EXACTLY what I need after this most recent update. Super responsive support!

Please don’t mind this lengthy review, but I wanted to share my excellent experience with (and appreciation for) MVV Apps.

For over 6 MONTHS I have researched booking/reservations plugins to integrate with my website (which incorporates a small coworking element from my business model)… installing, testing, and then discarding one after another. THEN, I started looking at external booking calendars/services and they were all too expensive for my anticipated minimal usage, as well as less than ideal website integration (such as iframe or external links instead of a WordPress plugin). As with the plugins, there was something missing from each one, despite my simple criteria. I was looking specifically for:

– Affordable / Premium Features (and preferably no monthly subscription cost)
– User-friendly (for both a web designer/developer AND the end user)
– Bookable Resources and Add-ons
– Self-hosted (rather than an external booking site)
– Ability to customize a booking slot AS WELL AS the buffer period between bookings
– Seamless integration with both WordPress and Woocommerce on a site that uses Wishlist Member

Eventually, I revisited some plugins and realized that the MVV Booking Addon for Woocommerce SEEMED to have everything I would need so that my clients and members could book a desk or seat in my studio for one of two fixed daily periods, with a 30 min buffer between these 2 booking slots (used for cleanup, check-in/out etc). I continued to to play around with settings and it was clearly the best fit out of all that I tried, except for one minor but annoying aspect that ignored the buffer period if there were no confirmned bookings for the first time slot. For example, I wanted two 2.5 hour bookable slots at 9am and 12pm, with a non-bookable buffer period between 11:30-12, but if both slots were available, it would show up as 9am and 11:30am, ignoring the 30 min buffer I’d set. I tried every trick I could think of, to no avail. But EVERYTHING else was perfect about this plugin.

So…after all of my extensive research and testing, I decided it might be worth emailing the team at MVV. I was pleasantly surprised at how completely receptive and responsive they were to my concerns. We communicated back and forth a couple of times and today (which is LESS than a week from my first email) they emailed me to let me know they released an update on the plugin which addressed not only my EXACT concern regarding the buffer time, but also they added a preview on the right side so you can “play around” with settings without having to continuously save it and go back and forth between to your assigned product page(s) to test it out. Such a time saver!!

This plugin now has EVERYTHING ON MY LIST above.

I could not be more appreciative and I HIGHLY recommend the premium version of this plugin (the Premium version lets you set minutes too, not just hours and days). Thanks again!!

• This topic was modified 4 years ago by parkwayart.
• This topic was modified 4 years ago by parkwayart.