Bookyzo turns your WordPress site into a real booking system, whatever you’re booking. Add a staff member for one-on-one appointments, a table for restaurant reservations, an event for ticketed occurrences, or a generic slot for anything else — set its availability, drop a booking form onto any page with a shortcode or block, and start taking bookings. No page builder plugin, no external booking service, no WooCommerce required.

Why Bookyzo?

All four booking types — Appointment, Table, Event, Slot — in the free plugin, not locked behind an upsell
No limits on bookable items, shifts or bookings
Runs entirely on your own site — your booking data stays in your own database
No WooCommerce dependency — works on any WordPress site
A guided setup wizard and a real Vue-powered admin panel, not a wall of settings screens

Free features

All of these are in the free plugin, with no license needed.

Booking types

Appointment — one staff member, one customer per time slot (haircuts, consultations, tutoring)
Table — a restaurant table or venue space with a party-size capacity
Event — a date and time you create yourself (a class, a workshop, a ticketed show), sold by ticket quantity
Slot — a recurring time slot with room for more than one booking (a rental, a group session, anything that doesn’t fit the other three)
No limits on bookable items, shifts or bookings

Bookable items & availability

Name, description, photo, price, duration and capacity for each item
A location and an online meeting link on any item
A weekly schedule per item, with as many shifts per day as you like (e.g. lunch and dinner)
Shared business hours an item can follow instead of its own schedule
Date exceptions to block a holiday or change the hours for a single date
Specific dates added by hand for events
Available times kept up to date automatically in the background

Customer booking form

The [bookyzo_booking] shortcode, the Booking Form block and the Elementor widget
Show every item, one booking type ([bookyzo_booking type="table"]) or a single item ([bookyzo_booking bookable_item_id="5"])
Guest booking with a name, an email and a phone number, and you choose whether phone is required
Party size for tables, ticket quantity for events and spots for slots
Optional ticket holder names when someone books several event tickets
Add to Google Calendar or download an .ics file from the confirmation screen
Appearance settings for colors, width, font, corner rounding and shadow, with a live preview
Spam protection with a honeypot field and a per-IP rate limit

Booking management

Day, week, month and agenda calendar views, color-coded by status
Drag a booking to another time on the calendar to reschedule it
Add walk-in and phone bookings yourself
Filter the booking list by date, bookable item or status, and change a status inline
Export the filtered booking list to CSV
Pending, confirmed, completed, cancelled, rejected and no-show statuses
Confirm new bookings automatically, or review each one first

Dashboard

Booking counts for today, this week and this month
Revenue for the current month
A chart of the last 14 days of bookings
A list of upcoming bookings

Customers

Customers saved automatically the first time they book
Search by name, email or phone
Your own notes and tags on each customer
Import an existing customer list from a CSV file

Emails

Automatic emails when a booking is received, confirmed or cancelled
A reminder email the day before a booking
An email to you for each new booking, which you can turn off
Editable plain-text subject and body for every email, with placeholders for the customer’s name, the bookable item, the booking time, the total and your business name

Customer self-service

A link in each email to move a booking to another open time or cancel it, up to your cancellation cutoff, with no account needed
Optional customer accounts (off by default) with a [bookyzo_account] page for upcoming and past bookings, rescheduling and cancelling

Payments

Online card payments through your own Stripe account
Mark bookings as paid manually for cash or in-person payments
A “Pay in person” choice for customers, which you can turn off
An optional flat tax rate on every paid booking’s total
A time released automatically when a customer leaves an online payment unfinished

Privacy, translation & developer tools

WordPress’s Export and Erase Personal Data tools
Your booking data stays when you delete the plugin, unless you choose to remove it in Settings
Translation-ready, including the booking form, the account page and the admin screens
Actions, filters and a REST API under bookyzo/v1

Pro features

These come only with Bookyzo Pro, a separate paid plugin that needs the free plugin installed. None of them are in the free plugin.

Booking tools

Services with per-staff pricing and “any available staff” booking
Recurring bookings you create for any non-event item, repeating every 1 to 4 weeks
A waitlist for full times that emails the next person when a place frees up
Bulk actions to confirm, complete, cancel or mark no-show on several bookings at once
Internal notes and tags on a booking
Duplicate a booking to start a new one
Google Calendar and Outlook two-way sync — bookings go in, busy times block slots

Locations & staff

Multiple locations, each with its own timezone and opening hours
Staff logins that see only their own items’ bookings

Pricing & payments

Deposits as a percentage or a fixed amount
PayPal alongside Stripe
Refunds on cancellation, approved by you — refund in full, keep the deposit or booking fee, or decline
Discount codes as a percentage or a fixed amount, limited by item, booking type, date range and number of uses
Prepaid packages (e.g. “10 classes for $150”) with their own store ([bookyzo_packages], block and Elementor widget)
Seasonal and dynamic pricing by date range, day of the week or booking lead time
Add-ons customers can attach to a booking
Booking fees and per-item tax
WooCommerce checkout when WooCommerce is active

Messages

SMS (Twilio) and WhatsApp confirmations, cancellations and reminders
Your own reminder timings (e.g. one 48 hours before and another closer to the booking)
Email and SMS campaigns to a filtered customer list
Post-visit follow-up emails, sent a set number of hours after a booking is completed
Live admin alerts for new bookings, cancellations and no-shows

Tables

A floor plan to arrange your tables and see each one’s state in a live view
Combined tables for larger parties
A walk-in waitlist

Events

Ticket tiers (e.g. Early Bird, Regular, VIP) with their own prices and capacity
QR e-tickets
A web check-in scanner that uses the device’s camera, with no app to install and a manual fallback
Attendee list export

Reports

An analytics dashboard for revenue, occupancy, no-shows, repeat customers, conversion rate, popular items and hours, filterable by date and location, with CSV export
Commission and payout tracking
Customer list export with booking history
Branded PDF invoices

Customization & integrations

Custom form fields (text, dropdown, checkbox, date, number and address), for all items or just one
Custom CSS for the booking form
Signed webhooks when a booking is created or its status changes
Marketing pixels for Facebook, GA4 and Google Tag Manager

License & updates

Automatic Pro updates on the Plugins screen
If a license expires, everything already set up keeps working; only creating new Pro items stops

External services

Bookyzo runs on your own site and stores bookings in your own database. It connects to these outside services only in the cases described.

Stripe (online card payments)

Used only if you turn on Stripe under Bookyzo Payments and enter your own Stripe API keys.

When a customer chooses to pay online, the booking widget loads Stripe.js from https://js.stripe.com/v3/ and the card details go straight from the customer’s browser to Stripe. They never pass through your site.
Your site sends Stripe the amount, the currency, the booking’s ID and the customer’s email address (for Stripe’s receipt), to create the payment, and later asks Stripe whether that payment succeeded.
When you refund a booking paid by card, your site sends Stripe the payment’s reference and the amount to refund.
Stripe calls your site’s webhook address to report payments it has completed.

Stripe is provided by Stripe, Inc.: Services Agreement, Privacy Policy.

Google Calendar (add to calendar link)

The booking confirmation screen and emails include an “Add to Google Calendar” link. Nothing is sent to Google unless the customer clicks it; the link then opens Google Calendar with the bookable item’s name and the booking’s time filled in.

Google Calendar is provided by Google LLC: Terms of Service, Privacy Policy.= Filters =

byzo_bookable_items_offering_service — ( int[] $bookable_item_ids, int $service_id ) Which bookable items offer a given service, for “any available staff” resolution. Default array().
byzo_service_price — ( float|null $price, int $service_id, int $bookable_item_id ) Resolved price for a service booked with a specific staff member. Default null (falls back to the bookable item’s own price).
byzo_deposit_amount — ( float|null $amount, float $payment_amount, int $bookable_item_id ) How much of a booking’s total is due online now as a deposit. Default null (pay in full).
byzo_default_settings — ( array $defaults ) Default values seeded into the business-settings option on activation.
byzo_rest_controllers — ( array $controllers ) REST controller instances registered on rest_api_init.
byzo_payment_gateways — ( array $gateways ) Registered payment gateways shown on the Payments settings screen, keyed by gateway id. Default: Stripe only.
byzo_payment_gateway_defaults — ( array $defaults ) Default settings shape for each registered gateway, keyed by gateway id. Default: Stripe only.
byzo_validate_payment_gateway_settings — ( array|WP_Error $current, string $gateway_id, array $data ) Validates and merges a settings patch for a non-Stripe gateway. Only consulted for a gateway that byzo_payment_gateways actually registered.
byzo_rest_public_permission — ( bool $allowed, WP_REST_Request $request ) Permission check for guest-allowed REST routes.
byzo_booking_rate_limit_max / byzo_booking_rate_limit_window — ( int ) Per-IP guest booking rate limit (default 20 requests / 600 seconds) and its window in seconds.
byzo_client_ip — ( string $ip ) The IP address used for rate limiting.
byzo_dev_server_url — ( string $url ) Vite dev server URL used only in local development.
byzo_unit_price — ( float $price, int $bookable_item_id, array $slot ) Per-booking unit price adjustment applied right after service-price resolution and before tax. Default: unmodified $price.
byzo_pdf_invoice_enabled — ( bool $enabled ) Whether a downloadable PDF invoice is available from the customer dashboard. Default false.
byzo_custom_fields_for_bookable_item — ( array $fields, int $bookable_item_id ) Custom form fields to render on the booking widget for a given bookable item, each { id, label, field_type, options, required }. Default array().
byzo_addons_for_bookable_item — ( array $addons, int $bookable_item_id ) Add-ons to render on the booking widget for a given bookable item, each { id, name, price }. Default array().
byzo_resolve_addons — ( array $resolved, int[] $addon_ids, int $bookable_item_id ) Resolves client-submitted add-on ids into real, currently-active, correctly-scoped { id, name, price } rows at booking-creation time — an id that doesn’t resolve is silently dropped. Default array().
byzo_appearance_css_vars — ( string $css, array $settings ) --prop:value; custom-property pairs generated from the Appearance settings. Default: the built-in property set, or '' when nothing was customized.
byzo_appearance_css_declarations — ( string $css, array $settings ) prop:value; plain CSS declarations generated from the Appearance settings. Default: the built-in declaration set, or '' when nothing was customized.
byzo_ticket_tiers_for_bookable_item — ( array $tiers, int $bookable_item_id ) Ticket tiers to render on the booking widget for a given Event bookable item, each { id, name, price, capacity_remaining }. Default array().
byzo_ticket_tier_price — ( float|null $price, int $ticket_tier_id ) Resolved price for a specific ticket tier. Default null (falls back to the bookable item’s own price).
byzo_claim_ticket_tier — ( bool|null $claimed, int $ticket_tier_id, int $party_size ) Atomically claims capacity on a ticket tier at booking-creation time; false means sold out (rolls back the slot’s own capacity claim). Default null (no tier system installed, nothing to claim).
byzo_qr_ticket_enabled — ( bool $enabled ) Whether a downloadable QR e-ticket is available from the customer dashboard. Default false.

Actions

byzo_loaded — Fires once the plugin is fully loaded.
byzo_bookable_item_created — ( int $bookable_item_id ) After a new bookable item is created.
byzo_bookable_item_activated — ( int $bookable_item_id ) After a bookable item transitions from inactive to active.
byzo_booking_created — ( int $booking_id ) After a new booking is created.
byzo_widget_rendered — ( array $config ) Each time a booking form is rendered on a page, so an add-on can enqueue its own front-end scripts.
byzo_booking_status_changed — ( int $booking_id, string $new_status, string $old_status ) After a booking’s status changes.
byzo_booking_payment_status_changed — ( int $booking_id, string $new_status, string $old_status ) After a booking’s payment status changes.
byzo_notification_sent — ( string $event, int $booking_id ) After a notification email is sent (or attempted).
byzo_notification_channels — ( string $event, array $booking, array $placeholders ) Fires after a notification email is sent, with the same placeholders — lets an add-on send the same event via another channel (e.g. SMS/WhatsApp).
byzo_booking_rescheduled — ( int $booking_id, int $new_slot_id, int $old_slot_id ) After a booking is moved to a different slot (status itself is untouched, so this is separate from byzo_booking_status_changed).
byzo_release_ticket_tier — ( int $ticket_tier_id, int $party_size ) Fires when a ticket-tiered booking is cancelled/rejected/marked no-show, so its tier’s claimed capacity can be released back.

Bookyzo – Booking & Appointments