Helene Groenberg

<p>WhenPilot is a lightweight appointment booking plugin for small businesses — salons, clinics, consultants, tutors. Everything stays on your own site; there is no third-party booking service.</p>
<p><strong>Features</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Define <strong>services</strong> (name, duration, optional price, description).</li>
<li>Set your <strong>weekly opening hours</strong> in a simple text format (e.g. <code>Mo-Fr 09:00-17:00</code>).</li>
<li>Visitors book with the <code>[whenpilot]</code> shortcode: pick a service, a date, and a <strong>free time slot</strong> computed from your hours and existing bookings.</li>
<li><strong>Double-booking prevention</strong>: slots are re-validated on the server before saving, with a configurable capacity (e.g. number of staff).</li>
<li><strong>Admin inbox</strong>: see upcoming/pending/confirmed/cancelled bookings, confirm, cancel or delete.</li>
<li><strong>Email confirmations</strong> to the customer and a notification to you, plus emails when you confirm or cancel.</li>
<li>Configurable lead time, how far ahead people can book, currency label and an optional auto-confirm.</li>
<li>Uses your site’s timezone. Works with any theme.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Usage:</strong> create a page, add the shortcode <code>[whenpilot]</code>, and publish.</p>
<p>All features described above are fully functional in this plugin — no time limits, no usage caps, no locked options. WhenPilot does not connect to any external service. A separately distributed companion plugin offers additional features (multiple staff/resources with custom fields, automatic email reminders) but is not required for the plugin to work.</p>
<h3>Privacy</h3>
<p>Bookings (name, email, optional phone and notes) are stored in your own database and emailed to you and the customer. No data is sent to any third party.</p>


WhenPilot

Self-hosted appointment booking: services, weekly hours, free-slot picking, double-booking prevention and email confirmations.

amanstacker

<p>Digent Appointments is a powerful and user-friendly appointment booking plugin for WordPress designed for businesses, agencies, consultants, clinics, salons, and service providers.</p>
<p>The plugin allows you to create services, assign staff, configure schedules, and let customers book appointments directly from your website.</p>
<p>Whether you are running a small business or managing multiple staff members, Digent Appointments provides a flexible scheduling system to simplify your booking workflow.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Easy appointment booking system</li>
<li>Staff and employee management</li>
<li>Services and categories support</li>
<li>Flexible schedules and working hours</li>
<li>Booking calendar management</li>
<li>Customer appointment form</li>
<li>Email notifications</li>
<li>Appointment status management</li>
<li>Responsive booking interface</li>
<li>Shortcode support</li>
<li>Translation ready</li>
<li>Developer friendly structure</li>
</ul>
<h4>Perfect For</h4>
<ul>
<li>Salons</li>
<li>Clinics</li>
<li>Consultants</li>
<li>Agencies</li>
<li>Coaches</li>
<li>Tutors</li>
<li>Freelancers</li>
<li>Repair services</li>
<li>Fitness trainers</li>
<li>Local businesses</li>
</ul>
<h4>Developer Friendly</h4>
<p>Digent Appointments follows WordPress coding standards and is built with extensibility in mind for developers and agencies.</p>
<h4>Documentation</h4>
<p>Documentation will be available soon.</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>Digent Appointments uses the following third-party libraries:</p>
<ol>
<li>
<p><strong>FullCalendar</strong> – A JavaScript library for showing calendar data</p>
<ul>
<li>Link: https://github.com/fullcalendar/fullcalendar</li>
<li>License: MIT</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>Select2</strong> – A JavaScript library to make select type more advanced</p>
<ul>
<li>Link: https://github.com/select2/select2</li>
<li>License: MIT</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>Flatpickr</strong> – Lightweight, powerful javascript datetimepicker with no dependencies</p>
<ul>
<li>Link: https://github.com/flatpickr/flatpickr</li>
<li>License: MIT</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>


Digent Appointments

A modern and flexible appointment booking plugin that helps businesses manage appointments, schedules, services, and customer bookings with ease.

WhenPilot vs Digent Appointments