Bit of a dilemma here. I know Woo bookings will do what i need it to do but i also know itβs rather bloated and costs every month/year.
Trying to keep my WP builds as light as possible, custom theme, ACF fields for content, barely any plugins. I would call myself a good custom theme developer and designer with reasonable knowledge BUT I canβt just write code. I would be googling and researching to make it work. Ai has obviously changed that for me. What took a day is now taking 2 hours to sort. I ainβt got shame, i still understand whatβs happening in the code I just donβt have to do the grunt work.
BUT saying all that a daily booking system is something Iβve never done. The slots and options are simple
Full Day - available Thu, Friday for the moment
Morning - available Wed, Thu, Friday again for the moment
Evening - available Sun-Thursday
The time of arrival will never change, there are no people to be booked, no other options except maybe adding on lunch to the morning session.
Ai has given the option to DIY it and meet the requirements I have set so far
- 12 spaces each session
- admin screen (the most fear I have for this project)
- add on days when required
- control the dates that are bookable
- refund and restock sessions.
Do i do this or use the trusted Woo Bookings? Iβm keen to give it a go but donβt wanna mess it up.
And if I do DIY it. Build slowly checking each dev point or give Claude a prompt and let it run?
Advice much appreciated and please dont say you can do it for me, I live for this!!!
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