WooCommerce Appointments Booking v5.4.0

WooCommerce Appointments is a premium scheduling plugin designed to transform standard WooCommerce products into professional, time-slot-based services. Unlike the WooCommerce Bookings plugin—which covers a broader range of applications, such as hotel room rentals or multi-day tours—this plugin is specifically optimized for time-slot scheduling and staff calendar management, making it ideal for service providers such as salons, clinics, personal trainers, and consultants.

Core Scheduling Capabilities

• Flexible Durations: Setup appointments in exact increments of minutes, hours, or specific days, complete with optional duration add-ons.
• Padding and Buffer Times: Set mandatory preparation buffers (e.g., 15 minutes between coaching sessions) to ensure slots are never booked back-to-back without a break.
• Lead Times and Scheduling Windows: Control scheduling strictness by defining how close to a session someone can register (e.g., no bookings less than 12 hours out) and how far into the future the calendar extends.
• Capacity and Multi-Slot Limits: Dynamically increase or decrease maximum available slots for a given period depending on how busy your location or team is.

Advanced Staff & Multi-Vendor Management

• Dedicated Staff Profiles: Assign specific employee personnel to individual services, allowing customers to hand-pick their preferred provider.
• Independent Calendars: Every staff member gets their own customized holiday calendars, shifting break blocks, and rule priority overrides.
• Staff Portal Login: Staff can securely log into their backend dashboards to self-manage availability, inspect current agendas, and avoid administrative overhead.

Data Sync & Multi-Platform Integration

• 2-Way Google Calendar Sync: Instantly populates appointments from the site to your personal calendar, while automatically blocking time slots on your website if you create a personal event in Google.
• Staff-Specific Feeds: Employees can sync their custom dashboards to their own personal Google profiles, ensuring they only see their assigned customers.

Financial & Rule Control

• Flexible Pricing Overrides: Set unique rule conditions to alter prices based on specific peak hours, calendar dates, quantities booked, or the premium tier of an assigned staff member.
• Service Delivery Fees: Wire into default WooCommerce shipping zones to automatically add localized mileage or travel surcharges if a staff member travels to a customer’s address.
• Staff-Approval Workflows: Require staff to manually verify, decline, or reschedule an action block before the customer’s payment link is triggered.