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, under arm, 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
1. Go to Settings>Services offered and additional options
2. Go to the Additional options tab
3. Click on the New option button
4. Select the Type the customer checks/unchecks a checkbox
5. 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.
6. Tick the Compact [4] checkbox
7. In the Restrictions section, select this option is only enabled for the following services, and check the service you created earlier
8. Save your settings, and repeat for the other services that you want to offer as combined.