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Yo Booking – Appointment Booking and Scheduling System provides an intuitive and flexible solution for scheduling appointments on your WordPress website. Whether you’re running a salon, clinic, consultancy, or any service-based business, Yo Booking is designed to simplify the booking process for both administrators and clients.
Dashboard / Calendar
Gain full control of your appointment scheduling with a dynamic calendar interface. View and manage bookings in month, week, or day formats. Easily navigate, create, or edit appointments directly from the calendar. All bookings are color-coded and displayed with service, staff, and timing for a quick visual overview of your schedule.
Appointments
Manage all appointments from a centralized list view. Quickly update appointment statuses (Pending, Confirmed, Cancelled, etc.), edit details, or delete entries. You can also track customer notes, staff notes, and view linked service and staff information. Filtering and sorting options make it easy to handle high volumes of bookings efficiently.
Services
Create and manage your company’s service offerings. Organize services into categories, set custom durations, and optionally add descriptions. Assign services to specific staff members to control availability based on skillsets or roles. Services form the core of your scheduling system, giving clients clarity and admins control.
Staff members
Easily manage your entire team of service providers. Add new staff, group them by department or role, and assign services to match their expertise. Customize working hours for each staff member or apply business-wide hours. Each staff member can also have notes, profile images, and service schedules that reflect real availability.
Customers
Track and manage customers in one place. Each customer can be linked to a WordPress user account, and you can store their name, phone number (with international format), email address, notes, and history. View the number of total appointments they’ve made and their last appointment for better customer relationship management.
Notifications
Set up automated email notifications triggered by appointment status changes (e.g., confirmation, cancellation, reminder). Customize message templates using smart placeholders like {customer_name}, {appointment_time}, {service_name} and more. Notifications can be tailored for both administrators and customers to ensure everyone stays informed.
Block Insert / Shortcode
Add the Yo Booking form to any page or post using the included Gutenberg block or a simple shortcode [yo-booking]. This allows you to embed your booking system seamlessly into your site, providing a smooth user experience for clients booking online.

Yo Booking – Appointment Booking and Scheduling System

Yo Booking is a powerful appointment booking and scheduling system for WordPress.

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Appointment Hour Booking is a WordPress plugin for creating booking forms for appointments with a start time and a defined duration over a schedule. The start time is visually selected by the end user from a set of start times calculated based in the “open” hours and service duration. The duration/schedule is defined in the “service” selected by the customer. Each calendar can have multiple services with different duration and prices.
This plugin is useful for different cases like booking of medical services where services with different duration and prices may be available, for personal training sessions, for booking rooms for events, for reserving language classes or other type of classes and other type of services/resources booking where start times are selected and the availability is automatically managed using the defined service duration to avoid double-booking (the booked time is blocked once the booking is completed).
Main Features:
<ul>
<li>Easy visual configuration of calendar data and schedules</li>
<li>Working dates, invalid/holiday dates and special dates can be defined</li>
<li>Supports restriction of default, maximum and minimimum dates</li>
<li>Open hours can be defined for each date</li>
<li>Each calendar can have multiple services defined</li>
<li>Each service can have its own price and duration</li>
<li>Start-times are calculated automatically based in the open hours and service duration</li>
<li>Available times are managed automatically to avoid double-booking</li>
<li>Multiple services can be selected on each booking</li>
<li>Services can have multiple capacity</li>
<li>Automatic price calculation</li>
<li>Customizable email notifications for administrators and users</li>
<li>Form validation and built it anti-spam captcha protection</li>
<li>Manual and automatic CSV reports</li>
<li>iCal addon with iCal export link and iCal file attached into emails</li>
<li>Calendar available in 53+ languages</li>
<li>Multiple date formats supported</li>
<li>Blocks for Elementor and Gutenberg</li>
<li>Multi-page calendars</li>
<li>Printable appointments list</li>
</ul>
Features in commercial versions:
<ul>
<li>Visual form builder for creating the booking form fields</li>
<li>Booking form can be connected to payment process (Ex: PayPal Standard, PayPal Pro, Stripe, Skrill, Authorize.net, TargetPay/iDEAL, Mollie/iDEAL, SagePay, Redsys)</li>
<li>Payments are SCA ready (Strong Customer Authentication), compatible with the new Payment services (PSD 2) – Directive (EU) </li>
<li>Addons for integration with external services: reCaptcha, MailChimp, SalesForce, WooCommerce and others</li>
<li>Addons with additional features: appointment cancellation addon, appointment reminders addon, clickatell and twilio SMS add-ons, signature fields, iCal synchronization, Google Calendar API, Zoom Meetings …</li>
</ul>
<h4>Appointment Hour Booking can be used for:</h4>
Booking services or resources: Define schedule, open hours, services, prices and durations and let the calendar plugin manage the schedule.
Sample cases: Medical services, personal training, resource allocation, booking rooms, classes, etc…
The services can have a maximum capacity (example: number of persons that can book/attend the service at the same time). The default capacity is 1. If the service capacity has been set to 1 the time-slot will be blocked for new bookings after getting one booking. If the service capacity has been set to a greater number (example: service with capacity 10) the time-slot will be blocked after filling the capacity (example: after getting bookings for a total of 10 persons). This feature is described in detail at https://apphourbooking.dwbooster.com/blog/2019/01/24/bookings-for-multiple-persons/
<h4>The Troubleshoot Area</h4>
Use the troubleshot if you are having problems with special or non-latin characters. In most cases changing the charset to UTF-8 through the option available for that in the troubleshot area will solve the problem.
You can also use this area to change the script load method if the booking calendar isn’t appearing in the public website.
<h4>The Notification Emails</h4>
The notification emails with the appointment data entered in the booking form can sent in “Plain Text” format (default) or in “HTML” format. If you select “HTML” format, be sure to use the BR or P tags for the line breaks into the text and to use the proper formatting.
<h4>Exporting Appointments to CSV / Excel Files</h4>
The appointment data can be exported to a CSV file (Excel compatible) to manage the data from other applications. That option is available from the “bookings list”, the appointments can be filtered by date and by the text into them, so you can export just the needed appointments to the CSV file.
<h4>Other Versions and Features</h4>
The free version published in this WordPress directory is a fully-functional version for accepting appointments as indicated in the plugin description. There are also commercial versions with additional features, for example:
<ul>
<li>Ability to process forms/appointments linked to payment process (PayPal, Stripe, Skrill, …)</li>
<li>Form builder for a visual customization of the booking form</li>
<li>Addons with multiple additional features</li>
</ul>
Payments processed through the plugin are SCA ready (Strong Customer Authentication), compatible with the new Payment services (PSD 2) – Directive (EU) that comes into full effect on 14 September, 2019.
Please note that the pro features aren’t advised as part of the free plugin in the description shown in this WordPress directory. If you are interested in more information about the commercial features go to the plugin’s page: https://apphourbooking.dwbooster.com/download

Appointment Hour Booking – Booking Calendar

Appointment Hour Booking is a plugin for creating booking forms for appointments with a start time and a defined duration within a schedule.

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