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Setting up Booking, Terms of Service and Deposits.

Make sure to use the auto pending feature so that when someone requests a stay, those dates will automatically be set to a different color to indicate that they are not available. We wrote a guide here: 

Setup Auto Pending on the Bellevue Booking System

Next I would create a form to go with the calendar and ask for Name and Email and Phone, this will become your booking reference so that you can match them up with the deposit inside of WooCommerce. You can find the forms under Dashboard / WP Booking / Forms / Add New if you haven't already. Create your form. If you want notifications and or Auto Reply please set those up as well. Then you can include that form with your calendar when you add the calendar to your page. It's under the section 'Form Options'. There is a screenshot of this in the article above.

The Calendar also has an option for specifying Minimum Days. It's also included in the screenshot inside the guide above.

Then you will want to create a product in WooCommerce that will be used to price out your room and add it to the calendar shortcode. We wrote a guide on there here:

Add WooCommerce to a booking calendar

Once the visitors requests a booking, an add to cart button will appear and they can proceed to checkout.

For the second half, taking deposits, terms of service, etc, you will need to use WooCommerce as the WP Booking System plugin will pass the prices off to WooCommerce and WooCommerce handles all the payments. 

Adding Terms of Service Check box Video: 


As for the deposits, the plugin will take the days booked and use that as a multiplier for the quantity added to the cart. If you book 5 days, it will take the product and multiply it by 5. So if you would like to take a deposit perhaps you can reduce the $ amount on the product and then change the text that shows up on he product indicating that this is a deposit.

There are also several plugins that helps taking partial payments. Please contact the plugin author to ensure it will work the way you want it to . Here is one I found. 

http://codecanyon.net/item/woocommerce-deposits-partial-payments-plugin/9249233

I think that covers your questions. Let us know how it goes and if you have any other questions for us. We are happy to help. Cheers!