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.

benjaminuppliv

Are you offering authentic activities or experiences for visitors or local audiences? Looking for a simple way to make your activities instantly available to book online? Experience & Activities Booking System by uppliv allows you connect your WordPress installation with your uppliv.com account. Add pages for your activities, experiences and courses which you have created on uppliv.com with an online booking calendar to your WordPress site within just a few minutes. The plug-in also features a shopping cart with a validity of 30 days, which allows your customers to retrieve the shopping cart again after having left the site – just like they would on Amazon. Once a customer checks out their activity order, uppliv will manage all the email communication (order confirmation, order updates, pre-arrival emails, etc.) for you and your customers. Your uppliv WordPress plug-in token connects your site to your <a href="https://cms.uppliv.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">uppliv account</a> and pulls in all of your activity information, including availability, price categories and seasonality, cancellation policy and much more.
Experience & Activities Booking System by uppliv is based on the uppliv Cloud Activity Platform. By making use of this platform you acknowledge that data and images are stored remotely. The reason for data and images being stored remotely is that the uppliv Cloud Activity Platform is a solution both for direct sales and indirect sales. It is our objective to make the life of activity providers as easy as possible by providing them one multi-sided platform with which they can give visibility of their offers both to their direct customers, customers of uppliv.com and to customers of uppliv’s distribution partners. By using our service you agree to uppliv’s <a href="https://cms.uppliv.com/en/terms-and-conditions/" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms and Conditions for Activity Providers and the Data Processing Agreement</a>.
Missing functionality? Submit a feature request to support@uppliv.com to extend the plug-in’s functionality.
<h3>Our mission</h3>
We empower local activity providers to sustainably grow their businesses. We do this by digitalizing each step in the customer journey, from finding, booking and preparing for activities, to making them easily accessible for anyone that wants to be active.
<h3>Add an activity page with online booking option to a site in less than 6 minutes.</h3>
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<h3>WordPress Plug-in features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Build unlimited activity pages.</li>
<li>Connect your website to your uppliv account with an API key.</li>
<li>Add activity pages with a shortcode</li>
<li>Add a shopping cart with 30 day validity and confirmation page with a click</li>
<li>Show a shopping cart icon in the themes header</li>
<li>Display the process in any of the following languages: English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Swedish</li>
<li>Use our built-in CSS classes or add your own additional classes to form fields to style and customize forms.</li>
<li>Developer friendly! Use our many <a href="https://www.uppliv.com/swagger/docs/" rel="nofollow ugc">APIs</a> to extend the plugin.</li>
</ul>
<h3>uppliv Cloud Activity Platform features</h3>
Activity listing:
<ul>
<li>Manage all your activities in one place</li>
<li>WYSIWYG: add attractive copy and high-quality imagery for your activities to drive conversion and preview how the page would look on uppliv.com</li>
<li>Offer bookings on request or bookings with instant confirmation</li>
<li>Confirm every booking immediately or define granular inventory per ticket type, day and hour</li>
<li>Define your own price category names</li>
<li>Configure seasonal price adjustments </li>
<li>Define your own rule-based cancellation policy</li>
<li>Define your payment rules</li>
<li>Configure commission rates between 0-25 % for sales via uppliv.com and our hotel, airline & mobility partners</li>
<li>Configure seasons if you are not open year round or black-out periods</li>
<li>Configure start dates for irregular activities or courses</li>
<li>Content editing is possible in any of the following languages: English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Swedish</li>
</ul>
Booking management:
<ul>
<li>See a list of your future bookings and customers</li>
<li>See a list of your past bookings and customers</li>
<li>Communicate with your customers</li>
</ul>
Security & Privacy:
<ul>
<li>GDPR compliant</li>
<li>All data is hosted in the EU</li>
<li>We collect as little data as possible about your customers and sensible data is encrypted twice (client-side and database-side)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Areas of Usage</h3>
<ul>
<li>Activity booking (home cooking experience booking, home visit booking, rock climbing gym booking, day trip booking, trekking booking, river rafting booking, hot air balloon ride booking, forest bath booking)</li>
<li>Workshop booking (creative workshop booking, improv theatre booking, forest bath booking, music production booking)</li>
<li>Massage & Spa booking (massage booking, spa booking, treatment booking)</li>
<li>Coaching booking</li>
<li>Retreat booking</li>
<li>Yoga booking (Kundalini Yoga booking, Ashtanga Yoga booking, Bhakti Yoga booking, Yin Yoga booking)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Why uppliv?</h3>
You list your activities once on our platform and get a solution for your direct sales via your own website, sales via our platform uppliv.com as well as our hotel, airline & mobility partners. You decide how much commission you pay (if any!) for sales not generated via your own website.
<h3>Pricing</h3>
<ul>
<li>3 month free trial 
Our pricing tiers:</li>
<li>Free: 50 bookings per month are free of charge.</li>
<li>Plus: €9/month with 250 bookings included. Each additional booking is charged at just €0.25/booking</li>
<li>Premium: from €99/month with many valuable features such as voting rights on our roadmap! With your contribution you also enable us to offer a free tier to small activity providers on a tight budget!</li>
<li>Note: You will automatically be upgraded/downgraded between Free and Plus tiers retroactively based on your actual usage of our platform</li>
</ul>
<h3>Support & Feature requests</h3>
Log support and feature requests directly here. We believe in engaging with our community and we want your feedback to be visible to other users of our plug-in. If you are interested in a private bespoke development, please schedule an appointment with us <a href="https://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/upplivAB@uppliv.com/bookings/" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>
<h3>Custom development</h3>
We offer you fixed price custom development for:
<ul>
<li>Look & feel of the WordPress plug-in</li>
<li>Feature enhancements</li>
<li>Integration with other WordPress plug-ins</li>
<li>Enhancements to our main platform</li>
</ul>
We work with fair hourly rates of €50/hour! If there is a benefit in a custom development you request for the rest of the community you can decide if we should make this development publicly available. In such case you will receive a 50 % discount on fixed and transaction fees for using our plug-in until the development cost has been compensated.

Experience & Activities Booking System

Experience & Activities Booking System by uppliv allows you to connect your Wordpress installation with your uppliv.com account.

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