Meg Phillips

Kekoa,

Charters and rentals like this is my husband’s business so that is why I have a good handle on the options. I have looked at most all of the options available even including all the SAAS solutions. In my opinion, you are best off with WooCommerce Bookings in terms of cost.

There are several Software as a Service (SAAS) providers that offer very full featured solutions. From my experience they end up being much much more expensive in the long run because most charge % of gross revenue versus a flat up front fee or in some cases both.

I’m very interested in what you ultimately decide and how your experience turns out. Feel free to ping me with any questions. I am @megphillips91 on most channels including the making WordPress slack.

Meg Phillips
@megphillips91

• This reply was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by Meg Phillips.

Hi Kekoa,

Welcome to WordPress and WooCommerce. Whoop! Whoop! You’ve come to a fantastic community! I write a plugin called CharterBoatBookings, but unfortunately we are really set up for a single owner operator so it wont work for you.

But, I have built sites for other clients in the past with similarly complex set ups as honuhawaiiactivities.com…

My advice is to look at the WooCommerce Bookings plugin offered by the WooCommerce team. I think it is built and maintained by Automattic. I can tell you from my experience with that plugin that it does take some learning curve to configure the settings so that they will work exactly the way that you want. BUT – the forum is great and the team are very responsive helping and offering advice.

If for any reason you can’t make it work for you, there are so many plugin devs that can add on features and modify plugins to get you the functionality and user experience you are after.

All the best,
Meg Phillips
@megphillips91

Hi Wendy,

Thank you for trying out charter boat bookings and the nice words. I do think we are addressing a need otherwise unfulfilled.

I believe the duration of charters are set to 4 or 8 hours in the free version. In the premium version there is a way to add additional duration options from the admin dashboard. I have not run testing on multiple day charters as you are requesting, but I did not design this product to service that application.

I am building a “bareboat” version and a “crewed yacht” version which would be targeted to multiple day rentals. I think this is what you are offering – The same thing we would call a bareboat charter in sailing? Where the customer takes the boat on a multiple day journey without a skipper and returns the vessel at the end of the trip?

This plugin is very specifically streamlined to address daycharter such as fishing guides, sportfishing, sportboat sailing, etc. I sent an email to your site email inviting you to my development slack channel. I think we may be able to chat there about the “bareboat” version of the plugin and the features that you need or want to see in that product. Please let me know if you do not receive the invitation to our slack channel.

I am so very sorry that I missed your message. I am very responsive to support requests, but this is the first I’ve gotten through the forum here. Still learning the ropes of support forum.

From your WP Admin Dashboard: Settings->General->Timezone
You must set the timezone and save the settings. Even if you happen to be in UTC timezone, that value needs to be present in the options table and it is not until you toggle to another timezone and save settings.

As to the second error, I would need some more details to answer your query. You can also contact me via my contact form on msp-media.org for support. Sorry I missed your request. ??