WordPress Appointments + Plugin

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appointments + is a powerful, flexible and easy-to-use plugin. Take, set and manage appointments and client bookings without having to leave WordPress.

Manage All Client Appointments in WordPress

Are you tired of missing out on new client calls because you’re too busy hopping between your website and your appointment booking system?

Well, toss out those spiral notebooks, ditch the excel spreadsheet and get ready to save a fortune in time and money by managing ALL your client appointments right from WordPress.

Appointments + does it all.

The ultimate WordPress appointment booking system for your business.

Who It’s Good For

Your brand new Appointments+ plugin is the most comprehensive appointment booking solution for WordPress. It’s perfect for many businesses that schedule time with clients, such as spas and salons, photographers, consultants and life coaches, sales executives and web designers.

WordPress Appointments+ is perfect for anyone who wants to:

Allow customers the option to book their own appointments online
Schedule appointments with clients
Enjoy a built-in CRM for managing customer contact information
Collect payments or deposits using PayPal
Manage your entire team, create unlimited service providers and unlimited services!
Send confirmation and reminder emails to increase customer attendance rates
Allow you and your clients to book appointments up to one year out
Manage all appointments right from Google calendar

Book an Appointment in 3 Clicks

Use Paypal to collect payments and deposits right out of the box with Appointments +. No button creation or coding necessary. You can even integrate it with our WordPress Membership plugin to offer discounts and payment vouchers to existing members of your site:

Setup customizable profiles for each of your team members and Appointments + will automatically display their available time slots:

Clients can click any service your company offers and Appointments + will display all your available team members for that service:

Admins and clients can save any appointment directly to their Google Calendar….with NO API coding required! Just click a button and the appointment shows up on your Google calendar:

Or fully integrate Google Calendar with your site by entering API credentials, allowing appointment edits made from your Google Calendar to quickly update the appointment details back on your site.

PLUS, you get more than 30 more custom appointment features that rival the most sophisticated (and much more expensive!) booking platforms, including:

Create unlimited services
Create unlimited service provider profiles
Create “black out” dates and times
Edit schedules from back end of WordPress, on admin or profile pages
Compatible with BuddyPress
Short codes for inserting into posts/pages
Creates automatic appointment page including all required shortcodes
Display weekly, or monthly schedules
Limit booking of appointments in advance ( e.g. you can set, say, 2 days to 365 days from today is allowed)
Gravatar support for personalizing provider profiles
Custom Color labels for appointments
Form autofill for repeat clients
Facebook, Twitter, Google+ or WordPress login
Integrates with WPMU DEV Membership plugin, thus ability to offer discount to certain membership levels
Integrates with WPMU DEV MarketPress plugin, thus uses its additional payment gateways (PayPal is already included)
Option to require payments or deposits in advance
Deposits can be selected as percentage or as fixed amounts
Synchronizes with your Google Calendar account and automatically updates it
Send clients appointment reminders
Take phone appointments manually
Ability to automatically remove unpaid appointments after a set time
Multiple Widgets included
Documentation inside the plugin including tutorials and FAQ’s
More than 130 custom filter and action hooks

Simply put, Appointments + is the only tool you’ll ever need for managing your client appointments and for organizing your business online!

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For help and information on installing plugins you can view our Installing WordPress Plugins Manual.

Check out this extensive tutorial on building your first Appointments based site.

Once you Activate the plugin you will see a menu appear on the Menu Bar labeled Appointments.

You will see three sub-menus appear when you click on the menu item. We will tackle each separately and in order.

Appointments

Clicking Appointments brings you to the hub of your appointments list. You will see that your appointments will be separated by status: Active, Pending, Completed and Removed. You can view each by clicking on their respective links, and each page will show the Client and Service basic info as below. At the top of the page you will see an Add New button, just like you use to create a new page or post. Click that and you can Add a new appointment manually to your calendar.

The New Appointment Menu is pretty self explanatory. There is a place for the client’s infomation, the Service information (that will populate from the menus you fill in later) and a place for notes. Last but not least you can set the status before Saving. There is a built in tutorial that covers this as well, I will show you where to find that, just in-case you have any questions or forget something.

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Transactions

Here you will see your transactions if you are taking payments or deposits. These are also grouped: Recent, Pending and Future. Each accessible by clicking their respective links. You cannot manually add a transaction, the plugin will only record what is recorded through PayPal.

And now the meat of this beast…

Settings

The Settings menu will greet you with a Tutorial. You should pay attention to that :)

It will tell you what you need to know about setting up the plugin and the tabs you see here. Most are pretty easy to understand and the plugin options are very well annotated, so you should have no trouble. We can pop through and summarize them here, one by one, but I will draw your attention to the FAQ tab first.

FAQ

Here is where you will find info on everything you need in this plugin, ready for immediate access! The TWO most important pieces of information on this page, for those who are just installing or learning how to use the plugin, are the two links at the top. These will start (or restart) the tutorials on the Settings menu options and Entering and Editing Appointments.

Now, let’s backtrack. Starting off at the first tab:

General

These settings are the heart and soul of your setup. Pay special attention to the General Settings box at the top of the page. Especially the Time base value. Time Base the most important parameter of Appointments+. It is the minimum time that you can select for your appointments. Everything time related will work off of this value. The remaining boxes allow you to set your

Display: create an appointment page, it’s display, client information boxes and a place to add Custom CSS.
Client Accessibility: you can choose whether or not to require login before scheduling
Payment Settings: choose whether you will accept payments
Notification Settings: option to set up confirmation and reminder emails for client and/or providers
Performance Settings: Caching options

Working Hours

Set your ours of operation and Break Times. Think Business Hours and ‘Out to Lunch‘. You can even specify different hours for different service providers. Makes it easy to keep track of differing schedules!

Exceptions

Days off, holidays, scheduled maintenance, etc. You can add them all here. You can also define working days that are normally non-work days (i.e. a particular Sunday). These are also able to be set per service provider.

Services

What do you do?! What do you provide?! This is where you lay it all out. Set a capacity, price and even a description page.

Service Providers

Not required that you have more than person available doing what gets done, but if you do, here is where you keep track of them all. You can even add Additional fees and assign more than one service to a provider. Even attach them to a Bio page. Note: this tab will not populate until you have at least one service listed in the Services tab.

Shortcodes

Heaps of Shortcodes for your use. Insert provider or client specific tables, dropdown of services, table for appointment scheduling, monthly views, social login pagination, list all upcoming appointments, PayPal and a couple of parameters for those.

Logs

Keep up with what is happening by checking your Logs. This nifty tab is where you will find updates on everything that happens on your site. Status changes, transactions and the like.

And that’s it! Well not really. You will need to download and install to see the details. This plugin is spectacularly annotated and contains loads of helpful information along the setup process! Enjoy!