Schednex Appointment Booking is a modern appointment booking plugin for WordPress. It lets your customers book services online in a few clicks, while you manage services, staff, working hours, customers and bookings from a fast React-powered admin dashboard.

It is built for any appointment-based business: salons and spas, clinics and healthcare, fitness trainers, consultants, tutors, photographers, repair services and more.

Availability is always re-checked on the server before a booking is saved, so double bookings are prevented even when several customers book at the same time.

Booking widget for your customers

Step-by-step booking flow: Category Service Staff Date & Time Details.
Interactive calendar that only shows days and time slots that are actually available.
Staff selection, or book a service without choosing a staff member.
Group bookings – customers can book for several attendees when the service has capacity.
Order summary with price and total before confirming.
Booking confirmation screen with a receipt.
Built-in validation for name, email and phone number.
Responsive and mobile friendly.
Add it anywhere with the “Schednex Appointment Booking Booking Form” block or the [schednex_booking] shortcode.

Services & categories

Create unlimited services with name, description, price and duration.
Group services into categories.
Set capacity and maximum bookings per time slot.
Show or hide the price on the booking form.

Staff

Staff profiles with contact information.
Assign services to each staff member.
Customers can choose a staff member when booking a service.
Services can also allow customers to book without selecting a staff member.

Working hours, breaks & holidays

Weekly business working hours.
Breaks within the working day.
Holidays and days off that block bookings automatically.
Uses your WordPress site time zone, date format and time format.

Bookings management

View and manage all bookings from the admin panel.
Admin calendar view.
Create bookings manually from the admin.
Search, filter by status and payment status, and sort.
Booking statuses: Pending, Confirmed, Completed, Cancelled and No Show.
Payment tracking: Unpaid, Partially paid, Paid and Refunded.

Customers

Customer list created automatically from bookings.
Add and edit customers manually.
See each customer’s booking history.

Dashboard

Overview of bookings, revenue, total customers and pending approvals.

Email notifications

“Booking received” email to the customer.
“Booking confirmed” email to the customer when the booking is confirmed.
“Booking cancelled” and “Booking rescheduled” emails to the customer.
New booking notification email to the site admin.
Email templates can be overridden from your theme.

Customize the booking form

Three layouts: Classic, Sidebar and Compact.
Change colors to match your brand.
Edit the header title, subtitle and icon.
Rename the booking steps.
Enable, disable, rename and mark form fields (phone, attendees, notes) as required or optional.
Customize the thank-you message with {name}, {email} and {service} placeholders.
Live preview while you customize.

Payments

“Pay later” – customers pay at the time of the appointment.
Choose your store currency from the settings.

Spam protection

Built-in rate limit and hidden spam-trap field on the public booking form.
Developers can plug in a captcha with the schednex_appointment_booking_validate_public_booking filter.

Privacy & data

All data is stored in your own WordPress database.
No external services are contacted.
Your data is kept when the plugin is uninstalled, unless you turn on “Delete all Schednex Appointment Booking data when this plugin is uninstalled” in Settings.

Schednex Appointment Booking – Appointment Booking Scheduling System