Doctor Appointment Booking & Clinic Management – Alnora
| 开发者 | Alnoraclinic |
|---|---|
| 更新时间 | 2026年7月31日 18:40 |
| PHP版本: | 8.1 及以上 |
| WordPress版本: | 7.0 |
| 版权: | GPLv2 or later |
| 版权网址: | 版权信息 |
详情介绍:
Alnora is the all-in-one doctor appointment booking and clinic management plugin for WordPress — built exclusively for private medical practices.
Turn your WordPress site into a complete booking platform in minutes. Whether you're a solo practitioner or a busy multi-doctor, multi-location clinic — dentists, psychologists, physiotherapists, dermatologists, cosmetic clinics or GPs — Alnora gives your patients a beautiful, multi-step booking experience and gives your front desk one calm place to manage it all.
No generic salon plugin bent into shape. No spreadsheets. No five add-ons duct-taped together. Just one focused product that understands doctors, services, patients and privacy.
👉 Live demo · See Pro pricing · Documentation
Why private clinics choose Alnora
- 🏥 Built for medicine, not retail. Every screen assumes doctors, services and patients — so setup is fast and nothing feels like a workaround.
- 🔒 Your data stays yours. Everything runs on your own WordPress site and database. Patient contact details are encrypted at rest (AES-256).
- 🛡️ GDPR-ready from day one. Consent is captured with a timestamp and IP, and inactive records can auto-delete on a schedule you choose.
- 💚 Free forever, unlimited. Unlimited doctors, services and bookings — no per-booking fees, no artificial caps.
- Unlimited doctors — full profiles with photo, bio, email and per-doctor weekly working hours and breaks.
- Unlimited services — rich descriptions with an optional "Read more" popup, plus duration, buffer time, price and colour.
- "Offered by" control — assign each service to specific doctors, or leave it available to every doctor.
- Doctor & service categories — organise your team and your menu; doctor categories appear on the booking form.
- Beautiful multi-step booking wizard — patients choose doctor → service → date & time → details. Drop it anywhere with the
[alnora_booking]shortcode or the Gutenberg block. - Smart availability engine — respects working hours, breaks, buffers, existing bookings and your booking window, so double-bookings simply can't happen.
- Patient self-service cancellation — a secure link in every confirmation lets patients cancel within the notice period you set.
- Encrypted patient records — email and phone encrypted at rest (AES-256) with a hashed lookup, all on your own server.
- GDPR consent & retention — timestamped consent with IP, plus optional automatic deletion of inactive records.
- Automatic emails & reminders — booking confirmations, clinic notifications, status updates and timed reminders, all sent for you.
- A clean, branded admin — a stats dashboard, a searchable appointment list with inline status control and an at-a-glance details popup, plus doctor, service, patient and settings screens.
- Dedicated clinic roles — built-in Clinic Doctor, Receptionist and Patient roles, so every team member signs in with the right level of access.
- Works with your formats — dates, times and the clinic timezone follow your WordPress settings and show on the booking form.
- 13 built-in languages — set the patient-facing language independently of your site language (see below).
- Developer-friendly — dependency-free vanilla JavaScript (no build step) and a REST API under the
alnora-clinic/v1namespace.
- 💳 Payments & deposits — take card (Stripe) and PayPal payments at booking, require a deposit, and issue full or partial refunds — all inside WordPress.
- ✉️ Email a payment link — send patients a secure link to pay a deposit, the balance or the full amount for phone and walk-in bookings, and it's marked paid automatically.
- 🧾 Branded invoice PDFs — a professional, logo-headed invoice for every appointment, marked paid automatically.
- 🔁 Recurring appointments & waitlist — let patients book a whole course of visits in one step, and fill cancellations automatically.
- 🔄 One-click rescheduling — move any booking to a new time; the patient is automatically re-notified and calendars and reminders update to match.
- 🔔 SMS & WhatsApp reminders — cut no-shows with automated text and WhatsApp messages (via Twilio), alongside email.
- 📅 One-way calendar sync — push bookings to Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook, with events removed automatically on cancellation.
- 🎥 Telehealth — auto-generate Zoom or Google Meet links for online consultations.
- 🗂️ Encrypted medical records — clinical notes with one-click prescription and diagnosis PDFs, in any language.
- 👤 Patient portal — patients log in to view, cancel, rebook and download their documents.
- 🔑 Doctor self-service login — doctors sign in to a read-only view of their own profile, services and diary, seeing only their own appointments.
- 📍 Multiple locations — run several branches, each with its own doctors, availability, photo and contact details.
- 🎨 Full branding & templates — match the booking widget to your site and edit every email template.
- ⚡ Automation & reporting — Zapier webhooks, CSV import, revenue reports and a complete GDPR toolkit (export, erasure, audit log).
alnora-clinic text domain and standard .mo/.po files, so you can add or refine languages with tools like Loco Translate. (Localised month names in email dates additionally require the matching WordPress language pack under Settings → General → Site Language.)
安装:
- Upload the
alnora-clinicfolder to/wp-content/plugins/. - Activate Alnora through the Plugins menu in WordPress. On activation the plugin creates its database tables, custom roles and a Book an Appointment page containing the booking shortcode.
- Go to Alnora → Doctors and add at least one doctor (set their working hours).
- Go to Alnora → Services and add at least one service.
- Visit the auto-created booking page (link shown under Alnora → Settings) to test a booking.
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常见问题:
Is Alnora really free?
Yes. The free version is complete and unlimited — add as many doctors, services and bookings as you like, with no per-booking fees. Payments, reminders by SMS/WhatsApp, calendar sync and clinical records are part of the optional Alnora Pro upgrade.
What's the difference between the free version and Alnora Pro?
The free version handles the whole booking journey — booking form, availability, patient records, GDPR consent and automatic email reminders. Alnora Pro adds online payments and deposits, pay-by-link invoices, recurring appointments and a waitlist, SMS & WhatsApp reminders, Google/Outlook calendar sync, telehealth links, encrypted medical records with prescription PDFs, a patient portal, multiple locations and more. See the full comparison at alnora-booking.com/pricing.
Does the booking form work with any theme?
Yes. The booking wizard is rendered inside a scoped .alnc-booking container with its own styles. A small CSS reset neutralises common theme interference (button padding, box-shadow, etc.).
How do I embed the booking form?
Place the shortcode [alnora_booking] on any page, or use the Alnora Booking Form Gutenberg block. A Book an Appointment page is created automatically on activation.
Can I pre-select a doctor or service in the shortcode?
Pre-selecting a doctor or service via shortcode attributes (e.g. doctor="1" service="2") is available in Alnora Pro. The free version embeds the full booking wizard with the plain [alnora_booking] shortcode.
Is patient data stored securely?
Patient email and phone are encrypted at rest using AES-256. A SHA-256 hash of the email is stored separately for lookups. GDPR consent is recorded with a timestamp and IP address.
How many doctors can I add?
There is no limit — add as many doctors as your clinic needs, each with their own profile, working hours and services.
Where do I configure email notifications?
Go to Alnora → Settings → Email & reminders. You can set the from name, from address, admin notification email and reminder lead time.
Does it work with WPML or Polylang?
All strings are translation-ready via the alnora-clinic text domain. Full WPML/Polylang compatibility is planned for a future release.
更新日志:
1.2.8
- Improvement: the per-doctor Calendar colour picker has been removed. Doctors now use the Alnora brand colour everywhere, which keeps the booking form and calendars consistent. Nothing needs changing — existing doctors pick up the new colour automatically.
- Improvement: refreshed the admin Settings — the on/off options are now branded toggle switches for a cleaner, on-brand look.
- Fix: if the booking form was left open long enough for its security token to expire, submitting it showed a raw "Cookie check failed" message. It now explains that the page has been open too long and asks you to refresh.
- Fix: custom email templates carried over from a previous Pro install no longer leave unresolved placeholders (such as {location}) in patient emails.
- Maintenance: removed unused code from the booking form loader.
- Fix: on the booking form, choosing a doctor who offers no services now shows a clear "this doctor doesn't work with this service — please choose another doctor" message, instead of the unrelated "no free slots on this day" notice.
- New: categories for doctors and services — create, edit and assign categories to organise your team and your services. Doctor categories are shown under each doctor on the booking form.
- New: rich service descriptions, with an optional per-service "Read more" popup on the booking form.
- New: "Offered by" — assign a service to specific doctors, or leave it available to every doctor. The booking form only shows each doctor the services they offer.
- New: search the Doctors and Services lists in the admin.
- New: GDPR retention — optionally auto-delete (anonymise) inactive patient records after a set number of years. Off by default; configure under Settings → GDPR.
- New: a "More info" popup in the Appointments list showing the full booking details at a glance.
- New: the booking form shows the clinic timezone beneath the title, so patients can see which timezone the available times are in.
- Improvement: dates and times across the booking form, emails and admin now follow your WordPress date and time format (Settings → General).
- Improvement: more of the booking page now follows the Patient language setting, including the appointment self-cancellation notices and the timezone label.
- Change: doctors are now organised with categories instead of a single specialisation field.
- Change: the main admin menu is now labelled "Alnora Clinic".
- Improvement: doctor cards in the booking form no longer render an empty line when a doctor has no category set.
- Improvement: admin notices now display at the top of every Alnora screen, above the page title (previously only some screens).
- New: an optional upgrade path to Alnora Pro, with account and licence management, powered by Freemius. Any usage tracking is opt-in only — the plugin asks first and works fully if you skip. See the External Services section.
- Change: pre-selecting a doctor or service through
[alnora_booking]shortcode attributes is now part of Alnora Pro; the free version embeds the standard booking wizard. - Improvement: admin notices now display cleanly at the top of the Alnora screens.
- Hardening: the public availability and available-dates REST endpoints now only return slots for an active doctor and an active service actually offered by that doctor, so availability for inactive/hidden resources can no longer be enumerated. Added range validation for the requested month/year.
- Translations: completed and updated the bundled translations for all 13 supported languages.
- Fix (important): deleting the plugin no longer erases your data. Doctors, services, patients, appointments and settings are now kept on uninstall so they survive a reinstall; data is removed only if you explicitly enable "Delete all data when the plugin is uninstalled" under Settings → GDPR.
- Improvement: removed the WordPress admin focus ring on settings toggle checkboxes for a cleaner look.
- New: built-in translations for the booking form and patient emails in 13 languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Czech, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Ukrainian, Russian), selectable via the new Patient language setting.
- New: patient emails are now sent in the configured Patient language regardless of the site language.
- Improvement: translations now use standard WordPress
.mo/.polanguage files (editable with Loco Translate) and ship a complete.pot. - Fix: appointment reference numbers could collide after an appointment was deleted, causing a "Could not save the appointment" error on booking. References are now generated reliably.
- New: patients can cancel their own appointment via a secure link included in the appointment confirmation email.
- New: "Minimum cancellation notice (hours)" setting under Booking rules — controls how close to the appointment a patient may still cancel online (set to 0 to allow any time before the appointment).
- New: cancelled appointments show a tooltip in the Appointments list indicating whether they were cancelled by the client or the clinic.
- New: the clinic receives a notification email when a patient cancels their own appointment.
- Fix: settings sub-pages (Shortcodes, Booking rules, Email & reminders, GDPR) could return "Sorry, you are not allowed to access this page". They are now hidden from the sidebar without affecting access.
- New: search the Appointments list by reference, patient name, email or phone.
- New: search the Patients list by name, email or phone.
- New: the Appointments list now hides past days by default, with a "Show past appointments" button to reveal them (today's appointments stay visible so they can still be marked Completed / No-show).
- New: "Load more" on the Appointments list — the first 10 rows load instantly and more are revealed on demand for faster page rendering.
- New: an information icon beside the "Status" column header explains what each appointment status means.
- Improvement: hidden settings sub-pages are now removed from the admin menu in PHP instead of via a CSS :has() rule, removing an expensive per-interaction style recalculation in the admin.
- Improvement: the WordPress media library is now loaded only on the Doctors screen (where the photo uploader needs it), speeding up the other admin pages.
- Improvement: consistent button focus styling in the admin.
- Initial release: doctors, services, working hours, availability engine, booking wizard, patient records, GDPR consent log, transactional emails, reminders and branded admin.