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/coreassets/js/chart.umd.min.js-> Chart.js source: https://github.com/chartjs/Chart.jsassets/js/sortable.min.js-> SortableJS source: https://github.com/SortableJS/Sortableassets/js/elements-plus.js-> Element Plus source: https://github.com/element-plus/element-plusassets/css/elements.css-> Element Plus CSS source: https://github.com/element-plus/element-plusassets/js/element-plus-icons.iife.min.js-> Element Plus Icons source: https://github.com/element-plus/element-plus-iconsassets/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-inputassets/css/intlTelInput.css-> intl-tel-input CSS source: https://github.com/jackocnr/intl-tel-inputassets/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
- Upload plugin to
/wp-content/plugins/ - Activate plugin
- Go to BookWellNow in dashboard
- Add shortcode
[bookwell_booking]to any page
FAQ
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How do I accept bookings on my website?
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Use shortcode [bookwell_booking]
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Can I manage staff schedules?
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Yes, including shifts, holidays, and working hours
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Can customers book online?
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Yes, 24/7 booking system
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Does it prevent double booking?
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Yes, built-in availability control
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Can I create multiple services?
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Yes, unlimited services supported
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Contributors & Developers
“BookWellNow Appointment Booking” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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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.
