Oozami Booking

Installation

1. Install and activate

1. Upload the oozami-booking folder to /wp-content/plugins/, or install it from the Plugins → Add New screen in WordPress.
2. Activate Oozami Booking from the Plugins screen.
3. A new Oozami Booking menu appears in the WordPress admin sidebar.

2. Configure your general settings

Go to Oozami Booking → Settings and fill in:

• Business name — displayed in emails and on the customer page.
• Admin email — the address that receives a notification every time a new booking is created.
• Sender email — the “From” address used for outgoing emails. Use an address on your own domain (e.g. contact@your-domain.com) for best deliverability.
• Sender name — the “From” name shown to recipients.
• Primary color — used in emails, on the booking widget, and on buttons.
• Automatic confirmation — enable to confirm bookings automatically, or disable to require manual approval from the dashboard.
• My appointment page URL — paste the URL of the page where you put the [oozami_booking_my_booking] shortcode (see step 6 below). Required for the “View / cancel my appointment” link to appear in confirmation emails.

3. Verify email delivery

Still on the Settings page, scroll down to Email delivery and click Send test. A test email will be sent to your address. If it does not arrive within a few minutes:

• Check your spam folder.
• If the page shows a delivery error, install an SMTP plugin such as WP Mail SMTP or FluentSMTP and connect it to a transactional email provider (Brevo, SendGrid, Mailgun, Gmail SMTP, or your hosting provider’s SMTP).
• Configure SPF and DKIM in your DNS zone to maximize deliverability.

Repeat the test until you receive the email. From that point, all booking confirmations and cancellations will be delivered the same way.

4. Create your services

Go to Oozami Booking → Services and click Add a service. For each service, set:

• Name (e.g. “30-minute haircut”, “First consultation”, “Group yoga class”)
• Description (shown on the booking form)
• Duration in minutes — this controls how time slots are calculated
• Price
• Color — used to identify the service in the admin calendar
• Active — uncheck to temporarily hide a service from the front-end without deleting it

Repeat for every bookable service you offer.

5. Create your employees and opening hours

If you work alone, you can skip the Employees page entirely — the plugin works fine with a single implicit resource (enable Single resource in Settings to ensure slots block across all services).

If you have multiple employees:

1. Go to Oozami Booking → Employees and add each team member. For every employee, select which services they can perform.
2. Go to Oozami Booking → Availability to set weekly opening hours and mark closed days. Use the blocked-dates list to add holidays or one-off closures.

6. Add the booking form to a page

Create or edit a WordPress page (e.g. “Book an appointment”) and insert the shortcode:

[oozami-booking]

Or, if you use Elementor, drag the Oozami Booking widget into your layout. Publish the page — your booking form is live.

7. (Recommended) Create the “My appointment” page

Create a second WordPress page (e.g. “My appointment”) and insert this shortcode:

[oozami_booking_my_booking]

Then go back to Oozami Booking → Settings → Customer area and paste this page’s URL into “My appointment” page URL. From now on, every confirmation email will include a “View / cancel my appointment” button that takes the customer to their personal booking page via a secure token.

8. (Optional) Disable auto-confirmation

If you want to manually validate every booking before sending a confirmation email, uncheck Automatic confirmation in Settings. New bookings will then arrive in Pending status under Oozami Booking → Bookings, where you can either confirm them (sends a confirmation email to the customer) or refuse them (sends a cancellation email).