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Salon Booking & Appointment Scheduling Lite is a clean, lightweight appointment booking plugin for single-employee salons. It integrates with WooCommerce products as services and blocks time slots based on service duration so double bookings are impossible.
Features: 
* Uses WooCommerce products as bookable services 
* Smart time slot blocking based on service duration 
* Per-date schedule overrides (custom hours or close entire day) 
* Duplicate booking prevention (server-side check) 
* Email confirmation to both admin and customer 
* Past date and closed date prevention on frontend 
* Buffer Time (Gap) between appointments for preparation 
* Default duration fallback for services without specified time 
* Beautiful Auto-Gradient UI matching your brand (Color Picker) 
* Fully translatable (i18n ready with .pot file support) 
* No inline CSS or JS — all assets properly enqueued

Salon Booking & Appointment Scheduling Lite

Advanced single-employee salon booking system with service blocking, schedule overrides, and WooCommerce integration.

Gazi Mohammad Yeasin

VibeReserve Booking Light is a free, fully-functional appointment booking plugin built for beauty salons, spas, barbershops, wellness centres, clinics, and any service-based business. It ships with a clean admin dashboard and a multi-step booking form for your customers.
Let customers book 24/7 from your website and manage everything from one modern dashboard.
<h4>Everything included (free, unlimited)</h4>
<ul>
<li>Multi-step booking form — embedded via shortcode or Gutenberg block</li>
<li>Admin dashboard — real-time stats, booking charts and upcoming appointments</li>
<li>Unlimited services — add as many services as you need with images, descriptions, pricing, duration and sale prices</li>
<li>Unlimited staff — add team members with profiles and weekly schedules</li>
<li>Unlimited categories — organise services with custom colours</li>
<li>Unlimited locations — manage multiple business locations/branches</li>
<li>Booking calendar — interactive calendar view of all appointments</li>
<li>Email notifications — automated confirmation emails to customer and admin on every booking</li>
<li>Booking management — view, confirm, complete, or cancel bookings</li>
<li>Staff roles & access control — assign Admin, Manager, or Staff roles</li>
<li>Gutenberg blocks — booking form, services grid, and staff grid blocks</li>
<li>Fully responsive — looks great on desktop, tablet and mobile</li>
<li>Translation ready — compatible with WPML and Loco Translate</li>
</ul>
<h4>Optional premium add-on</h4>
An optional, separately-distributed premium add-on is available from the author’s website at <a href="https://luminaith.com/vibereserve-booking" rel="nofollow ugc">luminaith.com/vibereserve-booking</a>. The premium add-on adds features that this free plugin does not include (such as online payment gateways, WhatsApp notifications, Google Calendar sync, automated email reminders, blocked dates, customer self-service portal, reviews, revenue reports, iCal export and REST API access).
The premium add-on is not required. The free plugin is complete and has no time limits, usage limits, or feature locks.
<h3>Shortcodes</h3>
<ul>
<li><code>[vibereserve_booking]</code> — full multi-step booking form</li>
<li><code>[vibereserve_services]</code> — services showcase grid (supports <code>category</code>, <code>limit</code>, <code>featured</code> attributes)</li>
<li><code>[vibereserve_staff]</code> — team grid</li>
</ul>
<h3>External services</h3>
This plugin does not connect to any external service by default. All bookings, services, staff and schedules are stored locally in your WordPress database. Emails are sent through your own WordPress site using <code>wp_mail()</code>.
The plugin also does not load any JavaScript or CSS from remote CDNs — Chart.js, FullCalendar and Cropper.js are bundled with the plugin and served from your own site.

VibeReserve Booking Light

Free appointment & booking plugin for salons, spas, clinics & service businesses. Manage bookings, staff, services & schedules in one place.

Salon Booking & Appointment Scheduling Lite vs VibeReserve Booking Light