Appointment Hour Booking – Booking Calendar vs Booking Activities

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

Booking Activities is a complete booking tool designed for activities. It is very easy to use: Drag and drop your activities onto your schedule. Copy / Paste a shortcode to display a booking form. Or integrate it with WooCommerce products. Pick an event on this calendar and book it. Try this reservation tool live on the demo website, or generate a temporary site to test the backend! Video made with v1.1.1. Booking Activities is constantly evolving. Main features ★ = Unique feature only Booking Activities has. Editor ★ WYSIWYG: Visually build your plannings ★ Drag and drop events directly on the calendar ★ Group your events to easily sell bundles, subscriptions, seminars, or events spreading on several days Create repeated events (with desired frequency and exceptions dates) Unlimited calendars, activities, events and bookings. Permission management system: your managers manage only their own calendars and reservations. E.g.: You can set up Booking Activities for a marketplace (Booking Activities can only be managed from the backend). Booking forms Fully customizable forms in a WYSIWYG editor Shortcodes to display reservation forms or simple calendars ★ Display events from multiple schedules and activities at once ★ One-click booking: just pick the desired event(s) on the calendar and click on “Book”! Custom action when you submit the form or when you click an event: make a reservation, ★ add a product to cart, redirect to a URL Pick multiple events and book them all at once / ★ add them all to cart at once ★ Seamless login / registration: embedded in the form and processed with the reservation. You can also book without account, or display a login form only with a shortcode. 100% responsive: looks great on mobiles, tablets and computers. ★ Set any custom fields and any booking metadata thanks to Advanced Forms add-on Online payments with WooCommerce Calendars are automatically integrated to WooCommerce product pages ★ Attach multiple calendars and activities to one WC product ★ Cart expiration system: bookings in the shopping cart are temporary Auto-validation when payment is completed ★ WooCommerce order status and its bookings status are smartly bound ★ Automatic refunds by WC coupon or via the gateway (if allowed) Manage reservations Find all your bookings at a glance on a calendar and in a list. Use dynamic filters, sorting, and custom columns Booking actions: validate, cancel, reschedule, ★ refund… ★ Display your customer’s bookings calendar and their booking list with a shortcode ★ Your customers can cancel or reschedule their bookings and ask a refund by themselves Export your bookings as CSV and iCal feeds and sync them on spreadsheet and calendar apps (e.g.: Google Sheet, Google Calendar) Availability options Set the booking period: customers can’t book too early or too late Make your events private or bookable by multiple users ★ Set the min and max bookings allowed per user per event Offer some activities to certain user roles only Notifications Automatic emails are sent to both administrator and customer when a booking is made, when its state changes, and when it is rescheduled Fully customize and configure all your email notifications In multilangual sites, emails are sent to your customers in their own language Send activity-specific notifications and reminders via email, SMS and ★ Push thanks to Notification Pack add-on Translation ready Multilingual support with WPML and ★ qTranslate-XT (free plugin) ★ Auto-detect and switch languages, date/time format, first day of the week… Customize most frontend messages directly in the settings Fully translated in English and French. You can also help us translating Booking Activities in your language. The best inside API for developers (PHP actions and filters, JS actions). Use the beautiful and handy FullCalendar Support WP Multisite Support WP privacy tools for exporting and erasing your customers personal data See the whole features list here. Extend these features with add-ons: Resource Availability: Manage your resource availability and assignment Advanced Forms: Add any (paid) custom fields to your booking forms Display Pack: Customize your calendars or set alternative display (datepicker) Prices and Credits: Set per event prices, decreasing prices, price categories (adults, children, etc.), pay with credits Notification Pack: Send activity-specific notifications and booking reminders by email, SMS and Push Order for Customers: You can book / place an order in the name of your customers Waiting List: Join the waiting list for sold-out events (automatic notification / booking) See the whole add-ons list here This plugin is great for… You? To know if Booking Activities is made for you, you just need to understand how it works: You place events on a calendar Customers pick them and book them If this fits your business then give it a try! This booking system has been specially designed to fulfill the needs of most activity providers: For tourism, sport and leisure (nautical, aerial, land, mountain, foot or wheels, outdoor or indoor…) For courses, trainings, exhibitions (education, music, drawing, seminar…) For cultural activities (museum, theatre / cinema, booking events…) For you too, but you are not in this list? Tell us 🙂 We are listening You are the developers. You have always been. Booking Activities has been designed and developed in collaboration with activity providers. Now it is getting better thanks to you. Then feel free to tell us if you miss a feature, if you find a bug or anything to make your booking system better! Documentation Report a bug / Request a feature Contact us at [email protected] (French and English) Requirements WordPress: 3.6 or later PHP: 5.6 or later MySQL: 5.7.22 or later (or MariaDB 10.5.4 or later) WooCommerce: 3.x or later Booking Activities can be used without WooCommerce