BookWellNow helps you take service bookings on your WordPress site. Customers pick a service, a staff member, and an available time, then confirm. You can collect PayPal Checkout or pay-on-arrival payments, and optionally create a Zoom meeting for the visit.

There is no per-staff or per-service limit in the free version. You manage working hours, shifts, holidays, and special days from the WordPress admin. Customers can log in to a panel to view history and cancel when you allow it.

Free Features

Appointment Booking Popup Button
Free Zoom Meeting
Overnight booking supported
Free Unlimited Staff Members
Free Unlimited Services
Free PayPal Payment Gateway
Free Staff Shift Management
Free Staff Holiday Management
Free Customer Panel
Free Customer Appointment Cancellation
Lightweight & Very Fast Loading
Online Appointment Scheduling
Booking Calendar Management
Mobile-Friendly Booking Experience

Pro Features

The free plugin covers the workflow above. BookWellNow Pro adds:

Google Calendar two-way sync
Google Meet
Custom fields
Buffer time
Reschedule
Scheduled notifications
WooCommerce payment gateways
Service extras and rules

Getting started

Activate the plugin and open Book Well Now in the admin menu.
Add at least one service and one staff member, then assign the staff member to the service.
Set working hours (and holidays if needed) for that staff member.
Place a shortcode on a page (see below).
Optionally enable PayPal or Zoom under Settings.

Shortcodes

Create shortcodes from Book Well Now Shortcode Generator, or paste them into a page or post.

Form popup button

[bookwell_booking_button]

Places a button that opens the form in a popup. You do not need [bookwell_booking] on the same page.

service_id – pre-select a service (useful on a service page)
staff_id – show only that staff member’s services
label and class – button text and extra CSS class

Examples:

[bookwell_booking_button label="Book Now"]

[bookwell_booking_button service_id="2" label="Book this service"]

[bookwell_booking_button staff_id="1" label="Book with this staff"]

[bookwell_booking_button service_id="2" staff_id="1" label="Book now"]

Inline form

[bookwell_booking]

Shows the form on the page. In Settings Appearance (or Shortcode Generator) choose Small Booking Wizard or Service List with Popup.

Optional attributes: staff_id, service_id

[bookwell_booking]

[bookwell_booking staff_id="1" service_id="2"]

Customer panel

[bookwellnow_customer_panel]

Shows the logged-in customer area (history, profile, and cancellation).

Availability

Customers see only open dates and time slots
Overlapping times for the same staff member are blocked
Working hours, breaks, holidays, and special days control what is offered
Overnight hours: set start and end across midnight (for example 2:00 PM to 2:00 AM the next day)

Staff and services

Add as many staff members and services as you need
Assign services to staff and set duration and price
Auto-select when only one service or staff member applies

Customer panel

Customers log in to see upcoming and past visits
They can cancel when cancellation is enabled
Optional WordPress user creation when someone books (Settings Customer Panel)

Payments

Pay on arrival / manual
PayPal Checkout (sandbox and live)

Emails

Confirmation and status update emails
Placeholders for Zoom join/host links when Zoom is enabled

Who it is for

Clinics, salons, trainers, tutors, consultants, local trades, photographers, auto shops, event studios, and pet services – any team that sells time-based services.

Security and permissions

Admin screens use capability checks and nonces. Notification settings are limited to users who can manage plugin settings.

Third-Party Libraries

This plugin bundles the following third-party libraries (see THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES.txt for versions and licenses):

Vue.js (MIT) – https://vuejs.org/
Element Plus / Element Plus Icons (MIT) – https://element-plus.org/
Axios (MIT) – https://axios-http.com/
Qs (BSD-3-Clause) – https://github.com/ljharb/qs
SortableJS (MIT) – https://sortablejs.github.io/Sortable/
Chart.js (MIT) – https://www.chartjs.org/
intl-tel-input (MIT) – https://github.com/jackocnr/intl-tel-input

Bundled minified vendor files (for example *.min.js) are third-party libraries, not obfuscated plugin code. Upstream sources are listed in THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES.txt.

External Services

Google Fonts

When a Google font is selected in appearance settings, the booking form may load fonts from https://fonts.googleapis.com/ (Google LLC). Browser request data (IP, user agent, requested font) is sent only on pages where the booking form is shown. Privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

PayPal Checkout

When PayPal is enabled, payments use the PayPal Checkout SDK and Orders API (https://www.paypal.com/sdk/js, https://api-m.paypal.com/, sandbox API). Booking amount, currency, appointment reference, and standard request headers are sent during checkout. Credentials are stored in WordPress; only the Client ID is exposed on the frontend. Privacy: https://www.paypal.com/us/legalhub/privacy-full

Zoom Meetings

When Zoom is enabled (Settings Integrations), BookWellNow uses Zoom Server-to-Server OAuth (https://zoom.us/oauth/token, https://api.zoom.us/v2/) to list users and create/delete meetings. Account ID, Client ID, and Client Secret are stored in WordPress. Meeting join/host URLs are saved on appointments. Privacy: https://explore.zoom.us/en/privacy/

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