Bookzenix Lite – Appointment Booking

Bookzenix Lite adds a modern booking form to any page and a fast admin app for your team.

• Step-by-step booking: service → specialist → date & time → details
• As many services, categories and staff members as you need
• Smart availability: working hours, split shifts, breaks before/after, days off and company holidays
• Day and week calendar, appointment list with filters, customer list
• Approve bookings automatically or by hand
• Email confirmations with an .ics calendar file, fully editable email templates
• Several services in one booking request through the REST API (items list), for developers building their own forms
• Design options: layouts (steps, sidebar, compact, pop-up), colours, fonts, shapes, button and card styles, labels
• Works with any theme: shortcode [bookzenix_booking] or the "Bookzenix Booking Form" block
• Times stored in UTC, shown in your WordPress timezone – daylight saving handled
• Translation ready, personal data export/erase support

What your customers get Customers pick a service, a specialist and a free time, enter their details and get a confirmation email with an .ics file they can add to their own calendar. Bookings are confirmed automatically or after you approve them, and customers are emailed when you approve, reschedule or cancel. To change or cancel a booking, customers contact you and you update it in the admin calendar. Lite does not include an online customer account area. Everything here is free Every feature in this plugin works without a key, a time limit or a usage limit. There are no locked settings in this plugin. A separate commercial plugin, Bookzenix Pro, is sold on bookzenix.com for businesses that need online payments, a customer account area, calendar sync, events, packages and similar extras. Pro is a different plugin download – nothing in this plugin is unlocked by it. If you switch, install Pro and your services, staff and bookings stay where they are.

1. Install and activate the plugin.
2. Go to Bookzenix → Employees and add yourself (and your team) with working hours.
3. Go to Bookzenix → Services and create your services.
4. Add [bookzenix_booking] to a page, or insert the "Bookzenix Booking Form" block.

Shortcode options: [bookzenix_booking service="3"] preselects a service, category="2" and employee="5" filter the form, and layout="sidebar" services="grid" slots="pills" change its look on one page.

1.3.3

• Improved: the free plugin is simpler – code and settings for features it does not include were removed, so every screen shows only what works.
• Improved: a booking request with several services (REST items list) works in the free plugin.

1.3.2

• Fixed: the booking summary shows the service price before a time is picked (it showed 0.00).

1.3.1

• Improved: maintenance and stability.

1.3.0

• New: Employees design options – cards, list or compact grid, cards per row, photo size and shape, show the services each person offers.
• Improved: booking summary and confirmation layout.

1.2.3

• Improved: the booking progress (top bar and sidebar) shows every step from the start; steps that a booking doesn't need, like choosing a specialist when only one offers the service, stay visible and are marked “Not needed” instead of popping in or out.

1.2.2

• Improved: Settings → Design works on phones and tablets (no sideways scrolling, two-column colours, floating Preview button).

1.2.1

• Free version: removed leftover paid-plan code paths (licence handling, group capacity, tax, refunds, resources) and the custom CSS box.
• Security: a booking made with an existing customer's email no longer changes that customer's saved name or phone.
• Readme explains exactly what the free version includes.

1.2.0

• First release on WordPress.org.