Description
Faiyum Salon Booking Lite is a clean, lightweight appointment booking plugin for single-employee salons. It integrates with WooCommerce products as services and blocks time slots based on service duration so double bookings are impossible.
Features:
* Uses WooCommerce products as bookable services
* Smart time slot blocking based on service duration
* Per-date schedule overrides (custom hours or close entire day)
* Duplicate booking prevention (server-side check)
* Email confirmation to both admin and customer
* Past date and closed date prevention on frontend
* Fully translatable (i18n ready with .pot file support)
* No inline CSS or JS — all assets properly enqueued
Installation
- Upload the
faiyum-salon-booking-litefolder to/wp-content/plugins/ - Activate the plugin from the Plugins menu in WordPress
- Make sure WooCommerce is installed and activated
- Add your services as WooCommerce products (use Short Description for duration e.g. “45 minutes”)
- Create a page and add the shortcode
[salon_services] - Configure opening/closing times under Faiyum Booking Settings
FAQ
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Does this support multiple employees?
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No, this is the Lite version designed for single-employee salons.
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Do I need WooCommerce?
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Yes. Services are managed as WooCommerce products.
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How do I set service duration?
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Add duration in the WooCommerce product Short Description. Examples: “45 minutes”, “1 hour”, “2 hours 30 minutes”.
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Can I close specific days?
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Yes. Go to your database or use a schedule override (Pro feature).
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Contributors & Developers
“Faiyum Salon Booking Lite” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.0.1
- WordPress.org compliance: moved all CSS/JS to external files
- Fixed: Modal now loads only on pages with the shortcode
- Fixed: Closed dates now blocked on frontend
- Fixed: Server-side duplicate booking check added
- Fixed: Past dates now blocked via HTML min attribute
- Added: Confirmation emails to admin and customer
- Added: Full i18n/l10n support with text domain
- Added: Status column in admin bookings table
1.0.0
- Initial release