These criteria apply to in-built date/time pickers for pick-up date/time and return date/time fields only. They do not apply to custom date/time form fields.
Lead Time
Under the OPTIONS tab on the Cab Grid Pro page of the WordPress Admin there is a new item labelled, “Booking lead time:” From this select box a period can be selected in hours or days. This is the amount of time between now and the earliest possible booking time (lead time). So, if set to “4 hours” no booking can be requested sooner than 4 hours from the time of booking.
The date/time picker will simply not allow this. Even if an earlier date/time does get input, the booking will not submit since the field will fail validation.
Note: The return date field (if enabled) will automatically add 1 hour to the minimum time so, if the pickup lead time is set to 4 hours, the return date/time cannot be booked for less than 5 hours hence.
Farthest Possible Booking
Along side the lead time, there is another new field labelled, “Last booking date:” This field allows the period for the latest possible booking to be specified. This is measured in days and years. A booking cannot be made for after this period (measured from today).
So, if set to “1 year” the date/time picker will not allow dates beyond 1 year from now (point of booking). The return date/time picker adds 1 day to the pick-up date time picker.
Prevent Booking on Specific Dates
Note: Excluding dates will disable native mobile date picker: Native mobile date/time pickers do not currently have the ability to exclude (or disable) certain dates. Thus, if dates are excluded, the calendar-style date-time picker will be displayed instead of the native mobile date-time picker.
An “Exclude dates:” field is now also available under the Cab Grid Pro OPTIONS tab. The booking date/time picker will not allow specified dates to be selected for booking requests. This is a good means of preventing bookings being made on public holidays, during private time-off, or when there is limited availability.
In Cab Grid Pro version 5 or higher, this field provides a date-picker. When clicked, the picker will display. Click each date to be excluded. Selected dates will be highlighted on the picker. To remove a date, click it again in the picker.
In Cab Grid Pro version 4 or earlier, the exclude dates field accepts a comma-separated list of dates in the format yyyy-mm-dd (where y=year, m=month, d=day; including leading zeros).
To exclude December 25th and January 1st, for example, the following value would be entered in the Exclude Dates field:
2017-12-25,2018-01-01
Block out periods using Booking Management
The Booking Management Add-on provides an interface to block out specific time ranges for all vehicles or a specific vehicle. See Block Out Dates & Times for Certain Vehicles.
It also provides the ability to check availability as it stores bookings online.
Block out daily times/hours
It is also possible to set booking time limitation on a daily basis. For example, only allow bookings between 5am and 11pm every day.
This is done through advanced settings or the free Defaults Add-on. See Advanced Settings for Cab Grid Pro – Defaults add-on plugin.
Considering our example above (5am-11pm), the code required would be:
$cabGridProBookEarliest="05:00";
$cabGridProBookLatest="23:00";
i see you can block dates but is it possible to block certain vehicles if they are booked out as my client has 90 different types of vehicles some may be booked .they want to be able to show availability on the site when someone books.
Hi Leeroy,
Unfortunately, this feature only blocks out booking for the whole day and for all vehicles.
We are, however, considering augmenting Cab Grid with some kind of resource management that would govern when a particular vehicle was available. Stay tuned…
Hi,
there is a possibility to block a hours range in a day instead of the whole day?I mean If I have a reserved ride thatwill takes me few hours to perform it then I could be available accepting other ride reservations for the rest of that day.
Let me know,thank you
Hi,
Awesome feature – however regarding the lead time – why isn’t there an option to book straight away? As well as maybe 15 minute intervals leading up to the first hour?
Cab Grid Pro currently measures booking lead time in hours. We have added a zero hours option in the recent 4.5.13 update. Future updates may include minute increments.
Is there anyway to have the minimum lead time reduced to under and hour e.g. say 5 minutes?
Either that or disable lead time completely?
We operate in a small tourist town and many of our jobs will be 5minute journeys.
As mentioned above – there is now a zero lead time option in the Booking Lead-time dropdown menu found under the OPTIONS tab of the Cab Grid Pro admin page in the WordPress admin.