Freemius

carsonleung

<p>Shark Booking by Carson is an installable plugin for businesses that need a streamlined appointment booking flow on any WordPress site.</p>
<p>Features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Admin booking list and calendar views (day, week, month) with filters.</li>
<li>Service management with duration, buffers, pricing, currency, and active status.</li>
<li>Resource management with service assignments and weekly schedule editing.</li>
<li>Availability management with weekly rules and date-specific overrides.</li>
<li>Frontend booking flow via shortcode.</li>
<li>Stripe Checkout flow for bookings.</li>
<li>Stripe webhook processing with idempotency safeguards.</li>
<li>Quote and pricing engine.</li>
<li>Manual admin actions for bookings (edit, delete, resend customer notification).</li>
<li>Built-in FAQ screen and Contact entry point in the admin menu.</li>
<li>Security hardening for public booking APIs (same-origin checks, rate limits, and nonce-aware permission callbacks for logged-in sessions).</li>
</ul>
<p>Use <code>[booking_appointment_flow]</code> for the appointment booking flow.</p>
<h3>External services</h3>
<h4>Stripe</h4>
<p>This plugin uses Stripe Checkout and webhook APIs to process booking payments.</p>
<p>Data sent: checkout/payment fields such as transaction amount, selected items, customer email, and callback metadata needed to reconcile booking records.</p>
<p>When sent: when a customer starts checkout and when Stripe calls the webhook endpoint after payment events.</p>
<p>Terms of Service: https://stripe.com/legal/ssa<br />
Privacy Policy: https://stripe.com/privacy</p>
<h4>Freemius</h4>
<p>This plugin uses Freemius for subscription/account management and premium entitlement checks.</p>
<p>Data sent: installation/account metadata required by Freemius to manage plan/account status and entitlement.</p>
<p>When sent: during Freemius account/plan pages and entitlement synchronization checks.</p>
<p>Terms of Service: https://freemius.com/terms/<br />
Privacy Policy: https://freemius.com/privacy/</p>
<h4>What if email delivery fails?</h4>
<p>The plugin uses WordPress <code>wp_mail()</code>. Delivery depends on your hosting mail setup or SMTP/mail plugin.</p>


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