Appointment Hour Booking - WordPress Booking Plugin

About Appointment Hour Booking – WordPress Booking Plugin

Appointment Hour Booking is a WordPress plugin that allows you to create booking forms for appointments with a start time and defined duration. It is useful for various purposes such as booking medical services, personal training sessions, reserving rooms for events, and more. The plugin offers easy visual configuration, automatic time calculations, multiple services with different prices and durations, customizable email notifications, and other features.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Appointment Hour Booking?

Appointment Hour Booking is a WordPress plugin for creating booking forms for appointments with a start time and a defined duration over a schedule. The start time is visually selected by the end user from a set of start times calculated based in the “open” hours and service duration. The duration/schedule is defined in the “service” selected by the customer. Each calendar can have multiple services with different duration and prices.

What are the main features of Appointment Hour Booking?

The main features of Appointment Hour Booking include easy visual configuration of calendar data and schedules, working dates, invalid/holiday dates and special dates can be defined, supports restriction of default, maximum and minimimum dates, open hours can be defined for each date, each calendar can have multiple services defined, each service can have its own price and duration, start-times are calculated automatically based in the open hours and service duration, available times are managed automatically to avoid double-booking, multiple services can be selected on each booking, services can have multiple capacity, automatic price calculation, customizable email notifications for administrators and users, form validation and built it anti-spam captcha protection, manual and automatic CSV reports, iCal addon with iCal export link and iCal file attached into emails, calendar available in 53+ languages, multiple date formats supported, blocks for Elementor and Gutenberg, multi-page calendars, and printable appointments list.

What are the features in commercial versions of Appointment Hour Booking?

The features in commercial versions of Appointment Hour Booking include a visual form builder for creating the booking form fields, booking form can be connected to payment process (Ex: PayPal Standard, PayPal Pro, Stripe, Skrill, Authorize.net, TargetPay/iDEAL, Mollie/iDEAL, SagePay, Redsys), payments are SCA ready (Strong Customer Authentication), compatible with the new Payment services (PSD 2) – Directive (EU), addons for integration with external services: reCaptcha, MailChimp, SalesForce, WooCommerce and others, addons with additional features: appointment cancellation addon, appointment reminders addon, clickatell and twilio SMS add-ons, signature fields, iCal synchronization, Google Calendar API, Zoom Meetings, and more.

What can Appointment Hour Booking be used for?

Appointment Hour Booking can be used for booking services or resources. It allows you to define schedule, open hours, services, prices and durations and let the calendar plugin manage the schedule. It is useful for cases like booking of medical services, personal training sessions, booking rooms for events, reserving language classes or other type of classes, and other type of services/resources booking where start times are selected and the availability is automatically managed using the defined service duration to avoid double-booking.

How can I troubleshoot issues with Appointment Hour Booking?

If you are having problems with special or non-latin characters, you can use the troubleshoot area. In most cases, changing the charset to UTF-8 through the option available in the troubleshoot 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.

Changelog

1.3.78

Admin intf update

1.3.79

Language fixes

1.3.80

PHP 8 compatibility

1.3.81

Min-date/max-date fix

1.3.82

New design theme

1.3.83

PHP warning fix

1.3.84

Dashboard add-on update

1.3.85

Elementor integration update

1.3.86

Improved load speed

1.3.87

Add-ons engine update

1.3.88

iCal Export add-on updates

1.3.89

Form builder updates

1.3.90

Max date rule fix

1.3.91

PHP 8 fix

1.3.92

iCal update

1.3.93

CSS fixes

1.3.94

Add-on improvements

1.3.95

Better iCal integration

1.3.96

PHP 8 fixes

1.3.97

SQL query updates

1.3.98

PHP 8 fix

1.3.99

Compatible with WordPress 6.2

1.4.01

Code improvements

1.4.02

Query updates

1.4.03

Fix to reports

1.4.04

PHP 8 update

1.4.05

WP 6.2 update

1.4.06

New add-ons

1.4.07

iCal add-on update

1.4.08

iCal improvements

1.4.09

Add-ons update

1.4.10

Fix to stats section

1.4.11

PHP 8 fix

1.4.14

Misc improvements

1.4.15

Fixed captcha issue

1.4.16

Removed old code

1.4.17

Improved speed

1.4.18

Fixed cache

1.4.19

Support for new addons

1.4.20

CSS template update

1.4.21

Custom list emails link

1.4.23

Compatible with WP 6.3

1.4.24

New overbooking verification

1.4.25

List improvement

1.4.26

Overbooking features

1.4.27

New add-on

1.4.28

PHP update

1.4.29

PHP 8 update

1.4.30

New add-on Single Days Selection Interface

1.4.31

Single Days Selection Interface update

1.4.32

Database update

1.4.33

Code improvements

1.4.34

New help section

1.4.35

form title fix
Square Checkout add-on

1.4.36

New add calendar

1.4.37

Fixed CSS conflicts

1.4.38

Theme CSS improvements

1.4.39

Compatible with WP 6.4

1.4.40

Interface fixes

1.4.41

CSS update

1.4.42

Language fixes

1.4.43

Support for new add-ons

1.4.44

Misc improvements

1.4.45

New attributtes allowed

1.4.46

Captcha anti-spam update

1.4.47

Admin layout fix

1.4.48

Better language support

1.4.49

Max date calculation fix

1.4.50

Date format in stats

1.4.51

Speed optimization

1.4.52

Better lang support

1.4.53

Max date improved

1.4.54

Reports update

1.4.55

Listing updates
Previous inc: service,sessions,events,reservation,classes,teaching and training

1.4.56

Dashboard events speed/cache

1.4.57

Fixed captcha security issue

1.4.58

Compatible with WP 6.5

1.4.59

CSV Export fix

1.4.60

Script optimizations

1.4.61

Add-ons update

1.4.62

iCal update

1.4.63

Fix calendar view

1.4.64

Captcha fix

1.4.65

Fixed DB bug

1.4.66

Minor PHP update

1.4.67

Multi-view calendar update

1.4.68

Add-ons update

1.4.69

Better Single Days Selection Interface add-on

1.4.70

Code improvements

1.4.71

Base class fixes

1.4.72

Date formatting in Schedule Liew View

1.4.73

New Schedule List View options

1.4.74

Compatible with WP 6.6

1.4.75

Translation output fix

1.4.76

Multiple status change in bookings list

1.4.77

Doc update

1.4.78

Resend emails options

1.4.79

New admin options

1.4.80

Admin language option

1.4.81

Improved settings

1.4.82

New block times feature

1.4.83

New stats

1.4.84

PHP 8.x update

1.4.85

Schedule CSV export fix

1.4.86

Optimized bookings list

1.4.87

New reports and PDF support

1.4.88

Options setting

1.4.89

Translation fixes

1.4.90

Multiple improvements

1.4.91

Organizer support for iCal

1.4.92

Fixes

1.4.93

Captcha update

1.4.94

Add-on fixes

1.4.95

PHP 8 compatibility fix

1.4.96

Dashboard add-on fix

1.4.97

Settings processing

1.4.98

New auto-fill fields add-on

1.4.99

Captcha update

1.5.01

Fixed JS conflict

1.5.02

iCal Export update

1.5.03

Old WP compatibility

1.5.04

Block times

1.5.05

Elementor integration

1.5.06

Removed library not longer needed|

1.5.07

Users add-on

1.5.08

Doc update

1.5.09

Localization

1.5.10

Old code removed