Creavi Appointment Booking Calendar

Creavi Appointment Booking Calendar is a free appointment booking plugin for WordPress with built-in video conferencing, Google Calendar sync, Outlook Calendar sync, automated reminders, and beautiful ready-made Gutenberg layouts. Create bookable services, define your availability, collect customer details, send confirmation emails, and let customers book online in a clean calendar flow. You can offer in-person meetings, phone calls, custom meeting links, or secure video meetings generated directly by the plugin. Build a polished booking page in minutes with drag-and-drop Gutenberg blocks. Add a ready-made Service Hero section, a Booking Profile layout, an inline booking calendar, or a popup booking button without designing everything from scratch. Creavi is built for consultants, coaches, clinics, salons, agencies, educators, and small service businesses that want a practical booking system without monthly booking software. Easy Setup - Ready in 2 Minutes Watch how it works in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdV1pQHp-oI&t=1s Check out the live demo: https://wordpress.creavi.dk/booking/ We’re open to any suggestions! Feel free to reach out via the support forum — we’re happy to hear your ideas and may implement them in future updates. Free Features Included Creavi gives small service businesses a complete booking setup for free, including calendar sync, automated reminders, custom booking forms, video meeting options, and ready-made Gutenberg booking page layouts.

• Add booking button anywhere via shortcode: [creavibc_booking_button id="123"] (opens booking popup)
• Embed full booking interface directly on page via shortcode: [creavibc_booking_inline id="123"]
• Support multiple booking widgets on the same page (different services)
• Smooth booking experience:
• Popup or inline layout
• Step-by-step flow: Date → Time → Details
• Fully responsive and mobile-friendly
• Flexible availability settings:
• Admin-defined available days via date picker
• Rolling availability range (e.g. next 30–365 days)
• Exclude specific dates (days off, holidays)
• Minimum time before booking (buffer)
• Flexible weekday-based time slots:
• Visual grid selector (e.g. Mon 9:00, Tue 10:30)
• Different time slots per weekday
• Optional slot duration: 20 / 30 / 60 minutes
• Dynamic time slots based on selected date
• Smart timezone handling:
• Admin timezone detection
• Timezone modes:
• Localized (auto-adjust to user timezone)
• Locked (fixed business timezone)
• Clear timezone indication on frontend
• Customizable booking form fields:
• Toggle default Name & Email fields
• Add unlimited custom fields (text or textarea)
• Set any field as required
• Automated email notifications & reminders:
• Sent to both admin and customer
• Dynamic tags: {name}, {email}, {date}, {time}, {service}
• Optional reminder emails before the appointment (reduce no-shows)
• Google Calendar integration:
• Automatically push bookings to Google Calendar
• Block already booked time slots from Google Calendar
• Google Calendar link generation for attendees
• Custom Google event title and description templates
• Outlook Calendar integration:
• Automatically push bookings to Outlook Calendar
• Per-service Outlook connection and sync
• Block busy Outlook time slots on the frontend
• Custom Outlook event title and description templates
• Calendar & scheduling:
• Downloadable .ics (iCalendar) file
• Meeting & location options:
• In-person meetings
• Online meetings (video or custom link)
• Phone call option
• Built-in video conferencing:
• Automatic meeting link generation
• Personalization options:
• Custom brand color
• Personalized thank-you message
• Easy booking management
• Clean and minimal admin UI
• Works with Gutenberg, Elementor, and other page builders
• Multilingual & Translation Ready

1.4.4

• Improved the Edit Service admin UI with clearer metabox spacing, aligned labels, more readable descriptions, consistent focus states, and refined select dropdown arrows.

1.4.3

• Added Booking Profile Gutenberg block — display a service provider profile with a live booking calendar directly in the block editor.
• Added admin reminder notifications — admins now receive reminder emails before upcoming appointments, matching the existing customer reminder system.
• Added host name field for secure video meetings.

1.4.2

• Improved admin UI with a cleaner, more consistent look and feel across the Edit Service page.
• Added Service Hero Gutenberg block — a ready-to-use booking hero section you can drag and drop straight into any page. New layouts coming soon.

1.4.1

• Added Outlook Calendar availability sync – the plugin now fetches existing events from connected Outlook Calendars and automatically blocks those time slots in the service booking calendar on the frontend.

1.4.0

• Added Outlook Calendar integration for automatic booking event sync.
• Added per-service Outlook connect, reconnect, and disconnect options.
• Added optional automatic push toggle for Outlook events.
• Added customizable Outlook event title and description templates.
• Tested up to WordPress 7.0.

1.3.1

• Added Gutenberg block to easily insert booking widgets directly in the editor.

1.3.0

• Added secure video integration for online appointments.
• Added flexible meeting types: Secure video, Phone call, and Custom link.
• Improved booking notifications and calendar event details with meeting information.

1.2.1

• Added a dedicated “Location & Meeting” section with extended meeting options.
• Improved frontend booking UI to better display meeting location details.
• Improved admin UI with a smoother and clearer service setup tour.

1.2.0

• Added {name_url} template tag for Booking emails, Reminder emails.
• Added Service setup onboarding navigation bar for a clearer configuration flow.
• Improved Service editor layout with structured top navigation

1.1.9

• Added per-service Google Calendar connections – each service can now connect to its own Google account.
• Improved Google Calendar connection logic with service-level override and site-level fallback.
• Added support for {custom} tag in Google Calendar events and invitations.
• Improved tag visibility in admin UI (clarified {custom} usage).

1.1.8

• Extended Google Calendar event details
• Improved Google Calendar & .ics event data consistency
• Improved Admin metabox reorganization for clearer service setup
• Improved Modernized admin styling and layout

1.1.7

• Added multilingual support for frontend and admin.
• Included French (fr_FR) and Danish (da_DK) translations.

1.1.6

• Added Minimum Time Before Booking option - per service lead-time setting.

1.1.5

• Added a default service placeholder image when no service image is uploaded.
• Improved calendar styling for a cleaner and more consistent booking experience.

1.1.4

• Booking calendar now respects the WordPress “Week Starts On” setting.

1.1.3

• Added automated reminder emails for bookings (per service).
• New service option to enable/disable reminder emails.
• New reminder timing settings (minutes, hours, or 1 day before the appointment).
• Added customizable reminder email subject and message templates.

1.1.2

• Fixed an issue allowing bookings in the past on the current day.
• Fixed service thank-you text option.

1.1.1

• Added Google Calendar availability sync – the plugin now fetches existing events from connected Google Calendars and automatically blocks those time slots in the service booking calendar on the frontend.
• This prevents double bookings by ensuring already occupied Google Calendar times cannot be selected by users.

1.1.0

• Added dynamic availability mode with rolling booking windows and support for excluded dates.
• Improved Available Booking Days UI with a tab-based switch between dynamic and static modes, fully backward compatible.

1.0.17

• Added Google Calendar integration - connect your services with Google Calendar to automatically create events for new bookings and keep your schedule in sync.

1.0.16

• Fixed admin timezone selector to correctly keep the saved value selected on post edit.
• Improved timezone dropdown population to show the full list while preserving the stored timezone.

1.0.15

• Removed "Close" button for the inline layout (embedded on-page booking).
• Prepared Google Calendar integration (service-level connect/disconnect UI and backend scaffolding).

1.0.14

• Added auto-selection of the first available date and time slot on open (with visual highlight)

1.0.13

• Added smooth animations when rendering or clearing time slots
• Improved booking slots container with height transition to prevent layout jumps

1.0.12 *Improved inline calendar styles for better visual consistency 1.0.11

• Added option and shortcode for inline booking form display directly on the page

1.0.10

• Improved mobile layout handling using max-height: 90vh with fallback height
• Aligned summary

1.0.9

• Aligned time zone summary with extended format in footer
• Fixed popup height on large screens

1.0.8

• Added time zone info next to selected time in booking summary footer

1.0.7

• Enhanced time slot selection UX with dynamic tooltip on weekday/time headers

1.0.6

• Standardized time slot button sizes for better visual alignment
• Improved layout consistency across different screen sizes
• Enhanced mobile responsiveness of time slot grid

1.0.5

• Optimized and aligned Flatpickr calendar header for better compatibility with different themes
• Removed unwanted arrowTop styling from Flatpickr popup
• Minor CSS cleanup for calendar appearance

1.0.4

• Improved mobile layout and spacing behavior
• Aligned and styled time zone notice with animated globe icon and tooltip

1.0.3

• Added quick-fill range selector for Available Booking Days (1–12 months ahead)
• Improved field descriptions for better admin UX when selecting booking dates

1.0.2

• Added vertical and horizontal padding options for the booking button
• Improved styling compatibility with default WordPress themes
• Minor UI enhancements for smoother content transitions

1.0.1

• Minor CSS improvements for better compatibility with Elementor

1.0

• Initial public release with full booking flow: calendar, time slots, form fields, notifications, and timezone support tzs7wckvtlg550toy6sihrrjvby6t6u9