Dmitry

Next Open is a complete appointment booking solution designed for businesses with multiple locations. Whether you run a dental practice, hair salon, consulting firm, or any service-based business, Next Open makes it easy for customers to book appointments online while giving you powerful tools to manage your schedule.
Why Choose Next Open?
Unlike other booking plugins that are either too complicated or too limited, Next Open strikes the perfect balance. It’s simple enough to set up in minutes, yet powerful enough to handle complex multi-location scheduling needs.
Core Features
<ul>
<li>Multiple location management with individual schedules</li>
<li>Real-time availability checking</li>
<li>Automated email confirmations for customers and admins</li>
<li>Customizable time slots (15, 30, or 60 minutes)</li>
<li>Business hours and holiday scheduling</li>
<li>Mobile-responsive booking interface</li>
<li>Customer database management</li>
<li>Dashboard with appointment overview</li>
<li>Timezone support for accurate scheduling</li>
<li>Easy shortcode integration</li>
</ul>
Perfect For
<ul>
<li>Medical and dental practices</li>
<li>Hair salons and barbershops</li>
<li>Consulting services</li>
<li>Professional services (lawyers, accountants, coaches)</li>
<li>Wellness centers</li>
<li>Auto services</li>
<li>Personal services</li>
<li>Educational services</li>
<li>Any service-based business</li>
</ul>
How It Works
<ol>
<li>Add your business locations with contact information</li>
<li>Set business hours for each location</li>
<li>Configure time slot intervals</li>
<li>Add holidays and closure dates</li>
<li>Embed booking form using [next_open_booking] shortcode</li>
<li>Customers book appointments online</li>
<li>Automated email confirmations sent</li>
<li>Manage appointments from your dashboard</li>
</ol>
Pro Features Available
Upgrade to Next Open Pro for advanced capabilities:
<ul>
<li>Staff Management – Add team members with photos, individual schedules, and service assignments</li>
<li>Services & Pricing – Create services with variable pricing and durations</li>
<li>Custom Form Fields – Add unlimited custom fields to collect specific information</li>
<li>Customer Self-Service Portal – Let customers cancel or reschedule appointments 24/7</li>
<li>Stripe Payment Integration – Accept credit card payments or deposits</li>
<li>CSV Import/Export – Bulk import appointments and export data</li>
<li>Buffer Times – Add preparation time between appointments</li>
<li>Priority Support – Get faster help with dedicated email support</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://oiopublisher.com/next-open/" rel="nofollow ugc">Learn more about Pro</a>
Translation Ready
Next Open is fully internationalized and ready for translation into any language.
Developer Friendly
Built with clean, well-documented code following WordPress coding standards. Includes hooks and filters for customization.
<h3>Support</h3>
Free Support: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/next-open-location-booking/ 
Pro Support: Admin@oiopublisher.com
Website: https://oiopublisher.com 
Upgrade to Pro: https://oiopublisher.com/next-open/

Next Open – Appointment Booking for Multi-Location Businesses

Professional appointment booking system for WordPress. Manage locations, schedule appointments, and automate customer notifications.

Dimitri Grassi

Salon Booking System is a comprehensive, user-friendly appointment scheduling solution designed to help small businesses streamline their booking process and maximize online reservations.
Whether you’re running a salon, spa, workshop, or any service-based business, Salon Booking System takes the hassle out of managing appointments. With an intuitive interface and powerful features, it helps you save valuable time while providing a seamless booking experience for your customers.
Since its launch in 2015, Salon Booking System has become a trusted tool for hundreds of businesses, enabling them to easily accept bookings directly from their website and efficiently manage their daily schedules.
<h3>Salon Booking System is trusted by:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Hairdressers & Barbershops</li>
<li>Beauty Salons & Spas</li>
<li>Mechanical Workshops</li>
<li>Therapists & Tutors</li>
<li>Health Care Centers & Clinics</li>
<li>COVID Test Centers</li>
</ul>
Whether you’re offering one-on-one services, same-day appointments, or a specific time-based reservation, this plugin is the perfect solution for any business that needs to efficiently manage individual appointments.
<h3>Key Benefits:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Easy to Use: Designed for busy professionals with minimal tech experience.</li>
<li>Flexible Booking: Ideal for businesses offering services that require a fixed time and date.</li>
<li>Time-Saving: Automates scheduling and reduces administrative tasks, freeing up your time to focus on your customers.</li>
<li>Customizable: Adapt the system to fit your unique business needs.</li>
</ul>
With Salon Booking System, growing your client base and managing bookings has never been easier.
<h3>Why Choose Salon Booking System?</h3>
<ul>
<li>Reliability: Trusted by small businesses around the world.</li>
<li>Seamless Integration: Easily integrates with your WordPress website.</li>
<li>Customer-Focused: Optimized to provide a smooth booking experience for your clients.</li>
</ul>
Start managing your appointments efficiently and grow your business with the Salon Booking System today!
With Salon Booking System handling your appointments is very easy, take a look at this 60’’ video:
<iframe loading="lazy" title="Salon Booking System - one minute tutorial" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MGW0hSZrV5c?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Online Demo
<a href="https://salon.salonbooking.it/" rel="nofollow ugc">click here to see it in action</a>
<h3>Plugin’s main Free features</h3>
Back-end calendar
<ul>
<li>Monthly view</li>
<li>Weekly view</li>
<li>Daily view </li>
<li>Assistant view</li>
<li>Bookings export </li>
<li>Adding/Edit reservations from daily view</li>
<li>Block out time slots from daily view</li>
</ul>
General settings
<ul>
<li>Email notifications on new reservation</li>
<li>Email notification to selected assistant</li>
<li>Email reminder for the customers</li>
<li>Email followup</li>
<li>Email review notification</li>
<li>Email notification custom logo</li>
<li>Custom email message to the customers</li>
<li>Email message to invite users to leave a review on website or on a custom platform ( Google My Business, Facebook, other.. )</li>
<li>Customisable SMS notification on new reservation</li>
<li>SMS notification to selected assistant</li>
<li>SMS reminder for the customers</li>
<li>SMS followup</li>
<li>SMS verification code against spam</li>
<li>
SMS Alphanumeric ID supported
</li>
<li>
Twilio, Plivo and 1p1sms providers supported by default
</li>
<li>
set you favourite date and time format
</li>
<li>set when your week starts</li>
<li>WordPress Editors as Salon Administrator</li>
</ul>
Availability settings
<ul>
<li>Three bookings methods BASIC / ADVANCED / HIGH END</li>
<li>Booking time range </li>
<li>Multiple weekly timetable rules</li>
<li>Time range validity option for the weekly booking rules </li>
<li>Multiple holidays rules</li>
<li>Offset between reservations </li>
<li>Change booking form steps order ( Date&time – Services – Assistants – Checkout – Payment or reverse )</li>
<li>Manual booking confirmation</li>
<li>Users booking cancellation</li>
<li>Pause online booking form</li>
<li>Repeat past reservations</li>
<li>Re-schedule option</li>
</ul>
Payments options
<ul>
<li>Select currency</li>
<li>Hide prices</li>
<li>Decimals and thousand separators option</li>
</ul>
Check-out options
<ul>
<li>Enable guest checkout</li>
<li>Force guest checkout</li>
<li>Limit the number of services bookable at the same time</li>
<li>Control form fields</li>
<li>Log-in with Facebook account</li>
<li>Enable Advanced Discount System</li>
<li>Custom fields for check-out form</li>
</ul>
Two ways Google Calendar synchronisation
<ul>
<li>Synchronies reservations on salon administrator’s Google Calendar account</li>
<li>Salon admin can add and cancel reservations from his Google Calendar account</li>
</ul>
Front-end booking form styling
<ul>
<li>Choose among three different booking form sizes according to your page layout</li>
<li>Custom colors palette generator</li>
</ul>
Assistants settings
<ul>
<li>Multiple weekly timetable rules</li>
<li>Multiple holidays rules</li>
<li>Limit reservations to specific services</li>
<li>Multiple reservations for the same slot for classrooms booking</li>
<li>Google Calendar synchronisation</li>
<li>SMS notification when he’s booked</li>
<li>Email notification when he’s booked</li>
</ul>
Services settings
<ul>
<li>Price</li>
<li>Duration</li>
<li>Unit per session</li>
<li>Category grouping</li>
<li>Multiple weekly timetable rules</li>
<li>No assistant required option</li>
<li>Service break </li>
<li>Conditional “Secondary services”</li>
<li>Direct booking link</li>
<li>Exclusive service</li>
<li>Hide service on front-end</li>
</ul>
Advanced Discount System
<ul>
<li>Create unlimited coupon codes</li>
<li>Create unlimited discounts based on multiple criteria</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/advanced-discount-system-for-salon-booking-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">read more..</a>
Customers archive
<ul>
<li>List of customers</li>
<li>Details page of each customer with a list of his reservations and feedbacks</li>
<li>Customer’s bookings statistics</li>
</ul>
Reports
<ul>
<li>Stats on reservations and revenues</li>
<li>Stats on reservations and revenues by services</li>
<li>Stats on reservations and revenues by assistant</li>
<li>Stats on reservations and revenues by customers</li>
<li>Email weekly report</li>
</ul>
Tools
<ul>
<li>Easy import of Users, Services and Assistants and Reservations from a CSV file</li>
</ul>
Frontend pages
<ul>
<li>Booking form page [salon/]</li>
<li>Customers account page [salon_booking_my_account]</li>
<li>Assistants bookings calendar [salon_booking_calendar]</li>
<li>Assistants list [salon_booking_assistant]</li>
<li>Services list [salon_booking_services]</li>
</ul>
<h3>PRO Edition Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Online Payments ( Stripe or PayPal supported by default )</li>
<li>Deposit</li>
<li>Tips</li>
<li>Tax calculation</li>
<li>Minimum Order </li>
<li>
Transaction Fee
</li>
<li>
Service price based on selected Assistant
</li>
<li>Variable duration service</li>
<li>Multiple Assistants required for a service</li>
<li>Service Lock</li>
<li>
Service Parallel Execution
</li>
<li>
Booking cloning
</li>
<li>Resource based reservations</li>
<li>Time-zone based on customer location</li>
<li>
Limit Assistant access priviledge
</li>
<li>
Mobile Web App for Salon Manager and Staff Members
</li>
</ul>
Restful API
<ul>
<li>
A complete set of API to use Salon Booking System inside your third party applications
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://app.swaggerhub.com/apis-docs/Salon-Booking/Mobileapp/1-oas3" rel="nofollow ugc">API DOCS</a>
</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/homepage/plugin-pricing/" rel="nofollow ugc">Complete list of PRO Features..</a>.
<h3>Official Add-ons</h3>
1-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/salon-booking-system-multi-shops/" rel="nofollow ugc">Multi-Shops </a> – Manage multiple branches of your Salon 
2-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/salon-booking-system-woocommerce-integration/" rel="nofollow ugc">WooCommerce Checkout</a> – Integrate Salon Booking System with Woocommerce checkout 
3-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/membership-packages/" rel="nofollow ugc">Services Packages</a> – Build and Sell Bundled Services 
4-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/salon-booking-system-communicator/" rel="nofollow ugc">Communicator</a>– Send Email Marketing Campaigns to your customers 
5-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/salon-booking-system-soap-notes/" rel="nofollow ugc">SOAP Notes</a> – Keep track your customers progress 
6-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/geo-referencing-shops/" rel="nofollow ugc">Geo Referencing Shops</a>– Prompt the nearest shop to the customer location 
7-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/geo-referencing-assistants-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">Geo Referencing Assistants</a>– Prompt the nearest Assistant to the customer location
<h3>Official Payments Methods Integration Add-ons</h3>
1- <a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/takepayments/" rel="nofollow ugc">Takepayments</a> 
2- <a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/iyzico-payment-method/" rel="nofollow ugc">Iyzico</a> 
3- <a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/powertranz-payment-method/" rel="nofollow ugc">Powertranz</a> 
4-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/cardcom-payment-method/" rel="nofollow ugc">Cardcom</a> 
5-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/bancontact/" rel="nofollow ugc">Bancotact</a> 
6-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/square-payment-method-and-pos/" rel="nofollow ugc">Square</a> 
7-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/paystack-payment-method/" rel="nofollow ugc">Paystack</a> 
8-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/verifon-payment-method/" rel="nofollow ugc">Verifone</a> 
9-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/mollie-payment-method/" rel="nofollow ugc">Mollie</a> 
10-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/viva-wallet-payment-method/" rel="nofollow ugc">Viva Wallet</a> 
11-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/mercado-pago-payment-method/" rel="nofollow ugc">Mercado Pago</a> 
12-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/cardconnect-payment-method/" rel="nofollow ugc">CardConnect</a> 
13-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/swish-payment-method/" rel="nofollow ugc">Swish</a> 
14-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/boipa-payments-method/" rel="nofollow ugc">Boipa</a> 
15-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/worldpay-payment-method/" rel="nofollow ugc">Worldpay</a> 
16-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/redsys-payment-method/" rel="nofollow ugc">RedSys</a> 
17-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/upay-payment-method/" rel="nofollow ugc">Upay</a> 
18-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/paytrail-payment-method/" rel="nofollow ugc">Paytrail</a> 
19-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/polypay-payment-method/" rel="nofollow ugc">PolyPay</a> 
20-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/wallee-payment-method/" rel="nofollow ugc">Wallee</a> 
21-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/payengine-payment-method/" rel="nofollow ugc">Payengine</a> 
22-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/przelewy24-payment-method/" rel="nofollow ugc">Przelewy24</a>
<h3>Official SMS Providers Integration Add-ons</h3>
1-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/ovh-sms-integration/" rel="nofollow ugc">OVH</a> 
2-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/suresms-addon-for-salon-booking/" rel="nofollow ugc">SureSMS</a> 
3-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/spryng-sms-addon-for-salon-booking/" rel="nofollow ugc">Spryng</a> 
4-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/sms-hosting-addon-salon-booking/" rel="nofollow ugc">SMS Hosting</a> 
5-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/skebby-sms-addon-for-salon-booking/" rel="nofollow ugc">Skebby</a> 
6-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/sms-capitolemobile-addon-salon-booking/" rel="nofollow ugc">Capitole Mobile</a> 
7-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/allmysms-addon-salon-booking/" rel="nofollow ugc">All My SMS</a> 
8-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/smsto-addon-salon-booking/" rel="nofollow ugc">SMS to</a>
<h3>Other Add-ons</h3>
<a href="" rel="nofollow ugc">Mailchimp Integration</a>
<h3>Third parts integrations</h3>
Salon Booking System can be integrated with third part platforms trough Zapier.com.
<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/salon-booking-system-and-zapier-integration/" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more..</a>

Salon Booking System – Free Version

Appointment scheduling plugin for salons, spas, and wellness centers to streamline bookings and improve customer satisfaction.

Next Open – Appointment Booking for Multi-Location Businesses vs Salon Booking System – Free Version