Junaid Hassan

CodoBookings is a modern, lightweight booking and appointment-management plugin for WordPress. It’s designed to make scheduling, managing, and tracking appointments effortless.
Whether you’re a coach, consultant, tutor, or agency, CodoBookings helps you manage your entire booking process directly inside WordPress — cleanly, securely, and efficiently.
🎯 Key Features
<ul>
<li>Flexible Booking Types – Supports both one-time and weekly recurring appointments.</li>
<li>Guest Bookings – Customers can book appointments without creating an account by just providing their email address.</li>
<li>Email Notifications – Automatic HTML email confirmations and status update notifications for you and your clients.</li>
<li>Shortcodes for Easy Embedding – Display booking calendars or grids anywhere using simple shortcodes.</li>
<li>Design System – A powerful design system to customize colors, layout and custom CSS.</li>
<li>User Fields – A drag & drop enabled dynamic User Fields system to collect custom user data associated to a booking.</li>
<li>Admin Dashboard Widget – See your key booking stats right on the WordPress dashboard.</li>
<li>Clean Front-End Interface – Modern, minimal design that adapts to any WordPress theme.</li>
<li>Translation Ready – Includes <code>.pot</code> file for localization with tools like Poedit.</li>
<li>Extensible Architecture – Modular structure ready for integrations and add-ons.</li>
<li>Secure & Optimized – Sanitized inputs, escaped outputs, and lightweight queries.</li>
</ul>
CodoBookings provides a full, professional booking system built natively for WordPress — without bloat or dependency chains.
<h3>Developer Hooks & Filters</h3>
CodoBookings provides 40+ action hooks and filter hooks that allow developers to extend and customize the booking system without modifying core plugin files. These hooks enable you to add custom functionality, integrate with third-party services, modify the booking workflow, customize design settings, and enhance the user experience.
Common use cases include: 
* Adding custom validation to booking forms 
* Integrating with CRM systems and marketing tools 
* Customizing email notifications and workflows 
* Modifying calendar display and grid layouts 
* Extending design customization options 
* Implementing custom analytics tracking 
* Adding promotional content and badges
Developer Reference Guide: <a href="https://wpdemo.codoplex.com/codobookings/codobookings-hooks-and-filters-complete-developer-guide-2026/" rel="nofollow ugc">CodoBookings Hooks and Filters – Complete Developer Guide</a>
The reference guide includes detailed explanations and working code examples for every hook, organized by functionality: dashboard hooks, calendar display hooks, booking process hooks, design customization hooks, styling hooks, and JavaScript hooks.
<h3>Planned Extensions</h3>
<ul>
<li>PMPro Integration – Restrict or enable bookings based on membership level. (Coming soon)</li>
<li>WooCommerce Integration – Sell bookings as WooCommerce products with a full checkout flow. (Coming soon)</li>
<li>Google Calendar Sync – Sync bookings with Google Calendar. (Coming soon)</li>
<li>Custom Email Templates – Create branded, customizable email templates. (Coming soon)</li>
</ul>
<h3>License</h3>
This plugin is licensed under the GPLv2 or later license. 
You are free to use, modify, and redistribute it under the same license.
<h3>Author & Links</h3>
Author: CodoBookings Team – <a href="https://codoplex.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Codoplex</a> 
Demo: <a href="https://wpdemo.codoplex.com/codobookings/demo/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://wpdemo.codoplex.com/codobookings/demo/</a> 
Support: <a href="https://care.codoplex.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://care.codoplex.com/</a>

CodoBookings

A Lightweight WordPress Booking & Appointment System

timetailor

TimeTailor Salon Booking lets you add a professional online salon booking system to your WordPress site. It’s built for salon owners who manage their own bookings, as well as partners and agencies who set up booking systems and websites for salons.
Once installed, the plugin adds TimeTailor Salon Booking to your WordPress admin menu and guides you through setup step by step.
TimeTailor handles booking logic, payments, and salon management. The WordPress plugin connects your website to the TimeTailor platform and lets you embed the salon booking experience without custom development.
<h3>Key features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Online salon booking system designed specifically for salons </li>
<li>Booking flow optimized for real customers, not generic forms </li>
<li>Services, staff, and opening hours managed in TimeTailor salon booking software</li>
<li>Online payments and deposits powered by Stripe </li>
<li>Unlimited team members </li>
<li>Salon booking widget that can be embedded on any WordPress page </li>
<li>Test booking flow to preview the customer experience </li>
<li>Separate access for salon owners and partners </li>
<li>Partner support for agencies setting up booking systems for salons </li>
</ul>
<h3>Pricing</h3>
TimeTailor offers flexible pricing depending on how bookings are handled.
<ul>
<li>Unlimited team members</li>
<li>Manually added appointments are always free</li>
<li>Online bookings include a booking fee, which can be passed on to the person making the booking</li>
<li>Monthly subscription plans are available</li>
</ul>
<h3>How it works</h3>
<ol>
<li>Install and activate the plugin</li>
<li>Open TimeTailor from the WordPress admin menu</li>
<li>Log in or create a TimeTailor account</li>
<li>Complete the setup steps shown in the dashboard</li>
<li>Embed the booking widget on your website</li>
<li>Start accepting online bookings</li>
</ol>
Partners and agencies can set up booking systems for multiple salons from the same TimeTailor account.
<h3>External services</h3>
This plugin connects to the TimeTailor service to authenticate users, create TimeTailor accounts, fetch account and salon data, generate dashboard access links, and send salon owner invitations.
It sends requests to these TimeTailor endpoints:
<ul>
<li><code>https://api.timetailor.com/auth/signin</code> to sign in an existing TimeTailor user</li>
<li><code>https://api.timetailor.com/wp/auth/signup</code> to create a new TimeTailor user or partner account</li>
<li><code>https://api.timetailor.com/wp/auth/profile</code> to fetch the authenticated user’s profile and salon locations</li>
<li><code>https://api.timetailor.com/auth/refresh-token</code> to refresh expired access tokens</li>
<li><code>https://api.timetailor.com/wp/auth/profile/generate-auth-link</code> to generate secure links into the TimeTailor dashboard</li>
<li><code>https://api.timetailor.com/wp/locations/{locationId}/experts/{expertId}/invite</code> to send a salon owner invitation email</li>
</ul>
This service is provided by <code>TimeTailor</code>:
<ul>
<li>Terms of service: <code>https://app.timetailor.com/terms</code></li>
<li>Privacy policy: <code>https://app.timetailor.com/privacy</code></li>
</ul>
When the plugin connects to the external service, it may send:
<ul>
<li>On login: the user’s email address and password</li>
<li>On signup: user type, business name, owner name, salon category, email address, password, selected language, IP address, and for partner accounts also partner first name and phone number</li>
<li>On authenticated account requests: access token or refresh token so the API can identify the connected TimeTailor account</li>
<li>When generating a location dashboard link: the selected TimeTailor location ID</li>
<li>When inviting a salon owner: the selected location ID, expert ID, first name, and email address of the invited owner</li>
</ul>
The external service is used only when the site administrator uses the plugin features that require a connected TimeTailor account.

TimeTailor Salon Booking

Professional salon booking software for WordPress. Accept online bookings, manage salon appointments, and embed the TimeTailor salon booking widget.

CodoBookings vs TimeTailor Salon Booking