It is common for some businesses to offer multiple services in one session.
For instance, a beauty salon may offer waxing services, and customers can choose leg, underarm, upper lip, Brazilian waxing, or a combination of them. Here's how combined services show on your booking page.
With combined services, every additional service selected increases both the total duration and the total price of the booking.
Even more important, you may decide that the duration of a service, when provided standalone, is different from the duration if provided together with other services. This is the typical case when there is some preparation involved. For example, upper lip wax standalone may take 15 minutes, but as part of a combination, it may take only 5 additional minutes.
The best method to offer some services as 'combinable' is to define them as compact additional options.
In this article:
- Step 1 - Set up a service
- Step 2 - Set up a compact checkbox additional option for each combined service
Step 1 - Set up a service
1. Go to Settings>Services offered and additional options
2. Click on the New choice button
3. Create a new choice with a name like 'Mix & Match', with a duration or a 0 minutes duration (if the duration is set by the additional options)
4. Save your settings
Step 2 - Set up a compact checkbox additional option for each combined service
You can set up checkbox additional options that:
- apply to selected services or to a specific workshop (regular options), or
- apply to all your services and selected workshops (global options).
Click here to learn more.
1. To set up a
Regular option:
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For services:
- Go to Settings>Services offered and additional options
- Click on the Additional Options tab, click on the New option button, and select regular option
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For workshops:
- Go to Settings>Workshops
- Go to the Options tab, click on the New option button, and select regular option
Global option:
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- Go to Settings>Booking preferences
- Go to the Global options tab, click on the New option button
2. Select the Type the customer checks/unchecks a checkbox
3. Define the option's name [1], duration [2], and price [5 & 6]
Compact checkbox additional options without a duration are shown after customers pick a date and time.
4. Tick the Compact [4] checkbox
5. In the Restrictions section, select this option is only enabled for the following services, and check the service you created earlier
6. Save your settings, and repeat for the other services that you want to offer as combined.