slashbooking

<p><strong>SlashBooking</strong> turns any WordPress page into a self-service appointment funnel. A visitor picks a service, sees the available slots in real time, and books in under a minute. You receive an email alert and confirm or decline in one click — no need to log in to WordPress, no third-party SaaS, no recurring fees.</p>
<p>It is a self-hosted scheduling tool: your data stays in your WordPress database.</p>
<h4>Main features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Public booking form via shortcode</strong> — A single <code>[slashbooking]</code> in any page. Multiple services, date picker, real-time slots, customer form, fully responsive.</li>
<li><strong>One-click email confirmation</strong> — Every request arrives with two buttons, <em>Confirm</em> and <em>Decline</em>. No WordPress login required. The action links are signed with HMAC-SHA256 and cannot be forged.</li>
<li><strong>Smart buffers around appointments</strong> — Configure padding (travel, prep) between appointments. Applied automatically.</li>
<li><strong>Multi-slot opening hours</strong> — Monday 9–12 + 14–18, Tuesday morning only, Wednesday off… Each day and each service is configured independently.</li>
<li><strong>Transactional emails with .ics</strong> — Confirmation, decline and acknowledgement emails, each with an automatic <code>.ics</code> attachment so the customer adds the appointment to their calendar in one click.</li>
<li><strong>Built-in GDPR compliance</strong> — Explicit consent before submission, WP_Privacy exporters/erasers, configurable retention, automatic anonymisation.</li>
<li><strong>Built-in anti-spam</strong> — Honeypot and per-IP rate limiting, with no third-party service and no external request.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Who it is for</h4>
<ul>
<li>Freelancers and small businesses who want a self-hosted scheduling page</li>
<li>Agencies packaging a website with a booking funnel</li>
<li>Any business where “book a slot” opens the customer journey</li>
</ul>
<h3>External services</h3>
<p>This plugin is fully self-contained. It makes no calls to any external or third-party service and sends no data off your site — every request is handled on your own WordPress installation.</p>
<h3>Source code and build</h3>
<p>The full, human-readable source code is public and maintained at:</p>
<p>https://github.com/ArchSeraphin/slashbooking-lite</p>
<p>The PHP runs unmodified from <code>src/</code>. The admin interface bundle<br />
(<code>assets/dist/index.jsx.js</code> and <code>.css</code>) is compiled from the React/SCSS sources<br />
in <code>src/Admin/react-app/src/</code>, which ship inside the plugin ZIP as well.</p>
<p>To regenerate the compiled admin assets:</p>
<pre><code>npm install
npm run build   (uses @wordpress/scripts — webpack/Babel; outputs to assets/dist/)
</code></pre>
<p>The Composer autoloader in <code>vendor/</code> is generated with <code>composer install --no-dev</code>.</p>


SlashBooking

Self-hosted online appointment booking for WordPress: a real-time public calendar via shortcode, with one-click email confirmation.

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<p>Appointment SW lets visitors book appointments from any page on your site. You configure as many working windows per day as you need, block holidays, optionally allow guest bookings, and Appointment SW takes care of slot availability, email notifications and capability checks.</p>
<p>Version 2.0 is a deep modernisation of the original plugin while keeping every shortcode, option and database table from 1.x in working order. Existing sites can update without re-doing setup.</p>
<h4>What’s new in 2.0</h4>
<ul>
<li>Modern booking flow: clicking a free slot opens a confirmation modal — no more page reloads to advance the booking.</li>
<li>Admin booking modal with live client search and an inline “Add client” button, so receptionists can book a brand new client without leaving the calendar.</li>
<li>Arbitrary number of time windows per day (not just two).</li>
<li>Server-rendered Settings page using the WordPress Settings API, with an onboarding section that creates the shortcode pages for you in one click.</li>
<li>Public REST API under <code>/wp-json/appointmentsw/v1/</code> for availability, bookings, holidays, settings, and user search.</li>
<li>Capability-based permissions: <code>appointmentsw_manage</code> (administer) and <code>appointmentsw_book</code> (book a slot).</li>
<li>Prepared statements across every database query, plus new indexes on bookings, bookmeta and holidays for faster lookups on busy calendars.</li>
<li>Hardened request dispatcher: strict capability checks, sanitized input and escaped output throughout.</li>
<li>Filterable email templates via <code>appointmentsw/email/{event}/{audience}/{subject|body}</code>.</li>
<li>Optional WooCommerce integration is now a separate companion plugin so this core stays lean.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Shortcodes</h4>
<ul>
<li><code>[appointmentsw_form]</code> — booking form for visitors.</li>
<li><code>[appointmentsw_myaccount]</code> — logged-in user appointments (view and cancel).</li>
<li><code>[appointmentsw_admin]</code> — frontend admin calendar with client search and one-click client creation.</li>
<li><code>[appointmentsw_vacations]</code> — block holidays from the frontend.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Backwards compatibility</h4>
<p>All 1.x shortcodes keep rendering, bundled Bootstrap 3 assets are still enqueued so existing theme overrides keep working, the legacy <code>core/</code> classes remain loaded, and legacy options (<code>asw-guest</code>, <code>asw-duration</code>, <code>asw-numdays</code>, <code>asw-maxoffset</code>, <code>asw-start_time_*</code>, <code>asw-end_time_*</code>) are migrated transparently into the new <code>appointmentsw_settings</code> option the first time the new code reads them.</p>


Appointment SW

Self-service appointment booking for WordPress. Calendar, arbitrary time windows, holidays, modal booking flow, REST API.

SlashBooking vs Appointment SW