification for booking addon
ADDED: Booking information to show in attendee information
ADDED: Compatibility with tickets add more items to cart after add to cart
ADDED: when booking start date changed alter end date
ADDED: New javascript JSON based calendar based booking date selector
ADDED: booking data to download attendees CSV file
ADDED: New backend booking editor
ADDED: Backend booking editor to also show attendees per each booking slot
FIXED: Event edit colors to be compatible with eventon 2.6.6
FIXED: missing price text on final stage
UPDATED: better javascript based UI for view attendees by time block
UPDATED: frontend booking layout to load faster
UPDATED: use new tickets addon pluggable filters to make booking addon leaner
REQUIRED: Tickets addon 1.7

v 0.1 (2017-11-20)
Initial release

The post Changelog for Bookings first appeared on Documentation.