BookWellNow Appointment Booking

توضیحات

BookWellNow is an easy-to-use WordPress appointment booking plugin — a fast and lightweight scheduling system that helps businesses manage appointments, staff schedules, and online payments.

BookWellNow is a complete appointment booking plugin and scheduling system for WordPress — with unlimited staff, flexible service management, and PayPal payment gateway support built in.

Free Features

  • ✅ Free Unlimited Staff Members
  • ✅ Free Unlimited Services
  • ✅ Free PayPal Payment Gateway
  • ✅ Free Staff Shift Management
  • ✅ Free Staff Holiday Management
  • ✅ Lightweight & Very Fast Loading
  • ✅ Online Appointment Scheduling
  • ✅ Booking Calendar Management
  • ✅ Mobile-Friendly Booking Experience

It helps businesses automate their booking process, manage staff schedules, and accept online appointments with a powerful calendar-based booking system. Add as many staff members as you need, assign services and shifts, and let customers pay online with PayPal Checkout (sandbox and live) or offline/manual payment.

Whether you need a booking plugin, reservation system, scheduling software, or appointment management system, BookWellNow gives you everything in one place — from staff scheduling and availability control to secure online payments and automated notifications.

🚀 Accept Online Bookings 24/7

Let your customers book appointments anytime with a modern and easy-to-use booking system.

  • Accept bookings online 24/7
  • Eliminate manual scheduling and phone calls
  • Avoid back-and-forth emails
  • Reduce no-shows with automated notifications

📅 Complete Booking & Scheduling System

BookWellNow is more than just a booking plugin — it’s a full appointment management system designed for real businesses.

  • Appointment booking system
  • Service booking system
  • Staff scheduling system
  • Calendar booking system
  • Time-slot booking system
  • Availability calendar

🔥 Key Features

📅 Booking Calendar & Availability

  • Interactive calendar booking system
  • Real-time availability calendar
  • Date & time slot selection
  • Prevent double bookings

👥 Staff & Service Management

  • Unlimited services and bookings
  • Staff scheduling and assignment
  • Auto-select staff and services
  • Multi-service booking system

⏰ Advanced Scheduling System

  • Custom working hours
  • Shift management system
  • Break time configuration
  • Holiday & special day management
  • Flexible scheduling rules

🧾 Booking Experience

  • Step-by-step booking wizard
  • Smooth frontend booking form
  • Clean and modern UI
  • Booking form appearance themes

💳 Payments

  • Offline / manual payment option
  • PayPal Checkout integration (sandbox and live)

📩 Notifications & Automation

  • Custom email notifications
  • Booking confirmations & updates
  • Automated scheduling workflow

📄 PDF Booking Receipt

  • Generate downloadable booking receipts

🔒 Security & Reliability

  • Built-in spam protection
  • Secure booking system

🌍 Translation Ready

  • Fully multilingual support

💡 Solve Real Booking Problems

BookWellNow helps you:

  • Automate appointment scheduling
  • Avoid double booking
  • Manage staff schedules easily
  • Handle bookings without manual work
  • Save time and increase productivity
  • Provide a better customer booking experience

🏢 Who Can Use BookWellNow?

BookWellNow is built for any business that depends on appointments, reservations, or scheduling.

🏥 Healthcare & Medical

Doctors, clinics, dentists, therapists, physiotherapists, wellness centers

💇 Beauty & Salon Booking

Hair salons, spas, barbershops, makeup artists, skincare clinics

🧘 Fitness & Coaching

Gyms, yoga studios, personal trainers, life coaches, fitness centers

🎓 Education & Classes

Tutors, coaching institutes, online classes, training centers

🏢 Professional Services

Consultants, lawyers, accountants, agencies, freelancers

🏠 Local Services

Cleaning services, repair services, electricians, plumbers

📸 Creative Professionals

Photographers, videographers, designers

🚗 Automotive Services

Car service centers, repair shops, detailing services

🏨 Events & Booking

Event planners, wedding planners, workshops, studios

🐾 Pet Services

Pet grooming, veterinary clinics, pet trainers

🔍 Popular Use Cases

  • Booking plugin for salon
  • Booking system for clinic
  • Appointment scheduler for consultants
  • Scheduling plugin for coaches
  • Booking system for gyms
  • Booking plugin for photographers

⚡ Why Choose BookWellNow?

  • Lightweight and fast booking plugin
  • Easy setup and user-friendly interface
  • Powerful scheduling system
  • Works for any industry
  • Ideal free alternative to premium booking plugins
  • Built for real business workflows

Future Enhancements

  • Google Calendar sync
  • SMS notifications
  • Advanced reporting
  • Multi-location support

Security and Permissions

BookWellNow uses capability checks and nonce validation for admin-side settings and actions.

Notification settings are restricted to users with plugin settings permissions and are not intended to be editable by lower-privileged roles.

📌 Shortcode

Display booking form:

[bookwell_booking]

Third-Party Libraries

This plugin bundles the following third-party libraries inside the plugin package:

  • Vue.js – https://vuejs.org/ – License: MIT
  • Element Plus – https://element-plus.org/ – License: MIT
  • Element Plus Icons – https://github.com/element-plus/element-plus-icons – License: MIT
  • Axios – https://axios-http.com/ – License: MIT
  • Qs – https://github.com/ljharb/qs – License: BSD-3-Clause
  • SortableJS – https://sortablejs.github.io/Sortable/ – License: MIT
  • Chart.js – https://www.chartjs.org/ – License: MIT
  • intl-tel-input – https://github.com/jackocnr/intl-tel-input – License: MIT

These assets are used to render the admin and frontend booking interfaces and to generate PDF receipts.

For source, version, and license traceability of bundled assets, see THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES.txt in the plugin root.

Public Source for Bundled/Generated Assets

Some JavaScript files in this plugin are vendor-distributed minified or compiled bundles (for example *.min.js and generated distribution builds). They are third-party libraries, not obfuscated custom plugin code.

The publicly accessible upstream sources for these bundled or generated files are:

  • assets/js/vue.cjs.min.js -> Vue.js source: https://github.com/vuejs/core
  • assets/js/chart.umd.min.js -> Chart.js source: https://github.com/chartjs/Chart.js
  • assets/js/sortable.min.js -> SortableJS source: https://github.com/SortableJS/Sortable
  • assets/js/elements-plus.js -> Element Plus source: https://github.com/element-plus/element-plus
  • assets/css/elements.css -> Element Plus CSS source: https://github.com/element-plus/element-plus
  • assets/js/element-plus-icons.iife.min.js -> Element Plus Icons source: https://github.com/element-plus/element-plus-icons
  • assets/js/axios.min.js -> Axios source: https://github.com/axios/axios
  • npm package code listing for Axios distribution: https://www.npmjs.com/package/axios/v/1.16.1
  • assets/js/qs.min.js -> Qs source: https://github.com/ljharb/qs
  • npm package listing for Qs distribution: https://www.npmjs.com/package/qs/v/6.15.2
  • assets/js/intlTelInput.min.js -> intl-tel-input source: https://github.com/jackocnr/intl-tel-input
  • assets/css/intlTelInput.css -> intl-tel-input CSS source: https://github.com/jackocnr/intl-tel-input
  • assets/js/utils.js -> libphonenumber source (distributed via intl-tel-input): https://github.com/google/libphonenumber
  • npm package code listing for intl-tel-input distribution: https://www.npmjs.com/package/intl-tel-input

The plugin ZIP also includes THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES.txt with per-file mapping, versions, and license details.

External Services

Google Fonts

This plugin can load Google Fonts on the frontend booking form when a Google font family is selected in plugin appearance settings.

Service: Google Fonts
Provider: Google LLC
Service URL: https://fonts.googleapis.com/
Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Terms: https://policies.google.com/terms

What is sent:

  • Visitor IP address (by the browser request)
  • User agent and browser/network request headers
  • Requested font family and style information

When it is sent:

  • Only on pages where the booking form is rendered and a Google font family is configured.

Why it is sent:

  • To download the selected web font and render the configured booking form typography.

PayPal Checkout

When PayPal is enabled in plugin settings, the booking form can process online payments through PayPal.

Service: PayPal Checkout (Orders API and JavaScript SDK)
Provider: PayPal Holdings, Inc.
Service URLs:

  • https://www.paypal.com/sdk/js
  • https://api-m.paypal.com/
  • https://api-m.sandbox.paypal.com/

Privacy Policy: https://www.paypal.com/us/legalhub/privacy-full
Terms: https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/useragreement-full

What is sent:

  • Booking amount and currency
  • Appointment reference ID
  • PayPal order and capture or transaction identifiers
  • Visitor IP address and browser request headers (standard HTTP requests to PayPal)

When it is sent:

  • When a customer selects PayPal on the booking form and starts or completes checkout
  • When the site server creates or verifies a PayPal order on behalf of the customer

Why it is sent:

  • To authorize and capture online payments for booked appointments

PayPal credentials (Client ID and Secret) are stored in your WordPress database and configured by the site administrator. Only the PayPal Client ID is exposed to the frontend booking form when PayPal is enabled.

عکس‌های صفحه

نصب

  1. Upload plugin to /wp-content/plugins/
  2. Activate plugin
  3. Go to BookWellNow in dashboard
  4. Add shortcode [bookwell_booking] to any page

سوالات متداول

How do I accept bookings on my website?

Use shortcode [bookwell_booking]

Can I manage staff schedules?

Yes, including shifts, holidays, and working hours

Can customers book online?

Yes, 24/7 booking system

Does it prevent double booking?

Yes, built-in availability control

Can I create multiple services?

Yes, unlimited services supported

Does this plugin offer free unlimited staff for appointment booking?

Yes. BookWellNow includes free unlimited staff members, so you can add your whole team without per-seat limits.

Can I accept PayPal payments with this appointment booking plugin?

Yes. PayPal Checkout is built in with sandbox and live mode support, alongside offline and manual payment options.

Is this a lightweight appointment booking calendar plugin?

Yes. BookWellNow is optimized for fast loading and includes a booking calendar, time slots, staff shifts, holidays, and a mobile-friendly booking form.

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گزارش تغییرات

2.0.2

  • Fixed Designing Issue
  • Updated translation template and language files for new strings.

2.0.1

  • Fixed default country and dial code storage so United States and Canada (+1) can be selected correctly.
  • Added PayPal unsupported currency admin warning and frontend gateway hiding.
  • Fixed setup wizard flash of uncompiled Vue templates on first load.
  • Updated translation template and language files for new strings.

2.0.0

  • Major release with PayPal Checkout, payment debug log, and manually payment method.
  • Added 10 booking form appearance themes with live apply and frontend cache refresh.
  • Improved PayPal currency validation, stale pending cleanup, and payment security hardening.
  • Fixed default country vs dial code selection (US and Canada both use +1).
  • Improved frontend staff data privacy and setup wizard load experience.

1.0.2

  • Fixed slow Customers admin list loading with large customer counts by paginating customers first and fetching appointment stats only for the current page.
  • Improved Appointments admin list pagination.
  • Fixed design issues in the front-end booking form.
  • Added Day Calendar option.

1.0.1

  • Fixed Dashboard Day Preview segment positioning so appointment bars render at the correct timeline slot.
  • Fixed Day Preview timeline range calculation to respect staff working hours (for example 9 AM to 5 PM no longer starts at 8 AM unless data requires it).
  • Improved admin day preview time parsing to correctly handle 12-hour and 24-hour formats without reversing AM/PM placement.
  • Spam-token storage moved to custom table with reusable DB helpers and safe upgrade cleanup.

1.0.0

  • Initial public release.