Wordpress Time Slot Plugin
Aug 14, 2020 To enable this, the booking plugin will need to support dedicated profiles for each of your agents along with their own calendar to showcase their booked and free time slots. Just think of those travel websites, they give you a choice of hotels or adventures, but each of them have their own calendars and schedules. Booking Calendar WordPress plugin is available for free and has been around for a long time. In fact, it is one of the oldest appointment booking plugins for WordPress, showcasing the fact that it has stood the test of time. The plugin is straightforward to use and also comes packed with a lot of features.
Descrizione
WP Time Slots Booking Form creates booking forms for booking time slots into the calendar dates. Basically you can create a form with a calendar where the end-user can pick times into the calendar dates and book them. Notifications emails are sent to let the admin know that a booking was completed and confirmation email can be sent also to the user making the booking.
This type of booking is useful for reserving classrooms, purchasing event tickets, medical / doctors appointments, booking times in escape rooms, booking personal coaching or other professional assistance, booking cleaning services and any other type of service where the customer needs to select a date-time or a group of date-times (time slots) from a set of available times.
In the calendar you can setup:
- The available time slots for each weekday
- The available time slots on specific dates
- The capacity (# of persons that can book) of each time slot
- The number of different time slots that can be selected in a single booking
- Min and maximum available dates
- Holiday / closed dates
- Price for each time slot
- Prices for different number of selected slots
- Prices for (example) the number of adults and number of children (optional)
- Number of months to display
- … and other calendar features
In addition to the calendar-related features, other important features of the plugin are:
- Modern look / mobile friendly
- Responsive calendar and form
- Visual form builder
- Multi language support
- Notification emails
- Antispam features
- Email reports
- CSV reports
- Usage / Stats area
- Bookings list
- Printable schedule list
- Multi-View calendar for displaying schedule
- Integration with Elementor, Gutemberg and other page builders
- Add-ons support with iCal add-on included
The plugin properly manages the availability of each time slot, allowing to define a maximum capacity for each time slot and to define also the maximum number of time slots that the customer can select for the booking.
You can optionally allow multiple persons to book the same time-slots until its capacity become fully filled. The plugin allows to setup different prices for two groups (example: adults and children) and features other options that make it appropriate for purchasing even tickets or other activities / items with multiple capacity.
Features in commercial versions
While the free version of the plugin is fully functional, there are also commercial versions that adds premium features like the following:
- Payment integration: PayPal, Stripe, Skrill, Authorize.net, iDEAL, SagePay, Redsys
- Payments are SCA ready (Strong Customer Authentication), compatible with the new Payment services (PSD 2) – Directive (EU).
- iCal synchronization (iCal import / iCal export)
- Integration with external services: reCaptcha, MailChimp, SalesForce, WooCommerce and others
- Integration with phone SMS messages via Twilio or Clickatell
- Booking reminders
- Rich form builder (conditional fields, multi-page forms, uploads, …)
For a full list of commercial features check the plugin download page.
The Troubleshoot Area
Use the troubleshot if you are having problems with special or non-latin characters. In most cases changing the charset to UTF-8 through the option available for that in the troubleshot area will solve the problem.
You can also use this area to change the script load method if the booking calendar isn’t appearing in the public website.
Blocchi
Questo plugin fornisce 1 blocco.
- WP Time Slots Booking Form
Installazione
To install WP Time Slots Booking Form, follow these steps:
- Download and unzip the WP Time Slots Booking Form calendar plugin
- Upload the entire appointment-hour-booking/ directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
- Activate the WP Time Slots Booking Form plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress
- Configure the settings at the administration menu >> Settings >> WP Time Slots Booking Form.
- To insert the WP Time Slots Booking Form calendar form into some content or post use the icon that will appear when editing contents
FAQ
Q: Where can I find the complete WP Time Slots Booking Form plugin documentation?
A: The product’s page contains detailed documentation and support:
Q: How can I customize the styles?
Time Slot Definition
A: Please check complete instructions in the following page: https://wptimeslot.dwbooster.com/blog/2018/11/02/customizing-styles/
Q: Can I display a list with the appointments?
A: A list with the appointments set on the calendar can be displayed by using this shortcode in the page where you want to display the list:
[CP_TIME_SLOTS_BOOKING_LIST]
Additional details available in the following FAQ entry: https://wptimeslot.dwbooster.com/faq#q511 … and additional details at the following page: https://wptimeslot.dwbooster.com/blog/2018/11/21/grouped-frontend-lists/
Q: I’m not receiving the emails with the appointment data.
A: Try first using a “from” email address that belongs to your website domain, this is the most common restriction applied in most hosting services.
If that doesn’t work please check if your hosting service requires some specific configuration to send emails from PHP/WordPress websites. The plugin uses the settings specified into the WordPress website to deliver the emails, if your hosting has some specific requirements like a fixed “from” address or a custom “SMTP” server those settings must be configured into the WordPress website.
Q: About changing styles of the dates depending of the amount of booked/available bookings
A: You can set a different color/style of the dates depending of the number of booked/available slots for that date so the user can get an idea of the amount of spaces available without clicking the date. This feature is useful for example to indicate to the customers the dates where there are few slots available so they know to hurry up.
Wordpress Time Slot Plugin Wordpress
The instructions are described in detail at the following page: https://wptimeslot.dwbooster.com/blog/2019/05/10/booked-date-colors/
Q: Can I export the bookings to external calendars?
Yes, that can be done using the iCal export add-on included in all versions of the plugin. The process is described in detail at the following page:
https://wptimeslot.dwbooster.com/blog/2018/12/19/adding-google-iphone-outlook/
Q: I’m getting API errors while using the the Zoom integration?
A: If you are getting API errors while creating the Zoom meeting via API please refer to the Zoom developer impacting changes during COVID-19: https://devforum.zoom.us/t/developer-impacting-changes-during-covid-19/8930
Q: How can I align the form using various columns?
A: The solution is described at the following FAQ entry: https://wptimeslot.dwbooster.com/faq#q66
Q: How can I add specific fields into the email message?
A: Please refer to the following FAQ entry about the available tags for adding info and customizing the emails: https://wptimeslot.dwbooster.com/faq#q81
Q: How to make the calendar 100% width / responsive?
A: Use the following CSS style to make the WP Time Slots Booking Form 100% width / responsive on the page:
fbuilder .ui-datepicker-inline{max-width:none !important}
Add the styles into the “WP Time Slots Booking Form >> General Settings >> Edit Styles” area.