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.

yellowschedule

<p>YellowSchedule is the easiest and most powerful scheduling system in the world. YellowSchedule appointment booking plugin for WordPress brings an easy to integrate appointment booking widget to wordpress for the first time. This simple, attractive plugin places our lightweight javascript widget on your website. Allowing you to take client bookings directly from your website 24×7.</p>
<h4>Additional Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Advanced SMS text reminders (Now with client replies)</li>
<li>Unique Greed Dot/Red Dot system. Easily see when clients confirm their attendance with an text message.</li>
<li>Securely keep client notes (CRM).</li>
<li>Advanced payments system allows you to easily gather payments from clients.</li>
<li>Get mobile alerts whenever you receive new appointments, client payments or messages from clients.</li>
<li>Track clients bookings, attendance history, payments, notes, communications.</li>
<li>Ability to Synchronize with all other calendar systems Outlook/Google etc..</li>
<li>Group Scheduling functionality, multi-location support, HIPAA Compliant.</li>
<li>Proven system used across 64 different countries.</li>
<li>Award winning product with incredibly easy to use interface.</li>
<li>Get our accompanying mobile app now available for <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id949949902?mt=8" rel="nofollow ugc">iOS</a>, <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phonegap.yellowschedule" rel="nofollow ugc">Android</a>, <a href="http://www.windowsphone.com/en-ng/store/app/yellow-schedule/fa9c9044-089a-4649-a1ef-7dde62013853" rel="nofollow ugc">Windows Phone</a> </li>
</ul>
<h4>Security Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>HIPAA compliance.</li>
<li>SSL 128bit encryption on all data transfer.</li>
<li>Client data encrypted in AES 256bit level of encryption.</li>
<li>Load balanced high availability application servers for reliability and speed.</li>
<li>High powered dedicated hardware protected by dedicated firewall.</li>
<li>Database replication (combined with regular scheduled backups!) to protect against data loss.</li>
</ul>
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<h4>Customer Testimonials</h4>
<blockquote><p>“Clients love it. I continue to see an excellent show rate; over 90% now. No-shows are rare any more”</p></blockquote>
<p>Catherine Rosick, Counselor. Scotsdale, AZ</p>
<blockquote><p>“I’m really impressed with this scheduling tool. I saw patients confirm within seconds of being scheduled in for their appointment.”<br />
“I can really relax now knowing YellowSchedule, my ‘online secretary’, is on the job!”</p></blockquote>
<p>Summer Allan Wilson, Clinical Social Worker. Dallas, TX.</p>
<blockquote><p>“I’m loving YellowSchedule. I started after a mix up with appointment times which meant I lost business and haven’t looked back!”</p></blockquote>
<p>Leah Bevan, Hypnotherapist. Plymouth, UK</p>
<blockquote><p>“Yellowschedule streamlined my appointments in a professional manner. Patients appreciate the convenience and flexibility of the system. The burdens of phone tag and missed appointments are a thing of the past. I only wish I had used this service sooner.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Osiris Wade, Psychotherapist. Dallas, Tx</p>
<blockquote><p>“I couldn’t ask for anymore, it’s as if YellowSchedule had based their whole product around me. For our company YellowSchedule was the perfect choice. Now I can operate our bookings from the other side of the world and still keep on top of confirmed, cancelled and no-show bookings.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Ali, Protein Box, Kuwait.</p>
<blockquote><p>“I have seen a huge increase in business by merely implementing the YellowSchedules scheduling tool in my practice. After several weeks of using YellowSchedule I have seen my no-show rates reduce to an amazing 2 % and my confirmed bookings have increased by over 75 %.  YellowSchedule honestly has changed how I run my business and I couldn’t envision myself going back to how I operated before.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Dionne Mahaffey, Psy.D. Atlanta, GA.</p>


Yellow Schedule

Fast and Secure Scheduling (HIPAA Compliance). We streamline your entire appointments process, giving you more time to do what you do best.

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