By default the current month will be shown on the WooCommerce Bookings calendar for performance reasons. This will default it to the month with the first available block.

bookings_calendar_default_to_first_available.php

<?php // do not copy this line

/**
 * Will make the Bookings calender default to the month with the first available booking.
 */
add_filter( 'wc_bookings_calendar_default_to_current_date', '__return_false' );

This helped. Thanks !

Is there a way to make this work in order to automatically select the first available time when picked a date?

@pares90 That would take additional JavaScript loaded via other means to select the first day and/or time.

Is there a way to make this work in order to automatically select the first available time when picked a date?

paste this on your theme's javascript file
//select the first available date of the calendar
function loadFrame() {
let availableDate = document.querySelectorAll(".single-product a.ui-state-default");
if ( document.contains(availableDate[0]) ) {
availableDate[0].click();
}
}
window.onload = setTimeout(loadFrame, 3000);

it will click on the first available date, 3 seconds after the page finishes to load

Why doesn't this work? add_filter( 'wc_bookings_calendar_default_to_current_date', '__return_false' );

-I've added the code both ways with a custom function and without, in my child themes funtions.php folder...Nothing.

Anything else I should try would love to get this working, as it's kinda a convent feature to have when events aren't in the current month.

I have been using this filter to set the calendar to show the first available date using version 1.16 of WooCommerce bookings. I recently updated to the latest version 2.0.3 and this no longer works. I have rolled the plugin version back and it starts working correctly again.

@liammcluckie I do no directly control the code for the Bookings plugin, if you are having an issue with it, I would recommend reaching out to support at WooCommerce.com.

For what it's worth, I did check Bookings and the filter still exists, so if it's not working support should be notified.

@jessepearson Thanks for the reply. Apologies for adding this here, for some reason I thought this thread was part of the plugin repo! I will get a ticket open with support. Cheers

I have the same problem here, after 2 years of usage. Very odd.

@tfrank77 Just to let you know I have contacted WooCommerce support and they have replicated the bug. Their developers have been notified and are working on a fix. They have recommended rolling back to the previous version until this is patched

Just to let you know I have contacted WooCommerce
Brilliant news, thank you @liammcluckie.

From woo: The filter was working on version 2.0.2 and stopped working when version 2.0.3 was released. Support sent me version 2.0.2 not sure if there is an official download source for old versions.

@fscriven You can reach out to Woo support for a copy of the older version. They have an issue open for the bug, the issue number is 3695.

Thanks guys for the info!