Bookvatio

Bookvatio is a modern booking plugin that handles two booking types under one roof:

• [bookvatio] — appointment booking for nail studios, yoga, massage, wellness, beauty salons
• [bookvatio-rooms] — accommodation booking for guest houses, vacation rentals, small hotels

(The legacy [booknest] and [booknest-rooms] shortcodes are still registered as aliases so existing pages keep rendering after upgrade.) No payment processing, no SMS — just clean, focused email-based bookings with a beautiful warm earthy design that you can fully customize from the admin. Core Features

• Two separate shortcodes — appointments and rooms are independent
• Multi-step booking flows — 5-step guided experience for both types
• Services, staff, categories — full CRUD with photos and custom styling
• Rooms management — photo galleries, amenities, free-text room types
• Color-coded availability calendar — available, limited, full, closed states
• Working hours per day — weekly schedule with per-day open/close times
• Email notifications — client confirmation, owner notification, cancellation
• Google Calendar integration — one-way sync of bookings to each staff member's Google Calendar (BYO credentials)
• Full translation support — every customer-facing label is editable
• Consent checkboxes — Privacy Policy + Terms & Conditions with configurable URLs
• Walk-in bookings — add bookings manually from the admin

Design

• Warm earthy color palette (fully customizable)
• Bundled DM Sans (body) + Fraunces (headings) — served locally, no external font requests
• Granular color controls for every UI element
• Border radius, font sizes, calendar state colors — all configurable

Pro version Bookvatio Pro is a separately-sold commercial add-on that extends the free plugin with:

• Coupons / Discount codes — percentage or fixed-amount discounts, per-service targeting, usage limits, expiry dates, walk-in support
• Staff Vacation / Time off — block date ranges per staff member; the customer-facing calendar and slot picker automatically respect the blackouts
• Booking Rules — minimum advance notice (e.g. "must book at least 24h ahead"), maximum advance window (e.g. "no bookings further than 60 days out"), global blackout dates (holidays, closures)

Pro requires this free plugin to be installed and active. A product page with pricing and download will be announced once it goes live. In the meantime, if you'd like early access — pricing details, an invoice, and a download link — email contact@ignatovdesigns.com. A note on internal naming Internal class names (BookNest_*), database table names (wp_booknest_*), option keys (booknest_*), filter/action names, and the REST API namespace (booknest/v1) intentionally use the legacy booknest prefix. This preserves settings and bookings for users upgrading from earlier internal versions. The public plugin name, text domain, and primary shortcodes ([bookvatio] / [bookvatio-rooms]) use bookvatio. The old [booknest] shortcodes are registered as aliases so saved pages keep working. Privacy Bookvatio does not phone home, include analytics, or load external assets on the public site. All fonts (DM Sans and Fraunces) are bundled with the plugin and served from your own server. See the "External services" section below for the optional Google Calendar integration. Trademarks Google and Google Calendar are trademarks of Google LLC. This plugin is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Google.

1.4.33

• Calendars now start the week on Monday by default (European convention) across all three calendars — appointment month view, room availability and the check-in/check-out range picker. A new "Week starts on" setting (Settings → General, per booking type) switches back to Sunday-first.

1.4.32

• Mobile fix: the room card action bar ("Check availability" / "Select") overflowed the screen on phones, cutting off the Select button. The buttons now stack full-width on small screens and shrink safely on desktop.

1.4.31

• Staff cards widened further (320px minimum) so multi-word names and roles fit on one line; single column on mobile.

1.4.30

• Category cards: uploaded images now display as a full-width banner (150px, cover-cropped) instead of a 60px thumbnail — much better for real photos. Emoji icons unchanged.
• Staff selection step: roomier cards (240px minimum width, matching the category grid) with larger 72px photos.

1.4.29

• Bulgarian admin translation: the Business Template panels (template names, descriptions, step chips, step toggles, quote mode and "not sure" options, Save button) are now fully translated when the admin language is set to BG.

1.4.28

• Admin readability: helper and description texts under titles and fields bumped from 11–13px to 15px with full-contrast black.

1.4.27

• Custom checkbox styling across the admin panel — WordPress core's admin stylesheet was drawing its oversized blue checkmark over the plugin's checkboxes.

1.4.26

• Booking tables upgrade: status filter chips (All / Pending / Confirmed / Cancelled with counts), bulk selection with Confirm / Cancel / Delete actions, and pagination (20 per page) on both the Bookings and Reservations tables. Bulk status changes send the same confirmation/cancellation emails as individual changes; bulk deletes warn that deleted bookings disappear from dashboard statistics.
• New admin REST endpoints: POST /bookings/bulk and POST /room-bookings/bulk (admin-only, max 500 ids per request).

1.4.25

• The room reservation submit endpoint now fires the same extension hooks as the appointment endpoint (booknest_booking_pre_submit_validate, booknest_booking_submit_data, booknest_booking_created — with type 'room'), giving add-ons full parity across both booking flows.

1.4.24

• New booknest_email_pay_note filter lets add-ons replace (or remove) the payment note in client confirmation emails — e.g. showing "Paid online" instead of "Payment on site" after a completed online payment. No behavior change without an add-on using it.

1.4.23

• The Rooms admin page now renders add-on tabs registered via window.BookNestAdmin.registerTab('rooms', …) — previously only the Appointments page consumed the registry.

1.4.22

• The room booking flow now fires the same booknest:step-rendered extension event as the appointment flow (with type: 'rooms' in the event detail), giving add-ons parity across both flows. No behavior change without an add-on listening.

1.4.21

• New extension hooks for add-ons: booknest_booking_submit_response (filter the successful submit response), booknest_send_submit_emails (defer notifications), and frontend support for a redirect_url key in the submit response. No behavior change without an add-on using them.

1.4.20

• Security hardening: the owner email address and notification settings are no longer included in the public booking-form REST payloads.
• Custom form field values are sanitized before storage and non-scalar values are ignored in email rendering.
• Fixed the wp_mail_content_type filter not being removed after sending, which could force other plugins' plain-text emails to HTML within the same request.

1.4.8

• The OAuth callback page's CSS and JS are now registered with wp_register_style() / wp_register_script() and enqueued with wp_enqueue_style() / wp_enqueue_script(). The <link> and <script> tags themselves are emitted by wp_print_styles() / wp_print_scripts() (captured via output buffering and inserted in the response) — no hand-written <link rel="stylesheet"> or <script src> tags remain in the response.

1.4.7

• Follow-up to 1.4.6: when the input-base rule's specificity was raised in 1.4.6, the icon-padding, focus, placeholder, autofill, and phone-country-picker rules ended up lower than the base — which let the base padding: 10px 12px override padding-left: 42px and made the leading icons in the Full Name / Email fields overlap with the input text. All five rule groups now match the base-rule specificity so the icon padding, focus border, placeholder color, autofill background, and phone wrap layout are preserved against theme overrides.

1.4.6

• Booking form input styles are now resilient to active themes (especially Elementor's kit, Astra, GeneratePress and similar) that style global input elements via a :not([type="button"]):not([type="submit"]) selector. The plugin's own input rule now uses the same selector pattern to match their specificity, so customer-facing forms keep their colors, padding, and borders regardless of the active theme's global form styles.

1.4.5

• Requires WordPress 6.2+ (bumped from 6.0). This release uses the %i identifier placeholder in $wpdb->prepare(), introduced in WP 6.2 (April 2023).
• Every direct database query now passes the table name through $wpdb->prepare() as an %i placeholder, instead of string-concatenating the result of BookNest_DB::table_*() into the SQL. Behavior is identical; the query construction is now obviously safe to any static analyzer. Removed the file-level phpcs:disable WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.* suppressions that previously documented the safety case — they're no longer needed.

1.4.4

• Google OAuth callback page no longer uses inline <style> or <script> tags. Page styling moved to public/css/google-callback.css (loaded via <link>) and behavior moved to public/js/google-callback.js (loaded via <script src>). Success state is communicated through a data attribute on <body>.
• CSS-variable helper (booknest_css_vars) now sanitizes all color values via sanitize_hex_color() with safe defaults, replacing the previous esc_attr() calls. Prevents any non-hex string from leaking into the generated stylesheet.
• Rewrote the readme's "External services" section to follow WP.org's recommended template — each Google endpoint (OAuth, Calendar API) listed individually with the data sent, when, and links to Google's Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

1.4.3

• Added contact email (contact@ignatovdesigns.com) to the Pro version section for users interested in early access while the public product page is being built.

1.4.2

• Added a "Pro version" section to the readme describing the Bookvatio Pro add-on (Coupons, Staff Vacation, Booking Rules). No external link until the product page is live.
• Cleaned up the "Design" section to reflect 1.4.0 changes (fonts are now bundled DM Sans + Fraunces; the Custom CSS textarea has been removed).

1.4.1

• Room card availability badge now shows free-day count (next 30 days) when no future booking exists, mirroring the existing "X booked" treatment.
• Bulgarian translations corrected for singular vs plural: 1 свободен / 2+ свободни, 1 зает / 2+ заети. English unchanged ("1 free" / "2 free" stay identical). Added freeWordSingular and bookedWordSingular label fields for translators.

1.4.0

• Bundled DM Sans and Fraunces font files locally (no more requests to fonts.googleapis.com). Fixes the WP.org reviewer flag about external requests on the public site without opt-in consent.
• Removed the "Custom CSS" textarea from appearance settings. Arbitrary CSS insertion is no longer permitted by WordPress.org plugin guidelines; structured controls (colors, font sizes, border radius, etc.) cover the same use cases safely.
• Removed the font-family picker. Fonts are now locked to DM Sans (body) and Fraunces (headings). The 4 alternative font choices (Nunito, Lato, Playfair Display, Montserrat) are no longer available.
• Removed "Powered by Bookvatio" attribution from all client-facing emails. Per WP.org guidelines, attribution on user-facing surfaces requires explicit opt-in consent which the plugin does not currently provide. The admin panel keeps the attribution since admin-facing credits are permitted.
• Refactored the inline CSS variables output to use wp_add_inline_style() directly (no ... wrapping in the helper).

1.3.9

• Pre-submission housekeeping: rebranded source file headers + LICENSE + translation template (.pot) from BookNest to Bookvatio; cleaned up dead "Needs Recommendation" translation entry left behind after the feature was removed.

1.3.8

• Added a small bottom margin to the client email row in the admin bookings table for better vertical spacing between email and phone.

1.3.7

• Admin table polish: client email + phone bumped to 16px with black text for better readability; status pill padding tightened to 2px vertical.

1.3.6

• Removed the "Needs Recommendation" (REC) badge, filter button, and detail-panel banner from the appointment bookings table. The DB column is preserved (no data migration) but the indicator is no longer shown in the admin UI.

1.3.5

• Notes panel in the booking tables now opens only when the "Notes" button is clicked. Status dropdowns and action buttons no longer trigger accidental expansion. Pill restyled for better button affordance.

1.3.4

• Booking tables (appointments + rooms) now surface customer notes — a green "Notes" badge appears next to the client name when notes were submitted, and clicking the row expands an inline panel with the full note text.

1.3.3

• Removed an outdated hyperlink from email footer credits (now plain text "Powered by Bookvatio"). A new product URL will be added once the Bookvatio site is live.

1.3.2

• Switched menu icon to the built-in WordPress dashicons-calendar-alt (no more bundled PNG)
• Admin dashboard now displays primary [bookvatio] / [bookvatio-rooms] shortcodes in the copy-paste shortcut bar and settings panels

1.3.1

• New Bookvatio logo in admin menu and shell header
• Primary shortcodes [bookvatio] / [bookvatio-rooms] (legacy [booknest] shortcodes still registered as aliases)
• "Powered by Bookvatio" credit in email footers

1.3.0

• Renamed plugin from BookNest to Bookvatio (public name + text domain only; internal class names, DB tables, shortcodes, and option keys preserved for upgrade safety)
• New extensibility hooks for add-on plugins (slot/month availability filters, email-row filter, admin tab/walk-in/staff-editor extension registries)
• Calendar now correctly blocks click on dates marked as closed by integrations
• CSS polish: tighter phone country picker spacing, consistent admin form input/select heights, higher-contrast consent checkbox

1.2.0

• Added Google Calendar integration (one-way sync, per-staff, BYO credentials)
• Added custom fields builder for appointments (text, select, checkbox)
• Fixed template field persistence on save
• Improved recursive settings merge for sequential arrays

1.1.0

• Room booking shortcode [booknest-rooms]
• Consent checkboxes with configurable Privacy / Terms URLs
• Walk-in booking forms

1.0.0

• Initial release