Fixes an email-signature status image stuck on an old status behind some CDNs. Copy the signature HTML again after updating.<\/p>","1.3.3":"
Adds a live status image for email signatures, and gives Days off, Booking layout and Email signature screens of their own.<\/p>","1.3.2":"
Adds the opening hours widget and named days off, makes the booking form fully keyboard and screen-reader accessible and ready for right-to-left languages, and keeps it working on cached pages.<\/p>","1.3.1":"
Adds "Add to calendar": a calendar file and a Google Calendar link in the confirmation and reminder emails and on the booking form. Also restores built-in email wording on sites where saving the settings had frozen it.<\/p>","1.3.0":"
Stops double bookings when two customers submit the same slot at once, and makes the emailed Approve \/ Decline links ask before they act. Adds the "Upcoming" agenda card. Requires WordPress 6.2.<\/p>","1.2.0":"
A "Today's appointments" card for the Qaiyo ecosystem dashboard widget (needs the free Admin Booster plugin), showing today's count and the next booking's time.<\/p>","1.1.0":"
Native widgets for Elementor, Bricks, Breakdance and Oxygen, and a fix for the Gutenberg block, which never actually worked before this release.<\/p>","1.0.0":"
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Qaiyo Smart Appointment is a clean, fast scheduling plugin for service businesses \u2014 salons, clinics, coaches, consultants, studios and freelancers.<\/p>\n\n
Its standout feature is fluid slot allocation<\/strong>. Most booking plugins slice the day into a fixed grid for one chosen duration. Qaiyo instead works on the open gaps<\/em> around existing appointments and fits each requested service into whatever space is left. Book a 2-hour service, then a 1-hour one, and the remaining time stays fully bookable for any mix of shorter or longer services that still fit \u2014 packed dynamically, never wasted.<\/p>\n\n The Pro add-on is a separate plugin. Everything above keeps working without it.<\/p>\n\n Learn more at qaiyo-plugins.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n This plugin makes one outbound request, and only from the WordPress admin.<\/p>\n\n WordPress.org plugin directory API<\/strong> \u2014 used by the \"Discover Qaiyo\" screen\n(Smart Booking \u2192 Discover Qaiyo) to list the plugin author's other free plugins so\nyou can install one without leaving your site.<\/p>\n\n This service is provided by WordPress.org: terms of service<\/a>,\nprivacy policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n Google Calendar \u2014 a link, not a connection.<\/strong> With \"Add to calendar\" on (Settings \u2192 Emails, on by default), confirmation and reminder emails and the booking form's success screen contain an \"Add to Google Calendar\" link. The plugin itself never contacts Google.<\/p>\n\n This service is provided by Google: terms of service<\/a>, privacy policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n The calendar file (.ics) involves no service at all: it is attached to the email and generated in the booking response.<\/p>\n\n The booking form itself makes no external requests. Booking data stays in your\ndatabase, and notification emails are sent with It computes availability from the real free gaps around existing bookings, then fits the chosen service duration into them on a configurable step grid \u2014 instead of pre-dividing the day into fixed equal slots. Mixed-length services share the same day efficiently.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes. With no staff defined, bookings run on the global working hours automatically.<\/p><\/dd>\n No, the plugin works standalone without it. A payment provider is only needed if you turn on \"Require payment\" for a service, and WooCommerce is the one this plugin ships with \u2014 activate it and the option appears. (Pro adds Stripe and PayPal as direct alternatives, for sites that do not want a shop.) Nothing changes for services that don't require payment.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes. Set the service's booking mode to quote request. The customer picks a day and whether morning, afternoon or evening suits them, and nothing is reserved \u2014 the enquiry never blocks a real booking, and two enquiries for the same morning never clash. Answer it, then book the agreed time normally.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes. Under Smart Booking \u2192 Settings \u2192 Emails every message has its own on\/off switch and its own editable subject and wording. Write them with merge tags \u2014 Two ways, both automatic once a booking is confirmed. The confirmation and reminder emails have a calendar file attached ( The calendar entry holds the service, its time and the staff member. It never names the customer and never contains the cancel link, because calendar entries get shared and synced. A request that is still waiting for your approval gets neither, and nor does a quote request. If you rewrote an email, add the Turn the reminder email on under Settings \u2192 Emails and set how many hours before the booking it should go out. A background sweep runs hourly and sends the reminder to every confirmed booking that has entered the window, marking each one so it can never be sent twice. Pending bookings are skipped, because there is nothing confirmed to remind anyone about yet.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes, with the Attributes: Yes, with the Attributes: Yes, with the Pages are often cached, and \"open now\" is only true for a moment, so the widget carries the next two weeks with it and keeps itself current in the visitor's browser.<\/p>\n\n Attributes: Yes. Switch on the status image under Smart Booking \u2192 Email signature<\/strong> and copy the HTML it gives you into your signature. It is a small image \u2014 \"Open now \u00b7 until 17:00\", \"Vacation \u00b7 Opens Monday at 09:00\" \u2014 that your site draws at the moment a reader's mail program loads it, from the same hours and days off as the opening hours widget, and it links to the page you choose.<\/p>\n\n Gmail, Outlook and most mail programs load it every time the email is opened. Apple Mail with Mail Privacy Protection loads images in advance, so there it can show the status of when the message arrived; and some programs only show images after the reader allows them. The address is public (anyone who receives your email can open it) and shows nothing your opening hours do not already show. Drawing it needs PHP's GD extension with FreeType, which most hosts have; the settings card tells you if yours does not.<\/p><\/dd>\nFree features<\/h4>\n\n
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[qsab_booking]<\/code>, a Gutenberg block, or a native widget in Elementor, Bricks, Breakdance or Oxygen \u2014 the same settings in every one<\/li>\n[qsab_hours]<\/code> shortcode, block and page-builder widget: your weekly hours with today highlighted, whether you are open right now and until when, and a notice for coming days off. It stays correct on cached pages<\/li>\n{customer_name}<\/code> and {when}<\/code><\/li>\n[qsab_availability]<\/code> shortcode and block showing free and fully-booked days at a glance, with no customer details on the page<\/li>\n[qsab_upcoming]<\/code> shortcode and page-builder widget: today's date, how many bookings today has, and the next few bookings with their service colour and time. It shows what runs and when, never who booked, so it is safe on a public page; it can also be kept to logged-in users for a team page<\/li>\nPro features<\/h4>\n\n
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plugins_api()<\/code> function, which is the same call the\nbuilt-in Plugins \u2192 Add New screen makes. No personal data, no site data and\nnothing about your visitors or bookings is transmitted.<\/li>\n\n
wp_mail()<\/code> through whatever your\nsite is already configured to use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\/wp-content\/plugins\/<\/code> and activate it.<\/li>\n[qsab_booking]<\/code> shortcode or the block.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
What makes the slot engine \"fluid\"?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Does it work without staff?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Does it require WooCommerce?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Can customers ask for a price without booking a time?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Can I change what the emails say, or switch some of them off?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
{customer_name}<\/code>, {service}<\/code>, {when}<\/code>, {price}<\/code>, {cancel_link}<\/code> and more \u2014 and clear a field to go back to the built-in text.<\/p><\/dd>\nHow do customers get a booking into their calendar?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
appointment.ics<\/code>) \u2014 opening it adds the appointment to Apple Calendar, Outlook or any other calendar app \u2014 and an \"Add to Google Calendar\" link. The booking form shows the same two options on its success screen when a booking is confirmed on the spot.<\/p>\n\n{calendar_link}<\/code> tag where the link should go; the file is attached either way. Switch the whole thing off under Settings \u2192 Emails \u2192 Add to calendar.<\/p><\/dd>\nHow do reminders work?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Can I show my availability on a page without the booking form?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
[qsab_availability]<\/code> shortcode or the matching block. It shows which days and times are still open and which are fully booked or closed. It never shows who booked what \u2014 only free and busy, exactly what the booking form itself would reveal.<\/p>\n\nservice<\/code> (a service id, defaults to your first active service), staff<\/code> (a staff id, defaults to anyone) and days<\/code> (how many days to show, default 7).<\/p><\/dd>\nCan I show today's schedule on a page, like a reception screen?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
[qsab_upcoming]<\/code> shortcode or the \"Qaiyo Upcoming\" widget in your page builder. It shows today's date and how many bookings today has, then the next confirmed bookings \u2014 the service, its colour and its time. It never shows who booked, so it is safe on a public page.<\/p>\n\ntitle<\/code> (defaults to \"Upcoming\" in the visitor's language), count<\/code> (1\u201310, default 3), service<\/code> and staff<\/code> (ids, to show one of them only), show_date<\/code> (0<\/code> hides the date tile), theme<\/code> (auto<\/code>, light<\/code> or dark<\/code>) and audience<\/code> (logged_in<\/code> shows it to logged-in users only).<\/p><\/dd>\nCan I show my opening hours and whether I am open right now?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
[qsab_hours]<\/code> shortcode or the \"Qaiyo Opening Hours\" widget. It shows your weekly hours (from Settings \u2192 Working hours, lunch breaks included) with today highlighted, a line saying whether you are open at this moment and when you open next, and a notice for any day off coming up \u2014 give a range a name under Settings \u2192 Days off, such as \"Vacation\", and that is what your visitors read.<\/p>\n\ntitle<\/code>, show_title<\/code> (0<\/code> hides the heading), staff<\/code> (one person's hours), layout<\/code> (box<\/code>, the default, or full<\/code> for the full width of the column \u2014 in a page builder the width you give the element wins), show_status<\/code>, show_week<\/code> (0<\/code> hides either part), notice_days<\/code> (how many days ahead to announce a day off, default 14; 0<\/code> only while it lasts) and theme<\/code> (auto<\/code>, light<\/code> or dark<\/code>).<\/p><\/dd>\nCan my email signature show whether I am available?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Can I change \"Open now\" on the status image?<\/h3><\/dt>\n