Appointment Hour Booking – Booking Calendar vs BA Book Everything

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: Easy visual configuration of calendar data and schedules Working dates, invalid/holiday dates and special dates can be defined Supports restriction of default, maximum and minimimum dates Open hours can be defined for each date Each calendar can have multiple services defined Each service can have its own price and duration Start-times are calculated automatically based in the open hours and service duration Available times are managed automatically to avoid double-booking Multiple services can be selected on each booking Services can have multiple capacity Automatic price calculation Customizable email notifications for administrators and users Form validation and built it anti-spam captcha protection Manual and automatic CSV reports iCal addon with iCal export link and iCal file attached into emails Calendar available in 53+ languages Multiple date formats supported Blocks for Elementor and Gutenberg Multi-page calendars Printable appointments list Features in commercial versions: Visual form builder for creating the booking form fields Booking form can be connected to payment process (Ex: PayPal Standard, PayPal Pro, Stripe, Skrill, Authorize.net, TargetPay/iDEAL, Mollie/iDEAL, SagePay, Redsys) Payments are SCA ready (Strong Customer Authentication), compatible with the new Payment services (PSD 2) – Directive (EU) Addons for integration with external services: reCaptcha, MailChimp, SalesForce, WooCommerce and others 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 … Appointment Hour Booking can be used for: 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/ The Troubleshoot Area 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. The Notification Emails 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. Exporting Appointments to CSV / Excel Files 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. Other Versions and Features 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: Ability to process forms/appointments linked to payment process (PayPal, Stripe, Skrill, …) Form builder for a visual customization of the booking form Addons with multiple additional features 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

BA Book Everything plugin – the really fast and powerful Booking engine with a management system for theme/site developers to create any booking or rental sites (tours, hotels, hostels, apartments, cars, events, yachts, etc., or all together). Magic one-click “Demo Setup” feature helps you get started with the plugin in minutes! Rates and prices system is easy to use and incredibly flexible in adjusting any price variations based on seasons (dates), week days (weekend rates, etc.), number of the guests or/and number of the days/nights. Thanks to integration with Elementor plugin, you’ll be able to see BA Book Everything shortcodes and widgets (e.g. search availability form, booking form, booking item calendar, slideshow and other post elements) in the list of the content modules in the Elementor builder. It’s highly customizable via hooks, but even “out of the box” the plugin is ready for use and works fine – Try Demo and Read details. Docs & Support You can find Docs and more detailed information about BA Book Everything on ba-booking.com. If you were unable to find the answer to your question in any of the documentation, you should check the support forum on WordPress.org. If you can’t locate any topics that pertain to your particular issue, post a new topic for it or send us a message via the site contact form. Features One-click Demo content setup Booking rules for nights, days, hours or event (tour) booking Custom categories (tours, hotels, apartments, cars, events etc.) with own booking rules Easy to create custom taxonomies from the administrator screen to use them when editing booking objects Easy to create schedule and prices Flexible rate rules: minimum/maximum booking period, days of the week to which the rate applies, days of the week in which the reservation can be started Variable prices based on number of the guests or/and number of the days/nights Cyclic availability: schedule items availability every N days for M days. Useful for cruises and other types of rentals with cycles other than a week. Exclude certain dates from availability calendar Setup prices for any age categories (customizable) Search form builder: allows to use custom taxonomies as filters, price range picker, guests selection, keyword search, search tabs (different search field set per booking category) Promotional: discount Coupons, discounted prices with time constraints Full control on the Booking process – e-mail confirmations and notifications, customizable booking form, checkout form, option for manually availability confirmation (both email and admin dashboard) Availability calendar with prices, synchronized with booking form widget Widgets: booking form, search form, taxonomy terms filter, prices filter Shortcodes [all-items], [babe-listing] Elementor support 5 stars rating integrated with WP comments Product schema markup Service post type – sell services with booking! Variable prices for services FAQ post type Google Maps API integrated to show address map or find nearest meeting points (for tours etc.) Internationalized and Translation ready Multilingual support for WPML plugin Post duplication supported with Post Duplicator plugin Hooks for customization (developers) Integrated with WP xml export/import and more… Available in Addons Currency switcher Backoffice: iCal synchronization, PDF invoices, backend bookings, editing/cancellation orders for both customers and administrators, extra charge, full or partial refund, custom refund rules, export orders to XLSX file, custom order statuses and email notifications, etc. Multi Vendor Marketplace extension Payment gateways: PayPal, Stripe, Razorpay, ePayco, Yoco, Wompi, Mercado Pago, Mi Cuenta Web (IZIPAY), Kashier, PARAM, IfthenPay, “Bank transfer” payment option and more You can find all BA Book Everything Addons and Themes and more detailed information about the plugin on ba-booking.com. Limitations The War is a fact that has already affected many businesses around the world, including ours. Until the war is over, we are not providing any products or services to the russian audience. When using our products, russian audiences may encounter unexpected behavior.