Creating duration products

Read How pricing works first if you haven't; this article is the doing, that one is the why.

Before you start: your durations

The list of durations your timetable offers lives under Tempo → Settings → Timetable → Class durations: minutes, one per line or comma-separated. The default is 30, 45, 60; add whatever you run (90 for a double, 480 for a full-day workshop). Session end times and clash checks work with any value.

Durations and prices are separate on purpose: the duration is *how long*, the product is *how much*. You only need a product for each price point; if 30- and 45-minute classes cost the same, one product can serve both.

Create each product

For each price point:

1. Go to Products → Add New (this is WooCommerce's screen, not Tempo's).
2. Name it internally: "45-minute class", "2-hour workshop". Members never see this name.
3. Set the Regular price: the standard single-session rate for every class using this product.
4. In the same General tab, below the price, fill in the two Tempo fields: Either can be left empty; missing rates fall back sensibly (full-term falls back to half-term, half-term to the regular price).
   • Half-term per-session rate: the discounted rate for half-term packages.
   • Full-term per-session rate: the discounted rate for full-term packages.
5. Set Catalogue visibility to Hidden (in the Publish box), then Publish.

A worked example:

Connect classes to it

Every timetable entry picks its duration product; that's the moment a class gets its pricing. See Building the timetable.

Changing prices later

Edit the product and save: every class pointing at it now charges the new rates for new bookings. Already-paid bookings are orders in your records and never change retrospectively. For a new term at new prices, the tidy pattern is to update the products between terms, before duplicating the term opens booking.