Industries Space and equipment
Space and equipment

Nobody performs a service here.
A thing is hired out.

On every other page someone does something: cuts, examines, teaches, repairs. Here nobody does anything. The client takes a desk, a room or a bike, and that is the whole service. So here you do not set up staff but things.

The longer you take it, the cheaper per hour

This is the only group where the same resource is offered in three lengths, at a falling price. Not a discount but three services.

Bike same bike, three services
1 hour500 RSD
500 RSD/hr
500
Half day
375 RSD/hr
375
Full day
312 RSD/hr
312
Thirty eight percent cheaper per hour if you take the full day rather than a single one. The client sees that in the form and picks for themselves, and you have a bike that is not standing still.

The biggest gap is in coworking: a meeting room is 1,500 dinars an hour, and a desk for the whole day is 1,200 dinars, so 150 dinars an hour. Ten times cheaper, because a desk costs little and a room costs a lot. That is a pricing decision, not a software one, and the plugin simply respects it.

Ten bikes and three rooms are not solved the same way

This is the most important decision on this page, and the only one that cannot be fixed later without setting everything up again.

Capacity

when the things are identical

Ten bikes, all the same model. The client does not care which one they get, they just want a bike at ten in the morning.

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  • Capacity 10 on the service. The slot is offered until the tenth fills.
  • The slot says “only 3 spots left”, and “last spot” on the final one, so people decide faster.
  • You do not enter ten things, just one number.

Workplaces

when the things differ

Three rooms: large, small and the conference room. The client does care which one they get, because they are not the same.

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Small
Conf.
  • Each room is a workplace, and the service is tied to it.
  • Each has its own price, because a conference room is not a small room.
  • A taken room disappears, and the others keep running.
One or the other, not both. When capacity is greater than one, the system stops checking workplaces, and that is how it is written in the code: the resource check only runs while capacity equals one. That means you cannot have ten bikes as capacity and at the same time ask the system to pick which one is free. For bikes, capacity is the right choice, because they are identical. For rooms it is workplaces, because they are not.

Eight hours is the longest slot there is

A desk and a bike for the whole day

Four hundred and eighty minutes. The only slots of that length on the whole site, alongside day boarding at the pet hotel.

  • A full day is one slot, with a start and an end, and the system treats it that way. There is no “from date to date” field, so hiring a bike for three days does not work as a single booking.
  • Your hours have to fit it. If you work from 8 to 17, an eight hour slot only fits if it starts by 9 at the latest. The system works that out and does not offer the impossible.
  • Buffer time makes sense for equipment: the bike comes back, gets checked, gets adjusted. Fifteen minutes after each slot handles that.
  • A two hour kayak and an eight hour bike can share a calendar, because they are different services with their own durations.
If you hire out over several days, read what the pets page says about the pet hotel. Same limitation, same reason, same honest recommendation.

Two ready-made industries, 8 services

The smallest group on the site, and the only one where both industries use the same word: booking.

Coworking & meeting rooms
  • Meeting room 1h60 min · 1.500
  • Room half-day240 min · 5.000
  • Desk (full day)480 min · 1.200
  • Conference room120 min · 4.000
Rentals, bikes & gear
  • Bike 1h60 min · 500
  • Bike half-day240 min · 1.500
  • Bike full day480 min · 2.500
  • Kayak (2h)120 min · 2.000

This is the whole list, not a selection of three. Eight services is the entire group, because hiring things out comes down to exactly that: how many things you have and for how long you give them.

Questions

Not as one booking. The plugin has no from-date to-date field, so three days cannot be entered as a single slot. A full day of eight hours works, because it is within one day. If multi-day hire is your main business, this is not the right tool and it is better you hear that now. If it is the exception, you arrange it by phone and run the daily bookings through the system.

No, set capacity ten on the service. Workplaces are for things that differ and that the client chooses between, like rooms. Bikes are identical, so capacity works better and you do not enter ten items. On top of that, the system does not check workplaces when capacity is above one, so it would be wasted work anyway.

You record the payment at the actual amount, as everywhere. The slot was booked for an hour, and you charge what you should. The record holds the real figure. If it keeps happening, perhaps half a day is the service people actually want, and the analytics will show you that.

No, and that is the same answer as for gyms. The plugin has no memberships and no packages. It handles bookings and payment per booking. If members come whenever they like, you do not need this for them, only for the meeting rooms, which are booked individually anyway. That is the most common way coworking uses a system like this.

Yes, through a PayPal account, and it is set per service. For a 4,000 dinar conference room it makes sense, because a no-show is a pure loss. For a 1,200 dinar desk it does not, because you would turn people away over an amount smaller than the commission platforms take per booking.

What next

A commission on a 500 dinar bike

Platforms that take a percentage per booking would take a slice of five hundred dinars here. The license is paid once and after that every booking is entirely yours.