Title: Appointment Booking Calendar & Scheduling – Zoe Booking
Author: Inflow Surge
Published: 25. juli, 2026
Last modified: 24. august, 2026
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# Appointment Booking Calendar & Scheduling – Zoe Booking
Av [Inflow Surge](https://profiles.wordpress.org/inflowsurge/)
[Last ned](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/zoebooking.1.8.1.zip)
* [Detaljer](https://nb.wordpress.org/plugins/zoebooking/#description)
* [Omtaler](https://nb.wordpress.org/plugins/zoebooking/#reviews)
* [Installering](https://nb.wordpress.org/plugins/zoebooking/#installation)
* [Utvikling](https://nb.wordpress.org/plugins/zoebooking/#developers)
[Brukerstøtte](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/zoebooking/)
## Beskrivelse
Zoe Booking turns your WordPress site into a complete booking system in about five
minutes. Add services and staff, drop the form on any page, and start taking appointments—
free reservations, hosted online payments or the WooCommerce checkout.
**Three ways to take bookings**
* **Standalone** — instant reservations (confirmed automatically or pending your
approval). No other plugin needed.
* **Standalone — pay online** — customers pay on a hosted checkout (Square built
in; Stripe and PayPal come with the PRO add-on). The booking is created only
after the payment is verified server-side; if the slot was taken while paying,
the charge is refunded automatically.
* **WooCommerce** (PRO add-on) — bookings ride through the cart and checkout as
products, with prefilled customer details.
**A booking form people enjoy using**
* Four friendly steps: service date & time details confirm, with a live price
summary.
* Five layouts (sidebar with photo, numbered process timeline, top stepper, slim
progress bar, icon rail) and five design skins (Classic, Minimal outline, Soft,
Dark, Glass).
* Every colour, corner radius, spacing and font control is free and fully editable—
nothing about styling the form is locked.
* **Design presets (PRO add-on)** — nine finished looks (Zoe Classic, Nordic, Midnight,
Blush, Atelier, Clinic, Terracotta, Mono, Botanical) applied in one click, plus
saving your own and carrying it to another site. What PRO sells here is not the
ability to style the form — it is not having to.
* Popup mode — show just a button, the form opens in an elegant modal.
* Calendar days fill up visually as they get booked; time slots show remaining
group spots.
* An **«Earliest available»** button jumps to the first free slot — on a calendar
where the next three weeks are full, that is the difference between a booking
and a closed tab.
* A decoy field and a per-visitor hourly cap keep automated submissions out of
the calendar without a CAPTCHA or a third-party service.
* Phone field with a country dial-code picker, validated email, optional customer
notes.
* Dedicated Elementor widget — layout, design skin, colours, typography, spacing
and the sidebar photo are all editable straight in the Elementor panel. A Gutenberg
block and the `[ms_booking]` shortcode render the same form everywhere else.
* A service catalogue with `[ms_services]` or its own Elementor widget: your services
as cards (photo, description, duration, price) in list, grid or large-card layouts,
with optional category filters, search and sorting — and a Book button that opens
the form on that service.
* 12 or 24-hour time, any currency symbol and position, renameable terminology (
Service Class, Person Coach…), single-person mode.
**Run the business, not the admin**
* A visual month calendar with colour-coded bookings, day panel and one-click manual
bookings.
* **Move an appointment** straight from the day panel — pick a new date, pick from
the free times. The booking keeps everything (id, customer, price, payment) and
the customer gets a calendar invite for the new time. Moving is not bound by
the minimum-notice rule: «the customer just called to say they’re running late»
has to be answerable.
* A bookings list tinted by status, with print-ready details sheets, one-click
deletes and a CSV export of whatever your filters select.
* **Private notes** on any booking — what you need to remember about a customer,
never shown to them.
* **CSV import** to bring an existing calendar (and its customers) over from a
spreadsheet or another plugin, with a dry run before anything is written and
no emails sent to anyone.
* Optional **conversion tracking**: a completed booking is announced to your own
analytics — GA4, Google Tag Manager or Meta Pixel — without Zoe loading a single
third-party script.
* A dashboard with 30-day revenue, bookings, average value and cancellation-rate
charts.
* Emails with .ics calendar invites, automatic reminders, and a QR code customers
scan to drop the appointment into their phone’s calendar.
* **Built-in SMTP delivery** — enter your mail provider’s server details under
Settings Notifications and every email the plugin sends goes through it. No
separate SMTP plugin needed.
* An optional **GDPR consent checkbox** on the booking form — your own text and
privacy-page link, required server-side in every booking mode, with the moment
of consent stored on the booking as proof.
**Schedules that fit real people**
* A **weekly schedule** per person, the services they offer, and time off as single
days or whole date ranges.
* **Special days** — different hours on one particular date. A coach who is free
on Tuesday this week and Saturday the next does not need a weekly grid that fits
nobody: pick the date, set the hours. A special day also opens a day that is
normally closed, and a day off always wins over it, so a holiday can never be
reopened by accident.
* **Buffers before and after a service** — the room needs resetting, you need to
drive there. The gap is held clear on both sides, so the next slot never starts
on top of it.
* **Booking rules** you set once: a **minimum notice** (nothing inside the next
N hours — no more «someone booked for ten minutes from now»), and a **booking
window** (how far ahead the calendar opens, so nobody reserves a haircut for
next April). Slots outside the rules are never shown, and a tampered request
is refused server-side.
* Free slots are worked out from the schedule, the service length (plus the gaps
around it) and the bookings you already have — two customers can never grab the
same slot, even if they pay at the very same moment.
**Staff panel (PRO add-on)**
Each team member gets their own small corner of the WordPress admin: a **«today»
strip** (how many appointments, how many are done, what is next), **their own appointments**
with quick status changes and rescheduling, **their own month calendar**, **their
own schedule** — weekly hours, days off and special days — and a **My Profile**
page for the name and photo customers see. No settings, no payments, no revenue,
nobody else’s bookings. You create a WordPress account with the «Zoe Staff» role,
link it on the Staff screen, and that is the whole setup.
**You decide how much of that they get.** Settings _What staff can do_ has a switch
for each: statuses, rescheduling, managing their own hours, seeing the customer’s
phone number, editing their own profile. All on by default; every one is enforced
on the server, so a switch you turn off is genuinely closed rather than merely hidden.
**Or put the panel on your own site.** Paste `[ms_staff_panel]` on a page and the
whole thing appears on the front end instead — same appointments, same rules, same
accounts, with the sections as tabs and a sign-in form for anyone who is not logged
in. The WordPress admin is a fussy place to send staff: WooCommerce keeps non-shop
roles out of it, and so do security plugins, two-factor gates and «hide wp-admin»
tools. A normal page sidesteps all of it. The admin screens stay where they are —
this is a second door to the same room.
**Earnings & commissions (PRO add-on)**
What each person brought in over a period, and what you owe them: appointments,
revenue, commission and what you keep, per person, for any date range — with a CSV
export. Give each person a percentage or a fixed rate; a service with a different
margin can override it for everyone who performs it. Revenue comes from the price
stored with each booking, so changing a price later never rewrites past months,
and cancelled or refunded bookings are excluded.
Zoe **reports** what is owed and stops there — it never moves money. Automatic payment
splitting would mean running your own Stripe Connect platform, putting every team
member through identity checks and carrying the liability for their payouts and
chargebacks. For a three-chair salon that is an absurd amount of paperwork for something
a bank transfer already solves.
**Deposits, pay links & no-shows (PRO add-on)**
Take part of the price online when the booking is made — a percentage or a fixed
amount, global or per service — and collect the rest at the appointment. The price
never changes: reports, invoices and commissions keep counting the appointment at
its full value, and the summary, email and details sheet all show «deposit due now/
balance due at the appointment» lines. The balance can be collected without anyone
re-booking: **Email payment link** on the booking sheet sends the customer a secure
link that opens a checkout for exactly what is still owed (it also settles bookings
you typed in by hand), and the same «Pay» button appears on their customer panel.
When someone simply never turns up, mark the booking **No-show**: the sheet shows
how many of their past appointments that customer has missed, the new-booking email
warns you when a repeat offender books again, and no-shows never count as revenue
or staff commission.
**Already using Amelia or Bookly? Move in with one click**
Zoe finds them on your site and copies your services, staff and appointments across—
free, because the thing standing between you and trying a booking plugin should
not be retyping three years of appointments. Preview first: «Show me what would
happen» changes nothing and reports exactly what it would create and skip. Your
old plugin is only ever read from — never written to, altered or deleted — so you
can compare the two and go back if you want. Imported appointments arrive silently,
because nobody should be emailed a confirmation for a haircut they had last spring.
Running it twice is safe: anything already moved in is recognised and left alone,
so a large calendar comes over in several passes. Working hours are deliberately
not copied — every plugin shapes them differently and a wrong guess would quietly
change who is bookable when.
**SMS & WhatsApp messages (PRO add-on)**
Automatic confirmations, reminders and cancellation notices by SMS or WhatsApp —
the cheapest thing you can do about no-shows, and it annoys nobody. Messages go
through **your own Twilio account**, from your number: you pay Twilio’s list price
directly and we add nothing on top. Most plugins in this market resell message credits;
this is the same feature without the middleman. Write your own wording with `{name}`,`{
service}`, `{staff}`, `{date}`, `{time}` and `{site}`, or use ours. Reminders ride
the schedule you already set for reminder emails, and a customer who left only a
phone number now gets one too. Numbers are tidied into international format before
sending, whatever way the customer typed them, and a message that fails never affects
the booking — the reason lands in its private note.
**Zoom meetings per booking (PRO add-on)**
A fixed meeting link works until two appointments overlap or run back to back —
then everybody has the same URL and your 10:00 client can walk into the 09:00 session.
Connect your own Zoom account once (Server-to-Server OAuth: three values, no app
review, no redirect) and every booking gets its own meeting, in the confirmation
email and the calendar invite. Moving an appointment moves its meeting; cancelling
gives it back; each occurrence of a series gets its own. The meetings are created
in your Zoom account and stay there. If Zoom is unreachable the booking still goes
through — a customer is worth more than a link — and the failure is recorded on
the booking for you to sort out.
**Team appointments (PRO add-on)**
Some jobs take two people: a four-hands massage, a cleaning crew, a workshop with
an assistant. Set **People required** on the service and Zoe only offers the times
when enough colleagues who perform that service are also free — then books the whole
team. Customers pick one person and a time exactly as before, so nothing about the
form changes; what changes is that they can never book an appointment you cannot
staff. Everyone on it is properly busy — the appointment blocks each member’s calendar,
feed and staff panel — while only the lead can move or re-status it, and moving
it keeps the same crew. In the commission report the price is split equally between
them, each at their own rate, so the total still equals what the appointment was
worth.
**Feature switchboard**
Every capability has an on/off switch under Zoe Booking Features, so the plugin
stays exactly as light as you need: design presets, duration variants, taxes, online
meeting links, service extras, group appointments, recurring series, per-staff calendar
feeds, online payments, QR add-to-calendar, WhatsApp links and the customer panel.
**Events & tickets (PRO add-on)**
Events (workshops, openings, concerts) with a ticket pool, image and description—
sold through any booking mode and displayed with the Events widget or `[ms_events]`
shortcode in list, grid or standard layouts. An event can run on one date or on
many: a workshop series stays a single event, customers choose their date at checkout,
and every date sells its own seats. Events are not tied to anyone’s working hours,
so a date in a quiet month needs no schedule juggling.
**Customer panel**
A front-end account area with passwordless magic-link sign-in: customers see their
appointments and tickets, cancel online, download invoices, edit their details —
and exercise their GDPR rights (export or permanently delete their data) themselves.`[
ms_customer_panel]` or the Elementor widget.
**Free vs Premium**
The free plugin is complete on its own: unlimited services and staff, CSV import,
private notes, conversion tracking, the full booking form (all layouts, skins and
popup mode), the service catalogue, the visual month calendar, the bookings list
with CSV export and the dashboard, weekly schedules with days off and special days,
booking rules (minimum notice, booking window, buffers before and after), the «earliest
available» shortcut, spam protection, Square online payments, email notifications
and reminders, .ics calendar invites, QR add-to-calendar, per-staff calendar feeds,
taxes, duration variants, service extras, group appointments, recurring series,
WhatsApp links, online-meeting links, the customer panel and full translations.
Zoe Booking PRO (a separate add-on, not included in this plugin) adds: the design-
preset gallery and saving your own, the staff panel, the earnings & commissions
report, deposits, pay-by-link balance collection, no-show tracking, Stripe & PayPal
payments, WooCommerce checkout, discount coupons, waiting lists, multiple locations,
invoices, refunds and events & tickets.
### External services
Zoe Booking runs entirely on your own site and stores all data in your WordPress
database. It connects to external services **only** when you enable the corresponding
feature and add your own API keys:
* **Stripe** (api.stripe.com) — when Stripe is your payment gateway: creating checkout
sessions, verifying payments and issuing refunds. Data sent: booking amount,
currency, item name and the customer’s email. [Terms](https://stripe.com/legal),
[Privacy](https://stripe.com/privacy).
* **PayPal** (api-m.paypal.com) — when PayPal is your gateway: creating and capturing
orders and issuing refunds. Data sent: amount, currency, item name. [Terms](https://www.paypal.com/legalhub/home),
[Privacy](https://www.paypal.com/privacy).
* **Square** (connect.squareup.com) — when Square is your gateway: creating payment
links, …
## Skjermbilder
[⌊The customer-facing booking form — pick a service, staff, date and time in a clean,
mobile-friendly flow.⌉⌊The customer-facing booking form — pick a service, staff,
date and time in a clean, mobile-friendly flow.⌉[
The customer-facing booking form — pick a service, staff, date and time in a clean,
mobile-friendly flow.
[⌊At-a-glance dashboard — today's bookings, revenue, cancellation rate and your
most-booked services.⌉⌊At-a-glance dashboard — today's bookings, revenue, cancellation
rate and your most-booked services.⌉[
At-a-glance dashboard — today’s bookings, revenue, cancellation rate and your most-
booked services.
[⌊Month calendar with every booking colour-coded by status — click any day for the
full agenda.⌉⌊Month calendar with every booking colour-coded by status — click any
day for the full agenda.⌉[
Month calendar with every booking colour-coded by status — click any day for the
full agenda.
[⌊Powerful bookings list — search, filter, change status and export to CSV in one
place.⌉⌊Powerful bookings list — search, filter, change status and export to CSV
in one place.⌉[
Powerful bookings list — search, filter, change status and export to CSV in one
place.
[⌊Define services — a duration, price and category for everything customers can
book.⌉⌊Define services — a duration, price and category for everything customers
can book.⌉[
Define services — a duration, price and category for everything customers can book.
[⌊Give each team member a weekly schedule, assigned services and time off.⌉⌊Give
each team member a weekly schedule, assigned services and time off.⌉[
Give each team member a weekly schedule, assigned services and time off.
[⌊Turn plugin capabilities on and off to match how you work.⌉⌊Turn plugin capabilities
on and off to match how you work.⌉[
Turn plugin capabilities on and off to match how you work.
[⌊Configure booking mode, payments, notifications, terminology and brand colours.⌉⌊
Configure booking mode, payments, notifications, terminology and brand colours.⌉[
Configure booking mode, payments, notifications, terminology and brand colours.
## Blokker
Denne utvidelsen gir 1 blokk.
* Zoe Booking Form
## Installasjon
1. Upload the `zoebooking` folder to `/wp-content/plugins/`, or install it from the
Plugins screen.
2. Activate the plugin — a Zoe Booking menu with a welcome dashboard appears.
3. Add a Service and a Staff member (with a weekly schedule).
4. Put the form on a page: the Zoe Booking Elementor widget, the Gutenberg block or`[
ms_booking]`.
5. Pick your booking mode under Zoe Booking Settings and flip on any features you
need.
## Ofte stilte spørsmål
### Do I need WooCommerce?
No. Standalone mode works on its own, and online payments (Stripe / PayPal / Square)
work without WooCommerce too. Selling bookings through the WooCommerce cart and
checkout is an optional mode available in Zoe Booking PRO.
### Does it work with Elementor?
Yes — Zoe Booking ships a dedicated Elementor widget with full Style controls: layouts,
design skins, colours, typography and spacing are all configurable per widget, live
in the editor. No Elementor? The Gutenberg block and the `[ms_booking]` shortcode
render the exact same form.
### How do online payments stay safe?
The reservation is only written after the gateway confirms the payment server-side.
Availability is re-checked at that moment — if the slot was taken while the customer
was paying, the charge is refunded automatically.
### Can customers manage their own bookings?
Yes — enable the Customer Panel feature. Customers sign in with a magic email link(
no passwords, no WordPress accounts), see their appointments and tickets, cancel,
download invoices and edit or delete their personal data.
### Can my team see their own bookings without seeing everything else?
Yes — that is the Staff panel (PRO). Give the person a WordPress account with the«
Zoe Staff» role and link it on the Staff screen. They then see only their own appointments
and calendar, and manage their own hours, days off and special days. Settings, payments,
revenue and everyone else’s bookings stay out of reach.
### What if someone works different hours on one particular date?
Add a **special day** on the Staff screen: a date with its own start and end time.
It replaces the weekly hours for that date and can also open a day that is normally
closed. Days off always win, so a holiday cannot be reopened by mistake.
### Can several people share one time slot?
Yes — set a group capacity on the service. Slots show the remaining spots and prices
are per person.
### Are reminders sent automatically?
Yes, when enabled in Settings. They run on WordPress cron, so they fire on site
traffic; for precise timing use a real system cron.
### My emails don’t arrive — do I need an SMTP plugin?
No. Zoe has SMTP delivery built in: under Settings Notifications, switch it on
and enter the host, port, username and password from your email provider. Every
email the plugin sends then goes through that account. (On a localhost test site,
a mail catcher like MailHog is the easiest way to see outgoing mail.)
### Is it translation-ready?
Fully — gettext throughout (text domain `zoebooking`), and it ships with complete
Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish and Spanish translations out of the box.
The Terminology settings additionally allow quick renames (Service Class…) without
touching translation files.
### Does uninstalling remove my data?
Options are cleaned up. Bookings, services, staff and events are only deleted if
you tick “Delete all data on uninstall” in Settings first.
## Vurderinger
### [Finally, a booking plugin that thinks of everything](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/finally-a-booking-plugin-that-thinks-of-everything/)
[peter121212](https://profiles.wordpress.org/peter121212/) 22. august, 2026
I have tested what feels like every booking plugin in the repository over the years,
and this one is on a completely different level. I had my entire system set up—services,
staff schedules, and a fully styled booking form—in about the time it takes to drink
a cup of coffee. What really stands out is the attention to detail on the business
side of things. The ability to just drag an appointment to a new time on the calendar
without losing the payment info or customer history is a lifesaver. The feature
switchboard is genius; I was able to turn off the stuff I don’t need (like WooCommerce)
and keep the backend completely clutter-free. The spam protection is also fantastic.
I hate CAPTCHAs, so having a silent decoy field that keeps bots out is a huge plus.
The «Earliest available» button is such a simple idea, but it has genuinely stopped
customers from leaving the page when the calendar looks busy. Honestly, this feels
like a premium plugin that happens to be free. Highly recommended for anyone who
actually runs a service business, not just someone who wants a basic calendar. 10/
10.
[ Les 1 vurdering ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/zoebooking/reviews/)
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## Endringslogg
#### 1.8.1
* Fixed: **moving in from Amelia or Bookly turned waiting lists into real appointments.**
Both plugins keep waiting-list requests in the same table as bookings, marked
with their own status — «waiting» in Amelia, «waitlisted» in Bookly — and neither
holds a time slot for them. Zoe did not recognise either, so it imported them
as confirmed appointments, which DO hold a slot: a calendar could arrive from
the migration with times blocked that nobody had ever booked. Those entries are
now left where they belong and reported in the summary, so you can see what was
passed over.
* Fixed: an unrecognised status from the other plugin no longer becomes a confirmed
appointment. If either plugin adds a status we have not seen, the booking is
imported as **Pending** and listed in the summary for you to check, rather than
quietly taking a slot as though it were confirmed.
* The column and table names the move-in wizard looks for have been checked against
both plugins’ own installers — all 5 tables and 28 fields for Amelia, all 6 tables
and 35 fields for Bookly.
#### 1.8.0
* New (PRO): **Deposits** — take part of the price online when the booking is made
and collect the rest at the appointment. A percentage or a fixed amount, set
globally with a per-service override. The appointment never changes its price:
the dashboard, the commission report and invoices keep counting it at full value,
while the booking summary, the confirmation email and the printed sheet all show«
Deposit due now» and «Balance due at the appointment» lines. A deposit of 100%
simply means paying in full, and a fixed deposit larger than the price falls
back to charging the whole thing — turning the dial to either end never breaks
a checkout.
* New (PRO): **Pay by link** — one click on a booking’s Details page emails the
customer a secure link that opens a checkout for exactly what their booking still
owes: the balance a deposit left behind, or the whole price of a booking you
typed in by hand. The link carries no personal data, survives until it is paid,
and after payment turns into a small receipt page. Customers with something outstanding
also get a «Pay» button in their customer panel, so a balance can settle itself
without you lifting a finger. Refunding a booking that was paid in two charges(
deposit + balance) refunds both.
* New (PRO): **No-show tracking** — a «No-show» status for the appointments nobody
turned up to, one click on the status pill (staff can mark their own unpaid ones
from the staff panel). The booking sheet then shows that customer’s record — «
missed 2 of 9 past appointments» — and the new-booking email warns you when a
repeat offender books again, at the exact moment you could still ask for a deposit.
No-shows never count as revenue on the dashboard and never earn staff commission;
marking one sends the customer nothing.
* New: **Move in from Amelia or Bookly** — a new screen that finds either plugin
on your site and copies your services, staff and appointments into Zoe in one
click. Free on purpose: retyping years of appointments is the thing that stops
people trying a different booking plugin at all. Preview before committing; your
old plugin is read-only throughout and left exactly as it was, so you can compare
the two and change your mind. Imported appointments are silent — nobody is emailed
about a booking they made months ago — and re-running is safe, because anything
already moved in is recognised and skipped, letting a large calendar arrive over
several passes. The importer reads the other plugin’s real column names rather
than assuming them, so a version that differs slightly degrades to a missing
field instead of a broken import.
* New (PRO): **SMS & WhatsApp messages** — automatic confirmations, reminders and
cancellation notices sent as text messages, by SMS or WhatsApp. They go through
your own Twilio account, from your own number, so you pay Twilio’s list price
with nothing added on top — no credits to buy from us. Three editable messages
with placeholders for the customer, service, staff member, date, time and site
name. Reminders use the timing you already set for reminder emails, and a customer
who left only a phone number now gets a reminder as well — previously reminders
needed an email address. Numbers are normalised into international format however
the customer typed them, and a message that cannot be sent never affects the
booking: the reason is recorded on it.
* New (PRO): **Zoom meetings per booking** — connect your own Zoom account once
and every booking gets a real meeting of its own, sent in the confirmation email
and the calendar invite, instead of one link shared by every customer. Set it
per service: no meeting, one fixed link, or a new meeting each time. Moving an
appointment moves its meeting, cancelling gives it back, and each occurrence
of a recurring series gets its own. Connecting uses a Server-to-Server OAuth
app you create inside your own Zoom account — three values to copy, no app review,
no redirect URL — and a «Test connection» button that names the account you reached.
If Zoom is unreachable the booking still goes through and the reason is recorded
on it: a customer is worth more than a meeting link.
* New (PRO): **Team appointments** — several people on one appointment, for the
jobs that genuinely take two: a four-hands massage, a cleaning crew, a workshop
with an assistant. Set «People required» on the service; customers still pick
one person and a time exactly as before, but a slot is only offered when enough
colleagues who perform that service are also free, and Zoe books the whole team.
Everyone on it is properly busy — it blocks each member’s calendar, feed and
staff panel — while only the lead can move or re-status it, and moving it keeps
the same crew. The commission report splits the price equally between them, each
at their own rate, so the total still equals what the appointment was worth.
* New (PRO): **the staff panel on the front end** — put `[ms_staff_panel]` on a
page and your team reaches their appointments, calendar, availability and profile
without ever opening the WordPress admin. The same data, the same permissions
and the same accounts; the four screens become tabs, and anyone not signed in
gets a sign-in form that returns them to the panel rather than the dashboard.
Worth having because the WordPress admin is where WooCommerce, security plugins,
two-factor gates and «hide wp-admin» tools all get in your team’s way. The admin
screens are untouched for the sites they already suit.
* New: the bookings table now records **how much money actually arrived** for each
booking separately from its price — the details sheet shows «Paid online» and«
Balance due» whenever they differ.
* Fixed: **the dashboard charts under-drew your busy days.** The line was smoothed
in a way that treated each day as a hint rather than a value, so it never quite
reached its own peaks — a spike of 19 bookings was drawn about a fifth of the
chart below where it belonged, and the dot you get on hover floated above the
line it was supposed to mark. The line now passes exactly through every day,
and can no longer bulge above the busiest one or dip below zero.
* Fixed: **the popup ignored your Layout & skin.** Opening the booking form in
a popup moved it to the end of the page so a sticky header could not trap it —
but the layout, skin and button styling live on the element around the form,
and that element stayed behind. The popup therefore always opened in the default
sidebar layout, whatever you had chosen, and no amount of clearing caches helped
because nothing was cached wrong. The styling now travels with the popup. This
affected every popup: the shortcode, the block, the Elementor widget and the
one opened from a Parallax Slider button.
* Fixed: a service’s **buffer before** is now recorded on each booking, so the
gap in FRONT of an appointment is protected the way the gap after it already
was. Until now nothing stopped the next customer from booking into somebody’s
setup or travel time — the same class of bug as the buffer-after fix in 1.7.0,
at the other end of the appointment. If you use buffers before a service, expect
slightly fewer slots offered: that is the setting finally doing what it says.
Bookings made before this update keep behaving exactly as they did.
* Fixed: refunding one appointment of a recurring series paid with a single charge
could hand back every charge while cancelling only that one appointment, if its
balance had been settled separately. The whole series is now cancelled together,
and each row keeps a record of what was actually charged to it.
* Fixed: the schema upgrade now also runs on the front end. A background auto-update
could otherwise land a new version without anyone opening wp-admin, and a booking
taken before the new columns existed failed to save — after the customer had
paid.
* Fixed: the PRO pricing screen showed a hard-coded «from $4.08/mo» with no indication
it was the annual price per month. It is now derived from the annual price and
labelled «billed annually», so the headline can never contradict the plans listed
under it.
* Docs: the FAQ no longer tells you to install an SMTP plugin (Zoe has SMTP built
in), the Services table documents both buffers plus the commission and deposit
overrides, the GDPR section covers the consent checkbox, and the previously unwritten
limits are stated — minimum notice up to 2160 hours, booking window up to 3650
days, 30 saved design presets, 2000-character private notes, and the 180-day
horizon of the «earliest available» search.
* Improved: booking status labels are now translatable everywhere (they were shown
as raw capitalised English in a few places).
#### 1.7.0
* New: **Import bookings from a CSV** — move your calendar over from a spreadsheet
or another booking plugin, customers included. Zoe recognises the usual column
names, reads several date and time formats, and always offers a **dry run first**:
it reads the whole file, tells you exactly what would happen and writes nothing.
Services and people are matched by name and never created for you. Imports are
silent — nobody is emailed about an appointment they made months ago somewhere
else.
* New: **Private notes on a booking** — «always 15 minutes late», «prefers the
quiet room». Yours alone: the customer never sees it, and neither does the staff
panel.
* New: **Conversion tracking** — announce completed bookings to the analytics your
site already runs (a `zoe_booking` dataLayer event, a GA4 `purchase`, a Meta
Pixel `Schedule`). Zoe loads no tracking script and contacts nobody; it only
speaks to a tag that is already on the page. Off by default.
* New (PRO): **You decide what staff can do** — five switches under Settings What
staff can do: change statuses, move appointments, manage their own hours, see
the customer’s phone number, edit their own name and photo. Everything starts
switched on, so nothing changes when you update; untick what you would rather
keep. Each one is enforced on the server, not just hidden from the screen.
* New (PRO): a **«today» strip** at the top of the staff panel — how many appointments,
how many are behind them, and what is next — and a **My Profile** page where
they can change the name and photo customers see. Uploading a photo does not
give them the media library.
* New: **Move an appointment** — reschedule from the calendar day panel instead
of deleting and re-booking. Pick a date, pick from the free times, done. The
booking keeps its id, its customer, its price and its payment, and the customer
is emailed a fresh calendar invite for the new time. Staff can move their own
appointments from their panel (PRO), except ones that have been paid for — those
stay with the owner.
* New (PRO): **Earnings & commissions** — a per-person report of appointments,
revenue, the commission you owe and what you keep, for any date range, with a
CSV export. Set a percentage or a fixed rate per person; a service can override
it when its margin is different. Figures come from the price saved with each
booking, so raising a price next month never rewrites last month. Cancelled bookings
and refunded charges are left out. It reports what is owed — Zoe never moves
money.
* New (PRO): **Design presets** — a complete look in one click: colours, layout,
skin, shape and spacing together. Nine to choose from — Zoe Classic, Nordic,
Midnight, Blush, Atelier, Clinic, Terracotta, Mono and Botanical. Applying one
only fills the Appearance fields, so nothing changes on your site until you press
Save. You can also save your own design as a preset and carry it to another site.
Every one of those settings stays free and fully editable by hand; «Neutral»,
which clears them all back to the defaults, is free too.
* New: **Minimum notice** — refuse bookings made too close to the appointment.
Set it to two hours and nobody can take a slot that starts in ten minutes. Works
across midnight, so a two-day notice correctly rules out tomorrow as well.
* New: **Booking window** — how far into the future the calendar opens. Thirty
days keeps customers inside the next month; leave it at 0 for no limit.
* New: **Buffer before a service** — the gap you need in front of an appointment
for setup, travel or preparing the room. Sits alongside the existing buffer after.
* New: **«Earliest available»** — one tap on the booking form jumps straight to
the first free slot instead of making customers page through a calendar.
* New: **Spam protection** for the booking form — a decoy field no human ever sees,
plus a cap on how many bookings one visitor can make per hour. The public form
writes a row and sends mail on every submission, so this keeps a script out of
your calendar and off your mail server. Logged-in users are never counted.
* Fixed: **«Buffer after» did not actually keep the gap free.** The buffer was
saved with the booking but ignored when the next customer’s slots were worked
out, so a 15-minute clean-up break could be booked straight over. Buffers now
hold in the customer calendar, in the manual «+ Add booking» screen and in every
payment mode.
* Fixed: in WooCommerce mode the booking request was only checked for collisions,
never against the schedule itself — a tampered request could place an appointment
outside working hours or on a day off. It now goes through the same validation
as the other two modes.
#### 1.6.1
* Fixed: if a PRO licence lapses, pages holding the `[ms_events]` shortcode showed
the raw text «[ms_events]» to visitors, because WordPress prints shortcodes it
does not recognise. Those pages now simply leave the section out until the licence
is active again.
#### 1.6.0
* New: **Special days** — different hours on one particular date, for the weeks
that refuse to repeat. A coach free on Tuesday this week and Saturday the next
no longer needs a weekly grid that fits nobody: pick the date, set the hours,
done. A special day also opens a day that is normally closed, and a day off always
wins over it, so a holiday can never be reopened by accident.
* New (PRO): **My Calendar** in the Staff panel — the same month grid the owner
uses, showing only that person’s own appointments, with the day panel and quick
status changes.
* Staff members set their own special days from their panel, without touching anything
else on the site.
#### 1.5.1
* Fixed (PRO): on sites running WooCommerce, a staff member logging in was redirected
to the WooCommerce «My account» page and could never reach the Staff Panel —
WooCommerce locks anyone without shop permissions out of the WordPress admin.
Staff accounts are now allowed into their own panel (and nowhere else).
* Staff now land straight on their own bookings after signing in, instead of on
the WordPress profile screen.
* The Staff Panel got a proper Zoe header that greets the team member by name,
so it is always obvious whose bookings are on screen — and the view links (Upcoming/
Past / All) no longer collide with the page title.
* Linking a WordPress account that already belonged to another staff profile now
says so: one account runs one profile, and the previous link is reported as moved
instead of disappearing quietly.
#### 1.5.0
* New (PRO): Staff Panel — each team member gets their own limited wp-admin area.
Create a WordPress account with the new «Zoe Staff» role, link it on the Staff
edit screen, and that person sees only their own bookings (with quick status
updates) plus their own weekly schedule and time off. No settings, no payments,
nobody else’s data.
* New: a «Regenerate link» button next to the private calendar-feed URL (on the
Staff edit screen and in the Staff Panel) — one click invalidates the old .ics
link when someone leaves the team.
* Hardening: staff save/delete now verify the record really is a staff member before
writing.
#### 1.4.1
* New (PRO): a fourth Events layout — «Banner» feature rows with a large date badge(
rounded square, circle or minimal tile), the date · time · price line, a tickets-
left pill and a pill-shaped Get tickets button with an arrow.
* New (PRO): an optional corner decoration image on Banner cards, fading in from
the right edge — set one image for all cards, or let each event’s photo take
that role.
* The badge colours, size, decoration width and opacity are all adjustable in the
Elementor widget’s new Banner layout section; the `[ms_events]` shortcode accepts`
layout="banner"`, `badge="circle"` and `ornament=""`.
#### 1.4.0
* New: a service catalogue — `[ms_services]` (and a matching Elementor widget)
shows your services as cards with photo, description, duration and price, in
list, grid or large-card layouts, with optional category filters, search and
sorting.
* New: each card’s Book button opens the booking form with that service already
selected — and when only one team member offers it, they are picked automatically,
so the customer lands straight on the calendar.
* New: services now have a Short description field, shown on those cards.
* Services with duration variants advertise «from » instead of a base price the
checkout would never charge.
#### 1.3.0
* New (PRO): an event can now run on SEVERAL dates. A workshop series is one event
with one description, image and price — add a date per session, and customers
pick the date they want when they buy. Ticket capacity counts per date, so each
session sells its own seats.
* New (PRO): «Duplicate» on the Events screen — copy an event with all its settings
and just set the new dates.
* Existing single-date events keep working exactly as before; nothing to migrate.
#### 1.2.3
* New: export the bookings list to CSV — one click exports exactly what your filters
select (staff, service, date range, status, search), with prices, customer details
and payment references, ready for Excel, Numbers, Google Sheets or your accountant.
#### 1.2.2
* New: one-click «Install PRO now» — after activating a PRO license key, the PRO
package downloads and installs itself (no more manual ZIP upload). A manual-upload
fallback remains for sites where dashboard installs are disabled.
* New: buying PRO from the panel now brings you straight back to WordPress after
checkout, with the license key activated automatically.
* Fixed: with an active license key but the PRO package not yet installed, the
panel now shows the License page with clear next steps instead of the pricing
page.
#### 1.2.1
* The «Get support» button now opens your email client (hello@zoebooking.com) —
quicker help, no separate ticket portal.
#### 1.2.0
* The plugin no longer bundles any third-party SDK — a fully self-contained install.
Licensing & checkout for the separate PRO version now run on Lemon Squeezy (nothing
loads or phones home unless you open the Get PRO page or enter a license key).
* New License page (PRO): activate or deactivate your key, re-check its status
and jump to the Lemon Squeezy customer portal to manage billing.
#### 1.1.4
* New (PRO): show a single event (or a hand-picked set) — `[ms_events ids="123"]`,
an event picker in the Elementor Events widget, and a copy-ready shortcode column
on the Events screen.
* New (PRO): events are now clearly separated from appointments — All/Appointments/
Events tabs and a per-event filter on the Bookings list, an «Event» badge on
ticket rows, and the calendar collapses each event into a single chip with a
sold/capacity counter plus grouped attendee lists in the day panel.
#### 1.1.3
* New: full Dutch (Nederlands) translation — the plugin now ships in English, Dutch,
French, German, Italian, Polish and Spanish.
* Pricing page starts on the Monthly cycle; small admin polish (no tier badge in
the free version).
#### 1.1.2
* Free version got bigger: service extras, group appointments, recurring series,
per-staff calendar feeds (.ics), WhatsApp links and the customer panel are now
fully included — and the staff limit is gone (unlimited team).
* Security: customer-panel, calendar and invoice access tokens are now signed with
a plugin-generated secret instead of WordPress auth salts.
* Under the hood: every admin and front-end script/style now loads through the
WordPress enqueue APIs.
#### 1.1.1
* Fixed: bundled translations (de/fr/es/it/pl) were not loading — the form and
admin stayed in English on non-English sites.
* Fixed: dropdown panels could render permanently open on block themes (e.g. Twenty
Twenty-Five) that ship no `[hidden]` CSS reset.
* Fixed: theme styles no longer distort the form’s line icons (global `svg { fill}`
rules), underline the contact links or outline the collapse button.
* New: «Date & time box max height» option — in Settings Appearance (desktop +
mobile) and in the Elementor widget (responsive).
* Improved: service-picker categories stack vertically on small screens instead
of a horizontal scroller.
#### 1.1.0
* First public release on WordPress.org.
* Stability, performance and UI polish across the admin panel and booking form.
* Consistent 12/24-hour time and date formatting everywhere in the panel.
* Updated German, French, Spanish, Italian and Polish translations.
#### 0.3.0
* Online payments: Stripe Checkout, PayPal and Square — hosted checkouts with server-
side verification and automatic slot-conflict refunds.
* Events & tickets with an Elementor widget (list / grid / standard) and ticket
sales through every booking mode.
* Customer panel with magic-link sign-in, self-service cancellations, invoices
and GDPR data export/erasure.
* New form layouts (process timeline, progress bar, icon rail), design skins (outline,
soft, dark, glass) and popup mode.
* Discount coupons, service extras, group appointments, recurring series, waiting
list, multiple locations, invoices, per-staff calendar feeds, refunds, WhatsApp
links, taxes, duration variants, QR add-to-calendar — all behind feature switches.
* Dashboard reports, currency & time-format settings, phone country picker, customer
notes, mobile polish and a recolourable admin panel.
#### 0.2.0
* Rebranded to Zoe Booking with a single, unified admin menu.
* Custom Services & Staff screens, visual month calendar, dual Standalone / WooCommerce
mode.
#### 0.1.0
* Initial booking engine, WooCommerce product-type integration, Elementor widget.
## Meta
* Versjon **1.8.1**
* Sist oppdatert **5 dager siden**
* Aktive installasjoner **70+**
* WordPress-versjon ** 6.0 eller nyere **
* Testet opp til **7.0.4**
* PHP-versjon ** 7.4 eller nyere **
* Språk
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