# Creating Resource Products in Plus2

HTML version: [Creating Resource Products in Plus2](https://support.gladstonesoftware.cloud/plus2/creating-resource-products-in-plus2)

## Problem
Administrators need to create the bookable resources (courts, pool lanes, studios, rooms or instructors) that make up booking sheets. Each resource product is a column on the booking sheet.

## Resolution

1. **Decide how many resource products you need**
   - Create a separate resource product for anything that must be **booked, priced, closed, shown as a column or reported independently**. For example, four independently bookable lanes means four resource products, not one "pool".

2. **Create the resource product**
   - Go to `Configuration > Bookings > Resource products` (this defaults the type to Standard), then select **New**. The Products list shows the same records.

3. **Enter the ID and description**
   - **ID**: pattern `Z[SITE_CODE][RESOURCE_CODE][SEQ]`, e.g. `ZABMEET01`. Typing `Z` in the ID search then lists all resource products. See [Naming Conventions for Plus2 IDs and Descriptions](naming-conventions-for-plus2-ids-and-descriptions.md).
   - **Description**: customer-friendly (e.g. "Main Pool", "Studio 2"), because descriptions can appear online.

4. **Set the site group and calendar**
   - **Site group**: the site.
   - **Calendar**: normally the Standard calendar, with the activity's calendar controlling booking times. Select or create a resource calendar only where your site uses them; see [Plus2 Calendars, Time Bands and Opening Hours](plus2-calendars-time-bands-and-opening-hours.md).

5. **Set the resource type and department**
   - **Bookings resource**: **Standard** (or **Density** for gym density).
   - **Department**: the booking department/cost centre (e.g. Z-book), which isn't normally reported on.

6. **Set prices**
   - **Prices**: tick **all price levels at £0**. A price here is added on top of the price product (e.g. £5 resource + £25 pitch = £30).
   - Review optional settings; participation fields usually don't apply to pure resource products.

7. **Save**
   - Click **Save**.

### Copying similar resources

8. **Copy a verified resource**
   - Open the verified resource product or booking-sheet item and select **Save As** (or the copy command).
   - Change the ID sequence and the description.
   - Confirm the site group, the calendar, the resource type and every inherited setting, then save.
   - Repeat for the remaining resources.

9. **Add the copies to the booking sheet**
   - Add all copies to the booking sheet, then count the products on the sheet against the physical resources.

## Notes

- Inherited site, calendar and availability settings are the most common copy errors.
- **Every new price level** must be ticked on every resource product (and on any retail product it should buy).
- **Impact on Go Operator:** in **Centre Management** a resource product is called an **Area**. Block bookings and booking exceptions made in Centre Management use these areas.
- **Impact on Go Book:** for party bookings, a price level only appears on Go Book if it is ticked on **both** the regular (price) product and the resource product.
- **Impact on 360:** resource products appear as columns on the 360 Centre Manager booking sheet.
- **Impact on access control:** resource products are used in GMC entry point profile **Resources** allow lists, so booked members can pass a booking-only door.
- Related: [Creating Booking Sheets in Plus2](creating-booking-sheets-in-plus2.md); [Plus2 Resource Build QA and Go-Live Handover](plus2-resource-build-qa-and-go-live-handover.md).