Hi, yes you could do that. The theme includes full support for WooCommerce which you can use for payments. Then you can have a password protected area of the site which would be members only where the booking calendar would be, so no one without access would be able to making bookings.

Hi,

Our Embark theme includes Booked which is a booking system designed for same-day bookings. It works very well for appointments, tours, really any time slots up to one full day. It can be used for longer bookings but in that case it just shows the start date.

For multiple day bookings, you could look at using a different booking system, or we also have another theme that may be better suited: https://themeforest.net/item/bellevue-hotel-bed-breakfast-booking-theme/12482898

Okay thanks, but it is possible to replace the Booked plugin to the plugin WP Booking in Embark ?

Technically speaking, yes as the booking system in Embark is optional and can be disabled easily. But generally if someone wants to use WP Booking we recommend they purchase Bellevue as the theme includes the full version of the plugin (otherwise $34) and some additional widget and and styling support for the plugin.

If you go with Bellevue, we could send over a few Embark layouts to import, and if you go with Embark, we may be able to send some code to copy/paste to add styling for the WP Booking plugin.

Hello, happy to help. Can you please send us a link to your install? We can take a closer look. best regards, Ryan

Yes, the payments component is entirely optional and does not need to be included in the booking process.

You can have guest booking where they don’t even need to create an account, or you can have registered booking where after requesting a booking they are taken to their account page which shows an overview of their bookings.

Thanks for the answer.

happy to help

Hi,

1. Olark is a premium service available on paid subscription: http://bit.ly/getolark however there is this one which is free: https://www.tawk.to/

2. Yes, the payments component is entirely optional and does not need to be included.

Is it possible to see a backoffice demo to see how it works? Thank you

Another question, is it possible to add extra fields to the user registry?

Hi,

1. We currently don’t have the ability to setup a demo account for you to see the backend. We do however have this page that serves as an overview of the page builder including screenshots and video: http://demo.themovation.com/embark/live-page-builder/

It’s based around Elementor which has over 600,000 active installs and a 5 star rating: https://wordpress.org/plugins/elementor/ – we think you’ll really enjoy it

We also have this page with more info on the booking system as well: http://demo.themovation.com/embark/booking/

2. There are two areas to the booking form – the part that is filled out only once to register, and the part that is filled out every time a booking is made. You can customize the second part (every time) but not the first part (one time).

Hi, that’s great to hear.

The Embark theme itself has just one version which is sold here for $59.

Embark includes and utilizes the Elementor page builder plugin -http://demo.themovation.com/embark/live-page-builder/

Everything shown in the demo can be created with what is included with purchase, however Elementor does have a Pro option as well which can optionally be purchased if you want the extras that come with Pro.

The booking system is called Booked and the full version is included with purchase. The payments component is entirely optional – you can set it up so customers send a request and you can follow up.

Let me know if you have any other questions

Hi, technically speaking nearly all WooCommerce plugins should work well since our themes support WooCommerce. That is an example of a deposits plugin, we have not yet personally tested it but I believe it should work. I will make a note to test it when I am next in the office and I will follow up here within 24-48 hours.

Hi, I just tested and it actually seems like the plugin itself doesn’t work unfortunately. I don’t think it’s an incompatibility, I think it’s just not working; there are numerous low ratings that I didn’t previously see: https://wordpress.org/plugins/yith-woocommerce-deposits-and-down-payments/

The premium version may well work, I am not sure as I haven’t yet tested it.

Otherwise, using the booking system it is possible to accept a deposit anyhow in the sense that you can state a price for a Tour or product but then can set the item price to any amount you want.

Hi, that is not built directly into the booking plugin but it ties into WooCommerce for the payments component so you should be able to use an extension for WooCommerce to add that option.

This is one example that should work: https://yithemes.com/themes/plugins/yith-woocommerce-deposits-and-down-payments/

Before purchasing I would like custom the theme. Could you send me a Demo Account? Thanks

Hi, sorry we currently do not have the ability to setup a live demo account for you. We do however have this page that serves as an overview of the page builder: http://demo.themovation.com/embark/live-page-builder/

And I am more than happy to answer any questions you have.

One side note, I tested the free version of the plugin I mentioned in my response above and unfortunately it seems that the developers have not kept it up to date or for some reason it appears to not be in working order. I can’t speak to the premium version as I haven’t yet tried it.

Here is another option that looks to be currently supported: https://codecanyon.net/item/woocommerce-deposits-partial-payments-plugin/9249233

Hi, that is not built directly into the booking plugin but it ties into WooCommerce for payments so you could use an extension for WooCommerce to add that option. This is one example: https://yithemes.com/themes/plugins/yith-woocommerce-deposits-and-down-payments/

WORSE : Now i can’t access anymore to my WP admin HTTP ERROR 500

OK. I’ve reinstall via FTP. Seems to work. CAN YOU PROVIDE A CHILDTHEME please ? Thanks

Hi, the stylesheet error is a common issue that comes up if the wrong zip file is uploaded: https://help.market.envato.com/hc/en-us/articles/202821510-Theme-is-missing-the-style-css-stylesheet-error

When you activate the theme you should be directed to the Theme Setup – the first step in the theme setup provides the option to install and activate the child theme which we recommend for all users

If you have any questions, feel free to open a ticket where we can best assist you:

Another question regarding EMBARK / BELLEVUE BB HOTEL ; 6. Except for calendar and booking forms, what are the main difference beetween the 2 themes SEO ? Speed loading ? Code simplest ? multilangugae ? ... Thanks

Hi,

1. WPML – Yes. Yoast – Yes. For custom forms, we include full support for the Formidable Forms plugin

2. Yes you can show a top bar which could be customized. You can have phone, address, and email links as well as text and HTML. The WPML switcher isn’t designed to be shown there but can be shown in the navigation menu or sidebar / footer.

3. Yes you have the top bar like that, except it would be custom to add the switcher there. That would take a bit of customization.

4. Yes

5. Yes you can entirely disable them in which case none of the plugin files would load.

6. The main differences are are the plugin support (Booked vs WP Booking System) and the included demo pages. Otherwise they are both nearly the same.

In the booking system you can have as many different calendars as you like, so you could have one calendar for Philadelphia and one for Baltimore, and setup the calendars to only accept bookings for the days you want. You can include a calendar switcher directly above as shown on this sample page: http://demo.themovation.com/embark/walking-tours/elements/booked-calendar/

Or you could put them on the same calendar and title the tours according to the city.

Thank you for you answer ! the calendar switcher looks great, would it work to set departure city instead of destination, as shown on the sample page ? best regards

You can title the calendars however you like, so it could be departure, destination, anything. You can also add custom fields into the booking form if you like.

Hi,

The page builder in Embark is extremely flexible so the options are nearly limitless there.

The booking system operates mainly as shown in our live demo but has some options as well.

Can you tell me specifically what it is you are looking to replicate from the WowVenue site?

Hi, yes our themes are designed for SEO. We also recommend using the free Yoast SEO plugin which works well with our products and further expands the SEO features

Hello, thanks for the follow up.

1- in my Embark theme, how can I change default text in the tour grid widgets? > Please go under Tours / All Tours / and ‘Edit’ (not ‘Edit with Elementor’) Inside you ill find some meta boxes with the text you wish to edit. Do not click ‘back to wordpress edit’, only scroll down until you see the meta boxes like this.

I’d like to replace the words “sort” and “all” in my site with their italian translations. I tried to do it by operating on the text editor of the page containig the widget. Sadly, my updates appear in the preview but disappear when I come back to eElementor editor or its preview.

> You can use a plugin like Loco Translate, or you can hide them with custom css like so:

2- Installing your Embark theme, I’ve chosen “walking Tours” as basic model to start with for building my site. Nevertheless, my child theme seems to follow “River Rafting” model’s style.

> Hm, that does seem odd. Did you originally install the Rafting preset?

Best regards, Ryan

Hello, thank you for your interest.

1. Multi Dated booking options for tour packages.We may need this option for booking packages that runs for multiple days, is it available or not?

> We ship with the booked plugin from Boxy Studio for free but we didn’t develop the plugin so some features are not available. Multi day is one of those. However, you should be able to use any WP plugin that you would like. We’ve made the theme flexible like that.

2. Modal Login/Signup pages to login to the site. May i know how is the login/register thing configured in the theme.i do see no login/register options in the demo..

> Booked comes with a profile page that can be setup with a simple shortcode.

4. Are we able to configure filter options for showing packages that fall under a specific criteria.

> We have a filter text link on our tour grid that will be helpful to you, you may be able to use a search plugin like https://wordpress.org/plugins/relevanssi/ or try test others =here: https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/plugins-supercharge-search/

3. Also would like to feature destinations & tours at the same in the site. is it possible to do it?. For e.g., for destinations, we have country as the main category, then states as its sub category, and then districts as its sub category. is it possible to create custom category pages for country, so that it can show up all states in it/it can show up the destinations in that country(we are in need of both options – that’s show categorized destinations & also show categorized packages in separate pages).

> We have a grouping system for tours, called tour types, you may be able to make this works. You can also use pages and sub pages to group in addition to the tour type.

4. is there any filter options for showing destinations that fall under a specific criteria. For example, filter for waterfalls or beaches etc.

> We do have a filter text link option that can be enabled above the tour grid, this can filter by specific tour types that you can create.

5. is it possible to “add the tour listings” from the front end and manage it from there. Could you please add more lights on it? i do see no reference on how packages are being managed. We are running a tour marketplace where tour partners can add packages and hence manage it from there end. Any such options available or how to manage it with this theme?

> We have a frontend add on for booked that provides agents to managed their own booking calendar. Currently, we do not have a way for agents to create their own tour pages, there might be a plugin for this. I’m not sure.

I hope this was helpful. If you have any questions for us, please contact us on our ticket system.

Happy to help.

Ryan

Hi, Embark includes support for WooCommerce so just about all WooCommerce extensions should work well with the theme. I believe the Product Vendors extension is all or mainly backend, in which case there’s no problem at all.

No problem. We haven’t personally tested that plugin but if it works with other themes, I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t work.

Thank you!

Happy to help

Hello! Thank you. Yes. You don’t have to use the booking component, you can use our forms instead. We ship with Formidable Lite, and we include several beautiful forms, Inline and stacked with nice styling options

Sounds like a good fit.