Tiger Booking

Tiger Booking turns your WordPress site into a working appointment book.

Add the services you offer, set who provides them and when they work, then put a booking form on any page. Customers choose a service, a person and a time; the slot is held, the confirmation email goes out, and the appointment lands in your dashboard. Nothing is booked twice, because availability is checked at the moment of saving, not just when the calendar was drawn.

It is self-hosted. Your services, staff, customers and appointments live in your own WordPress database. There are no per-booking fees, no seat limits and no external account to sign up for.

Everything described on this page is included and fully working. There is no licence key, no trial period, no usage cap and no locked screen anywhere in this plugin.

What you can do

• Services — what can be booked, with duration, price, buffer time and a category
• Staff — unlimited team members, each with their own calendar, services and holidays
• Weekly rosters — working hours, shifts and breaks, so bookings only land while someone is on shift
• Public booking flow — a service-then-person-then-time form that works on a page, a post or a widget area
• Recurring appointments — weekly or monthly series booked in one go
• Manual bookings — add, move, reschedule and cancel appointments from the admin
• Walk-in queue — serve people who arrive without an appointment
• Customer records — a profile per customer with their history, spend and notes
• Intake and consent forms — ask your own questions at booking time, and keep the answer next to the wording the customer actually agreed to
• Reviews — collect customer reviews and moderate them before they appear
• Analytics — bookings, revenue, staff workload, busiest hours, new versus returning customers
• Staff and customer portals — self-service logins with per-role, per-screen permissions
• Email confirmations — automatic notices to you and to the customer, with a readable activity log
• Activity log — who changed what, and when

It speaks your trade

During setup you choose what kind of business you run — Salon, Barbershop, Clinic, Therapy Practice, Personal Training, Tutoring, or plain Appointments. The admin then uses your vocabulary: a salon sees Treatments and Stylists, a clinic sees Consultations and Practitioners. Screens you have no use for are hidden rather than left to clutter the menu.

Where the booking form goes

Use the [tiger_booking] shortcode on any page, the Booking block in the block editor, or the Tiger Booking widgets if you use Elementor. Elementor is optional and is never required.

Your services also get real pages of their own, each with its price, duration and a working booking form, so a visitor can book straight from a search result. Your theme or page builder still wins if you would rather design those pages yourself.

What is not in this plugin

These are separate products, not locked features. This plugin contains none of their code, and nothing here is disabled, limited or waiting for a key:

• Online payments — Stripe, PayPal, Square and Razorpay checkout
• Google Calendar sync, and the Zoom / CRM / webhook integrations hub
• SMS confirmations and reminders
• Discount codes, and the waitlist for times that are already full
• Document uploads at booking time — asking a customer to attach an ID or a form
• Other booking verticals — hotel and property, restaurant, fitness classes, hourly rentals

Learn more at https://tigerelementswp.com/tiger-booking/

External services

This plugin uses no external services.

Tiger Booking is entirely self-hosted. Your services, staff, customers and bookings are stored in your own WordPress database and never leave your server. The plugin makes no outbound request to any third party, under any setting.

The booking widget uses typefaces bundled inside the plugin, so no font is fetched from a remote host. No third party is contacted. The plugin sends no analytics, no telemetry and no usage data anywhere, and it does not phone home. The sample content installed by the demo seeder ships with its own artwork inside the plugin, so no image is fetched from a remote host either.

Source code

The admin screens and the public booking form are a React application, so what
runs in your browser is compiled. Nothing here is obfuscated, and you do not
have to ask anyone for the source: the readable source ships inside this
plugin, in src/, next to the compiled output in tiger-dist/.

To rebuild it, from the plugin directory:

npm install
npm run build

That regenerates tiger-dist/ from src/. The JavaScript it produces is
identical, file for file, to what ships. The stylesheet can differ by a small
number of unused utility classes, because Tailwind generates CSS by scanning
the files present on disk — it is the same stylesheet, not a different one.

• Build tools: Vite and Tailwind CSS,
  both free software. The exact versions are pinned in the bundled
  package.json and package-lock.json.
• src/ contains the source for everything this plugin does. Code for the paid
  add-on is not included, because none of it runs here either.
• The two bundled typefaces, Inter and Space Grotesk, are under the SIL Open
  Font License 1.1; the license text ships in LICENSE-FONTS.txt, and every
  other bundled dependency is listed in LICENSE-THIRD-PARTY.txt.
• No code is downloaded or executed from a remote server, at any point.