Helene Groenberg

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.
Features
<ul>
<li>Define services (name, duration, optional price, description).</li>
<li>Set your weekly opening hours 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 free time slot computed from your hours and existing bookings.</li>
<li>Double-booking prevention: slots are re-validated on the server before saving, with a configurable capacity (e.g. number of staff).</li>
<li>Admin inbox: see upcoming/pending/confirmed/cancelled bookings, confirm, cancel or delete.</li>
<li>Email confirmations 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>
Usage: create a page, add the shortcode <code>[whenpilot]</code>, and publish.
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.
<h3>Privacy</h3>
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.

WhenPilot

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

Dimitri Grassi

Salon Booking System is a comprehensive, user-friendly appointment scheduling solution designed to help small businesses streamline their booking process and maximize online reservations.
Whether you’re running a salon, spa, workshop, or any service-based business, Salon Booking System takes the hassle out of managing appointments. With an intuitive interface and powerful features, it helps you save valuable time while providing a seamless booking experience for your customers.
Since its launch in 2015, Salon Booking System has become a trusted tool for hundreds of businesses, enabling them to easily accept bookings directly from their website and efficiently manage their daily schedules.
<h3>Salon Booking System is trusted by:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Hairdressers & Barbershops</li>
<li>Beauty Salons & Spas</li>
<li>Mechanical Workshops</li>
<li>Therapists & Tutors</li>
<li>Health Care Centers & Clinics</li>
<li>COVID Test Centers</li>
</ul>
Whether you’re offering one-on-one services, same-day appointments, or a specific time-based reservation, this plugin is the perfect solution for any business that needs to efficiently manage individual appointments.
<h3>Key Benefits:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Easy to Use: Designed for busy professionals with minimal tech experience.</li>
<li>Flexible Booking: Ideal for businesses offering services that require a fixed time and date.</li>
<li>Time-Saving: Automates scheduling and reduces administrative tasks, freeing up your time to focus on your customers.</li>
<li>Customizable: Adapt the system to fit your unique business needs.</li>
</ul>
With Salon Booking System, growing your client base and managing bookings has never been easier.
<h3>Why Choose Salon Booking System?</h3>
<ul>
<li>Reliability: Trusted by small businesses around the world.</li>
<li>Seamless Integration: Easily integrates with your WordPress website.</li>
<li>Customer-Focused: Optimized to provide a smooth booking experience for your clients.</li>
</ul>
Start managing your appointments efficiently and grow your business with the Salon Booking System today!
With Salon Booking System handling your appointments is very easy, take a look at this 60’’ video:
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Online Demo
<a href="https://salon.salonbooking.it/" rel="nofollow ugc">click here to see it in action</a>
<h3>Plugin’s main Free features</h3>
Back-end calendar
<ul>
<li>Monthly view</li>
<li>Weekly view</li>
<li>Daily view </li>
<li>Assistant view</li>
<li>Bookings export </li>
<li>Adding/Edit reservations from daily view</li>
<li>Block out time slots from daily view</li>
</ul>
General settings
<ul>
<li>Email notifications on new reservation</li>
<li>Email notification to selected assistant</li>
<li>Email reminder for the customers</li>
<li>Email followup</li>
<li>Email review notification</li>
<li>Email notification custom logo</li>
<li>Custom email message to the customers</li>
<li>Email message to invite users to leave a review on website or on a custom platform ( Google My Business, Facebook, other.. )</li>
<li>Customisable SMS notification on new reservation</li>
<li>SMS notification to selected assistant</li>
<li>SMS reminder for the customers</li>
<li>SMS followup</li>
<li>SMS verification code against spam</li>
<li>
SMS Alphanumeric ID supported
</li>
<li>
Twilio, Plivo and 1p1sms providers supported by default
</li>
<li>
set you favourite date and time format
</li>
<li>set when your week starts</li>
<li>WordPress Editors as Salon Administrator</li>
</ul>
Availability settings
<ul>
<li>Three bookings methods BASIC / ADVANCED / HIGH END</li>
<li>Booking time range </li>
<li>Multiple weekly timetable rules</li>
<li>Time range validity option for the weekly booking rules </li>
<li>Multiple holidays rules</li>
<li>Offset between reservations </li>
<li>Change booking form steps order ( Date&time – Services – Assistants – Checkout – Payment or reverse )</li>
<li>Manual booking confirmation</li>
<li>Users booking cancellation</li>
<li>Pause online booking form</li>
<li>Repeat past reservations</li>
<li>Re-schedule option</li>
</ul>
Payments options
<ul>
<li>Select currency</li>
<li>Hide prices</li>
<li>Decimals and thousand separators option</li>
</ul>
Check-out options
<ul>
<li>Enable guest checkout</li>
<li>Force guest checkout</li>
<li>Limit the number of services bookable at the same time</li>
<li>Control form fields</li>
<li>Log-in with Facebook account</li>
<li>Enable Advanced Discount System</li>
<li>Custom fields for check-out form</li>
</ul>
Two ways Google Calendar synchronisation
<ul>
<li>Synchronies reservations on salon administrator’s Google Calendar account</li>
<li>Salon admin can add and cancel reservations from his Google Calendar account</li>
</ul>
Front-end booking form styling
<ul>
<li>Choose among three different booking form sizes according to your page layout</li>
<li>Custom colors palette generator</li>
</ul>
Assistants settings
<ul>
<li>Multiple weekly timetable rules</li>
<li>Multiple holidays rules</li>
<li>Limit reservations to specific services</li>
<li>Multiple reservations for the same slot for classrooms booking</li>
<li>Google Calendar synchronisation</li>
<li>SMS notification when he’s booked</li>
<li>Email notification when he’s booked</li>
</ul>
Services settings
<ul>
<li>Price</li>
<li>Duration</li>
<li>Unit per session</li>
<li>Category grouping</li>
<li>Multiple weekly timetable rules</li>
<li>No assistant required option</li>
<li>Service break </li>
<li>Conditional “Secondary services”</li>
<li>Direct booking link</li>
<li>Exclusive service</li>
<li>Hide service on front-end</li>
</ul>
Advanced Discount System
<ul>
<li>Create unlimited coupon codes</li>
<li>Create unlimited discounts based on multiple criteria</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/advanced-discount-system-for-salon-booking-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">read more..</a>
Customers archive
<ul>
<li>List of customers</li>
<li>Details page of each customer with a list of his reservations and feedbacks</li>
<li>Customer’s bookings statistics</li>
</ul>
Reports
<ul>
<li>Stats on reservations and revenues</li>
<li>Stats on reservations and revenues by services</li>
<li>Stats on reservations and revenues by assistant</li>
<li>Stats on reservations and revenues by customers</li>
<li>Email weekly report</li>
</ul>
Tools
<ul>
<li>Easy import of Users, Services and Assistants and Reservations from a CSV file</li>
</ul>
Frontend pages
<ul>
<li>Booking form page [salon/]</li>
<li>Customers account page [salon_booking_my_account]</li>
<li>Assistants bookings calendar [salon_booking_calendar]</li>
<li>Assistants list [salon_booking_assistant]</li>
<li>Services list [salon_booking_services]</li>
</ul>
<h3>PRO Edition Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Online Payments ( Stripe or PayPal supported by default )</li>
<li>Deposit</li>
<li>Tips</li>
<li>Tax calculation</li>
<li>Minimum Order </li>
<li>
Transaction Fee
</li>
<li>
Service price based on selected Assistant
</li>
<li>Variable duration service</li>
<li>Multiple Assistants required for a service</li>
<li>Service Lock</li>
<li>
Service Parallel Execution
</li>
<li>
Booking cloning
</li>
<li>Resource based reservations</li>
<li>Time-zone based on customer location</li>
<li>
Limit Assistant access priviledge
</li>
<li>
Mobile Web App for Salon Manager and Staff Members
</li>
</ul>
Restful API
<ul>
<li>
A complete set of API to use Salon Booking System inside your third party applications
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://app.swaggerhub.com/apis-docs/Salon-Booking/Mobileapp/1-oas3" rel="nofollow ugc">API DOCS</a>
</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/homepage/plugin-pricing/" rel="nofollow ugc">Complete list of PRO Features..</a>.
<h3>Official Add-ons</h3>
1-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/salon-booking-system-multi-shops/" rel="nofollow ugc">Multi-Shops </a> – Manage multiple branches of your Salon 
2-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/salon-booking-system-woocommerce-integration/" rel="nofollow ugc">WooCommerce Checkout</a> – Integrate Salon Booking System with Woocommerce checkout 
3-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/membership-packages/" rel="nofollow ugc">Services Packages</a> – Build and Sell Bundled Services 
4-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/salon-booking-system-communicator/" rel="nofollow ugc">Communicator</a>– Send Email Marketing Campaigns to your customers 
5-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/salon-booking-system-soap-notes/" rel="nofollow ugc">SOAP Notes</a> – Keep track your customers progress 
6-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/geo-referencing-shops/" rel="nofollow ugc">Geo Referencing Shops</a>– Prompt the nearest shop to the customer location 
7-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/geo-referencing-assistants-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">Geo Referencing Assistants</a>– Prompt the nearest Assistant to the customer location
<h3>Official Payments Methods Integration Add-ons</h3>
1- <a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/takepayments/" rel="nofollow ugc">Takepayments</a> 
2- <a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/iyzico-payment-method/" rel="nofollow ugc">Iyzico</a> 
3- <a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/powertranz-payment-method/" rel="nofollow ugc">Powertranz</a> 
4-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/cardcom-payment-method/" rel="nofollow ugc">Cardcom</a> 
5-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/bancontact/" rel="nofollow ugc">Bancotact</a> 
6-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/square-payment-method-and-pos/" rel="nofollow ugc">Square</a> 
7-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/paystack-payment-method/" rel="nofollow ugc">Paystack</a> 
8-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/verifon-payment-method/" rel="nofollow ugc">Verifone</a> 
9-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/mollie-payment-method/" rel="nofollow ugc">Mollie</a> 
10-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/viva-wallet-payment-method/" rel="nofollow ugc">Viva Wallet</a> 
11-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/mercado-pago-payment-method/" rel="nofollow ugc">Mercado Pago</a> 
12-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/cardconnect-payment-method/" rel="nofollow ugc">CardConnect</a> 
13-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/swish-payment-method/" rel="nofollow ugc">Swish</a> 
14-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/boipa-payments-method/" rel="nofollow ugc">Boipa</a> 
15-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/worldpay-payment-method/" rel="nofollow ugc">Worldpay</a> 
16-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/redsys-payment-method/" rel="nofollow ugc">RedSys</a> 
17-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/upay-payment-method/" rel="nofollow ugc">Upay</a> 
18-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/paytrail-payment-method/" rel="nofollow ugc">Paytrail</a> 
19-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/polypay-payment-method/" rel="nofollow ugc">PolyPay</a> 
20-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/wallee-payment-method/" rel="nofollow ugc">Wallee</a> 
21-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/payengine-payment-method/" rel="nofollow ugc">Payengine</a> 
22-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/przelewy24-payment-method/" rel="nofollow ugc">Przelewy24</a>
<h3>Official SMS Providers Integration Add-ons</h3>
1-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/ovh-sms-integration/" rel="nofollow ugc">OVH</a> 
2-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/suresms-addon-for-salon-booking/" rel="nofollow ugc">SureSMS</a> 
3-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/spryng-sms-addon-for-salon-booking/" rel="nofollow ugc">Spryng</a> 
4-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/sms-hosting-addon-salon-booking/" rel="nofollow ugc">SMS Hosting</a> 
5-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/skebby-sms-addon-for-salon-booking/" rel="nofollow ugc">Skebby</a> 
6-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/sms-capitolemobile-addon-salon-booking/" rel="nofollow ugc">Capitole Mobile</a> 
7-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/allmysms-addon-salon-booking/" rel="nofollow ugc">All My SMS</a> 
8-<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/downloads/smsto-addon-salon-booking/" rel="nofollow ugc">SMS to</a>
<h3>Other Add-ons</h3>
<a href="" rel="nofollow ugc">Mailchimp Integration</a>
<h3>Third parts integrations</h3>
Salon Booking System can be integrated with third part platforms trough Zapier.com.
<a href="https://www.salonbookingsystem.com/salon-booking-system-and-zapier-integration/" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more..</a>

Salon Booking System – Free Version

Appointment scheduling plugin for salons, spas, and wellness centers to streamline bookings and improve customer satisfaction.

WhenPilot vs Salon Booking System – Free Version