Arjun Regmi

Take control of your appointment business with Patro Appointment Booking — a fast, modern WordPress booking plugin built around a beautiful Gutenberg block. Customers complete a clean, guided multi-step form to pick a service, choose a staff member, select a date and time, fill in their details, and confirm — all without ever leaving your site. You manage every booking from a dedicated, React-powered admin dashboard.
No coding required. No complex setup. Just drop the block onto any page and start taking bookings. 📅
Who is Patro Appointment Booking For? 
Patro Appointment Booking is built for any individual or business that takes scheduled appointments and wants an elegant, hassle-free booking experience for their customers.
Salons & Beauty Studios 
Give clients the freedom to book haircuts, treatments, and styling sessions around the clock. Block holidays, close weekdays, and let your calendar manage itself while you focus on the work.
Consultants & Coaches 
Let prospects book discovery calls and sessions directly from your site. Assign bookings to specific team members, get instant email alerts, and never miss a new client inquiry.
Healthcare & Wellness Providers 
Collect patient or client details at booking time, set a custom booking window, and manage appointment status — Pending, Approved, Canceled, Rejected, Completed — from one clear screen.
Fitness Trainers & Gyms 
Set your available days and hours, block out personal-training sessions per staff member, and let members self-book 24/7 without picking up the phone.
Tutors & Educators 
Create sessions as services, set their duration and price, and let students pick the slot that works for them. The form works equally well on desktop, tablet, and mobile.
Any Service-Based Business 
If your business runs on scheduled appointments, Patro Appointment Booking gives you the tools to automate bookings, reduce no-shows through email confirmations, and grow without adding admin overhead.
A free booking system gives your business the freedom to grow 📈
No more missed bookings — automatic confirmation emails keep customers informed. 
Your calendar, your rules — block dates, close weekdays, and set how far ahead clients can book. 
Mobile-first — the booking form looks great and converts on every screen size. 
Developer-friendly — REST API plus WordPress action and filter hooks for add-ons.
<h3>Patro Appointment Booking Free Features</h3>
Beautiful Multi-Step Booking Form
<ul>
<li>React-powered booking flow: Services → Date & Time → Your Details → Review → Confirmation</li>
<li>Step-by-step sidebar navigator with active-state indicators and icon-headed panels</li>
<li>Collapsible sidebar for a distraction-free experience on smaller screens</li>
<li>Radio-style service cards with duration pills for instant clarity</li>
<li>Real-time calendar with blocked-date and closed-weekday enforcement</li>
<li>Fully responsive — sidebar collapses to a top bar on mobile, single-column on small screens</li>
</ul>
Services & Staff Management
<ul>
<li>Create unlimited services with name, duration, and price</li>
<li>Organise services into categories for easier browsing</li>
<li>Add staff members and assign them to one or more services</li>
<li>Optional staff-selection step in the booking flow — let customers choose who they book with</li>
</ul>
Bookings Dashboard
<ul>
<li>Central bookings screen with per-booking status management (Pending, Approved, Canceled, Rejected, Completed) plus search and date filtering</li>
<li>Update any booking status in one click</li>
<li>Full customer details stored per booking for easy reference</li>
<li>Automatic confirmation email to the customer on every new booking</li>
<li>Instant admin notification email so you never miss a reservation</li>
</ul>
Flexible Settings
<ul>
<li>Set your booking window — control how many days ahead customers can schedule</li>
<li>Block individual dates using the built-in date picker</li>
<li>Close recurring weekdays so your calendar reflects your real availability</li>
<li>Customise the thank-you message displayed after a successful booking</li>
<li>Configure admin notification email address and sender name</li>
</ul>
Developer Friendly
<ul>
<li>REST API support</li>
<li>WordPress hooks and filters</li>
<li>Extensible architecture for custom integrations</li>
</ul>
<h3>Patro Appointment Booking Pro *(separate plugin)*</h3>
Unlock powerful premium features with the optional Pro add-on:
<ul>
<li>Email Templates — fully customise customer and admin email HTML to match your brand</li>
<li>Coupons & Discounts — create percentage and fixed-amount coupon codes for promotions</li>
<li>reCAPTCHA — Google reCAPTCHA v2/v3 protection to stop spam bookings</li>
<li>IP Rate Limiting — cap the number of bookings per IP address per day</li>
<li>Role-Based Access — restrict the booking form to logged-in users or specific WordPress roles</li>
<li>Layout Variants — Modern Card, Minimal, Compact, Step-by-Step Wizard, and Split Screen layouts, selectable per block from the Gutenberg inspector panel</li>
</ul>
<h3>5 Easy Steps to Get Started</h3>
<ol>
<li>Install and activate the plugin from Plugins → Add New in your WordPress admin.</li>
<li>Go to Patro Appointment Booking → Services and add at least one service (name, duration, price).</li>
<li>Go to Patro Appointment Booking → Settings and set your booking window, notification email, and any blocked dates.</li>
<li>Open any page or post in the Gutenberg editor, search for Booking Form, and insert the block.</li>
<li>Publish the page — your customers can now book 24/7.</li>
</ol>
<h3>What Makes Patro Appointment Booking Stand Out</h3>
Gutenberg-native — no shortcodes, no iframes. The booking form is a first-class Gutenberg block that works seamlessly with the WordPress editor and any block-based theme.
React-powered, fast-loading — the multi-step form is built with React for smooth, animated step transitions and a snappy user experience with no full-page reloads.
Zero configuration clutter — every setting has a sensible default. You can have a working booking form live in under five minutes.
Extensible by design — REST API endpoints and WordPress action and filter hooks let third-party add-ons build cleanly on top of the free core without hacks.
Transparent booking flow — the collapsible sidebar shows customers exactly where they are in the process at all times, reducing drop-off and improving completion rates.
<h3>Development</h3>
The React admin app, the Gutenberg block, and the frontend booking form are 
compiled from the human-readable source in the <code>resources/</code> directory using 
@wordpress/scripts. The compiled output ships in <code>build/</code>. Both the source and 
the build manifest (<code>package.json</code>) are included in the plugin so the code can 
be inspected and rebuilt.
To build from source:
<ol>
<li><code>npm install</code></li>
<li><code>npm run build</code></li>
</ol>
Source locations:
<ul>
<li><code>resources/admin/</code> — React admin app (compiled to <code>build/admin/</code>)</li>
<li><code>resources/blocks/booking-form/</code> — Gutenberg block (compiled to <code>build/blocks/</code>)</li>
<li><code>resources/frontend/</code> — frontend booking form components</li>
</ul>

Patro Appointment Booking

Let customers book appointments 24/7 via a Gutenberg block — manage services, staff, and bookings from one clean WordPress admin dashboard.

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Booking Activities Team

Booking Activities is a complete booking tool designed for activities. 
It is very easy to use:
<ol>
<li>Drag and drop your activities onto your schedule.</li>
<li>Copy / Paste a shortcode to display a booking form. Or integrate it with WooCommerce products.</li>
<li>Pick an event on this calendar and book it. </li>
</ol>
Try this reservation tool live on the <a href="https://demo.booking-activities.fr/en/" rel="nofollow ugc">demo website</a>, or <a href="https://tastewp.com/template/bookingactivities/?redirect=admin.php%3Fpage%3Dbookacti_calendars&ni=true" rel="nofollow ugc">generate a temporary site</a> to test the backend!
<iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Q7gbK5i4DPU?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>
Video made with v1.1.1. Booking Activities is constantly evolving.
<h4>Main features</h4>
★ = Unique feature only Booking Activities has.
Editor
<ul>
<li>★ WYSIWYG: Visually build your plannings</li>
<li>★ Drag and drop events directly on the calendar</li>
<li>★ Group your events to easily sell bundles, subscriptions, seminars, or events spreading on several days</li>
<li>Create repeated events (with desired frequency and exceptions dates)</li>
<li>Unlimited calendars, activities, events and bookings.</li>
<li>Permission management system: your managers manage only their own calendars and reservations. E.g.: You can <a href="https://booking-activities.fr/en/blog/set-up-a-booking-marketplace-with-booking-activities/?utm_source=wp-plugin-page&utm_medium=wordpress&utm_content=readme" rel="nofollow ugc">set up Booking Activities for a marketplace</a> (Booking Activities can only be managed from the backend).</li>
</ul>
Booking forms
<ul>
<li>Fully customizable forms in a WYSIWYG editor</li>
<li>Shortcodes to display reservation forms or simple calendars</li>
<li>★ Display events from multiple schedules and activities at once</li>
<li>★ One-click booking: just pick the desired event(s) on the calendar and click on “Book”! </li>
<li>Custom action when you submit the form or when you click an event: make a reservation, ★ add a product to cart, redirect to a URL</li>
<li>Pick multiple events and book them all at once / ★ add them all to cart at once</li>
<li>★ Seamless login / registration: embedded in the form and processed with the reservation. You can also book without account, or display a login form only with a shortcode.</li>
<li>100% responsive: looks great on mobiles, tablets and computers.</li>
<li>★ Set any custom fields and any booking metadata thanks to <a href="https://booking-activities.fr/en/downloads/advanced-forms/?utm_source=wp-plugin-page&utm_medium=wordpress&utm_campaign=advanced-forms&utm_content=readme" rel="nofollow ugc">Advanced Forms</a> add-on</li>
</ul>
Online payments with WooCommerce
<ul>
<li>Calendars are automatically integrated to WooCommerce product pages</li>
<li>★ Attach multiple calendars and activities to one WC product</li>
<li>★ Cart expiration system: bookings in the shopping cart are temporary</li>
<li>Auto-validation when payment is completed</li>
<li>★ WooCommerce order status and its bookings status are smartly bound</li>
<li>★ Automatic refunds by WC coupon or via the gateway (if allowed)</li>
</ul>
Manage reservations
<ul>
<li>Find all your bookings at a glance on a calendar and in a list. Use dynamic filters, sorting, and custom columns</li>
<li>Booking actions: validate, cancel, reschedule, ★ refund…</li>
<li>★ Display your customer’s bookings calendar and their booking list with a shortcode</li>
<li>★ Your customers can cancel or reschedule their bookings and ask a refund by themselves</li>
<li>Export your bookings as CSV and iCal feeds and sync them on spreadsheet and calendar apps (e.g.: Google Sheet, Google Calendar)</li>
</ul>
Availability options
<ul>
<li>Set the booking period: customers can’t book too early or too late</li>
<li>Make your events private or bookable by multiple users</li>
<li>★ Set the min and max bookings allowed per user per event</li>
<li>Offer some activities to certain user roles only</li>
</ul>
Notifications
<ul>
<li>Automatic emails are sent to both administrator and customer when a booking is made, when its state changes, and when it is rescheduled</li>
<li>Fully customize and configure all your email notifications</li>
<li>In multilangual sites, emails are sent to your customers in their own language</li>
<li>Send activity-specific notifications and reminders via email, SMS and ★ Push thanks to <a href="https://booking-activities.fr/en/downloads/notification-pack/?utm_source=wp-plugin-page&utm_medium=wordpress&utm_campaign=notification-pack&utm_content=readme" rel="nofollow ugc">Notification Pack</a> add-on</li>
</ul>
Translation ready
<ul>
<li>Multilingual support with WPML and ★ <a href="https://github.com/qtranslate/qtranslate-xt" rel="nofollow ugc">qTranslate-XT</a> (free plugin)</li>
<li>★ Auto-detect and switch languages, date/time format, first day of the week…</li>
<li>Customize most frontend messages directly in the settings</li>
<li>Fully translated in English and French. You can also help us <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/booking-activities" rel="nofollow ugc">translating Booking Activities</a> in your language.</li>
</ul>
The best inside
<ul>
<li>API for developers (PHP actions and filters, JS actions).</li>
<li>Use the beautiful and handy <a href="https://fullcalendar.io/" rel="nofollow ugc">FullCalendar</a></li>
<li>Support WP Multisite</li>
<li>Support WP privacy tools for exporting and erasing your customers personal data</li>
</ul>
See the whole <a href="https://booking-activities.fr/en/documentation/features/?utm_source=wp-plugin-page&utm_medium=wordpress&utm_content=readme" rel="nofollow ugc">features list here</a>.
<h4>Extend these features with add-ons:</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://booking-activities.fr/en/downloads/resource-availability/?utm_source=wp-plugin-page&utm_medium=wordpress&utm_campaign=resource-availability&utm_content=readme" rel="nofollow ugc">Resource Availability</a>: Manage your resource availability and assignment</li>
<li><a href="https://booking-activities.fr/en/downloads/advanced-forms/?utm_source=wp-plugin-page&utm_medium=wordpress&utm_campaign=advanced-forms&utm_content=readme" rel="nofollow ugc">Advanced Forms</a>: Add any (paid) custom fields to your booking forms</li>
<li><a href="https://booking-activities.fr/en/downloads/display-pack/?utm_source=wp-plugin-page&utm_medium=wordpress&utm_campaign=display-pack&utm_content=readme" rel="nofollow ugc">Display Pack</a>: Customize your calendars or set alternative display (datepicker)</li>
<li><a href="https://booking-activities.fr/en/downloads/prices-and-credits/?utm_source=wp-plugin-page&utm_medium=wordpress&utm_campaign=prices-and-credits&utm_content=readme" rel="nofollow ugc">Prices and Credits</a>: Set per event prices, decreasing prices, price categories (adults, children, etc.), pay with credits</li>
<li><a href="https://booking-activities.fr/en/downloads/notification-pack/?utm_source=wp-plugin-page&utm_medium=wordpress&utm_campaign=notification-pack&utm_content=readme" rel="nofollow ugc">Notification Pack</a>: Send activity-specific notifications and booking reminders by email, SMS and Push</li>
<li><a href="https://booking-activities.fr/en/downloads/order-for-customers/?utm_source=wp-plugin-page&utm_medium=wordpress&utm_campaign=order-for-customers&utm_content=readme" rel="nofollow ugc">Order for Customers</a>: You can book / place an order in the name of your customers</li>
<li><a href="https://booking-activities.fr/en/downloads/waiting-list/?utm_source=wp-plugin-page&utm_medium=wordpress&utm_campaign=waiting-list&utm_content=readme" rel="nofollow ugc">Waiting List</a>: Join the waiting list for sold-out events (automatic notification / booking)</li>
</ul>
See the whole <a href="https://booking-activities.fr/en/add-ons/?utm_source=wp-plugin-page&utm_medium=wordpress&utm_content=readme" rel="nofollow ugc">add-ons list here</a>
<h4>This plugin is great for… You?</h4>
To know if Booking Activities is made for you, you just need to understand how it works:
<ol>
<li>You place events on a calendar</li>
<li>Customers pick them and book them</li>
</ol>
If this fits your business then give it a try!
This booking system has been specially designed to fulfill the needs of most activity providers:
<ul>
<li>For tourism, sport and leisure (nautical, aerial, land, mountain, foot or wheels, outdoor or indoor…)</li>
<li>For courses, trainings, exhibitions (education, music, drawing, seminar…)</li>
<li>For cultural activities (museum, theatre / cinema, booking events…)</li>
<li>For you too, but you are not in this list? <a href="https://booking-activities.fr/en/?utm_source=wp-plugin-page&utm_medium=wordpress&utm_content=readme#contact" rel="nofollow ugc">Tell us</a> 🙂</li>
</ul>
<h4>We are listening</h4>
You are the developers. You have always been.
Booking Activities has been designed and developed in collaboration with activity providers.
Now it is getting better thanks to you.
Then feel free to tell us if you miss a feature, if you find a bug or anything to make your booking system better!
<ul>
<li><a href="https://booking-activities.fr/en/documentation/user-documentation/?utm_source=wp-plugin-page&utm_medium=wordpress&utm_content=readme" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/bookingactivities/booking-activities/issues/" rel="nofollow ugc">Report a bug / Request a feature</a></li>
<li><a href="https://booking-activities.fr/en/?utm_source=wp-plugin-page&utm_medium=wordpress&utm_content=readme#contact" rel="nofollow ugc">Contact us</a> at contact@booking-activities.fr (French and English)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress: 3.6 or later</li>
<li>PHP: 5.6 or later</li>
<li>MySQL: 5.7.22 or later (or MariaDB 10.5.4 or later)</li>
<li>WooCommerce: 3.x or later</li>
<li>Booking Activities can be used without WooCommerce</li>
</ul>

Booking Activities

I love this plugin. The interface is intuitive on the front and back end. 

excellent


We use this plugin for tennis courts reservations and we count it very useful. You can look at our web page as an example how it looks.


Very useful plugin

Reservation system specialized in activities: sports, leisure, courses, events, tourism, and more! Works great with WooCommerce.

Patro Appointment Booking vs Booking Activities