Freemius

carsonleung

Shark Booking by Carson is an installable plugin for businesses that need a streamlined appointment booking flow on any WordPress site.
Features:
<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>
Use <code>[booking_appointment_flow]</code> for the appointment booking flow.
<h3>External services</h3>
<h4>Stripe</h4>
This plugin uses Stripe Checkout and webhook APIs to process booking payments.
Data sent: checkout/payment fields such as transaction amount, selected items, customer email, and callback metadata needed to reconcile booking records.
When sent: when a customer starts checkout and when Stripe calls the webhook endpoint after payment events.
Terms of Service: https://stripe.com/legal/ssa 
Privacy Policy: https://stripe.com/privacy
<h4>Freemius</h4>
This plugin uses Freemius for subscription/account management and premium entitlement checks.
Data sent: installation/account metadata required by Freemius to manage plan/account status and entitlement.
When sent: during Freemius account/plan pages and entitlement synchronization checks.
Terms of Service: https://freemius.com/terms/ 
Privacy Policy: https://freemius.com/privacy/
<h4>What if email delivery fails?</h4>
The plugin uses WordPress <code>wp_mail()</code>. Delivery depends on your hosting mail setup or SMTP/mail plugin.

Shark Booking by Carson

Appointments, Stripe payments, and booking operations for WordPress.

Creavi

Creavi Appointment Booking Calendar is a free WordPress appointment booking calendar with Google and Outlook availability sync, reliable customer and admin reminders, built-in video meetings, and no monthly booking fee.
Create bookable services, define your availability, collect customer details, send confirmation emails, and let customers book online in a clean calendar flow. You can offer in-person meetings, phone calls, custom meeting links, or secure video meetings generated directly by the plugin.
Build a polished booking page in minutes with drag-and-drop Gutenberg blocks. Add a ready-made Service Hero section, a Booking Profile layout, an inline booking calendar, or a popup booking button without designing everything from scratch.
Creavi is built for consultants, coaches, clinics, salons, agencies, educators, and small service businesses that want a practical booking system without monthly booking software.
Easy Setup – Ready in 2 Minutes 
Watch how it works in action:
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Check out the live demo: <a href="https://wordpress.creavi.dk/booking/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://wordpress.creavi.dk/booking/</a> 
We’re open to any suggestions! Feel free to reach out via the support forum — we’re happy to hear your ideas and may implement them in future updates.
Free Features Included
Creavi gives small service businesses a complete booking setup for free, including calendar sync, automated reminders, custom booking forms, video meeting options, and ready-made Gutenberg booking page layouts.
<ul>
<li>Add booking button anywhere via shortcode: <code>[creavibc_booking_button id="123"]</code> (opens booking popup)</li>
<li>Embed full booking interface directly on page via shortcode: <code>[creavibc_booking_inline id="123"]</code></li>
<li>
Support multiple booking widgets on the same page (different services)
</li>
<li>
Smooth booking experience:
<ul>
<li>Popup or inline layout</li>
<li>Step-by-step flow: Date → Time → Details</li>
<li>Fully responsive and mobile-friendly</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Flexible availability settings:
<ul>
<li>Admin-defined available days via date picker</li>
<li>Rolling availability range (e.g. next 30–365 days)</li>
<li>Exclude specific dates (days off, holidays)</li>
<li>Minimum time before booking (buffer)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Flexible weekday-based time slots:
<ul>
<li>Visual grid selector (e.g. Mon 9:00, Tue 10:30)</li>
<li>Different time slots per weekday</li>
<li>Optional slot duration: 20 / 30 / 60 minutes</li>
<li>Dynamic time slots based on selected date</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Smart timezone handling:
<ul>
<li>Admin timezone detection</li>
<li>Timezone modes:</li>
<li>Localized (auto-adjust to user timezone)</li>
<li>Locked (fixed business timezone)</li>
<li>Clear timezone indication on frontend</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Customizable booking form fields:
<ul>
<li>Toggle default Name & Email fields</li>
<li>Add unlimited custom fields (text or textarea)</li>
<li>Set any field as required</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Automated email notifications & reminders:
<ul>
<li>Sent to both admin and customer</li>
<li>Dynamic tags: <code>{name}</code>, <code>{email}</code>, <code>{date}</code>, <code>{time}</code>, <code>{service}</code> </li>
<li>Optional reminder emails before the appointment (reduce no-shows)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Google Calendar integration:
<ul>
<li>Automatically push bookings to Google Calendar</li>
<li>Block already booked time slots from Google Calendar</li>
<li>Google Calendar link generation for attendees</li>
<li>Custom Google event title and description templates</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Outlook Calendar integration:
<ul>
<li>Automatically push bookings to Outlook Calendar</li>
<li>Per-service Outlook connection and sync</li>
<li>Block busy Outlook time slots on the frontend</li>
<li>Custom Outlook event title and description templates</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Calendar & scheduling:
<ul>
<li>Downloadable <code>.ics</code> (iCalendar) file</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Meeting & location options:
<ul>
<li>In-person meetings</li>
<li>Online meetings (video or custom link)</li>
<li>Phone call option</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Built-in video conferencing:
<ul>
<li>Automatic meeting link generation </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Personalization options:
<ul>
<li>Custom brand color</li>
<li>Personalized thank-you message</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Easy booking management
</li>
<li>Clean and minimal admin UI</li>
<li>
Works with Gutenberg, Elementor, and other page builders
</li>
<li>
Multilingual & Translation Ready
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Languages</h3>
This plugin is fully translation-ready and supports localization via translate.wordpress.org.
Available languages include: 
* English (default) 
* French 
* Danish
You can help translate this plugin into your language at: 
https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/creavi-booking-service/

Creavi Appointment Booking Calendar

Free WordPress appointment booking calendar with Google and Outlook sync, reliable reminders, built-in video meetings, and no monthly booking fee.

Shark Booking by Carson vs Creavi Appointment Booking Calendar