gRDV Booking

gRDV Booking is a focused, self-hosted appointment-booking plugin for businesses, consultants and service providers. Visitors book directly on your WordPress site, and booking records remain in your WordPress database instead of being sent to a separate booking SaaS by default. The plugin is designed for privacy-conscious operation, particularly for organisations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. It combines data-minimising defaults, formal or informal German wording, configurable retention and transparent optional integrations. This does not replace your own legal assessment, but it gives you practical controls for a privacy-minded setup. Create any number of meeting types, define availability, publish the booking form with a shortcode and send branded confirmations to customers and a freely configurable internal recipient. No WordPress account or administrator role is required for that recipient. A focused alternative to large booking suites gRDV Booking deliberately concentrates on a clear appointment workflow instead of trying to be a marketplace, CRM or employee-management platform. It is a good fit when you want dependable scheduling, local data ownership and understandable settings without a mandatory external account. What you can do

• Create and manage any number of meeting types.
• Display a responsive booking form with the [grdv_booking] shortcode.
• Configure active weekdays, daily time windows and slot intervals.
• Add lead time and buffer time after appointments.
• Collect customer name, email address, optional phone number and notes.
• Review appointments in calendar and list views.
• Create and edit bookings manually in the WordPress administration area.
• Add global blocked times for holidays, absences and other unavailable periods.
• Send branded email confirmations to customers and a configurable internal recipient.
• Send one configurable appointment reminder to customers and the internal recipient.
• Let customers cancel through a personal link with an optional cancellation deadline.
• Include an ICS calendar link in confirmation emails.
• Block unavailable times with an optional externally hosted ICS or Webcal calendar URL.
• Choose formal or informal wording for customer-facing text.
• Set a privacy policy URL and require acknowledgement before booking.
• Automatically anonymize or delete old booking records after a configurable retention period.

gRDV Booking is a complete, independently usable plugin. It has no trial period, usage quota, licence check or feature that expires after a period of time.

1.0.0

• Initial public release.