Salon Booking System – Appointment Booking for Salons, Barbershops & Spas vs WP Hotelier

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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WP Hotelier is a powerful free hotel booking plugin for WordPress, built specifically for hotels, b&bs, etc. With WP Hotelier you can manage hotel reservations inside your WordPress dashboard, accept payments online, choose between three different booking modes, receive email notifications, manage room’s amenities, set seasonal or fixed prices and much more. WP Hotelier it’s an all-in-one hotel booking system for WordPress. You can see WP Hotelier in action with: Hello Elementor: the most popular theme on the market. You can download the offical integration here. Uncode: Uncode is a premium theme and one of the most popular premium themes on the market. You can download the offical integration here. Manila: Manila is a free WordPress hotel theme developed for WP hotelier specifically. You can download it for free here. Features WP Hotelier is a complete hotel booking system for WordPress. Some of the features are: Three different booking modes: instant booking, manual booking (requires admin approval) and booking disabled. Accept payments: require a deposit at the time of booking or charge the entire stay. Advanced room settings: manage rooms, beds, and prices. Seasonal prices: increase reservations by offering discounts on off-seasons. Mark a room non cancellable and non refundable. Room extras. Offer discount codes (coupons). List your rooms by using shortcodes. Email notifications. REST API (new!). How it works? WP Hotelier allows you to create two types of rooms: standard or with rates. A room with rates (variable room) lets you define variations of a room where each variation may have a different price, required deposit or conditions. A room represents a type of room or accommodation available at your hotel. For example, if your hotel offers three “double rooms” with the same price, amenities, etc., just create only one room and set the stock quantity to 3. Reservations are created when a guest completes the booking process or when the Administrator (or the Hotel Manager) adds a reservation manually. When a guest makes a reservation, the availability (stock) of the room is reduced automatically. Three different pricing options are supported out of the box: global price, different price for each day of the week and seasonal prices. And a convenient booking calendar for hotel administrators it’s included in the core. Documentation Getting Started FAQs Extensions & Themes Advanced Extensions Something missing? No problem, you can extend WP Hotelier with a vast number of features and integrations (more to come). Visit our extensions page to supercharge your hotel website. Advanced Pricing System Stripe Payment Gateway Disable Dates Advanced Extras Advanced Coupons iCalendar Importer/Exporter Week Bookings Enhanced Calendar Flat Deposit Minimum/Maximum Nights Bank Transfer Payment Gateway MailChimp Supported themes List of officially supported themes: Hello Elementor Uncode Manila Twenty Twenty-One Credits This program incorporates work covered by WooCommerce (https://woocommerce.com/). Thank you very much to all the WooThemes team for the permission. And it includes some awesome JS libraries and plugins like: PhotoSwipe by Dmitry Semenov (http://photoswipe.com/) Fecha by Taylor Hakes (https://github.com/taylorhakes/fecha) Thank you guys 🙂