Can I make quite a complicated booking and payment system?

hey, i wanted to try and replicate this:

SILLY BIRDS (4-13 YEARS):

£15.00 per morning/afternoon session; £30.00 per day (see brochure for discounts and early bird offer)

I've managed eventually (with a lot of cursing and head scratching) to get an online booking and payment system running for our boarding kennels and cattery. Downside is that with a LOT of rules, the rules behind the form tend to slow it down so it doesn't work so well on tablets or smartphones, though it's fine on desktops.

You can pretty much achieve what you like from Jotform but sometimes you have to think laterally to achieve what you need so you can get round the rules limitations.

What you're looking to achieve looks straightforward enough, though I'm assuming the form needs to change to show different dates all the time? You might be better asking people to select a date from a calendar picker, then choose Morning, Afternoon or All Day - then the system would record date + charge.

Then give them the option to choose the next date (another checkbox) if they choose yes, just show them another date picker etc...

Might need some logic added to make sure they don't choose duplicate dates etc

Good luck!

Simon

A link to our form is here: http://www.jotformpro.com/hilltopkennels/hilltopbooking 

In addition to this, you can also find Booking form templates you can use: http://widgets.jotform.com/search/Booking

Also, we have a widget that you can use for booking purposes: http://widgets.jotform.com/widget/check_in_check_out

Here is another guide that may be of your interest: http://www.jotform.com/help/337-How-to-Use-the-Limit-Dates-feature-in-a-DateTime-field

Let us know if you have more questions.

thanks for that, but i dont think it would help if you wanted the first day and the last day and not the middle one. 

but what about this i thought - 

https://form.jotform.com/60212594532955

if you see down the form where its says "Easter Holidays April" etc. 
could i not get that to work whereby when they click in Morning it adds £15 and £30 for "all day" and then puts that into an invisible box and then just outputs that to the paypal bit? 

that shouldnt slow it down too much should it? 

thanks for all your help! 

Adam

That can be accomplish by using conditions:

1) First you will need to assign a value to the morning options: http://www.jotform.com/help/301-How-to-Assign-Calculation-Value

2) To gather the total, it can be done with Form Calculation widget: http://www.jotform.com/help/259-How-to-perform-calculation-in-the-form

3) In order to pass this to your payment field, then you will need to remove your product into separate Drop Down fields, assign them values, and calculate the whole total in another Form Calculation field, you can label as "Final Total". Then assign that fields value to the payment integration: http://www.jotform.com/help/275-How-to-pass-a-calculation-to-a-payment-field

You can also insert calculation via conditions: http://www.jotform.com/help/268-How-to-Insert-Text-or-Mathematical-Calculation-into-a-field-using-a-Condition

Let us know if you need more help, we will be glad to assist you.

Hey, ive done steps one and two exactly as it shows on the tutorials you linked.  I had left part 3 until i could get the first two steps working first. 

This is what i came up with, its outputting 0.  Where am i going wrong? 

https://form.jotform.com/60212594532955

Thanks for your help.

Adam

Click on the gear icon of you Form Calculation widget, then on "Edit Properties", and remove the zero value from the Default Result property:

Let us know if you need more help.

awesome!  that works well now thank you! 

my last question - is there a way of hiding unused tick boxes?  OR selecting them when someone ticks one of the boxes for "Morning", "Evening", "All Day" etc.?  OR adding a different label system. 

https://form.jotform.com/60212594532955

thanks

If you want to hide them from your email notifications, you can enable the Hide Empty Fields on Emails property:

Go to the edit mode of your form, then click on Preferences>>Advance Settings:

I really wanted to get rid of these boxes only, so that the user cant think that they are "all Day" or something and not ticks the others.  is this possible just for these boxes?   Or is there a creative way around it do you think? 

thanks

Hi there,

Instead using "Checkbox" field, you can use "Radio Button" field and create a new field for each date (4th, 5th, 6th) to overcome this issue. Please, see it from the below:

To do that,

Also, we can minimize those fields to earn more space, if you want. By injecting some custom CSS to your form, you can achieve this. Below, you will see the necessary codes to do that:

.form-line {

    padding: 1px 1px !important;

}

I hope this solution will meet your needs. Please, give us a feedback about it.

Thanks.

thats a pretty good suggestion - but the problem is, its Morning AND/OR Afternoon OR All Day 

which is why i had to choose the tick boxes in the first place. 

In this case, we need to separate the "All Day" option from the "Morning" and "Afternoon", then we need to use "Enable/Require Field" Condition. Please, see it from the below:

Also, our condition will look like the below:

It's not the best solution; but it gives what you need. If your need different than this condition, you can also modify it with respect to your needs.

Thanks.