ajayrajbanshi

Nivaj Appointment Hub is a self-hosted appointment booking plugin for WordPress. Visitors pick a service, choose a date and time from your availability, and fill in their details — all without needing a third-party scheduling account. Bookings land in your WordPress admin and trigger configurable email notifications.
<h4>Key features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Multiple bookable services with per-service duration, colour, location type (phone, in-person, video, custom), and image</li>
<li>Weekly availability rules — set working hours for each day of the week per service</li>
<li>Date-specific overrides — block dates (holidays) or open extra dates with custom hours</li>
<li>Buffer times before/after bookings to prevent back-to-back conflicts</li>
<li>Daily booking cap per service (optional)</li>
<li>Minimum booking notice and maximum advance-booking window</li>
<li>Custom fields per service (text, textarea, select, checkbox, number, phone, URL)</li>
<li>Email notifications on confirmation, cancellation, and admin alerts, plus reminder emails</li>
<li>Shortcode <code>[nivaj_ah_booking]</code> and a Gutenberg block to embed the widget</li>
<li>Optional floating “Book Now” popup button site-wide, with fullscreen mode</li>
<li>CSV export of all bookings</li>
<li>REST API endpoints under <code>/wp-json/nivaj-ah/v1/</code> for public booking actions</li>
<li>Works with guest visitors — no account required to book</li>
</ul>
<h4>Booking flow</h4>
<ol>
<li>Visitor selects a service from the list.</li>
<li>Visitor picks a date from the horizontal day strip (auto-advances past empty weeks).</li>
<li>Visitor picks a time slot, grouped by Morning / Afternoon / Evening.</li>
<li>Visitor fills in name, email, phone (optional), notes (optional), and any custom fields.</li>
<li>Booking is confirmed on screen and via email.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Privacy</h3>
This plugin stores personal data submitted by visitors when they book an appointment: name, email address, phone number (optional), any custom field values you have configured, IP address (transiently, for rate limiting), and the booking details themselves.
Emails are sent through your site’s mailer (<code>wp_mail()</code>) to the visitor’s email address and the administrator email configured in Settings. No data is sent to external services by default.
If the Webhook integration is enabled in Settings, booking events are POSTed to the URL you configure. Site administrators are responsible for ensuring that the destination complies with their privacy policy and applicable data protection law.
Booking records are retained until manually deleted or until the plugin is uninstalled via the Plugins screen, which drops all plugin tables and options.
<h3>Development</h3>
Source code: https://github.com/ajayrajbanshi/nivaj-appointment-hub
The compiled JavaScript and CSS files in <code>assets/build/</code> are generated from the human-readable source under <code>src/</code> (React/JSX components and SCSS) using <code>@wordpress/scripts</code> (webpack).
To build from source:
<pre><code>npm install
npm run build
</code></pre>
This produces <code>assets/build/admin-app.{js,css}</code>, <code>assets/build/booking-widget.{js,css}</code>, and <code>assets/build/block-editor.js</code> from <code>src/admin-app/</code>, <code>src/booking-widget/</code>, and <code>src/block-editor/</code> respectively. To produce the wordpress.org distribution zip, run <code>npm run package</code>.
No third-party libraries are bundled outside of <code>@wordpress/*</code> packages provided by WordPress core (<code>wp-element</code>, <code>wp-components</code>, <code>wp-i18n</code>, <code>wp-api-fetch</code>, <code>wp-blocks</code>, <code>wp-block-editor</code>).

Nivaj Appointment Hub

A flexible appointment booking system for WordPress. Define services, set availability, and let visitors book time slots without leaving your site.

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" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MGW0hSZrV5c?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></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.

Nivaj Appointment Hub vs Salon Booking System – Free Version