Yatoon Salon Booking & Appointments vs Easy!Appointments

Stop sending customers to a separate booking site. Bring the booking form directly into WordPress — and watch your conversions soar. Easy!Appointments for WordPress connects your self-hosted Easy!Appointments installation to your site in seconds. Your customers book appointments without ever leaving your page, on your domain, in your brand — all without a SaaS subscription, per-booking fees, or giving up control of your data. Whether you run a salon, clinic, consultancy, agency, or any service-based business, setup takes minutes and the results are immediate. 🧱 Built for Gutenberg — First-Class Block Support Love the WordPress block editor? So do we. The Easy!Appointments Gutenberg block lets you drop the booking form into any page or post in seconds — just like any other block. Search for “Easy!Appointments” in the block inserter, add it, and you’re done. Configure iframe dimensions and pre-select a provider or service right from the block settings panel. No shortcodes, no code, no fuss. 🎨 Built for Elementor — Drag, Drop, Done Already building with Elementor? The Easy!Appointments Elementor widget integrates seamlessly into your Elementor workflow. Find it in the widget panel, drag it onto your canvas, and configure everything visually. Full property controls included — width, height, styling, provider and service pre-selection, all without touching a line of code. Also Works Everywhere Else Not using Gutenberg or Elementor? No problem — the classic [easyappointments] shortcode works in any page builder, theme, or editor that supports shortcodes. Why Easy!Appointments beats the rest Most booking plugins hold your data hostage. This one doesn’t. You own your data — it stays on your server, always No vendor lock-in — self-host Easy!Appointments for free Zero per-booking or per-user fees — grow without growing your costs Works with any theme — zero conflicts, zero bloat Clean booking UX — your customers will actually complete bookings Key Features 🧱 Native Gutenberg block — insert the booking form like any other block 🎨 Elementor widget — fully visual drag-and-drop integration 📋 Shortcode support — [easyappointments] works everywhere ⚡ Connect to any Easy!Appointments installation in seconds 📱 Fully responsive — looks great on every device 👥 Multi-service and multi-provider support 🎯 Pre-select a provider or service via attributes 🪶 Fast and lightweight — no performance impact Perfect for Salons, barbershops & spas Consultants & freelancers Clinics & healthcare providers Agencies & service businesses Coaches, tutors & trainers How it works Install and activate the plugin Navigate to Easy!Appts in your WordPress admin menu Paste your Easy!Appointments installation URL and connect Add the booking form using the Gutenberg block, the Elementor widget, or the [easyappointments] shortcode Start accepting bookings instantly Connecting Easy!Appointments with WordPress Install and activate the plugin and navigate to the Easy!Appts menu in the WordPress admin section. Connect to an existing Easy!Appointments installation by providing your URL. Once connected you can embed the booking form in any page using your preferred method. Gutenberg Block Open any page in the block editor, click the + button to add a block, and search for Easy!Appointments. Add the block and configure it from the settings panel on the right — set width, height, optional inline styles, and optionally pre-select a provider or service by ID. Elementor Widget Open a page in Elementor, search for Easy!Appointments in the widget panel, and drag it onto your canvas. All settings are available as Elementor controls — no custom code needed. Shortcode Use the [easyappointments] shortcode anywhere in your content: [easyappointments width="100%" height="500px" style="border: 5px solid #1A865F; box-shadow: #454545 1px 1px 5px;"] The width, height and style attributes are optional and let you fine-tune the iframe appearance. Pre-select a provider and/or service (IDs are found in your Easy!Appointments backend): [easyappointments provider="2" service="1"] Minimum Requirements: WordPress v5.0 & PHP v5.6 Find out more at https://easyappointments.org/wordpress

Run your salon’s bookings, schedules, payments, and customer relationships from WordPress. Yatoon gives salons a polished booking experience for clients and a practical local booking toolkit for the team. Clients choose services, add-ons, professionals, dates, and times on mobile; staff manage the day from WordPress. Try the live booking demo – no account or installation required. Watch the complete mobile booking demo: Built for nail salons, hair salons, barbershops, spas, beauty studios, and other appointment-based businesses. Yatoon has also been used for daily bookings at a real nail salon for more than a year. Local-first workflow: Free keeps scheduling, availability, customer records, and bookings inside WordPress. External payment, calendar, messaging, and platform connections are Pro features. What Free includes Local WordPress scheduling, availability checks, customer records, notifications, and booking management Mobile booking for services, options, professionals, dates, times, customer details, and confirmation Customer self-service for reviewing, rescheduling, cancelling, and rebooking appointments Staff calendar workflows with mobile rescheduling, temporary breaks, shared-resource checks, and capability-based Yatoon roles Services, categories, images, variations, add-ons, pricing, staff qualifications, schedules, breaks, and closed dates Waitlist, service menu, customer portal, staff portal, booking blocks, Elementor, and shortcode integrations Customer-facing AI Chat when WordPress AI Client and a provider are connected and Chat is enabled by an administrator Third-party integrations are optional and require their own accounts, credentials, supported regions, and provider terms. Local mode continues to work inside WordPress when an external provider is unavailable. What customers experience A mobile booking flow for services, variations, add-ons, professionals, date, time, customer details, and confirmation Several services or guests in one booking journey, with separate staff choices and reference photos where enabled Clear service durations, prices, appointment summaries, directions, and calendar actions Secure self-service for viewing, rescheduling, cancelling, rebooking, and eligible service changes A branded service menu, discovery storefront, portfolio, favorites, quick rebooking, and lightweight installable customer app What your team manages Services, categories, images, variations, add-ons, pricing, staff qualifications, and schedules Business hours, staff schedules, breaks, time off, closed dates, and availability rules Appointment calendar, client records, notes, reports, notifications, and waitlist Mobile-friendly rescheduling, temporary break controls, shared-resource checks, and role-specific staff workspaces Before a booking or sensitive change is saved, Yatoon rechecks staff qualification, schedules, breaks, closed dates, existing appointments, shared resources, and relevant external availability. If a time is taken during checkout, the customer keeps their details and gets a clear recovery path. Add it to any WordPress page Use the native block, Elementor widget, or one of these shortcodes: [yatoon_booking] – complete booking form [yatoon_service_menu] – visual service menu with Book buttons [yatoon_customer_portal] – customer self-service portal [yatoon_staff_portal] – mobile staff schedule portal [yatoon_discovery] – discovery storefront and booking entry points External Services and Privacy Google Maps – www.google.com/maps. The confirmation page displays a lazy-loaded map when a business address is configured. The preview sends the public business address and normal browser connection information to Google; it does not include customer names, email, appointment details, or manage tokens. Clicking the map opens Google Maps directions to that address. See Google Privacy and Google Terms. Free Local mode performs booking and availability inside WordPress and does not require Square, Vagaro, Stripe, PayPal, Twilio, Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, or Meta WhatsApp. Every external service Yatoon can contact is listed below with what is sent, when it is sent, and the provider’s own policies. Nothing in this list is contacted unless the corresponding feature is switched on by an administrator. Fonts. Yatoon does not download fonts from any remote host, and does not bundle font files either. Choosing a font family under Brand & Colors only adds that family name to the CSS font stack; otherwise the system font is used. Yatoon push relay (Cloudflare Worker) – https://yatoon-api.yatoon.workers.dev. Optional and disabled by default. When explicitly enabled, Yatoon sends a signed, pseudonymous browser push subscription endpoint and a generic event type to this Cloudflare Worker. Customer names, contact details, services, appointment times, and notes are never sent. See Yatoon and the Cloudflare Privacy Policy. Freemius – https://api.freemius.com. Used for optional account connection, licensing, plugin updates, and upgrade screens. It is contacted only when an administrator opts in or uses one of those features. See Freemius Privacy Policy and Freemius Terms. Provider integrations. Each service below is contacted only when an administrator has configured its credentials and switched the corresponding feature on, and only while performing the action that needs it. Provider credentials are stored encrypted in WordPress; Yatoon diagnostics must not include them. Free package providers. Free can use the following optional services when the site owner enables them: Google Maps – www.google.com/maps (confirmation-page directions map) OpenAI – api.openai.com (optional AI assistant) Anthropic – api.anthropic.com (optional AI assistant) Google Gemini – generativelanguage.googleapis.com (optional AI assistant) Cloudflare Turnstile – challenges.cloudflare.com (optional booking-form bot check) Before any customer text can reach an AI provider, an administrator must enable the relevant AI feature, and Yatoon requires explicit one-time customer consent and screens the message for sensitive data. Customer-facing AI is off by default on new installations, and connecting a provider alone does not publish it. Site owners are responsible for obtaining required consent, publishing an accurate privacy notice, configuring retention, and complying with the rules of their region and chosen providers.