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>


Shark Booking by Carson

Appointments, Stripe payments, and booking operations for WordPress.

xcodesol

<p>XCodeSol Booking Suite is a standalone booking plugin using custom database tables, WordPress REST API endpoints, vanilla JavaScript, and WordPress admin UI patterns.</p>
<p>Shortcodes:</p>
<ul>
<li>[xcbs_booking_form]</li>
<li>[xcbs_booking_calendar]</li>
</ul>
<h3>Technical notes</h3>
<p>The plugin is written for PHP 8.1+, uses namespaced PHP classes, ships with a WordPress-safe autoloader, and includes Composer autoload metadata for development tooling. Composer is not required at runtime, and no <code>vendor/</code> directory is needed because integrations use WordPress HTTP APIs instead of third-party PHP SDK packages. No build step is required because public and admin assets are included in <code>assets/dist/</code>. The public booking wizard is loaded as a browser ES module and does not depend on jQuery; admin-only JavaScript may use WordPress-bundled jQuery.</p>
<p>Developer actions and filters are documented in <code>docs/hooks.md</code>.</p>
<h3>External services</h3>
<p>This plugin can connect to external services only when the site owner configures the related integration or payment setting.</p>
<p>Stripe is used for payment intents, payment verification, refunds, and Stripe.js payment collection when Stripe payments are enabled. Stripe.js is loaded only when the site owner enables the Stripe.js setting. Booking UID, payment amount, currency, and Stripe payment identifiers may be sent to Stripe. Terms: https://stripe.com/legal. Privacy: https://stripe.com/privacy.</p>
<p>Google Calendar is used for OAuth, busy-time lookup, calendar event creation, and optional Google Meet link creation when configured. Staff OAuth tokens, booking start/end times, notes, and calendar event metadata may be sent to Google. Terms: https://policies.google.com/terms. Privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy.</p>
<p>Microsoft Outlook/Microsoft Graph is used for OAuth, busy-time lookup, and calendar event creation when configured. Staff OAuth tokens, booking start/end times, notes, and calendar event metadata may be sent to Microsoft. Terms: https://www.microsoft.com/servicesagreement. Privacy: https://privacy.microsoft.com/privacystatement.</p>
<p>Zoom is used to create meetings when Zoom is selected as the meeting provider. Booking start/end times and meeting metadata may be sent to Zoom. Terms: https://explore.zoom.us/terms/. Privacy: https://explore.zoom.us/privacy/.</p>
<p>Twilio is used to send SMS notifications when SMS is enabled. Customer phone number and notification text may be sent to Twilio. Terms: https://www.twilio.com/legal/tos. Privacy: https://www.twilio.com/legal/privacy.</p>


XCodeSol Booking Suite

Advanced bookings and scheduling engine for WordPress.

Shark Booking by Carson vs XCodeSol Booking Suite