Salon Booking System – Appointment Booking for Salons, Barbershops & Spas vs VikAppointments Services Booking Calendar

The appointment booking plugin built only for salons — not adapted to them. While generic booking plugins try to serve every industry, Salon Booking System is designed around how a salon actually works: staff members with different schedules and skills, services with processing and finishing times, clients who rebook the same treatment every few weeks, and the daily fight against no-shows. Since 2015 it has been the booking system of choice for hairdressers, barbershops, beauty salons, nail studios and spas, with more than 750,000 downloads. Your bookings. Your clients. 0% commission. Unlike marketplace booking apps, Salon Booking System runs on your own WordPress website: You pay no commission on bookings — ever Your client list and booking history belong to you Nobody shows competing salons to your customers Unlimited bookings, services and staff members — free See it in action: Online demo | Documentation Built for the way salons work Smart booking form — your clients pick date, service and stylist in seconds, from any device. Customizable steps order, colors, fields and direct booking links for your social profiles. Reduce no-shows — automatic email and SMS reminders and follow-ups (Twilio, Plivo and iP1 supported out of the box). Staff schedules that match reality — individual weekly timetables, holidays, services per staff member, and notifications when they get booked. Salon-specific services — duration, price, categories, conditional “secondary services” (e.g. color + cut), service breaks for processing time, exclusive services. Two-way Google Calendar sync — reservations appear in your Google Calendar; add or cancel appointments from there and the plugin stays in sync. Grow repeat business — customer archive with full booking history, review invitations after the appointment, unlimited discount coupons. Everything included in the free version Back-end calendar Monthly view Weekly view Daily view Assistant view Bookings export Adding/Edit reservations from daily view Block out time slots from daily view General settings Email notifications on new reservation Email notification to selected assistant Email reminder for the customers Email followup Email review notification Email notification custom logo Custom email message to the customers Email message to invite users to leave a review on website or on a custom platform ( Google My Business, Facebook, other.. ) Customisable SMS notification on new reservation SMS notification to selected assistant SMS reminder for the customers SMS followup SMS verification code against spam SMS Alphanumeric ID supported Twilio, Plivo and 1p1sms providers supported by default set you favourite date and time format set when your week starts WordPress Editors as Salon Administrator Availability settings Three bookings methods BASIC / ADVANCED / HIGH END Booking time range Multiple weekly timetable rules Time range validity option for the weekly booking rules Multiple holidays rules Offset between reservations Change booking form steps order ( Date&time – Services – Assistants – Checkout – Payment or reverse ) Manual booking confirmation Users booking cancellation Pause online booking form Repeat past reservations Re-schedule option Payments options Select currency Hide prices Decimals and thousand separators option Check-out options Enable guest checkout Force guest checkout Limit the number of services bookable at the same time Control form fields Log-in with Facebook account Enable Advanced Discount System Custom fields for check-out form Two ways Google Calendar synchronisation Synchronies reservations on salon administrator’s Google Calendar account Salon admin can add and cancel reservations from his Google Calendar account Front-end booking form styling Choose among three different booking form sizes according to your page layout Custom colors palette generator Assistants settings Multiple weekly timetable rules Multiple holidays rules Limit reservations to specific services Multiple reservations for the same slot for classrooms booking Google Calendar synchronisation SMS notification when he’s booked Email notification when he’s booked Services settings Price Duration Unit per session Category grouping Multiple weekly timetable rules No assistant required option Service break Conditional “Secondary services” Direct booking link Exclusive service Hide service on front-end Advanced Discount System Create unlimited coupon codes Create unlimited discounts based on multiple criteria read more.. Customers archive List of customers Details page of each customer with a list of his reservations and feedbacks Customer’s bookings statistics Reports Stats on reservations and revenues Stats on reservations and revenues by services Stats on reservations and revenues by assistant Stats on reservations and revenues by customers Email weekly report Tools Easy import of Users, Services and Assistants and Reservations from a CSV file Frontend pages Booking form page [salon/] Customers account page [salon_booking_my_account] Assistants bookings calendar [salon_booking_calendar] Assistants list [salon_booking_assistant] Services list [salon_booking_services] PRO Edition Features Online Payments ( Stripe or PayPal supported by default ) Deposit Tips Tax calculation Minimum Order Transaction Fee Service price based on selected Assistant Variable duration service Multiple Assistants required for a service Service Lock Service Parallel Execution Booking cloning Resource based reservations Time-zone based on customer location Limit Assistant access priviledge Mobile Web App for Salon Manager and Staff Members Restful API A complete set of API to use Salon Booking System inside your third party applications API DOCS Complete list of PRO Features... Official Add-ons 1-Multi-Shops – Manage multiple branches of your Salon 2-WooCommerce Checkout – Integrate Salon Booking System with Woocommerce checkout 3-Services Packages – Build and Sell Bundled Services 4-Communicator– Send Email Marketing Campaigns to your customers 5-SOAP Notes – Keep track your customers progress 6-Geo Referencing Shops– Prompt the nearest shop to the customer location 7-Geo Referencing Assistants– Prompt the nearest Assistant to the customer location Official Payments Methods Integration Add-ons 1- Takepayments 2- Iyzico 3- Powertranz 4-Cardcom 5-Bancotact 6-Square 7-Paystack 8-Verifone 9-Mollie 10-Viva Wallet 11-Mercado Pago 12-CardConnect 13-Swish 14-Boipa 15-Worldpay 16-RedSys 17-Upay 18-Paytrail 19-PolyPay 20-Wallee 21-Payengine 22-Przelewy24 Official SMS Providers Integration Add-ons 1-OVH 2-SureSMS 3-Spryng 4-SMS Hosting 5-Skebby 6-Capitole Mobile 7-All My SMS 8-SMS to Other Add-ons Mailchimp Integration – Sync your customers list with your Mailchimp audience Third parts integrations Salon Booking System can be integrated with third part platforms trough Zapier.com. 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Vik Appointments Services Booking Calendar for WordPress The popular appointments booking calendar system is now available also for WordPress as a Native Plugin! If you are looking for a professional tool to schedule and manage both appointments and bookings of various services or employees, then this is definitely the right solution for your project. Vik Appointments is an experienced piece of software with thousands of tailored functions designed to fit the needs of several types of business, such as medical centers, doctors, lawyers, hair stylists, SPA services, escape games and much more. Accept online reservations and schedule the appointments for each employee in a smart and efficient way. Thanks to its key features, Vik Appointments is the perfect plugin for those kind of companies and service providers that have many employees: you will be able to manage and let the employees to receive payments singularly; as well, each employee will be able to manage its working time and the services that he offers thanks to a dedicated personal area. An “employee” can represent a person, an object, a room or anything else that could be scheduled to receive bookings. Those who need to offer/sell online services through meetings or video-conferences can use the complementary (not included) Zoom meetings plugin for Vik Appointments. Born for a different CMS than WordPress, the same powerful framework is now at the service of all webmasters, designers and web-agencies that build websites with WordPress. Do not look any further, the features of Vik Appointments will outnumber any other similar plugin! Visit VikWP.com for more details. Some of its key features Customizable dashboard and analytics pages Custom types of service with custom durations and rates Employees management Employees personalized cost for services Extended working days with custom shifts Front-end smart appointments booking process Manual/offline reservations via back-end to keep the availability calendars up to date Calendars overview and reports Invoices generation Coupons to offer reservation discounts Status codes management Composite taxes WebHooks and API framework Search widget for the front-end to easily book an appointment A stunning widget to book the appointments without leaving the page Some of the Pro version features Full booking management from the back-end Front-end employees area Customers & documents management Services options and special rates Employees locations Packages purchase Employees subscription fees to build a portal Customers subscriptions e-commerce Custom fields management Payments to Service Providers or directly to the Employees Cart system to book multiple appointments at once Custom Payment Gateways (over 60 available on VikWP.com) SMS Gateways and Cron Jobs for automated notifications Various widgets to enhance the look of your front-end Supported Add-ons Zoom meetings & online video-conferences integration (Zoom.us) Google ReCaptcha forms validation The following integrations may require some of our additional plugins, which might not be free in some cases. Please visit VikWP for further details. Interested in, curious about the Pro version? You should take a look with your own eyes at the demo website to see what you can do with Vik Appointments. Do not stop at the front-end though, make sure to visit the wp-admin section too. Front-end Demo Website Admin Demo Website