WPBookingly is a modern, mobile-ready
appointment booking plugin for WordPress that makes it easy to manage services, staff, and customer appointments without writing a single line of code. Whether you run a salon, clinic, consultancy, gym, car rental, or tutoring business, WPBookingly gives you a professional
online booking calendar your customers can use from any device.
Customers browse real-time availability, pick a service and time slot, and confirm their appointment instantly — right on your website. With a lightweight codebase, shortcode support, and compatibility with any WordPress theme or page builder, WPBookingly is built to help you organize bookings, cut down on no-shows, and save time every day.
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Why Choose WPBookingly as Your WordPress Booking Plugin?
- No coding required — set up a complete service booking website in minutes
- Works with or without WooCommerce — choose the checkout that fits your business
- Mobile-first design — fast, responsive booking on desktop, tablet, and phone
- Built for every industry — salons, clinics, consultants, rentals, tutors, and more
- SEO-friendly and lightweight — won't slow your site down
Who Uses WPBookingly?
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Salons & Spas — Let clients pick a stylist, service, and time slot online.
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Cleaning & Repair Services — Assign jobs, set availability, confirm bookings instantly.
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Consultants & Coaches — Schedule sessions, send reminders, manage payments.
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Clinics & Therapists — Handle multi-staff schedules and patient appointments.
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Photographers — Show available dates, manage session types, collect deposits.
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Car Rental & Automotive Services — Display vehicles, set pricing, take instant reservations.
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Tutors & Training Centers — Run recurring classes and accept payments with ease.
Core Features (Free)
Booking & Scheduling
- Real-time calendar sync to prevent double bookings
- Custom staff schedules and working hours
- Configurable service durations and buffer time
- Dynamic time-slot length — pick a preset or set any custom duration in minutes
- Automated time-slot management
- Group booking support
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Recurring appointment controls
Checkout & Payments
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Two full checkout modes: WooCommerce mode (taxes, coupons, gateways, emails, orders) or Custom/Native mode (WPBookingly's own cart, checkout, and orders — no WooCommerce required)
- Free Offline payment gateway in Custom/Native mode — take bookings without WooCommerce and without a paid upgrade
- Inline checkout inside the booking drawer in both modes, with gateway redirects and automatic retry on temporary failures
- Advanced booking coupons with service, price, quantity, date, staff, and usage restrictions
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Partial-payment support across native and WooCommerce checkout flows
Customer Experience
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Modern customer account dashboard (native mode) or enhanced WooCommerce My Account (WooCommerce mode)
- View, reorder, reschedule, and request cancellation of bookings
- Recurring-series management for repeat appointments
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Customizable input fields to collect extra client details
Admin Tools
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Modern service editor: categories, extras, pricing, schedules, staff, taxes, waiting lists, FAQs, galleries
- One-Click Business Templates to launch a ready-to-book service in seconds
- Booking administration, staff dashboard, reviews, and cancellation-request management
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Analytics and reporting overview
Security & Compliance
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Server-side validation, nonces, rate limiting, and capability/ownership checks
- Protected booking and account access with verified payment references
- GDPR consent and data export/erasure tools
Shortcodes
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[service-booking post_id="123"] | Display the booking interface for a specific service |
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[mpwpb-user-dashboard] | Display the customer booking dashboard |
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[custom_payment_my_account] | Display the Custom/Native payment My Account area |
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[mpwpb_booking_confirmation] | Display a protected order confirmation screen |
Every Booking Website Needs These Features
📅 Real-time calendar sync.
🔁 Recurring & group bookings·
💳 Secure online payments (Stripe, PayPal, and more)·
📨 Automated email/SMS notifications·
🧩 Flexible booking-form placement via shortcode ·
🌍 Multilingual & theme compatibility·
📊 CSV data export and reporting
Upgrade to WPBookingly Pro
Take your booking system further with:
- Real-time Google Calendar sync
- Advanced staff management and multi-staff assignment
- Recurring appointments and automated SMS reminders
- PDF invoices and downloadable booking tickets
- CSV data export
- Custom client forms
- Group & multi-service booking
- Advanced analytics and reporting
- Online Stripe and PayPal gateways for Custom/Native mode
- Extended WooCommerce payment gateways
👉 Try the
WPBookingly Pro Demo
Step-by-Step Industry Guides
Setting up a booking site for your industry takes just a few steps: install WordPress, pick a compatible theme, install WPBookingly, configure WooCommerce (optional), add your services, publish the booking shortcode, and start accepting appointments. Detailed walkthroughs are available for:
1.4.6
- Fix Security Issue
- Code Optimized
1.4.4
- Fix: Updated the bundled Appneck SDK to the latest version.
1.4.3
- New: Updated the bundled Appneck SDK to the latest version.
1.4.2
- New: Replaced the Appsero telemetry SDK with Appneck. It does not collect any data by default; it only starts after you confirm via the admin notice.
1.4.0
- Added Dynamic Time Slot Length: choose one of the presets or type any custom slot length in minutes, in both the modern and classic service editors.
- Added booking duration everywhere: the booked time range and duration now appear on the order item, order emails, My Account, the thank-you page, the native checkout recap, and the booking wizard summary. The slot length is frozen at checkout, so editing a service later never rewrites what a customer already booked.
- Added Offline Payment as a free standalone gateway, so Custom/Native payment mode now works without WooCommerce and without Pro. Stripe and PayPal remain Pro features.
- Added inline Custom/Native checkout inside the booking drawer for every non-WooCommerce setup, including the offline booking confirmation, instead of redirecting to a separate checkout page.
- Added an Orders screen for Custom/Native bookings on free sites, giving a read-only overview of placed bookings.
- Added an automatic demo-data import with a floating circular progress widget. Services are imported one per request so constrained hosts no longer hit memory or execution-time limits, and the import now works in standalone mode without WooCommerce.
- Added a required payment method check: a booking can no longer be completed until a working gateway is configured. Customers see a short notice, and administrators get a direct "Go to Payment Settings" link.
- Added a redesigned Review Settings screen with a card layout, an auto-send toggle, a "send after N days" option, and clickable placeholder chips that insert into the email body.
- Improved the booking drawer on phones and tablets with a full visible-height layout, admin-bar aware spacing, touch-sized footer actions, and a corrected tablet breakpoint.
- Improved the drawer progress bar so the completed and current steps always match the step being displayed.
- Improved duration display so anything an hour or longer reads hour-wise (for example "4 hours" instead of "240 min") across the service overview and duration chips.
- Improved admin styling with a refreshed sidebar, corrected sticky positioning while scrolling, and updated default colours.
- Improved Custom Payment mode stability by adding fallbacks for WooCommerce helper functions, preventing fatal errors on admin screens when WooCommerce is not active.
- Fixed recurring bookings reporting inflated revenue: each occurrence stored the whole series total, so Analytics and the Order List multiplied the amount by the number of occurrences.
- Fixed staff photos rendering as ovals or rectangles instead of circles in the staff edit form and staff list.
- Fixed the booking wizard allowing the staff step to be reached without picking a date and time, and cleared a previously picked time when the date changes so a mismatched date/time pair can never be submitted.
- Fixed two Back buttons appearing at once in the booking wizard on mobile.
- Fixed the "Custom" slot-length input intermittently not appearing when selected.
- Fixed "Send Request" and saving on the Reviews screen giving no feedback and switching away from the active tab.
- Fixed a fatal error ("Call to undefined method MP_Global_Function::format_price()") on sites running this plugin alongside other MagePeople plugins.
- Fixed a documentation link that contained a duplicate /docs path.
- Security: fixed a stored cross-site scripting issue in the admin review "View" modal, where review content submitted by a customer could execute script in a moderator's browser. Review content is now rendered as plain text.
- Security: added a capability check to the review send-request action and restricted the payment settings link to users allowed to manage settings. The server now refuses to create an order when no payment method is available.
1.3.1
- Added a modern service creation and editing workflow covering categories, extras, schedules, recurring rules, tax, staff, waiting lists, FAQs, galleries, and formatted service details.
- Added One-Click Business Templates that generate an editable, ready-to-book service with sample pricing, content, FAQs, schedules, and staff.
- Added an improved quick-setup experience, expanded service list, analytics, staff tools, reviews management, and a searchable in-plugin help guide.
- Added partial-payment support across Custom/Native, classic WooCommerce, and WooCommerce Checkout Blocks flows.
- Added a complete Custom/Native checkout with protected confirmations, native orders, offline payments, and Stripe/PayPal controls.
- Added an inline WooCommerce checkout inside the booking drawer, including billing fields, taxes, coupons, terms, gateway redirects, and checkout-state recovery.
- Added reliable retry handling for temporary checkout failures so customers keep their booking selections.
- Added a modern Custom/Native My Account area with dashboard, orders, billing, and profile security.
- Added booking actions to WooCommerce My Account: View, Reorder, Request Cancellation, Reschedule, Manage Recurring, and Cancel Series.
- Added customer cancellation requests with administrator approval, booking history, and policy lead times.
- Added recurring-series management for eligible customers.
- Added advanced booking coupons with service, value, quantity, schedule, customer, and staff restrictions.
- Added GDPR consent, cookie controls, and data export/erasure tools.
- Improved the service page, booking drawer, checkout, account tables, and dialogs with responsive styling.
- Fixed service permalinks after activation.
- Fixed Service Details formatting so rich text from the WordPress editor renders correctly on the frontend.
- Fixed intermittent WooCommerce checkout loading, duplicate cart/order attempts, and gateway redirect handling.
- Hardened checkout, booking, account, and upload requests with validation, sanitisation, nonces, and rate limits.
1.2.2
- Added recurring appointment controls, staff assignment and schedules, and responsive booking layouts.
- Added 24-hour time-format support and improved availability handling.
- Added assisted WooCommerce installation with AJAX setup and demo import.
- Improved permalink sanitisation and request authorisation.
1.2.0
- Added analytics, recurring booking, waiting-list, and customer-dashboard foundations.
- Added sortable service content and refreshed date/time selection.
- Fixed zero-price, extra-service, and order-display issues.
1.1.8
- Improved the booking shortcode and resolved service-booking and checkout issues.
1.1.3
- Added sortable service categories, subcategories, and FAQs.
- Improved service import, icon/image display, and AJAX loading states.
1.1.2
- Added buffer-time support and improved startup compatibility checks.
1.1.1
- Improved staff visibility rules and service updates.
1.1.0
- Improved the service-booking workflow and checkout configuration.
1.0.0
Initial release of Service Booking Manager (WPBookingly). No upgrade necessary at this time.