Description
Schedopia is a complete, self-hosted appointment booking plugin for WordPress. A customer picks a service, chooses a staff member, and books an available time — and every booking is a real, dated record with a transactional double-booking guard, so two customers can never take the same slot. Built for salons, clinics, consultants, tutors, and any service business that runs on appointments.
Features
- Service catalog: services, categories, and per-staff pricing.
- Staff and customer management, with per-staff availability — weekly working hours, days off, buffer times, and capacity — that drives the bookable time slots.
- Real, dated appointments that carry their own date, time, and timezone, with a transactional double-booking guard.
- A customer-facing booking form — server-rendered and mobile-first — that you place with the
[schedopia_booking]shortcode; customers pick a service, choose a staff member, and book an available time in a few steps. - A Form Appearance customizer to brand the form: global colors, fonts, shape, and button style, plus per-step labels, with a live preview.
- A fast single-page admin: dashboard, bookings with filters and a detail drawer, a team calendar, the service catalog, scheduling, customers, staff, payments, an activity log, and a setup wizard.
- Manual / offline payment recording (cash, bank transfer, mark-as-paid).
- Email notifications: booking confirmation, cancellation, an operator new-booking alert, and booking reminders.
- A REST API for every entity, with schema-driven validation.
- An extension surface (lifecycle hooks, filters, and driver interfaces) so extensions build on the plugin without forking it.
The [schedopia_booking] shortcode works in any editor — including inside the Gutenberg shortcode block and the Elementor Shortcode widget.
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Installation
- Upload the
schedopiafolder to the/wp-content/plugins/directory, or install the plugin through the Plugins screen in WordPress. - Activate the plugin through the Plugins screen.
- The plugin’s custom tables (
wp_schedopia_*) are created automatically on activation/upgrade. - Manage your catalog, staff, and bookings via the Schedopia admin screens and the REST API under
/wp-json/schedopia/v1/. - Add the booking form to your site: create or edit a page and insert the
[schedopia_booking]shortcode (it also works inside the Gutenberg shortcode block and the Elementor Shortcode widget).
FAQ
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Does Schedopia use custom database tables or custom post types?
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Custom tables (
wp_schedopia_*). Bookings, services, staff, customers, and payments are stored relationally rather than as posts. -
Can I take payments?
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Schedopia records manual / offline payments — cash, bank transfer, and mark-as-paid.
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How do extensions build on Schedopia?
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Through documented lifecycle hooks, filters, and driver interfaces (
BookingSource,NotificationChannel,PaymentMethod). Every booking flows through one validated path, so an extension can never create a booking the core would reject. -
How do I add the booking form to a page?
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Place the
[schedopia_booking]shortcode in any page or post. It also works inside the Gutenberg shortcode block and the Elementor Shortcode widget. Only one booking form can appear per page.
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Contributors & Developers
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Changelog
1.0.0
- First stable release: a complete appointments booking system — a service catalog with categories and per-staff pricing; staff with weekly working hours, days off, buffers, and capacity; real dated bookings with a transactional double-booking guard; manual / offline payment recording; email notifications (confirmation, cancellation, operator alert, reminders); a setup wizard; a single-page admin dashboard; and the customer-facing
[schedopia_booking]form with the Form Appearance customizer. - Single validated booking path (admin, form, and future sources) with serial/reference generation and a confirmation email on every booking.
- REST API for every entity with schema-driven validation; granular per-area capabilities and rate limiting on the public API.
- Self-hosted fonts and assets — loads nothing from third-party CDNs. Uninstall preserves business data unless you opt in to deletion.