Appointment Hour Booking – WordPress Booking Plugin

Descripción

Appointment Hour Booking es un plugin de WordPress para crear formularios de reserva para citas con una hora de inicio y una duración definida en un horario. El usuario final selecciona visualmente la hora de inicio a partir de un conjunto de horas de inicio calculadas en función de los horarios de «abiertos» y la duración del servicio . La duración/programación se define en el «servicio» seleccionado por el cliente. Cada calendario puede tener varios servicios con diferente duración y precios.

Este plugin es útil para diferentes casos como reserva de servicios médicos donde los servicios con diferente duración y precios pueden estar disponibles, para sesiones de entrenamiento personal , para reserva de salas para eventos , para reservar clases de idioma u otro tipo de clases y otro tipo de de reservas de servicios/recursos donde se seleccionan las horas de inicio y la disponibilidad se administra automáticamente utilizando la duración del servicio definida para evitar reservas duplicadas (la hora reservada se bloquea una vez finalizada la reserva).

Principales características:

  • Fácil configuración visual de los datos del calendario y las horas disponibles
  • Working dates, invalid/holiday dates and special dates can be defined
  • Admite la restricción de fecha predeterminada, máxima fecha disponible y mínima fecha disponible
  • Open hours can be defined for each date
  • Cada calendario puede tener varios servicios definidos
  • Cada servicio puede tener su propio precio y duración
  • Start-times are calculated automatically based in the open hours and service duration
  • Los tiempos disponibles se gestionan automáticamente para evitar reservas duplicadas
  • Se pueden seleccionar varios servicios en cada reserva
  • Los servicios pueden tener múltiples capacidades
  • Cálculo automático de precios
  • Customizable email notifications for administrators and users
  • Validación del formulario de reserva y protección anti-spam CAPTCHA
  • Informes CSV manuales y automáticos
  • Complemento iCal con enlace de exportación iCal y archivo iCal adjunto a correos electrónicos
  • Calendario disponible en más de 53 idiomas
  • Se admiten varios formatos de fecha
  • Bloques para Elementor y Gutenberg
  • Formularios de reservas de varias páginas
  • Printable appointments list

Características en las versiones comerciales:

  • Visual form builder for creating the booking form fields
  • El formulario de reserva se puede conectar a pasarelas de pago (por ejemplo: 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 …

Appointment Hour Booking can be used for:

Reservas de servicios o recursos: Permite definir el horario de apertura, servicios ofrecidos con su duración y precios, de forma que el plugin maneje la disponibilidad de los mismos.

Casos de ejemplo: Servicios médicos, formación personal, asignación de recursos, reservas de salas o habitaciones, clases, etc…

Los servicios pueden tener una capacidad máxima (ejemplo: número de personas que pueden reservar/asistir al servicio al mismo tiempo). La capacidad predeterminada es 1. Si la capacidad de servicio se ha establecido en 1, el intervalo de tiempo se bloqueará para las nuevas reservas después de obtener una reserva. Si la capacidad de servicio se ha establecido en un número mayor (ejemplo: servicio con capacidad 10), el intervalo de tiempo se bloqueará después de llenar la capacidad (ejemplo: después de obtener reservas para un total de 10 personas). Esta característica se describe detalladamente en https://apphourbooking.dwbooster.com/blog/2019/01/24/bookings-for-multiple-persons/

The Troubleshoot Area

Use the troubleshot if you are having problems with special or non-latin characters. In most cases changing the charset to UTF-8 through the option available for that in the troubleshot 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.

Los correos electrónicos de aviso

The notification emails with the appointment data entered in the booking form can sent in «Plain Text» format (default) or in «HTML» format. If you select «HTML» format, be sure to use the BR or P tags for the line breaks into the text and to use the proper formatting.

Exportación de reservas a archivos CSV/Excel

The appointment data can be exported to a CSV file (Excel compatible) to manage the data from other applications. That option is available from the «bookings list», the appointments can be filtered by date and by the text into them, so you can export just the needed appointments to the CSV file.

Otras versiones y características

La versión gratuita publicada en este directorio de WordPress es una versión totalmente funcional para aceptar citas como se indica en la descripción del plugin. También hay versiones comerciales con características adicionales, por ejemplo:

  • Capacidad para procesar formularios/contrataciones enlazadas al proceso de pago (PayPal, Stripe, Skrill,…)
  • Form builder for a visual customization of the booking form
  • Addons with multiple additional features

Payments processed through the plugin are SCA ready (Strong Customer Authentication), compatible with the new Payment services (PSD 2) – Directive (EU) that comes into full effect on 14 September, 2019.

Please note that the pro features aren’t advised as part of the free plugin in the description shown in this WordPress directory. If you are interested in more information about the commercial features go to the plugin’s page: https://apphourbooking.dwbooster.com/download

Capturas

  • Formulario de reserva de cita.
  • Insertar un calendario de reserva de hora de cita en una página.
  • Gestión del calendario de reserva de horas de cita.
  • Appointment Hour Booking calendar settings.
  • Integración con el nuevo editor Gutenberg

Bloques

Este plugin proporciona 1 bloque.

  • Appointment Hour Booking

Instalación

To install Appointment Hour Booking, follow these steps:

  1. Download and unzip the Appointment Hour Booking calendar plugin
  2. Upload the entire appointment-hour-booking/ directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  3. Activate the Appointment Hour Booking plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress
  4. Configure the settings at the administration menu >> Settings >> Appointment Hour Booking.
  5. To insert the appointment hour booking calendar form into some content or post use the icon that will appear when editing contents

FAQ

Q: What means each field in the appointment hour booking calendar settings area?

A: La página del producto contiene información detallada sobre cada campo de calendario de citas y personalización:

https://apphourbooking.dwbooster.com

P: ¿Dónde puedo publicar un formulario de reserva de citas?

A: You can publish appointment booking forms on pages and posts. The shortcode can be also placed into the template. The commercial versions of the plugin also allow publishing it as a widget.

Q: How can I apply CSS styles to the form fields?

A: Please check complete instructions in the following page: https://apphourbooking.dwbooster.com/faq#q82

P: ¿Cómo puedo alinear el formulario con varias columnas?

A: Into the form editor click a field and into its settings there is one field named «Additional CSS Class«. Into that field you can put the name of a CSS class that will be applied to the field.

Hay algunas clases CSS predefinidas para alinear dos, tres o cuatro campos en la misma línea. Las clases CSS se denominan:

column2
column3
column4

For example if you want to put two fields into the same line then specify for both fields the class name «column2«.

Q: How to hide the fields on forms?

A: You should use a custom class name. All fields include the attribute «Additional CSS Class», you only should enter through this attribute a custom class name (the class name you prefer), for example myclass, and then define the new class in a css file of your website, or add the needed styles into the «Customization area >> Add Custom Styles» (at the bottom of the page that contains the list of calendars):

.myclass{ display:none; }

If you are using the latest version of the plugin, please enter in the «Additional CSS Class» attribute, the class name: hide, included in the plugin’s distribution.

P: ¿Cómo editar o eliminar el título/encabezado del formulario?

A: Into the form builder in the administration area, click the «Form Settings» tab. That area is for editing the form title and header text.

Se puede utilizar también para la alineación diferente de las etiquetas de campo.

Q: Can the emails be customized?

A: In addition to the possibility of editing the email contents you can use the following tags:

%INFO%: Replaced with all the information posted from the form
%itemnumber%: Request ID.
%formid%: ID of the booking form.
%referrer%: Referrer URL if reported.
%additional%: IP address, server time.
%final_price%: Total cost.
%fieldname1%, %fieldname2%, …: Data entered on each field

Q: Can I add a reference to the item number (submission number) into the email?

A: Use the tag %itemnumber% into the email content. That tag will be replaced by the submission item number.

Q: How to insert an image in the notification emails?

A: If you want send an image in the notification emails, like a header, you should insert an IMG tag in the «Email notification to admin» and/or «Email confirmation to user» textareas of form settings, with an absolute URL in the SRC attribute of IMG tag:

Q: How to insert changes of lines in the notification emails, when the HTML format is selected?

A: If you are using the HTML format in the notification emails, you should insert the BR tags for the changes of lines in the emails content:

Q: The form doesn’t appear. Solution?

A: If the form doesn’t appear in the public website (in some cases only the captcha appear) then change the script load method to direct, this is the solution in most cases.

That can be changed in the «troubleshoot area» located below the list of calendars/items.

P: No recibo los correos electrónicos con los datos de la cita.

A: Try first using a «from» email address that belongs to your website domain, this is the most common restriction applied in most hosting services.

If that doesn’t work please check if your hosting service requires some specific configuration to send emails from PHP/WordPress websites. The plugin uses the settings specified into the WordPress website to deliver the emails, if your hosting has some specific requirements like a fixed «from» address or a custom «SMTP» server those settings must be configured into the WordPress website.

P: Los caracteres no latinos no se muestran en el formulario. ¿Hay una solución alternativa?

A: Use the «throubleshoot area» to change the character encoding.

P: ¿Puedo mostrar una lista con las reservas?

A: A list with the appointments set on the calendar can be displayed by using this shortcode in the page where you want to display the list:

[CP_APP_HOUR_BOOKING_LIST]

… puede también ser modificado para requisitos particulares con algunos parámetros si es necesario, ejemplo:

CP_APP_HOUR_BOOKING_LIST from=»today» to=»today +30 days» fields=»DATE,TIME,email» calendar=»1″]

… the «from» and «to» are used to display only the appointments / bookings on the specified period. That can be either indicated as relative days to «today» or as fixed dates.

Los estilos de la lista se encuentran al final del archivo «css/stylepublic. css»:

.cpabc_field_0, .cpabc_field_1, .cpabc_field_2, …

Clear the browser cache if the list isn’t displayed in a correct way (to be sure it loads the updated styles).

You can also add the needed styles into the «Customization area >> Add Custom Styles» (at the bottom of the page that contains the list of calendars):

Q: Can I track the conversion referral?

A: Yes, for this purpose you can use the plugin CP Referrer and Conversion Tracking that already includes the automatic integration with this plugin.

Q: Are the forms GDPR compliant?

A: In all plugin versions you can turn off IP tracking to avoid saving that user info. Full GDPR compliant forms can be built using the commercial versions of the plugin.

Reseñas

17 de febrero de 2024 1 respuesta
I don't do reviews. Almost never, but I'll make an exception here because the product is exceptional and very flexible, especially if you have some knowlege of HTML and CSS. The support was not only timely but helpful in guiding us to a solution that will work for us. We ultimately requested a customization and found that it was unbelievably inexpensive, and the changes were made within a few days. After reviewing the changes, which were implemented exactly to our specification, we requested another small change that we expected to pay for but they made the change gratis and provided the new version the next day. Thanks to Karen, the Codepeople support/technical agent who helped us through.
7 de febrero de 2024 1 respuesta
Excellent plugin for time-based bookings on Wordpress. Its flexibility allows seamless customization of language and appearance. Perfect for businesses needing versatile scheduling solutions. Highly recommended!
21 de enero de 2024 1 respuesta
I would like to congratulate the developers for creating an incredible plugin, for providing this basic version full of important functions. I've already decided to buy the annual subscription just because the basic version is so good. I'm starting my career as a nutritionist and every inch of my website is important to me. I am very grateful to have been able to make all the adjustments that the plugin offers. It will be very important for my career. Congratulations to the developers.
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