Schedula – Smart Appointment Booking

Schedula is a complete appointment booking solution for WordPress. It helps service businesses accept online bookings 24/7, manage staff schedules, keep a clean calendar, and automate reminders — so you can focus on delivering great service.

Whether you run a salon, clinic, training center, garage, consulting practice, or any local service, Schedula gives you a frictionless booking flow on the front end and a powerful, simple admin on the back end.

• Mobile-first booking form
• Services, categories, and variable durations
• Staff schedules and availability
• Email notifications and reminders
• Clean admin calendar (day / week / month)
• Works with any theme — no coding required

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Why Schedula

• Convert more visitors with a fast, 3-step booking flow
• Keep your calendar organized with color-coded services
• Reduce no-shows with automated notifications
• Scale easily with Pro features when you grow

Who uses Schedula

Beauty & wellness, medical & clinics, fitness & coaching, education & tutoring, garages & workshops, professional services (legal, finance, consulting), and more.

Key Features (Free)

• Modern, responsive booking form
• Create services, categories, and pricing
• Variable service durations
• Staff members (basic) and availability
• Day/Week/Month admin calendar
• Email notifications (booking, update, cancel)
• Customer list with quick add from calendar
• Shortcode and Gutenberg block
• Translatable and theme-friendly

Schedula Pro (Upgrade)

Unlock advanced scheduling:

• Unlimited services and staff members
• Advanced form customization (steps, labels, fields)
• Multiple payment methods (Stripe, WooCommerce Checkout)
• SMS notifications and reminders
• Advanced templates for emails
• Google Calendar sync
• Reports & analytics dashboard
• Deposits, coupons, buffers, blackout dates
• AI-assisted slot optimization

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Benefits

For your customers

• Book in minutes on mobile or desktop
• See only real-time available slots
• Get instant email confirmations and reminders

For your business

• Reduce manual admin and back-and-forth
• Keep staff schedules centralized
• Customize the form to match your brand
• Track bookings and customers in one place

Blocks

This plugin provides 1 block.

1. Schedula – Booking Form

Shortcodes

Use the shortcode anywhere (pages, posts, widgets):

[schedula_booking]

Optional attributes (examples):
* service=”ID” – preselect a service
* category=”ID” – preselect a category
* staff=”ID” – preselect a staff member
* layout=”compact|steps” – choose form layout

Example:
[schedula_booking layout=”steps” service=”12″]

Integrations

• Stripe (Pro) – secure payments at booking
• WooCommerce (Pro) – use existing checkout, tax, and receipts
• Google Calendar (Pro) – 2-way syncing per staff member
• WP Mail / SMTP – transactional emails

Compatibility

• Works with any modern WordPress theme
• Compatible with Gutenberg and classic editor
• Tested with major page builders via shortcode and block

External Services / Privacy

To deliver some features, Schedula may connect to third-party services:

• Stripe – payment processing (customer name/email, appointment details, card/payment data via Stripe elements). Policies: https://stripe.com/privacy
• Google Fonts – optional fonts loaded by the browser (IP address may be transmitted to Google). Policies: https://policies.google.com/privacy
• IP2C (ip2c.org) – optional country detection for phone field (IP address to determine country code)
• ipapi.co – optional timezone detection fallback in admin (IP address to determine timezone)
• Email – uses WordPress wp_mail or configured SMTP to send transactional emails (recipient name/email, booking details)

Site owners are responsible for displaying an appropriate privacy notice and obtaining any required consent in their jurisdiction.

Developer Notes

Source code (unminified assets included):
https://github.com/vertim-coders/schedula-smart-appointment-booking

Actions/Filters and template overrides are documented in the developer section of the docs.

Minimum Requirements

• WordPress 6.0 or greater
• PHP 7.4 or greater
• MySQL 5.6 or greater

Automatic Installation

1. In WordPress, go to Plugins → Add New.
2. Search for “Schedula”.
3. Click Install Now, then Activate.

Manual Installation

1. Download schedula.zip
2. In WordPress, Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin
3. Choose schedula.zip and click Install Now
4. Activate the plugin

Getting Started

1. Create at least one Service (duration, price)
2. (Optional) Add a Staff member and set availability
3. Configure notifications (email)
4. Add the booking form to a page (block or shortcode)

1. 

   User-friendly booking form

2. 

   Service creation with duration and pricing

3. 

   Staff schedule and availability

4. 

   Admin calendar (day/week/month)

5. 

   Email notifications templates (Pro)

1.0.0 – 2025-09-22

• First stable release