Description
Automated Scheduling & Appointment booking plugin with unlimited appointments, booking calendar, form integration, and payment system support.
The Best WordPress Appointment Booking Plugin with Booking Calendar – HYDRA BOOKING
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Hydra Booking is a powerful WordPress booking plugin for creating an advanced appointment booking and calendar management system. This WordPress scheduling plugin supports unlimited appointments and integrates with WooCommerce to build a robust booking system for WordPress. With a user-friendly WordPress booking calendar, Hydra Booking ensures an intuitive experience for your clients. Perfect for businesses of all sizes, it’s the ideal choice for WordPress appointment booking.
🎉 WHO SHOULD USE HYDRA BOOKING
Hydra Booking is a versatile appointment management solution tailored for a wide range of industries. Here’s how it fits seamlessly into various business needs:
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Freelancers: Ideal for freelancers offering personal services such as consulting, coaching, or creative work. Hydra Booking helps manage client appointments, ensuring a professional and hassle-free scheduling experience.
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IT Agencies: Perfect for IT firms handling client consultations, project discussions, or support sessions. Hydra Booking simplifies scheduling and allows agencies to focus on delivering top-notch services.
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Health & Wellness: Perfect for spas, massage studios, wellness centers, baths, aromatherapy, therapists, life coaches, and personal coaches.
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Beauty & Lifestyle: From barber shops and hair salons to cosmetology centers, nail studios, tanning salons, and manicurists, Hydra Booking can help lifestyle businesses streamline their booking process.
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Fitness & Sports: Ideal for yoga studios, personal trainers, Zumba classes, golf sessions, and dance instructors, Hydra Booking simplifies class bookings, personal training schedules, and studio appointments.
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Medical & Clinics: Doctors, dentists, clinics, and healthcare centers can rely on Hydra Booking to manage patient appointments efficiently.
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Professional Services: Whether you’re a consultant, real estate agent, lawyer, gym owner, photographer, wedding planner, plumber, handyman, contractor, or swimming pool service provider, Hydra Booking simplifies scheduling.
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Education: Coaching centers, private tutors, language schools, seminar organizers, and driving schools can use Hydra Booking to manage classes, private lessons, or educational events, making the learning experience smoother for students.
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Service & Maintenance: Car repair services, cleaning companies, vehicle maintenance shops, bike repair services, and heavy vehicle workshops can streamline appointment scheduling.
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Sales & Marketing: Hydra Booking supports scheduling sales meetings, team sessions, and marketing discussions, enabling teams to achieve their goals effectively and ensure alignment across the board.
In short, this appointment booking WordPress plugin empowers your clients appointment scheduler, book events, and make payments directly on your website. With Hydra Booking, building a site like Calendly or Simply Schedule Appointments becomes easy and efficient. As a comprehensive tool for booking management, Hydra Booking includes both essential and advanced features to cater to all your appointment and scheduling needs. Here’s what Hydra Booking offers:
🎉 DIVERSE MEETING TYPES & LOCATIONS
Hydra Booking supports various meeting formats:
- One-on-One Meetings: Personalize appointments with individual clients.
- Group Meetings: Host group sessions and collaborate effectively.
- Recurring Meetings: Set up recurring sessions for both one-on-one and group meetings
- Versatile Formats: Support for one-on-one, one-to-group sessions.
- Location Flexibility: Choose virtual, in-person, or phone-based meeting options.
- Custom Locations: Add unique meeting location types.
🎉 DIFFERENT MEETING LOCATIONS
Choose the best format and location for your appointments:
- Online Meetings: Provide direct booking links for virtual appointments.
- In-Person Meetings: Organize face-to-face sessions at physical locations.
- Phone Calls: Offer phone-based consultations for convenience.
- Custom Locations: Tailor location details based on specific needs.
🎉 FORM INTEGRATION
- Contact Form 7 Compatibility: Enable appointment scheduling with the widely-used Contact Form 7 plugin.
- Fluent Forms Integration: Effortlessly connect Hydra Booking with Fluent Forms for smooth booking management.
- Upcoming Integrations: Support for Gravity Forms and more is coming soon, expanding flexibility and options.
🎉 AUTOMATED NOTIFICATIONS and REMINDERS
Say goodbye to no-shows and cancellations with automated notifications for all bookings.
- Email Notifications: Send booking confirmations, rescheduling updates, and reminders automatically.
- Custom Notification Settings: Tailor notifications by booking status.
- SMS Notifications (Pro): Use SMS or WhatsApp to notify attendees via integrations like Twilio (coming soon).
🎉 PAYMENT OPTIONS
- WooCommerce Integration: Direct clients to WooCommerce’s secure checkout for payments.
- Multiple Payment Options: Supports PayPal and Stripe for easy transactions.
- Flexible Pricing: Designate certain bookings as free or paid.
🎉SEAMLESS INTEGRATIONS
Hydra Booking integrates with leading tools to elevate your business:
- CRM & Email Integration: Connect with CRMs like Zoho and FluentCRM(upcoming).
- Appointment booking calendar Sync: Integrate with Google and Outlook calendars to avoid double bookings.
- Video Conferencing: Automatic Zoom or Google Meet links for virtual appointments.
- Webhook Support (Pro): Transfer data across applications with ease.
🎉 POWERFUL DASHBOARD & ANALYTICS
Track and analyze your business performance directly from your dashboard:
- Real-Time Booking Insights: Monitor bookings, earnings, and completed and canceled appointments with options to view data daily, weekly, or monthly.
- Performance Analytics: Visual reports provide insights into booking patterns and trends.
- Instant Notifications: Receive real-time updates on bookings and site activity.
🎉 BOOKING VIEWS & EXPORT
- List and Calendar Views: Display bookings by list or calendar, sorted by daily, weekly, or monthly formats.
- Data Export: Export bookings to CSV for detailed analysis.
- Custom Filters: Locate bookings by host, date, or other parameters.
🎉 APPOINTMENT BOOKING FORMS
Create and customize appointment booking forms to simplify the booking process.
- Add appointment calendar to forms for event selection.
- Collect important attendee data through form integrations.
- Use form insights to enhance customer service.
🎉 ADVANCED AVAILABILITY & SCHEDULING OPTION
Effortlessly set and manage your availability for appointments, so you can focus on delivering quality service.
- Define weekly availability hours and days for appointments.
- Set availability for specific date ranges or open-ended future dates.
- Offer multiple meeting durations for clients to choose from.
- Add date overrides to accommodate special occasions or changes.
- Customize appointment descriptions for better service understanding.
- Include buffer times between appointments for preparation or breaks.
- Limit booking frequency and lock time zones if required.
- Add custom questions to gather details about attendee needs.
- Automatically adjust time zones for attendees, ensuring accuracy.
🎉 ADVANCED SETTINGS AND MANAGEMENTS
Easily manage hosts and accessibility settings
- Hosts can easily manage meetings, bookings, availability, integrations, and much more
- Admins now have full control over host access permissions.
To summarize, this appointment plugin is the all-in-one solution to streamline your scheduling process and take your booking system to the next level which makes it the best WordPress reservation plugin.
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Our Support
We provide full support on the WordPress.org forums & Our Website. Check our Support Policy.
Privacy Policy
Hydra Booking uses Appsero SDK to collect some telemetry data. Appsero SDK does not gather any data by default. The SDK only starts gathering basic telemetry data when a user allows it via the admin notice. Appsero SDK DOES NOT IMMEDIATELY start gathering data, without confirmation from users in any case. We use this data to troubleshoot problems faster, make product improvements & ensure a great user experience for all our users.
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Installation
- Download and unzip the plugin. Upload the unzipped folder to the wp-contents/plugins folder of your WordPress installation. Active the plugin from the WordPress Plugins administration page
- OR, Go to WP admin panel, click ‘Plugins’ -> ‘Add new’. In the search input box, type ‘Hydra Booking’.
- Install and activate the plugin.
- Go through the Quick Setup wizard for the basic setup.
- Check our Documentation & YouTube videos for further instruction.
FAQ
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Can Hydra Booking be used for multiple business types?
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Yes, Hydra Booking is designed to be versatile, making it suitable for businesses like spas, salons, medical practices, and beyond.
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Does Hydra Booking integrate with third-party CRM and scheduling calendar services?
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Yes, it supports CRM integrations such as Zoho and FluentCRM , and calendar syncing with Google and Outlook.
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Can I create forms with different WordPress Forms plugins?
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Hydra Booking integrates with popular form plugins like Fluent Forms and Contact Form 7, with support for Gravity Forms and more coming soon for enhanced flexibility.
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Are payment options customizable?
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You can configure bookings as free or paid and accept payments through WooCommerce, PayPal, and Stripe.
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Can I assign different hosts to manage different bookings?
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Yes, Hydra Booking allows host assignments with specific roles and permissions for a flexible booking management experience.
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Can I migrate from other Appointment Booking plugins?
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Currently, No. But we are working on this to offer seamless migration from plugins like Amelia, BookingPress, Fluent Booking etc.
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Contributors & Developers
“Hydra Booking – All in One Appointment Scheduling and Booking Calendar Solution | WooCommerce Bookings” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors“Hydra Booking – All in One Appointment Scheduling and Booking Calendar Solution | WooCommerce Bookings” has been translated into 1 locale. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
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Changelog
1.0.10 – 03/12/2024
- Improved: System stability for better performance.
- Improved: Accessibility control for host profile.
1.0.9 – 03/12/2024
- Updated: Updated the readme.txt file for better clarity.
- Fixed: Mintor bugs and design issues resolved.
1.0.8 – 02/12/2024
- Introduced: Script based meeting sharing option for external websites.
- Introduced: Host profiles, allowing hosts to manage bookings, availability, meetings, and more directly from their profile.
- Improvement: Cancellation handling for a smoother user experience.
- Improvement: Rescheduling feature for better flexibility.
- Improvement: Optimized notification order for clarity and effectiveness.
- Improvement: Added improvements for using attendee phone numbers as meeting locations.
- Improvement: Refined booking frequency options for better control.
- Improved overall system stability for a seamless experience.
- Improvement: Improved cancellation email formatting and delivery.
- Fixed: Resolved issues related to booking status updates.
- Fixed: Fixed PayPal payment processing issues.
- Fixed: Fixed various design issues and improved overall user interface.
1.0.7 – 27/11/2024
- Added: Integration with Pabbly and Zapier Webhooks (Pro).
- Added: One-to-one recurring Zoom meeting feature (Pro).
- Added: An option for hosts to disconnect Google Calendar.
- Added: Updated currency support.
- Fixed: Resolved availability issue.
- Fixed: Multi-language translation issue.
- Fixed: Addressed Google Calendar integration issue.
- Fixed: Resolved the issue with host email updates after user information changes.
- Fixed: Multiple bugs and general issues addressed for improved stability.
- Improvement: Enhanced Stripe integration functionality.
1.0.6 – 20/11/2024
- Update: Updated the plugin’s Readme.txt file information.
- Fix: Addressed minor bugs and implemented general improvements
1.0.5 – 17/11/2024
- Enhancements: Improved and Optimized overall codebase and design for a better user experience.
- Added: Appsero Integration
1.0.4 – 16/11/2024
- Enhancements: Improved overall design and responsiveness for a smoother user experience.
- Fixed: Resolved design issues with the question fields.
- Fixed: Fixed recurring meeting email notification functionality.
- Added: Pro license control introduced for better management of premium features.
- Added: Integrations for Fluent CRM, Zoho CRM, WebHook, and Stripe (Pro version).
1.0.3 – 13/11/2024
- Fixed: Compatibility issue with block themes
- Fixed: Time zone handling corrected
- Improved: System stability enhanced for more reliable performance.
1.0.2 – 11/11/2024
- Screenshots Updated
1.0.1 – 11/11/2024
- Readme updated
1.0.0 – 11/11/2024
- Initial stable release