Mandy Technologies Private Limited

<p>SmartSlot Appointment Scheduler is a flexible and user-friendly WordPress plugin designed to handle booking and appointment scheduling for any type of service.</p>
<p>Whether you are managing consultations, services, events, or general reservations, this plugin allows users to select a service, choose a date and time slot, and confirm their booking seamlessly.</p>
<p>A unique booking token is automatically generated for each appointment and sent to the user via email for reference.</p>
<p>This plugin is built with performance and scalability in mind, making it suitable for small businesses as well as larger applications.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Easy-to-use booking system for any service-based business</li>
<li>Dynamic time slot management based on business hours</li>
<li>Customizable booking settings from admin panel</li>
<li>Unique booking token generation with prefix and length control</li>
<li>Email notifications sent to users upon successful booking</li>
<li>Reports dashboard with search and pagination</li>
<li>Export booking data in CSV and Excel formats</li>
<li>Built using modern React-based admin interface</li>
<li>Manage availability including business days and holidays</li>
<li>Custom database tables for efficient data storage</li>
</ul>
<h3>Settings</h3>
<ol>
<li>Time Slot Interval – Duration between each booking slot.</li>
<li>Starting Time of Working Hours – Start time for bookings.</li>
<li>Ending Time of Working Hours – End time for bookings.</li>
<li>Add Holidays – Dates when bookings are not available.</li>
<li>Add Working Schedule – Enable or disable bookings on weekends.</li>
<li>Success Page URL – URL to navigate after successful booking.</li>
<li>Booking ID Length – Length of the generated booking token.</li>
<li>Booking Prefix – Prefix for the booking token.</li>
<li>Sender Email – Sender email address.</li>
<li>Email Subject – Custom email subject.</li>
<li>Email Template – Email body content using dynamic placeholders.</li>
<li>Email Footer – Footer content for emails.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Developer Notes</h3>
<ul>
<li>Built following WordPress coding standards</li>
<li>Proper data sanitization and escaping implemented</li>
<li>Uses custom database tables for performance optimization</li>
<li>Extensible and developer-friendly structure</li>
</ul>
<h3>Style Customization</h3>
<p>You can customize the appearance by adding custom CSS to your theme stylesheet.</p>


SmartSlot Appointment Scheduler

A flexible appointment booking and scheduling plugin for WordPress with dynamic time slots, availability management, and email notifications.

Sayan Datta

<p>The WP-Cron system in WordPress is not a “real” cron system, which means events may not run exactly according to their schedule because the system relies on regular traffic to the website in order to trigger scheduled events.</p>
<h3>Reasons WP-Cron events can miss their schedule</h3>
<ul>
<li>Low traffic websites may not trigger the event runner often enough</li>
<li>A fatal error caused by a plugin or theme may break the event runner</li>
<li>A plugin or theme may intentionally or unintentionally break the event runner</li>
<li>BasicAuth, a firewall, or other access restrictions may block the event runner</li>
<li>A problem with your web hosting or web server may break the event runner</li>
<li>The <code>DISABLE_WP_CRON</code> configuration constant is set but no alternative cron runner has been put in place</li>
<li>Long-running events may temporarily block the event runner</li>
<li>High traffic websites may suffer from sequential processing issues that block the event runner</li>
</ul>
<p>The Advanced Cron Scheduler for WordPress plugin does alter the way that WordPress core runs cron events using the Action Scheduler Library.</p>
<p>Action Scheduler is a scalable, traceable job queue for background processing large sets of actions in WordPress. It’s specially designed to be distributed in WordPress plugins.</p>
<p>Action Scheduler works by triggering an action hook to run at some time in the future. Each hook can be scheduled with unique data, to allow callbacks to perform operations on that data. The hook can also be scheduled to run on one or more occassions.</p>
<p>Think of it like an extension to <code>do_action()</code> which adds the ability to delay and repeat a hook.</p>
<h3>Battle-Tested Background Processing</h3>
<p>Every month, Action Scheduler processes millions of payments for <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-subscriptions/" rel="nofollow ugc">Subscriptions</a>, webhooks for <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/" rel="ugc">WooCommerce</a>, as well as emails and other events for a range of other plugins.</p>
<p>It’s been seen on live sites processing queues in excess of 50,000 jobs and doing resource intensive operations, like processing payments and creating orders, at a sustained rate of over 10,000 / hour without negatively impacting normal site operations.</p>
<p>This is all on infrastructure and WordPress sites outside the control of the plugin author.</p>
<p>If your plugin needs background processing, especially of large sets of tasks, Action Scheduler can help.</p>
<h3>Learn More</h3>
<p>To learn more about how to Action Scheduler works, and how to use it in your plugin, check out the docs on <a href="https://actionscheduler.org" rel="nofollow ugc">ActionScheduler.org</a>.</p>
<p>There you will find:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://actionscheduler.org/usage/" rel="nofollow ugc">Usage guide</a>: instructions on installing and using Action Scheduler</li>
<li><a href="https://actionscheduler.org/wp-cli/" rel="nofollow ugc">WP CLI guide</a>: instructions on running Action Scheduler at scale via WP CLI</li>
<li><a href="https://actionscheduler.org/api/" rel="nofollow ugc">API Reference</a>: complete reference guide for all API functions</li>
<li><a href="https://actionscheduler.org/admin/" rel="nofollow ugc">Administration Guide</a>: guide to managing scheduled actions via the administration screen</li>
<li><a href="https://actionscheduler.org/perf/" rel="nofollow ugc">Guide to Background Processing at Scale</a>: instructions for running Action Scheduler at scale via the default WP Cron queue runner</li>
</ul>
<h3>Support</h3>
<ul>
<li>Community support via the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/migrate-wp-cron-to-action-scheduler/" rel="ugc">support forums</a> at WordPress.org.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Contribute</h3>
<ul>
<li>Active development of this plugin is handled <a href="https://github.com/iamsayan/advanced-cron-scheduler/" rel="nofollow ugc">on GitHub</a>.</li>
<li>Feel free to <a href="https://github.com/iamsayan/advanced-cron-scheduler/" rel="nofollow ugc">fork the project on GitHub</a> and submit your contributions via pull request.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>Action Scheduler is developed and maintained by <a href="http://automattic.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Automattic</a>.</p>


Advanced Cron Scheduler for WordPress

The Advanced Cron Scheduler for WordPress plugin helps to easily replace or migrate Native WordPress Cron to the Action Scheduler Library.

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