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.

Mickaël Larguier

Giraforms is a Gutenberg-native form builder for people who want full control inside WordPress.
Build and manage forms directly in the block editor, using real blocks instead of shortcode builders. You can create contact forms, booking forms, surveys, registrations, quote requests and more while keeping all data on your own server.
<a href="https://tastewp.org/plugins/giraforms/" rel="nofollow ugc">Try Demo</a> | <a href="https://giraforms.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Upgrade to Pro</a> | <a href="https://giraforms.com/docs" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a>
<h4>Why Giraforms?</h4>
<ul>
<li>Truly native Gutenberg workflow — Build forms where you already build pages</li>
<li>Performance-focused — Frontend assets load only on pages that contain a form</li>
<li>Privacy-first by default — Submissions stay in your WordPress database</li>
<li>Built-in anti-spam stack — Honeypot, timestamp checks, Turnstile, reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha</li>
<li>Flexible layouts — Use Columns, Groups, Headings and core blocks inside forms</li>
<li>Ready in minutes — Start from 10 pre-built templates or create from scratch</li>
</ul>
<h4>Free Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>18 form field blocks</li>
<li>10 pre-built templates (contact, booking, survey, job application and more)</li>
<li>AJAX form submission (with graceful non-JS fallback)</li>
<li>Client-side and server-side validation</li>
<li>Honeypot + timestamp anti-spam</li>
<li>Captcha providers: Cloudflare Turnstile, reCAPTCHA v2/v3, hCaptcha</li>
<li>Submissions dashboard in WordPress admin</li>
<li>CSV export</li>
<li>Admin email notifications + user confirmation emails</li>
<li>Custom success message or redirect</li>
<li>GDPR consent field</li>
<li>Privacy options (disable IP and user-agent collection)</li>
<li>Mobile-friendly and translation-ready</li>
</ul>
<h4>Free vs Pro (quick overview)</h4>
Free is ideal if you need: 
– Contact/lead forms built in Gutenberg 
– Local entry storage in WordPress 
– CSV export and email notifications 
– Strong anti-spam and GDPR-friendly options
Pro is ideal if you need: 
– Payments with Stripe 
– Advanced booking workflows and calendar export 
– File uploads, signatures, ratings, geolocation, advanced phone 
– Conditional logic and multi-step forms 
– Webhooks, Brevo & Mailchimp sync, statistics and custom email templates
<h4>Available Form Fields (Free)</h4>
<ul>
<li>Text — Single line text input</li>
<li>Number — Numeric input with min/max</li>
<li>Email — With built-in validation</li>
<li>Phone — Phone number input</li>
<li>URL — Website URL input</li>
<li>Textarea — Multi-line text area</li>
<li>Select — Dropdown with custom options</li>
<li>Checkbox — Multiple selections</li>
<li>Radio — Single selection</li>
<li>Date — Date picker</li>
<li>Time — Time selection</li>
<li>Password — Secure input</li>
<li>Hidden — Hidden data field</li>
<li>Range Slider — Visual numeric slider</li>
<li>Color Picker — Color selection</li>
<li>Consent — GDPR checkbox</li>
<li>Submit Button — Customizable button</li>
</ul>
<h4>Pro Features</h4>
Unlock advanced capabilities with <a href="https://giraforms.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Giraforms Pro</a>:
<ul>
<li>File Upload — Accept file attachments in your forms</li>
<li>Star Rating — Collect ratings with a star field</li>
<li>Calendar — Inline calendar date picker</li>
<li>Booking — Booking fields with time slots, admin calendar view and calendar export</li>
<li>Phone (Advanced) — International phone input with country flags</li>
<li>Signature — Digital signature pad</li>
<li>Currency — Formatted currency input</li>
<li>Geolocation — Location-aware field</li>
<li>Stripe Payments — Collect payments directly inside your forms</li>
<li>Conditional Logic — Show/hide fields based on user input</li>
<li>Multi-step Forms — Split long forms into guided steps with progress bar</li>
<li>Custom Styles — Control fonts, colors, borders and label position per form</li>
<li>Access Restrictions — Limit forms to logged-in or logged-out users</li>
<li>Form Scheduling — Open and close forms on specific dates</li>
<li>Unique Entry Validation — Prevent duplicate submissions by email</li>
<li>Submission Statuses — Track and update entry status from the admin</li>
<li>Statistics Dashboard — View form performance and submission trends</li>
<li>Custom Email Templates — Branded notification emails</li>
<li>Webhooks — Send form data to external services via HTTP requests</li>
<li>Brevo — Sync form submissions with your Brevo contact lists</li>
</ul>
<h4>Use Cases</h4>
Giraforms is ideal for:
<ul>
<li>Contact forms</li>
<li>Booking and reservation forms</li>
<li>Survey and feedback forms</li>
<li>Job application forms</li>
<li>Event registration forms</li>
<li>Quote and order request forms</li>
<li>Newsletter subscription forms</li>
<li>Support ticket forms</li>
</ul>
<h4>Who is it for?</h4>
<ul>
<li>Freelancers and agencies building Gutenberg websites</li>
<li>Local businesses that need booking and lead forms</li>
<li>Teams that want data ownership and privacy-first form handling</li>
<li>Site owners who want to avoid bulky shortcode-based form builders</li>
</ul>
<h4>Pre-built Templates</h4>
Get started in seconds with 10 ready-to-use templates:
<ol>
<li>Contact Form</li>
<li>Registration Form</li>
<li>Newsletter Subscription</li>
<li>Feedback Form</li>
<li>Support Request</li>
<li>Quote Request (multi-column)</li>
<li>Event Registration (multi-column)</li>
<li>Job Application (multi-column)</li>
<li>Survey Form</li>
<li>Booking Form (multi-column)</li>
</ol>

Giraforms – Contact Form, Booking Form, Survey & Custom Form Builder for Block Editor

Build fast, GDPR-friendly forms in Gutenberg with native blocks, local submissions, CSV export and strong anti-spam protection.

Patro Appointment Booking vs Giraforms – Contact Form, Booking Form, Survey & Custom Form Builder for Block Editor