Time of day, in slots
A plain time box takes any answer. A customer types 03:17, and you find out at the counter.
Time of day, in slots turns that box into the slots you can work. You set your hours and how far apart the slots sit. AddOnBoss offers only those times, and refuses anything else.
You can also charge more for parts of the day. The early start before you really open. The last hour before you close.
This is a Pro feature. Edit the product, open Product options, choose Time of day, in slots, and the Times and windows panel appears.
Your hours
Section titled “Your hours”Set Open from and Open until.
Nothing outside those hours is offered. Nothing outside them is accepted either, so a hand-typed time cannot slip through.
The closing time is when your doors shut, not a slot. A shop open until five does not take a five o’clock appointment, it finishes one. So the last slot is the last one that starts before you close.
Your closing time is not after your opening one. Check the two boxes. The panel keeps what you typed rather than correcting it, so you can see the mistake.
How far apart the slots sit
Section titled “How far apart the slots sit”A slot every sets the gap. Half an hour for a collection counter. An hour for a fitting. Ten minutes for a till.
Under the boxes the panel tells you how many times a day that makes, so you can see a ten-minute step turning eight hours into forty-eight slots before a customer does.
What the shopper picks
Section titled “What the shopper picks”Two answers:
- A time from your list. The normal choice. They pick one of your slots, and nothing else is possible.
- Any time on a clock. A plain time box. Use this only if you genuinely take any time and want the window pricing on its own.
A list of more than a couple of dozen slots becomes a box they can type into, so a long day is searched rather than scrolled. Typing 09:30 finds half past nine even though the row reads 9:30 am.
Windows that cost more
Section titled “Windows that cost more”Under Windows that cost more, press Add a window and give it a start, an end, and a charge.
Leave the table empty and every slot costs the same.
The end time is not included. A window of 09:00 to 10:00 and another of 10:00 to 12:00 do not overlap. Ten o’clock belongs to the second one. That is what stops two windows both claiming the same slot.
If two windows do overlap, the dearer one wins.
What a window charges
Section titled “What a window charges”Each window takes a percentage of the item price, or a flat amount, whichever is more.
That is the same rule the date field uses, so the two read alike.
The percentage carries your big orders. The flat amount is a floor, so an early collection on a nine pound tee is not priced at two pounds twenty five.
Fill in only one and only that one applies. Fill in both and the customer pays the larger.
The field opens on no answer at all. A customer who never touches it is never charged. Make the field required if a time is compulsory.
What the customer sees
Section titled “What the customer sees”Each slot shows its own charge beside it, in the same money your shop shows everywhere else. If your prices include VAT, so does the figure on the slot.
Under the box, one line gives your hours.
The receipt on the page names the time they picked and what it added. The same pair goes to the basket, the order, and the pick list.
Worked example
Section titled “Worked example”A collection counter open nine to five, on the half hour, on a twenty pound item.
- An early window of 09:00 to 10:00, at 15% or £4, whichever is more
- A late window of 16:00 to 17:00, at £3
| The customer picks | They pay |
|---|---|
| 09:30 | £4.00 on top. 15% of £20 is £3, so the £4 floor carries it |
| 12:00 | Nothing. It is in no window |
| 16:30 | £3.00 on top |
| 17:00 | Not offered. It is when you close |
Related
Section titled “Related”- Custom fields for every other kind of field
- Pricing & fees for how charges reach the basket
- Ask a field more than once if one order needs several slots