Documentation and setup guide<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\nFor patients<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n- Choose a treatment, see which days are free in a calendar, and pick a time.<\/li>\n
- Fully booked days are marked, and the form offers the next free day in one click.<\/li>\n
- Email when the request is received, when it is confirmed (with the time to arrive and a calendar invitation), moved, declined or cancelled.<\/li>\n
- Automatic reminder before the appointment.<\/li>\n
- A private link in every email to view, cancel or pick a new time (until a deadline you set).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
For the practice<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n- Overview: requests waiting for a reply, today's schedule, past visits to mark, no-shows and a two-week capacity view.<\/li>\n
- One-click Confirm, \"Confirm next free time\" (moves a request to the next free slot and confirms it), Decline with a reason, Cancel, Completed and No-show.<\/li>\n
- Month calendar of all appointments.<\/li>\n
- Add phone and walk-in bookings; optional double-booking override.<\/li>\n
- Opening hours with breaks, closed dates and blocked hours, slot length, chairs (patients at the same time), maximum appointments per day, per-treatment daily limits (e.g. 2 emergency visits a day), gap between appointments, minimum notice, how far ahead patients can book and extra time for new patients.<\/li>\n
- Instant booking mode, or requests that staff confirm.<\/li>\n
- Editable email texts with placeholders, test emails and a history log per appointment.<\/li>\n
- Search, filters and CSV export.<\/li>\n
- \"Front Desk\" user role that can manage appointments without access to the rest of the site.<\/li>\n
- Dashboard widget with today's appointments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
Privacy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n- Stores only name, email, phone, treatment, date\/time, new or existing patient and an optional message. The form asks patients not to write medical details.<\/li>\n
- Works with WordPress's personal data export and erase tools and adds suggested privacy policy text.<\/li>\n
- Optional automatic deletion of old appointments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
This plugin is not a HIPAA-compliant system and must not be used to collect health records.<\/p>\n\n
Spam protection<\/strong><\/p>\n\nHidden trap field, speed check and a limit of 5 bookings per hour per visitor. A theme or another plugin can add a CAPTCHA with the suwca_booking_form_fields<\/code> action and the suwca_validate_booking<\/code> filter.<\/p>\n\nNo external services<\/strong><\/p>\n\nThe plugin does not load anything from, or send anything to, outside servers. All data stays in your WordPress database.<\/p>\n\n\n
\n- Upload the plugin and activate it.<\/li>\n
- Go to Appointments \u2192 Settings and set your opening hours, limits, treatments and practice details.<\/li>\n
- Add
[suwca_booking_form]<\/code> to the page where patients book.<\/li>\n- The \"Manage Appointment\" page for patient links is created automatically.<\/li>\n
- Install an SMTP plugin (for example WP Mail SMTP) so emails reach the inbox.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n
For exact reminder timing on quiet sites, set up a server cron job that loads wp-cron.php every 15 minutes.<\/p>\n\n
Full setup guide: https:\/\/smartupworld.com\/smartupworld-clinic-appointments\/<\/p>\n\n\n
\nWhat happens when a day is full?<\/h3><\/dt>\nThe day shows as fully booked in the patient calendar and the form offers the next free day. In the dashboard, \"Confirm next free time\" moves a request to the next free time and confirms it.<\/p><\/dd>\n
Can patients book instantly?<\/h3><\/dt>\nYes. Choose \"Instant booking\" in Settings \u2192 General. Otherwise each booking is a request your team confirms.<\/p><\/dd>\n
Can a theme supply the treatments?<\/h3><\/dt>\nYes, with the suwca_services<\/code> filter. Each item: array( 'id', 'name', 'duration', 'daily_limit', 'active' )<\/code>.<\/p><\/dd>\nHooks for developers<\/h3><\/dt>\nFilters: suwca_services<\/code>, suwca_business_default<\/code>, suwca_booking_url<\/code>, suwca_default_settings<\/code>, suwca_default_schedule<\/code>, suwca_email_templates<\/code>, suwca_email<\/code>, suwca_enqueue_assets<\/code>, suwca_validate_booking<\/code>.\nActions: suwca_booking_form_fields<\/code>, suwca_settings_spam_protection<\/code>, suwca_appointment_created<\/code>, suwca_status_changed<\/code>, suwca_notification_sent<\/code> (use it to add SMS).\nJavaScript: the form fires a suwca:booking-failed<\/code> event after a failed submit (e.g. to reset a CAPTCHA).<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n\n1.0.0<\/h4>\n\n\n- Initial release.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","raw_excerpt":"Appointment booking for clinics and dental practices: live availability, daily limits, staff approval, email confirmations and reminders.","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin\/383060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/plugin"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383060"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/smartupworld"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"plugin_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_section?post=383060"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_tags?post=383060"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_category?post=383060"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_contributors?post=383060"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_business_model","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_business_model?post=383060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}