SlashBooking

SlashBooking turns any WordPress page into a self-service appointment funnel. A visitor picks a service, sees the available slots in real time, and books in under a minute. You receive an email alert and confirm or decline in one click — no need to log in to WordPress, no third-party SaaS, no recurring fees.

It is a self-hosted scheduling tool: your data stays in your WordPress database.

Main features

• Public booking form via shortcode — A single [slashbooking] in any page. Multiple services, date picker, real-time slots, customer form, fully responsive.
• One-click email confirmation — Every request arrives with two buttons, Confirm and Decline. No WordPress login required. The action links are signed with HMAC-SHA256 and cannot be forged.
• Smart buffers around appointments — Configure padding (travel, prep) between appointments. Applied automatically.
• Multi-slot opening hours — Monday 9–12 + 14–18, Tuesday morning only, Wednesday off… Each day and each service is configured independently.
• Transactional emails with .ics — Confirmation, decline and acknowledgement emails, each with an automatic .ics attachment so the customer adds the appointment to their calendar in one click.
• Built-in GDPR compliance — Explicit consent before submission, WP_Privacy exporters/erasers, configurable retention, automatic anonymisation.
• Built-in anti-spam — Honeypot and per-IP rate limiting, with no third-party service and no external request.

Who it is for

• Freelancers and small businesses who want a self-hosted scheduling page
• Agencies packaging a website with a booking funnel
• Any business where “book a slot” opens the customer journey

External services

This plugin is fully self-contained. It makes no calls to any external or third-party service and sends no data off your site — every request is handled on your own WordPress installation.

Source code and build

The full, human-readable source code is public and maintained at:

https://github.com/ArchSeraphin/slashbooking-lite

The PHP runs unmodified from src/. The admin interface bundle
(assets/dist/index.jsx.js and .css) is compiled from the React/SCSS sources
in src/Admin/react-app/src/, which ship inside the plugin ZIP as well.

To regenerate the compiled admin assets:

npm install
npm run build   (uses @wordpress/scripts — webpack/Babel; outputs to assets/dist/)

The Composer autoloader in vendor/ is generated with composer install --no-dev.