BookWellNow Appointment Booking

Description

BookWellNow is a complete appointment booking plugin and scheduling system for WordPress.

It helps businesses automate their booking process, manage staff schedules, and accept online appointments with a powerful calendar-based booking system.

Whether you need a booking plugin, reservation system, scheduling software, or appointment management system, BookWellNow gives you everything in one place.

🚀 Accept Online Bookings 24/7

Let your customers book appointments anytime with a modern and easy-to-use booking system.

  • Accept bookings online 24/7
  • Eliminate manual scheduling and phone calls
  • Avoid back-and-forth emails
  • Reduce no-shows with automated notifications

📅 Complete Booking & Scheduling System

BookWellNow is more than just a booking plugin — it’s a full appointment management system designed for real businesses.

  • Appointment booking system
  • Service booking system
  • Staff scheduling system
  • Calendar booking system
  • Time-slot booking system
  • Availability calendar

🔥 Key Features

📅 Booking Calendar & Availability

  • Interactive calendar booking system
  • Real-time availability calendar
  • Date & time slot selection
  • Prevent double bookings

👥 Staff & Service Management

  • Unlimited services and bookings
  • Staff scheduling and assignment
  • Auto-select staff and services
  • Multi-service booking system

⏰ Advanced Scheduling System

  • Custom working hours
  • Shift management system
  • Break time configuration
  • Holiday & special day management
  • Flexible scheduling rules

🧾 Booking Experience

  • Step-by-step booking wizard
  • Smooth frontend booking form
  • Clean and modern UI

📩 Notifications & Automation

  • Custom email notifications
  • Booking confirmations & updates
  • Automated scheduling workflow

📄 PDF Booking Receipt

  • Generate downloadable booking receipts

🔒 Security & Reliability

  • Built-in spam protection
  • Secure booking system

🌍 Translation Ready

  • Fully multilingual support

💡 Solve Real Booking Problems

BookWellNow helps you:

  • Automate appointment scheduling
  • Avoid double booking
  • Manage staff schedules easily
  • Handle bookings without manual work
  • Save time and increase productivity
  • Provide a better customer booking experience

🏢 Who Can Use BookWellNow?

BookWellNow is built for any business that depends on appointments, reservations, or scheduling.

🏥 Healthcare & Medical

Doctors, clinics, dentists, therapists, physiotherapists, wellness centers

💇 Beauty & Salon Booking

Hair salons, spas, barbershops, makeup artists, skincare clinics

🧘 Fitness & Coaching

Gyms, yoga studios, personal trainers, life coaches, fitness centers

🎓 Education & Classes

Tutors, coaching institutes, online classes, training centers

🏢 Professional Services

Consultants, lawyers, accountants, agencies, freelancers

🏠 Local Services

Cleaning services, repair services, electricians, plumbers

📸 Creative Professionals

Photographers, videographers, designers

🚗 Automotive Services

Car service centers, repair shops, detailing services

🏨 Events & Booking

Event planners, wedding planners, workshops, studios

🐾 Pet Services

Pet grooming, veterinary clinics, pet trainers

🔍 Popular Use Cases

  • Booking plugin for salon
  • Booking system for clinic
  • Appointment scheduler for consultants
  • Scheduling plugin for coaches
  • Booking system for gyms
  • Booking plugin for photographers

⚡ Why Choose BookWellNow?

  • Lightweight and fast booking plugin
  • Easy setup and user-friendly interface
  • Powerful scheduling system
  • Works for any industry
  • Ideal free alternative to premium booking plugins
  • Built for real business workflows

📌 Shortcode

Display booking form:

[bookwell_booking]

🔐 Security and Permissions

BookWellNow uses capability checks and nonce validation for admin-side settings/actions.

Notification settings are restricted to users with plugin settings permissions and are not intended to be editable by lower-privileged roles.

Use shortcode:

[bookwell_booking]

📦 Third-Party Libraries

This plugin bundles the following third-party libraries inside the plugin package:

  • Vue.js – https://vuejs.org/ – License: MIT
  • Element Plus – https://element-plus.org/ – License: MIT
  • Element Plus Icons – https://github.com/element-plus/element-plus-icons – License: MIT
  • Axios – https://axios-http.com/ – License: MIT
  • Qs – https://github.com/ljharb/qs – License: BSD-3-Clause
  • SortableJS – https://sortablejs.github.io/Sortable/ – License: MIT
  • Chart.js – https://www.chartjs.org/ – License: MIT
  • intl-tel-input – https://github.com/jackocnr/intl-tel-input – License: MIT

These assets are used to render the admin and frontend booking interfaces and to generate PDF receipts.

For source/version/license traceability of bundled assets, see THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES.txt in the plugin root.

Public Source for Bundled/Generated Assets

Some JavaScript files in this plugin are vendor-distributed minified/compiled bundles (for example *.min.js and generated distribution builds). They are third-party libraries, not obfuscated custom plugin code.

The publicly accessible upstream sources for these bundled/generated files are:

  • assets/js/vue.cjs.min.js -> Vue.js source: https://github.com/vuejs/core
  • assets/js/chart.umd.min.js -> Chart.js source: https://github.com/chartjs/Chart.js
  • assets/js/sortable.min.js -> SortableJS source: https://github.com/SortableJS/Sortable
  • assets/js/elements-plus.js -> Element Plus source: https://github.com/element-plus/element-plus
  • assets/css/elements.css -> Element Plus CSS source: https://github.com/element-plus/element-plus
  • assets/js/element-plus-icons.iife.min.js -> Element Plus Icons source: https://github.com/element-plus/element-plus-icons
  • assets/js/axios.min.js -> Axios source: https://github.com/axios/axios
  • npm package code listing for Axios distribution: https://www.npmjs.com/package/axios/v/1.16.1
  • assets/js/qs.min.js -> Qs source: https://github.com/ljharb/qs
  • npm package listing for Qs distribution: https://www.npmjs.com/package/qs/v/6.15.2
  • assets/js/intlTelInput.min.js -> intl-tel-input source: https://github.com/jackocnr/intl-tel-input
  • assets/css/intlTelInput.css -> intl-tel-input CSS source: https://github.com/jackocnr/intl-tel-input
  • assets/js/utils.js -> libphonenumber source (distributed via intl-tel-input): https://github.com/google/libphonenumber
  • npm package code listing for intl-tel-input distribution: https://www.npmjs.com/package/intl-tel-input

The plugin ZIP also includes THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES.txt with per-file mapping, versions, and license details.

🌐 External Services

This plugin can load Google Fonts on the frontend booking form when a Google font family is selected in plugin appearance settings.

Service: Google Fonts
Provider: Google LLC
Service URL: https://fonts.googleapis.com/
Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Terms: https://policies.google.com/terms

What is sent:
* Visitor IP address (by the browser request)
* User agent and browser/network request headers
* Requested font family/style information

When it is sent:
* Only on pages where the booking form is rendered and a Google font family is configured.

Why it is sent:
* To download the selected web font and render the configured booking form typography.

Installation

  1. Upload plugin to /wp-content/plugins/
  2. Activate plugin
  3. Go to BookWellNow in dashboard
  4. Add shortcode [bookwell_booking] to any page

FAQ

How do I accept bookings on my website?

Use shortcode [bookwell_booking]

Can I manage staff schedules?

Yes, including shifts, holidays, and working hours

Can customers book online?

Yes, 24/7 booking system

Does it prevent double booking?

Yes, built-in availability control

Can I create multiple services?

Yes, unlimited services supported

Reviews

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Contributors & Developers

“BookWellNow Appointment Booking” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

Changelog

1.0.2

  • Fixed slow Customers admin list loading with large customer counts by paginating customers first and fetching appointment stats only for the current page.
  • Improved Appointments admin list pagination.
  • Fixed design issues in the front-end booking form.
  • Added Day Calendar option.

1.0.1

  • Fixed Dashboard Day Preview segment positioning so appointment bars render at the correct timeline slot.
  • Fixed Day Preview timeline range calculation to respect staff working hours (for example 9 AM to 5 PM no longer starts at 8 AM unless data requires it).
  • Improved admin day preview time parsing to correctly handle 12-hour and 24-hour formats without reversing AM/PM placement.
  • Spam-token storage moved to custom table with reusable DB helpers and safe upgrade cleanup.

1.0.0

  • Initial public release.