Appointments & Booking

Online booking for service businesses — salons, dentists, garages, tutors,
consultants. Replaces the phone-and-notebook workflow with a /book page
that fills the calendar by itself.

Setup in 10 minutes

1. Services — add what clients book: duration, an optional buffer after

the visit (cleanup, preparation), price.

1. Staff — add specialists (even a one-person business adds themselves):

which services they provide, the weekly schedule (per-day working hours,
empty = day off), vacations and days off.

1. Settings — the slot grid step (default 30 min), minimum notice

(default 2 h), how far ahead clients can book (default 30 days), the
owner notification email and the client email language.

1. Put a link to /book in the menu, or drop the {booking_button} tag

into any page or template.

How clients book

Service → specialist (or "any available") → date → free time slots
(computed live: schedule minus vacations minus existing appointments with
buffers) → name, email, phone → done. The client gets a confirmation email
with an Add to calendar (.ics) button and a cancellation link; the
owner gets a notification.

Race-safe: the chosen slot is re-validated at submit time — two clients
cannot take the same time.

Day-to-day

• Appointments — the day journal with prev/next navigation: times,

services, clients with contacts, one-click done / cancel.

• Reminders — add the cron line (hourly): clients with an appointment

tomorrow get a reminder email. Reminders cut no-shows roughly in half.

• Clients cancel via their link; cancelled slots free up instantly.

Notes

• All times are the business's local time — no timezone math for clients.
• Antispam: the booking form goes through the core form.spam_check

filter, so the Antispam & Captcha plugin protects it automatically.

• Prepayment via payment plugins is planned for a future version.