Schednex Appointment Booking – Appointment Booking Scheduling System

Description

Schednex Appointment Booking is a modern appointment booking plugin for WordPress. It lets your customers book services online in a few clicks, while you manage services, staff, working hours, customers and bookings from a fast React-powered admin dashboard.

It is built for any appointment-based business: salons and spas, clinics and healthcare, fitness trainers, consultants, tutors, photographers, repair services and more.

Availability is always re-checked on the server before a booking is saved, so double bookings are prevented even when several customers book at the same time.

Booking widget for your customers

• Step-by-step booking flow: Category → Service → Staff → Date & Time → Details.
• Interactive calendar that only shows days and time slots that are actually available.
• Staff selection, or book a service without choosing a staff member.
• Group bookings – customers can book for several attendees when the service has capacity.
• Order summary with price and total before confirming.
• Booking confirmation screen with a receipt.
• Built-in validation for name, email and phone number.
• Responsive and mobile friendly.
• Add it anywhere with the “Schednex Appointment Booking Booking Form” block or the [schednex_booking] shortcode.

Services & categories

• Create unlimited services with name, description, price and duration.
• Group services into categories.
• Set capacity and maximum bookings per time slot.
• Show or hide the price on the booking form.

Staff

• Staff profiles with contact information.
• Assign services to each staff member.
• Customers can choose a staff member when booking a service.
• Services can also allow customers to book without selecting a staff member.

Working hours, breaks & holidays

• Weekly business working hours.
• Breaks within the working day.
• Holidays and days off that block bookings automatically.
• Uses your WordPress site time zone, date format and time format.

Bookings management

• View and manage all bookings from the admin panel.
• Admin calendar view.
• Create bookings manually from the admin.
• Search, filter by status and payment status, and sort.
• Booking statuses: Pending, Confirmed, Completed, Cancelled and No Show.
• Payment tracking: Unpaid, Partially paid, Paid and Refunded.

Customers

• Customer list created automatically from bookings.
• Add and edit customers manually.
• See each customer’s booking history.

Dashboard

• Overview of bookings, revenue, total customers and pending approvals.

Email notifications

• “Booking received” email to the customer.
• “Booking confirmed” email to the customer when the booking is confirmed.
• “Booking cancelled” and “Booking rescheduled” emails to the customer.
• New booking notification email to the site admin.
• Email templates can be overridden from your theme.

Customize the booking form

• Three layouts: Classic, Sidebar and Compact.
• Change colors to match your brand.
• Edit the header title, subtitle and icon.
• Rename the booking steps.
• Enable, disable, rename and mark form fields (phone, attendees, notes) as required or optional.
• Customize the thank-you message with {name}, {email} and {service} placeholders.
• Live preview while you customize.

Payments

• “Pay later” – customers pay at the time of the appointment.
• Choose your store currency from the settings.

Spam protection

• Built-in rate limit and hidden spam-trap field on the public booking form.
• Developers can plug in a captcha with the schednex_appointment_booking_validate_public_booking filter.

Privacy & data

• All data is stored in your own WordPress database.
• No external services are contacted.
• Your data is kept when the plugin is uninstalled, unless you turn on “Delete all Schednex Appointment Booking data when this plugin is uninstalled” in Settings.