About the Wix Bookings Availability Calendar API

Terminology

• Booking: Information about the service that the customer has booked. Includes details about the time, location, participants, and price.
• Service: Online or in-person business offerings, such as courses and private sessions. For example, a fitness studio may offer a 1-hour yoga class, a 45 minute HIIT training session, and a 30 minute 1-on-1 personal training. Bookings offers 3 types of services:
  • Appointments: Appointments take place whenever a customer books a specific time slot. For example, your hair salon may be open for business from 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM and a customer can book a session at any available time during the day.
  • Classes: Classes can be scheduled on different days, at different times, with different resources, such as staff members. Customers can sign up for single sessions or a class's recurring sessions. For example, a language school offers a beginner's Spanish class every Monday at 8:00 PM. Clients can join the session they want and don't have to commit to attending all sessions.
  • Courses: A limited number of sessions for the same service that starts and ends on a particular day. Customers sign up for the entire course and not one session. For example, a 12-session introductory course to Pilates, starting on February 1st and ending on March 17th.
• Schedule: A collection of all sessions that belong to the same class, course, appointment, or resource. Schedules also comprise available slots that can still be booked.
  • Session: An occupied period of time in a schedule. Sessions are the building blocks of appointments, classes, and courses. Each of these types of services comprise sessions. The collection of related sessions for a service represent the service's schedule.
  • Slot: An available period of time in a schedule that can be booked by a customer. While this includes existing sessions that are available for booking, it can also represent a period of time that can be booked based on the availability of a resource, such as a barber with appointments of 30 minutes each that are open for booking every weekday between 8:00 - 17:00. These slots are calculated according to the constraints of the schedule.
• Calendar: General overview about the availability and bookings of the business, including its services and resources. Manage your appointments, classes and courses on the calendar.
• Resource: Business asset like a staff member, room, or equipment that's needed to provide a service.
• Bookings Policy: Terms the business wants to enforce when customers try to book a service. For example, how far in advance customers may book a service or until what point before the start of a session customers can cancel.
• Locked Sessions: Sessions that customers cannot book due to business reasons, such as the session being full and having a waitlist, or because an administrator wants to manually screen each customer before adding a customer to a session.

To use the Availability Calendar API, import { availabilityCalendar } from the wix-bookings.v2 module:

import { availabilityCalendar } from 'wix-bookings.v2';