Description
Baza Booking Calendar turns a page of your site into a booking calendar. Clients pick a free date and hour, fill in a short form and pay online; you see the booking at once in a table, a timeline and a dashboard, and change its status in a click.
Video: Baza Booking Calendar and its paid plans in action
What you get
- A booking calendar for your site with free and busy hours, prices on the slots and a short booking form.
- The calendar as a shortcode, a Gutenberg block and an Elementor widget: choose the service, the design, hours or month view right in the editor.
- Hourly, split-hour and whole-day services, as many as you need.
- Online payment with PayPal and Monobank, or pay in the shop with any WooCommerce payment method.
- WooCommerce integration: sell a service as a product of the type “Baza booking”, let clients choose the date and time on the product page, and import products and bookings from WooCommerce Bookings.
- A bookings table with filters and bulk actions, a day timeline and a dashboard; open any booking in a side panel to edit dates, price, client and status.
- A client list with each client’s bookings, notes and blocking.
- E-mail notifications to clients and to you, with a log of every message the site sent.
- Working hours for every day of the week and the days a service is closed.
- A form builder for the booking form’s standard fields, with your own texts.
- A discount you can give by hand when you enter a booking.
- Printable booking documents, import and export of bookings and clients, and an editor for every text the calendar shows.
- Translated into English, Ukrainian, Russian, German, Polish, Portuguese and Slovak.
- Light and dark admin themes, and a calendar that follows your site’s colours.
Made for developers too
Hooks and filters throughout, templates a theme can override for the WooCommerce booking picker, and a documented data model.
Go further with Starter, Pro and Elite
The plugin you get here is complete on its own: nothing in it is locked or time-limited. When your business grows, the paid plans of Baza Booking Calendar add more, in steps. Not sure yet? Try every feature free for 7 days. Everything below, with prices, is on the plans page.
Starter – the essentials for launching a booking business (1 website, up to 5 services)
* Stripe, PayPal, Monobank and LiqPay payments, and prepayment: take a deposit now, the rest later
* Automatic taxes, discount rules and prepaid packages of hours, sessions or money
* A schedule and prices per service, prices for single hours, a second price and a minimum number of booked hours
* Register clients while they book, and account managers with limited admin access
* Google Calendar sync (one general calendar) and Google Analytics events
* A form builder (with the first conditional rule), one e-mail template, one promo code, invoices sent by e-mail, AJAX loading of the calendar, PHP hooks and e-mail support
Pro – everything in Starter, with the limits lifted, plus the full toolkit of a professional booking business (1 website)
* More payment methods – Square, Revolut, SumUp, Paddle and Mollie, payment by check, and a client balance that clients top up once and spend on later bookings
* Sell more – a cart with several services in one booking, additional services with their own photo, price and stock (and a tracker of what is out), special offers, unlimited promo codes, a loyalty programme with tiers based on total spend, a personal discount for a single client, surcharges and a dynamic second price
* Capacity and rules – several bookings for one time slot, days off by date, real-time calendar updates, a full-width calendar, a static service selector, and a form that can be switched off for guests only
* Notifications that reduce no-shows – reminders before the event, and Telegram, WhatsApp, Viber and SMS (Twilio, Seven, Vonage, TurboSMS) messages
* Connected to your tools – Google Meet links, Zoom meetings, Google sign-in for clients, Zapier (5,000+ apps) and a REST API
* Run the business – accounting, booking statistics with revenue charts, an activity log of every change, a customer account panel with booking history and self-service rescheduling, and the extra Amelio calendar theme
* Unlimited services, promo codes, conditional logic rules and e-mail templates, and the calendar embedded on up to 3 other websites
Elite – for developers and agencies (15 websites)
* Every Pro feature on 15 websites, and the calendar embedded without a limit
* Custom meta price – a price taken from a custom field, for advanced pricing
* Priority support
Third-party libraries
Included unmodified, each under its own license, with the license text next to the library:
- ApexCharts 3.54.0 – https://github.com/apexcharts/apexcharts.js – MIT –
assets/vendor/apexcharts/(charts of the statistics and reservations screens) - Coloris (Melloware) – https://github.com/melloware/coloris – MIT –
assets/vendor/coloris/(the colour picker in the design settings) - Vanilla Calendar Pro 3.4.0 – https://github.com/uvarov-frontend/vanilla-calendar-pro – MIT –
assets/vendor/vanilla-calendar/(the date picker)
The plugin also uses jQuery, jQuery UI and the Backbone/Media scripts that ship with WordPress, loaded from WordPress itself and not copied into the plugin.
External services
The plugin talks to an outside service only when you turn the matching feature on, and only as described here. Nothing is sent when the plugin is activated, and no data is sent to the plugin’s authors.
PayPal – https://www.paypal.com – online payments (only when PayPal is chosen as the payment method under Baza Booking > General Settings > Payments).
* What it is for: taking the client’s payment for a booking, checking its status and, when you refund a booking, returning the money.
* What is sent, and when: when a client presses “Book and pay”, and again when PayPal sends the client back or when a booking’s payment is re-checked or refunded, the plugin sends the order amount, the currency, the booking reference and your PayPal API credentials to api-m.paypal.com (api-m.sandbox.paypal.com in test mode). The client then enters their card or PayPal details on PayPal’s own page; the plugin never sees them.
* Terms of service: https://www.paypal.com/legalhub/paypal/useragreement-full
* Privacy policy: https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full
Monobank acquiring – https://api.monobank.ua – online payments (only when Monobank is chosen as the payment method).
* What it is for: creating an invoice that the client pays on Monobank’s page, checking whether it was paid, and removing an invoice that is no longer needed.
* What is sent, and when: when a client presses “Book and pay” the plugin creates an invoice (api.monobank.ua/api/merchant/invoice/create) with the amount, the currency, the order number, the names of the booked services (as the invoice’s description and basket line) and the return and notification addresses on your site; after that it asks for the invoice’s status (invoice/status) when the client comes back and from a short background re-check; when an unpaid booking expires or is cancelled it removes the invoice (invoice/remove). Your Monobank merchant token travels in the request header. The client enters their card on Monobank’s page.
* Terms of service and privacy policy: https://monobank.ua/e-comm
Gravatar – https://gravatar.com – client pictures in the admin screens and the client’s account.
* What it is for: showing a client’s picture when they have one.
* What is sent, and when: when a picture is shown, a hash of the client’s e-mail address is used in the address of the image requested from gravatar.com. The e-mail address itself is not sent. Pictures a client uploads on your site are used first, and then no request is made.
* Terms of service: https://automattic.com/terms-of-service/
* Privacy policy: https://automattic.com/privacy/
Support
Questions and bug reports: the plugin’s support forum on WordPress.org. You can also write to support@bazadevelopers.com.
Installation
- Upload the plugin to
/wp-content/plugins/or install it from the Plugins screen, then activate it. - Follow the short setup wizard (language, currency, working hours, your first service).
- Put the shortcode
[baza_booking_calendar]on a page. - Under Baza Booking > General Settings > Payments choose how clients pay.
For WooCommerce: install WooCommerce, choose WooCommerce as the payment gateway, and add a product of the type “Baza booking”.
FAQ
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Can clients pay online?
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Yes: PayPal and Monobank directly, or any payment method of your WooCommerce shop.
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How many services can I have?
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As many as you need.
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Does it work with WooCommerce?
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Yes. Bookings can be paid as WooCommerce orders, a service can be sold as a product, and bookings from WooCommerce Bookings can be imported.
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Where do I put the calendar?
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Anywhere the shortcode
[baza_booking_calendar]works: pages, posts and page builders. -
Is there a paid version?
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Yes, with extra features for larger businesses: more payment gateways, a cart, additional services, promo codes, a loyalty program, Google Calendar sync, Zapier, accounting and more. The plugin here stays fully usable without it. See the plans: https://bazadevelopers.com/baza-booking-calendar-pricing-plans/
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What do the paid plans add?
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Starter adds more payment gateways, deposits, taxes, packages and Google Calendar; Pro adds a client balance, reminders, Telegram / WhatsApp / Viber / SMS, Zoom and Zapier, a REST API, loyalty and promo codes, accounting, statistics and more; Elite gives Pro on 15 websites with custom meta prices and priority support. You can try everything free for 7 days. See the list in the description or the plans page.
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Where is the readable source of the minified scripts?
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In the plugin itself, next to each minified file (
assets/js/,assets/css/,modules/*/assets/);package.jsonandgulpfile.jsrebuild them withnpx gulp build. -
Is my clients’ data sent anywhere?
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Only to the payment service a client chooses to pay with, as described under “External services” below.
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Changelog
3.3.1
- Fix: the country list of the international phone field (Pro) was left without its styles after the library was updated. It is now drawn like the plugin’s own select lists: the same box, rows, chosen row, search box and scrollbar, opening right under the field and as wide as it, without icons.
- Fix: the phone field’s files load when any booking form uses the international phone, not only the default form.
- Fix: the “Give a package…” list in a client’s card is a plugin select again after the card is redrawn.
- Referral programme (Pro): sending a member’s promo code by email asks for confirmation and cannot be repeated within a minute; its button follows the member’s coupon at once.
3.3.0
- New: a calendar file for every confirmed booking. The client’s confirmation letter and the “booking updated” letter carry an .ics file, and the letter has a line of links to add the booking to a calendar. One event for every continuous run of hours; times are written in UTC, so they stay right when the clocks change.
- New: an “Add to calendar” block on the booking confirmation page and in the client’s account, with buttons for Google Calendar, Outlook.com, Microsoft 365, Yahoo Calendar, Apple Calendar (iPhone, iPad, Mac) and a file for every other calendar. The download link is signed and tied to the booking and the client’s email.
- New settings (General Settings > Messages): attach a calendar file to the client’s letter (on by default) and send a calendar cancellation when a booking is rejected or expires (off by default).
- The Book button answers at once: it is locked and the loader is shown before the checks, and the checks (blocked client, taken slots, additional services) run together instead of one after another.
- Admin notices of the plugin have a new look: the colour of the kind, an icon, a close button, buttons in the colour of the notice.
- Referral programme (Pro): a Members section in the user’s card (switched on and off at once, with the member mark in the card’s header and a colour for the row), a promo code for every member that brings its bookings to the member like the personal link, the promo code in the member’s account and by email, the members list with the status, promo code, bonus balance and payout history, an option to hide the membership request on the site, a payout request is always approved by a person – the administrator is told by email, and the payout is written to the accounts with the name of who approved it. The member’s account shows the total, available and waiting bonus and the list of payout requests.
- Updated translations.
3.2.3
- Referral programme (Pro): members share a personal link and earn a bonus for the bookings it brings. Percent or fixed bonus, once or on every order, a minimum order, bonus lifetime, applications and payout requests approved by hand or automatically, a button generator for the member’s own site, and letters about every bonus.
- Referral programme: the Members and Payout requests tabs on the Our Clients page (each tab has its own address), a Referral column and a Member mark in the Users screen. Requested payouts are set aside at once and taken off the balance when approved.
- Statistics: additional services sold (with trend and best sellers), coupons and loyalty programmes of the chosen period.
- Fixed: the hourly price and hourly second price tables of a service were not saved from the service panel.
- Fixed: the dashboard column of a service missed bookings whose service is stored as text.
- Smaller fixes in the admin screens, the extras picker on narrow screens, updates from old versions, and updated translations.
3.2.2
- A “Get Pro” button in the plugin’s header and an “Upgrade to Pro” item at the bottom of its menu; both are plain links to the plugin’s page and can be turned off.
3.2.1
- Calendar widget for the block editor and Elementor.
- Time of an hourly add-on: choose one or several stretches of the day on a slider; works with 12-hour AM/PM times.
- PayPal now lists a prepayment’s whole order line by line.
- Clearer payment errors: the real reason is shown when a gateway cannot be reached.
- Smaller fixes and updated translations (Ukrainian, Russian, German, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak).
3.2.0
- WooCommerce integration: product type “Baza booking”, date picker on the product page, cart and checkout, bookings made from orders, import from WooCommerce Bookings.
- A price history for every booking: what changed the price, when and who did it.
- Scheduled tasks screen with the next run of each background task.
- Cleaner admin tables on small screens.
3.0.0
- Major release.