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Multi-DayTours with Specific Starting and Ending Dates
My tours only occur within fixed date ranges. For example the Memorial Day Cruise will only be offered from May 29-31, 2010. In my reading about date rules they were meant for exceptions like black out dates. These cruises are the norm for our company. What's the best way to handle this? Many thanks.
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Inappropriate?Good question. There is a couple of ways of handling this situation:
1. If you tour occurs on a daily basis between May 29-31, 2010 then you set the start date and end of the tour option for the tour to May 29, 2010 and May 31, 2010 respectively. This way, customers will only be able to book the tour on one of those three days. You could then set your availability for the cruise to X number of seats for each of the three days. When someone books the day cruise, they would book X number of seats for the May 29, 30, or 31st. This way you don't need to set up any rules.
2. You could set your start to today and set your end date to some date way in the future, for example July 2020. You set your availability for the tour to "0" but set up your pricing as normal. You can then set a date specific rule that says from May 29 - 31, 2010 set your availability for the tour to X number of seats. If you do it this way, you can also create rules for the Memorial days in the future, like 2011, 2012, etc. without having to adjust the start and end date of the tour.
Both of these ways will result in the same thing, they just approach the available slightly differently. I hope I address your question correctly, but if not, just let me know and I can clarify.
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Yikes ... that was quick. Thanks. My issue is that this is an overnight cruise that is 3 days in duration. I have noticed that most of your customers only have 1 day excursions. -
Inappropriate?Ah, okay. I misunderstood your scenario. We actually have a number of members that have fixed departure dates for multi-day tours. The best way to handle this is to create an option for the tour that is your specific departure date, for example the title of the option would be May 29 - 31, 2010. Then set your start date and end date as the same date (in this case May 29) which is the departure date. When the tour appears on the front-end, the only date highlighted on the calendar will be the specific departure date. Your customers can then book for that one departure date only.
I’m sorry I misunderstood the original question.
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Inappropriate?I know we had a chance to discuss this and I think we were able to answer this one for you. If you need more info or any other help, please let us know.
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