oozami

Oozami Booking is a clean, lightweight appointment booking plugin for WordPress. It is designed for service providers — hairdressers, therapists, coaches, tutors, freelancers, small clinics, photographers, consultants — who need a simple, reliable booking flow on their own site without recurring SaaS fees.
You define your services, your employees, your opening hours, and you embed a booking form on any page with a shortcode or an Elementor widget. Customers pick a service, a date, a time slot, fill in their details, and receive a confirmation email with an “Add to Google / Outlook calendar” link and a personal management page where they can view or cancel their appointment.
<h4>Core features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Public booking form (shortcode and Elementor widget)</li>
<li>Service catalogue with duration, price, color and active/inactive toggle</li>
<li>Employee management with per-service assignment</li>
<li>Weekly opening hours, plus blocked dates for holidays</li>
<li>Automatic conflict detection (single-resource mode or multi-employee mode)</li>
<li>Pending / confirmed / cancelled booking workflow</li>
<li>Optional auto-confirmation, or manual approval from the admin</li>
<li>HTML confirmation email with .ics calendar attachment</li>
<li>Cancellation email when an admin refuses or cancels a booking</li>
<li>Customer “My appointment” page where customers can review and cancel their booking via a secure token link</li>
<li>Customizable primary color and font family for emails and the booking widget</li>
<li>Multilingual-ready (translation-ready, <code>oozami-booking</code> text domain)</li>
<li>Clean uninstall: all plugin tables and options are removed on uninstall</li>
<li>GPL-compatible, no paid dependency required</li>
</ul>
<h4>How emails work</h4>
Oozami Booking sends emails through WordPress’ built-in <code>wp_mail()</code> function. This is the standard approach used by virtually every booking and form plugin on WordPress.org. If your hosting environment does not have a working SMTP server configured, emails will silently fail — this is a hosting concern, not a plugin issue.
The plugin’s settings page includes a built-in “Send test email” button so you can verify delivery in one click. If the test fails, simply install an SMTP plugin (WP Mail SMTP, FluentSMTP, Post SMTP…) and connect it to a transactional email provider such as Brevo, SendGrid, Mailgun, Postmark or your host’s SMTP. The last delivery error is shown directly in the settings page to help diagnose problems.
<h4>Pro extension (optional)</h4>
A Pro add-on is available for advanced features (online payments, coupons, custom fields, etc.). The free version is standalone. 
Learn more: https://oozami.be/portfolio/easybook-pro/
<h4>External services</h4>
Oozami Booking does not connect to, or send any data to, any external service. All booking data stays in your own WordPress database.

Oozami Booking

Online appointment booking for WordPress: services, employees, availability, confirmation emails, and an Elementor widget.

Rabie Eltegani

<blockquote>
🚀 WHY CHOOSE ORYX BOOKINGS? 
 Most booking plugins force you to buy a “Pro” version to accept payments or manage staff. Oryx gives you everything for FREE.
<ul>
<li>WooCommerce Integration? ✅ FREE (Accept Stripe, PayPal, etc.)</li>
<li>Unlimited Services? ✅ FREE</li>
<li>Unlimited Staff Members? ✅ FREE</li>
<li>6 Premium Form Designs? ✅ FREE</li>
<li>Interactive Admin Calendar? ✅ FREE</li>
</ul>
Stop paying monthly subscriptions. Oryx is the open-source solution for Salons, Clinics, and Service Businesses.
</blockquote>
Oryx Bookings is a complete appointment and service booking system for WordPress. Manage services, staff, schedules, and accept bookings with a beautiful frontend form.
<h4>🔥 KEY HIGHLIGHTS</h4>
<ul>
<li>Unlimited Services & Staff — Create as many services and team members as you need.</li>
<li>WooCommerce Ready — Sell appointments like products and use any payment gateway.</li>
<li>Interactive Calendar — Visual calendar view to manage all your bookings at a glance.</li>
<li>6 Booking Form Templates — Grid, Stepper, Accordion, Card Flow, Flat Split, and Focus Input.</li>
<li>Smart Scheduling — Real-time availability with automatic double-booking prevention.</li>
<li>Secure & GDPR-Ready — Built-in spam protection, rate limiting, reCAPTCHA v3, and WordPress privacy tools integration.</li>
</ul>
<h4>🛠️ DETAILED FEATURES</h4>
Services Management 
* Custom name, duration, price, description, and featured image per service. 
* Rich content editor with media support. 
* Organize services into categories. 
* Two scheduling modes: Staff-based (user picks staff) or Service-only (auto-assign based on company hours).
Staff & Team 
* Staff profiles with name, job title, and photo. 
* Flexible availability: follow company hours or set a custom weekly schedule. 
* Individual days off per staff member. 
* Assign multiple staff to each service.
Bookings & Workflow 
* Real-time available time slots based on service duration. 
* Booking statuses: Pending, Confirmed, Cancelled, Completed. 
* Collects customer name, email, and optionally phone, address, and notes. 
* Configurable form fields — enable or disable optional fields from Settings.
Interactive Calendar 
* Full interactive calendar (day, week, month, and list views). 
* Create, edit, drag-and-drop, and delete bookings directly from the calendar. 
* Filter by staff or service. 
* Visual color coding by booking status.
Working Hours & Holidays 
* Set opening and closing times for each day of the week. 
* Mark specific days as closed. 
* Add company holidays — bookings are automatically blocked on those dates.
Elementor & Gutenberg Support 
* Elementor Widget: Drag-and-drop from the “Oryx Bookings” category with live preview. 
* Gutenberg Block: Search “Oryx – Booking Form” with server-side preview. 
* Shortcode: Use <code>[oryx_bookings]</code> anywhere.
<h4>🎨 CUSTOMIZATION</h4>
<ul>
<li>Primary Color — Match your brand with a single color setting.</li>
<li>Display Toggles — Show or hide service image, description, price, duration, and staff image.</li>
<li>Custom Labels — Change step titles, button text, and the success message.</li>
<li>Redirect URL — Send customers to a thank-you page after booking.</li>
</ul>
<h4>🔒 SECURITY</h4>
<ul>
<li>Rate limiting per IP for slot lookups and booking creation.</li>
<li>Honeypot fields and time-based tokens to block bots.</li>
<li>Google reCAPTCHA v3 support.</li>
<li>Booking limits per email, IP, and phone number.</li>
<li>Email and IP blocklist.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Third-Party Libraries</h3>
This plugin includes the following third-party libraries:
<h4>Flatpickr</h4>
<ul>
<li>Version: 4.6.13</li>
<li>License: MIT</li>
<li>Copyright: Gregory Petrosyan</li>
</ul>
<h4>FullCalendar</h4>
<ul>
<li>Version: 6.1.10</li>
<li>License: MIT</li>
<li>Copyright: Adam Shaw</li>
</ul>

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