igor800

<p>Robina is a free, open-source booking and appointment plugin for WordPress, built for service businesses that want a capable booking system without subscription fees. It is service- and resource-centric: the bookable unit is a service with its own availability, while staff, locations and resources are optional layers you add only if you need them.</p>
<h4>Highlights</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Front-end booking widget (Vue 3).</strong> A clean multi-step wizard — Service, Date & time, Details, Confirm — added to any page with the <code>[robina_booking_form]</code> shortcode, or as a popup button with <code>[robina_booking_button]</code>.</li>
<li><strong>Capacity-aware availability.</strong> Slots are computed from your business hours, slot step and buffers. Assign staff to a service and each one adds a parallel slot; a staff member booked anywhere counts as busy. With no staff, a service has a single capacity per location.</li>
<li><strong>Group classes.</strong> Give a service a capacity above 1 (say 20 or 40 — there is no upper limit) and several customers can book the same session until it fills up — ideal for classes, workshops and large group sessions.</li>
<li><strong>Staff (optional).</strong> Tag the people who provide a service, pin them to one or more locations, and give them their own weekly hours. When a customer picks a location, only the staff who work there are offered.</li>
<li><strong>Locations (optional).</strong> Offices or branches with their own optional weekly hours; each service declares where it is available.</li>
<li><strong>Native WordPress admin.</strong> A branded Catalog (services, categories, resources), a Month/Week/Day Calendar with in-place booking creation, plus Bookings, Customers, Staff and Locations screens — all in plain WordPress UI.</li>
<li><strong>Email notifications</strong> to the owner and the customer on every new booking.</li>
<li><strong>Optional online payments</strong> — Pay on site, WooCommerce, Stripe or PayPal (see “External services” below). Leave them all off for free bookings.</li>
<li><strong>Self-contained and private.</strong> No external CDNs and no trackers; the phone-input flags and every front-end asset ship inside the plugin. Uninstalling removes Robina’s tables and options.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Service-centric by design</h4>
<p>Robina deliberately keeps availability on the <em>service</em>, not on a mandatory “employee”. Staff, locations and resources are optional capacity and scope layers, so Robina also suits non-staff models such as equipment rental or table booking.</p>
<h3>External services</h3>
<p>By default Robina works entirely on your own site and contacts no third party. It only talks to an external service when <strong>you, the admin, enable and configure a payment gateway</strong>, and only when a customer actually chooses to pay with it. No data is sent anywhere otherwise — Robina has no “home” server and sends no telemetry or analytics.</p>
<p><strong>Stripe</strong> — used only when you enable “Stripe” and enter your API keys. When a customer pays by card, Robina creates a Stripe Checkout Session and redirects the customer to Stripe’s hosted payment page, and it receives Stripe webhooks to confirm payment. Data sent to Stripe: the booking amount, currency, a short description and the customer’s email. Card details are entered on Stripe’s site, never on yours.<br />
Terms: https://stripe.com/legal — Privacy: https://stripe.com/privacy</p>
<p><strong>PayPal</strong> — used only when you enable “PayPal” and enter your client ID and secret. When a customer pays with PayPal, Robina creates a PayPal order, redirects the customer to PayPal to approve it, then captures it on return. Data sent to PayPal: the booking amount, currency and a reference id.<br />
Terms: https://www.paypal.com/legalhub/home — Privacy: https://www.paypal.com/legalhub/privacy-full</p>
<p><strong>WooCommerce</strong> (optional, local) — if you enable WooCommerce checkout and WooCommerce is installed, Robina creates a pending WooCommerce order and hands payment off to WooCommerce. Robina makes no external call itself; any outbound requests are made by WooCommerce and its own gateways under their policies.</p>
<p><strong>Map link</strong> — a location’s address is turned into a plain “view on map” link to Google Maps (https://www.google.com/maps/search/…). It is only a link: nothing is transmitted and no map is loaded unless a visitor clicks it.</p>
<h3>Source code</h3>
<p>Robina is fully open source (GPLv2+). The front-end widget is compiled with Vite from the Vue source that ships inside the plugin under <code>/resources</code>. The build files (<code>package.json</code>, <code>package-lock.json</code>, <code>vite.config.js</code>) are bundled too, so the compiled assets in <code>/assets/dist</code> can be regenerated from source with:</p>
<pre><code>npm install && npm run build
</code></pre>
<p>Bundled third-party libraries (installed via npm, both MIT-licensed):</p>
<ul>
<li>Vue 3 (^3.4) — https://github.com/vuejs/core</li>
<li>intl-tel-input (^29.0) — https://github.com/jackocnr/intl-tel-input</li>
</ul>


Robina

Free, open-source booking and appointments for WordPress: services, staff, locations, capacity-aware availability and optional payments.

babrisoftware

<p>BookItIn is a powerful appointment booking solution that makes it easy for your clients to schedule appointments directly on your WordPress site.</p>
<h4>Third-Party Service</h4>
<p>This plugin connects to <a href="https://bookitin.app" rel="nofollow ugc">BookItIn</a>, an external appointment booking service, to provide its functionality. The plugin requires a BookItIn account to operate.</p>
<p><strong>When you use this plugin, data is sent to BookItIn servers:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>When connecting your WordPress site to BookItIn (OAuth authentication)</li>
<li>When displaying the booking widget (iframe embed from bookitin.app)</li>
<li>When syncing WordPress users to BookItIn (user email, name)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Relevant BookItIn links:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Service: <a href="https://bookitin.app" rel="nofollow ugc">https://bookitin.app</a></li>
<li>Terms of Service: <a href="https://bookitin.app/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">https://bookitin.app/terms</a></li>
<li>Privacy Policy: <a href="https://bookitin.app/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">https://bookitin.app/privacy</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>One-Click Connection</strong> – Connect your WordPress site to BookItIn with a single click</li>
<li><strong>Embeddable Booking Widget</strong> – Add a booking calendar to any page or post using a simple shortcode</li>
<li><strong>WordPress Admin Dashboard</strong> – Access your BookItIn dashboard directly from WordPress admin</li>
<li><strong>User Sync</strong> – Automatically sync WordPress users as BookItIn clients (coming soon)</li>
<li><strong>Responsive Design</strong> – Booking widget works beautifully on all devices</li>
</ul>
<h4>How It Works</h4>
<ol>
<li>Install and activate the plugin</li>
<li>Go to Settings <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> BookItIn</li>
<li>Click “Connect to BookItIn” to authorize your account</li>
<li>Add the <code>[bookitin]</code> shortcode to any page or post</li>
<li>Your clients can now book appointments directly on your site!</li>
</ol>
<h4>Shortcode Options</h4>
<p>The <code>[bookitin]</code> shortcode supports the following attributes:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>calendar</code> – Show a specific calendar by ID or slug</li>
<li><code>width</code> – Widget width (default: 100%)</li>
<li><code>height</code> – Widget height (default: 600px)</li>
<li><code>class</code> – Additional CSS classes for styling</li>
</ul>
<p>Example: <code>[bookitin calendar="haircuts" height="800px"]</code></p>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 6.0 or higher</li>
<li>PHP 8.0 or higher</li>
<li>A BookItIn account (<a href="https://bookitin.app/register" rel="nofollow ugc">sign up free</a>)</li>
</ul>


BookItIn

Integrate BookItIn appointment booking into your WordPress site. Embed booking calendars and let clients book directly on your website.

Robina vs BookItIn