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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.

Time Slot

Book appointments, organize your schedule, send notifications, and more. Keep booking simple for everyone with <a href="https://timeslotplugins.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Time Slot</a>.
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Quick Setup – Use the guided setup to configure basic options and start booking right away</li>
<li>Email – Send emails to customers and staff when appointments are booked or canceled</li>
<li>Customize – Style your booking form to fit your brand and match the look and feel of your website</li>
<li>Availability – Set business hours, breaks and holidays to block out dates and times on your booking form</li>
<li>Coupons – Offer discounts or promotions as a percentage or flat rate with your own coupon codes</li>
<li>Unlimited – Create an unlimited number of appointments, staff members, services, customers, and coupons</li>
<li>Cut-Off Time – Set a minimum time that customers can book before each service</li>
<li>Manage – Add, edit, cancel and delete appointments from the admin dashboard</li>
<li>Staff – Manage employee contact info, services, and days off</li>
<li>Customers – Manage customer contact info, with the option to export the list as a CSV</li>
<li>Organize – Keep track of your appointments, payments, customers, services and staff in easy to use tables that can be exported as CSV files</li>
<li>Buffer – Set a buffer time before each service</li>
<li>Easy Display – Includes a Gutenberg block, Elementor widget and Beaver Builder module to easily display your booking form</li>
<li>Shortcode – Use the <code>[timeslot-form]</code> shortcode to display the booking form in Divi, WPBakery, Beaver Builder and more</li>
<li>iCal – Customer emails include an .ics file that can easily be imported into Microsoft Outlook, Apple Calendar and Google Calendar</li>
<li>Languages – Translation ready, WPML and Polylang compatible, and fully available in English, Spanish, French, Dutch, German, Italian and Polish</li>
</ul>
<h3>Time Slot Pro Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Payments – Accept payments on your website with PayPal, Stripe or Mollie</li>
<li>Google Calendar – Add, update and delete appointments in your Google Calendar or on your website with Google Calendar 2-way sync</li>
<li>Custom Fields – Add fields to your booking form to gather extra client details before your appointments</li>
<li>Import – Import customer contact info from a CSV file</li>
<li>Reminders – Send reminder emails to customers on the day before an upcoming appointment</li>
<li>Refunds – Issue refunds directly from your website</li>
<li>Service Days Off – Configure your service days off to automatically block them on your booking form</li>
</ul>
<h4>Visit <a href="https://timeslotplugins.com" rel="nofollow ugc">our website</a> for more information about <a href="https://timeslotplugins.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Time Slot Pro</a>.</h4>
<h3>Organize appointments with a booking system for your business</h3>
Use <a href="https://timeslotplugins.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Time Slot</a> on your website to schedule all of your personal and professional appointments, including:
<ul>
<li>Salons – Hair salons, barbershops, tattoo parlors, tanning salons</li>
<li>Health & Fitness – Yoga classes, personal trainers, dance classes</li>
<li>Professional – Consultants, lawyers, coaches, accountants, notaries</li>
<li>Events – Photographers, caterers, wedding planners, musicians</li>
<li>Home – Real estate agents, contractors, cleaning services, inspectors</li>
<li>Repairs – Automotive technicians, plumbers, roofers</li>
<li>Education – Private lessons, coaching, tutors, office hours</li>
<li>Additional – Client meetings, club activities, much more</li>
</ul>
<h3>Documentation</h3>
For more information on first steps, check out the docs on our website.
<ul>
<li><a href="https://timeslotplugins.com/docs/getting-started/" rel="nofollow ugc">Get Started</a> – Add your timezone, currency and company info</li>
<li><a href="https://timeslotplugins.com/docs/set-up-services/" rel="nofollow ugc">Set Up Your Services</a> – Add or edit unlimited services</li>
<li><a href="https://timeslotplugins.com/docs/set-up-staff/" rel="nofollow ugc">Set Up Your Staff</a> – Add or edit unlimited staff members</li>
<li><a href="https://timeslotplugins.com/docs/customize-your-emails/" rel="nofollow ugc">Customize Your Email</a> – Add your subject and message</li>
<li><a href="https://timeslotplugins.com/docs/" rel="nofollow ugc">More Guides</a> – Add style, display your form and more</li>
</ul>

Time Slot – Booking and Appointment Scheduling


Among half a dozen of booking plugins, times-lot has been evaluated as the best choice for our small online+face-to-face company activity, and we enjoy using it: + Doing well the job with all essential features, as advertised, easy to configure. + An excellent clear and sound documentation for non expert installation. + A rather cheap and clear price (no complex price "scarfolding"). + The plugin internal php code is really well written up to our best expertise. +++ The development team is really kind and super reactive and effectively helping.Merci beaucoup :)


The best (not enough known) booking plugin we found

Book appointments, organize your schedule, send notifications, and more. Keep booking simple for everyone with Time Slot.

Next Open – Appointment Booking for Multi-Location Businesses vs Time Slot – Booking and Appointment Scheduling