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PreBook– All-in-One Appointment Booking and Scheduling Solution

PreBook– All-in-One Appointment Booking and Scheduling Solution

Description

PreBook is a feature-rich WordPress plugin designed to handle all aspects of appointment booking and online scheduling.

From managing unlimited appointments and staff to offering highly customizable booking forms, PreBook streamlines the scheduling process for businesses across industries.

With a user-friendly interface and powerful tools, PreBook empowers businesses to deliver a superior customer experience while automating their administrative tasks.

👉 PreBook Try Demo 👈

Whether you’re running a salon, clinic, or agency, PreBook adapts to your unique business needs.

📌 Why Choose PreBook?

  • 🚀 Save Time and Boost Efficiency: Automate scheduling and manage unlimited bookings without overbooking issues.
  • 🫴 Offer a Superior Client Experience: Provide an interactive, responsive booking form that works flawlessly on all devices.
  • 🎨 Customise Every Detail: Tailor booking forms, notifications, and service options to match your brand identity.
  • 🌐 Expand Your Global Reach: Use built-in translation tools and multilingual support for customers worldwide.

📋 Industries and Niches Best Served by PreBook Plugin

PreBook is the ideal solution for businesses and professionals who rely on appointment booking, service booking, or event scheduling to streamline their operations. Whether you’re in healthcare, beauty, fitness, or professional services, PreBook offers features to fit your needs.

🏥 Health & Medical

Effortlessly manage patient appointments with features like automated reminders and customizable booking forms. PreBook is perfect for:
– Doctors Appointment Booking
– Dental Clinics
– Veterinary Clinics
– Nutritionists and Homeopaths
– Medical Centers and Wellness Clinics

Healthcare professionals love PreBook for its easy-to-use online appointment booking system that enables them to focus on patient care rather than administrative tasks.

💇 Beauty Salons & Personal Care

Delight your customers with seamless booking experiences for a variety of services. PreBook is ideal for:
– Hair Salon Booking
– Nail Salon Appointments
– Barbershop Scheduling
– Spa and Massage Studio Booking
– Tanning Studio Appointments
– Cosmetology and Makeup Artist Bookings

Features like Google Calendar synchronisation and automated reminders ensure you never miss a booking and grow your business effortlessly.

🧘‍♂️ Fitness & Gyms

PreBook empowers fitness professionals and studios to stay organised while providing a great booking experience for their clients:
– Yoga Studio Scheduling
– Personal Trainer Appointment Booking
– Dance Instructor Sessions
– Fitness Class and Zumba Academy Booking
– Sports and Recreational Facility Scheduling

With 24/7 online booking, discount coupons, and automated notifications, fitness businesses can focus on delivering exceptional experiences.

⚖️ Legal Firms & Consultants

Manage consultations and meetings with ease using PreBook’s appointment scheduling system. Suitable for:
– Lawyer and Legal Consultation Booking
– Coaches and Personal Mentors
– Business Consultants and Psychologists
– Bookkeepers and Accountants

Features like recurring appointments and multi-location support ensure your business stays productive and accessible to clients worldwide.

🚘 Automotive Services

PreBook is a must-have for automotive businesses to simplify appointment scheduling:
– Car Repair and Service Booking
– Vehicle Wash Appointments
– Bike and Heavy Vehicle Maintenance Scheduling

With color-coded calendars and streamlined booking forms, businesses can efficiently manage high booking volumes.

🏗️ Real Estate & Creative Agencies

Creative professionals and agencies can maximise efficiency by automating their scheduling:
– Real Estate Property Tour Bookings
– Photographer Session Scheduling
– Marketing and Design Consultation Appointments
– Content Creation and Strategy Meetings

PreBook’s features like customer management and customizable booking forms make it easy to provide personalised services.

✈️ Travel & Tourism

Simplify travel planning and reservations with PreBook’s online booking system:
– Tour Operator Appointment Scheduling
– Adventure and Travel Agency Bookings
– Car and Equipment Rental Appointments

PreBook adapts to the needs of any travel or tourism agency with useful features to manage multiple locations, recurring bookings, and package deals.

✨ PreBook’s Features for Diverse Appointment Booking Needs

  • 🎨 Customizable Booking Forms: Tailor forms to suit your business needs and branding.
  • 📅 Google Calendar Synchronisation: Ensure seamless updates across platforms.
  • 🔔 Automated Reminders: Reduce no-shows with email notifications and SMS alerts.
  • ♾️ Unlimited Services and Staff: Scale your business effortlessly with no restrictions.
  • ⚙️ Customer Management Tools: Build strong client relationships with detailed profiles.
  • 🙋 Dedicated Dashboard: Access a focused, standalone interface for managing appointments, staff, and customers without WordPress distractions.
  • 📜 Clean UI and Simple UX: Navigate effortlessly with an intuitive interface designed for both businesses and customers.
  • 🖥️ Quick Onboarding: Get started with a simple onboarding process designed to save you time and effort.

🌟 PreBook Appointment Booking Plugin- Feature Overview

♾️ Unlimited Services, Staff, and Appointments

PreBook removes all limitations, allowing businesses to add an unlimited number of services and staff members. You can customize each service with duration, pricing (fixed, free, or none), and descriptions. You can also mark services as private or archive those no longer in use.

Unlimited appointment scheduling ensures no overbooking or scheduling conflicts.

🎨 Interactive and Customizable Booking Forms

The plugin offers interactive booking forms designed to maximise user engagement. Customers can easily select services, staff, and time slots. These forms are fully customizable to align them with your business branding with layouts, colours, and fonts.

PreBook supports embedding forms via Gutenberg blocks or shortcodes, offering flexibility for website integration.

📅 Advanced Calendar and Appointment Management

PreBook’s calendar feature provides a visual overview of all appointments in daily, weekly, and monthly views. Businesses can sync bookings with external calendars such as Google Calendar and Apple Calendar.

The calendar is colour-coded for easy differentiation of services and staff schedules. Appointment rescheduling, cancellation, and approvals can be managed in real-time, ensuring a seamless workflow.

⏫ Manual and Priority Bookings

For walk-ins or phone reservations, you can manually add appointments directly to your system. Priority customers can be identified and highlighted within the platform. It’s helpful for ensuring VIP treatment and enhancing customer relationships.

🔒 Private Services and Staff

With PreBook, you can designate services and staff as private, hiding them from public booking forms. These appointments can be managed internally from the backend. This ensures flexibility for exclusive or specialised services!

⏰ Email Notifications and Reminders

PreBook automates notifications for appointment confirmations, rejections, approvals, and cancellations. Customizable email templates with dynamic placeholders ensure personalised communication with both staff and customers.

Automated reminders help you reduce no-shows, improving your overall appointment attendance.

🌐 Translation-Ready and Global Compatibility

PreBook supports multilingual websites and is translation-ready, making it accessible to global customers. With RTL (Right-to-Left) language support, you can cater to diverse linguistic needs for expanding your reach worldwide.

⚙️ Flexible Business Settings

The plugin allows businesses to define working hours, breaks, and holidays to prevent scheduling conflicts. Businesses can also set default appointment statuses, currency preferences, and label customizations to align the platform with their specific needs.

📊 Enhanced Analytics and Reporting

PreBook provides actionable insights into booking trends, such as peak times, popular services, and customer retention rates.

Visual charts and graphs on the admin dashboard allow businesses to make data-driven decisions, enhancing efficiency and customer satisfaction.

➕ PreBook Free Add-ons

👥 Staffs

Easily manage an unlimited number of staff members with PreBook. Assign specific services to staff, track their schedules, and let customers book directly with their preferred team member. For individuals, you can disable this feature to keep things simple.

📴 Holidays & Days Off

Seamlessly manage non-working days by setting holidays or custom days off. Prevent overbooking by ensuring that no appointments can be scheduled during these blocked periods.

📆 Calendar

PreBook offers a dedicated calendar for easy appointment management. View bookings in daily, weekly, or monthly formats and sync seamlessly with external calendars like Google or Apple Calendar for added flexibility.

💵 Payment

Enable online or offline payment collection to simplify your booking process. Show service pricing, process payments securely, or disable this feature if your business doesn’t require payment handling.

🔥 PreBook Plugin Upcoming Features

Setup Wizard

The Setup Wizard will simplify your onboarding process, helping your users configure their PreBook plugin quickly and efficiently. From setting up services to customising forms, the wizard will ensure a smooth start.

Customer Dashboard

Customers will soon be able to access their dedicated dashboard where they can view appointment histories, reschedule bookings, or cancel upcoming appointments with ease.

Floating Booking Widget

A floating widget will allow customers to book appointments without navigating away from the page, improving convenience and user engagement.

Expanded Payment Gateways

Upcoming integrations will include secure payment gateways like PayPal, Stripe, and WooCommerce to make you accept payments online seamlessly.

Elementor Integration

Easily embed booking forms on Elementor-powered websites with dedicated widgets, offering even more flexibility for website design.

Service Packages

PreBook will soon introduce Service Packages designed to enhance flexibility and customer engagement. With service packages, businesses can bundle multiple services into attractive deals, such as a “Wellness Package” combining a massage, facial, and spa treatment, or a fitness studio offering discounted bundles of classes.

Group Booking

Group booking will allow multiple participants to reserve a single slot or book services together, making it ideal for fitness classes, workshops, or family appointments. Businesses can set capacity limits, ensuring smooth scheduling while maximising revenue.

Import/Export Tool

The upcoming Import/Export Tool will streamline data transfer, enabling businesses to import customer profiles, service details, and appointment histories with ease. It also allows exporting data for backups, analysis, or integration with external systems, ensuring effortless management and scalability.

How to Install/Use PreBook Plugin

Installing and using PreBook is simple and quick

  1. Installation: Make a search with ‘PreBook’ from your backend dashboard like any other WordPress plugin and install it. Or download the plugin from this directory or our website, upload it to your WordPress site, and activate it.
  2. Configuration: Navigate to the PreBook settings in the WordPress dashboard to begin configuration. Use the Setup Wizard (upcoming feature) for easy onboarding.
  3. Dashboards: Access PreBook’s dedicated dashboards based on user roles:
    • Admin Dashboard for overall management of appointments, staff, and settings.
    • Staff Dashboard for team members to manage their schedules and appointments.
    • Individual Dashboard for personal users to handle their own bookings.
  4. Integration: Embed booking forms on your website using shortcodes, Gutenberg blocks, or Elementor widgets.
  5. Start Booking: Customise your forms, add services, and begin accepting appointments immediately.

Gutenberg Blocks

This plugin has two blocks-

Booking Form

  • Embed a fully functional booking form directly on any page or post of your website.
  • PreBook generates a dedicated booking page during plugin installation for easy setup.
  • Filter and display specific service categories, services, or staff based on your business needs.
  • Preselect a specific service or staff to streamline the booking process for your customers.

Booking Button

  • Add a booking button anywhere on your website, opening the booking form in a user-friendly modal.
  • Filter and display relevant service categories, services, or staff to match customer needs.
  • Preselect a service or staff member for a faster, tailored booking experience.
  • Fully customizable styling options, including color, background, typography, padding, and borders, to align with your branding.

Screenshots

Blocks

This plugin provides 2 blocks.

  • Prebook Button
  • Prebook Form

FAQ

Can I manage appointments for multiple locations

Yes, PreBook supports multi-location businesses, allowing you to manage staff, services, and schedules across different locations seamlessly.

Is PreBook mobile-friendly?

Absolutely! PreBook plugin is fully responsive. It ensures a smooth booking experience for users on desktops, tablets, and smartphones.

Can I customize the booking form to match my brand?

Yes, PreBook offers extensive customization options, including colours, fonts, and layouts, to align the booking form with your brand identity.

Does PreBook support online payments?

Currently, PreBook supports on-site payments. However, integrations with gateways like PayPal and Stripe are coming soon.

Is PreBook suitable for small businesses?

Yes, PreBook is designed to scale with your business, making it ideal for small businesses and large organisations alike.

Can customers reschedule their appointments?

This feature is part of the upcoming Customer Dashboard, allowing clients to manage and reschedule their bookings easily.

Can you briefly introduce the PreBook plugin?

PreBook is a WordPress appointment booking plugin that allows businesses to easily manage online booking and scheduling. It covers almost all the service niches available online. Give it a try now!

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Contributors & Developers

“PreBook– All-in-One Appointment Booking and Scheduling Solution” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

1.1.8 – JAN 04 2024

  • **New : Added multi-instance forms, now every form acts differently.
  • **Improvement : Improved Gutenberg Block Editor with awesome customisability.

1.1.7 – NOV 30 2024

  • Fix : Fractional values of prices contains specific decimal point.
  • Fix : Staff delete not working.
  • Fix : Preview logo not showing in notification.
  • Fix : Staff image not showing properly in Booking Form Confirmation.
  • Fix : Price wrapped in Dashboard -> Most popular section.
  • Improvement : Improved issues related labels on Admin UI.
  • New : Added RTL – Added RTL Support.
  • New : Added Labeling – Now PreBook can be translated into your own language.
  • New : Time based slot – Added time based slot in service duration.
  • Fix : Decimal in prices – All the prices now accept decimal values.
  • Improvement :Admin Panel UI – Tweaked admin panel UI slightly towards improvement.

1.1.6 – OCT 19 2024

  • New : Introduced Addons – Features can be disabled or enable as per needs.
  • New : Service Provider – Common service provider profile can be setup.
  • Fixed : Decimal Price – Decimal in prices can be used now.

1.1.5 – SEP 22 2024

  • New : Introduced Booking Form Customizer – Now the frontend booking form can be fully customized with preview.

1.1.4 – AUG 30 2024

  • New : Staff Dashboard – A separate panel for Staffs for their appointments, profile and more.

1.1.3 – AUG 14 2024

  • New : Image Cropping – Now uploader image can be cropped.
  • Improvement : Date and Slot Selection – Now past dates and slots can be selected while editing existing Appointment.

1.1.2 – JUL 02 2024

  • New : Introduced Calendar – Effortlessly manage your appointments with our newly introduced Daily, Weekly, and Monthly calendar views. Stay organized and in sync with all your schedules.

1.1.1 – JUN 10 2024

  • New : Introduced Dashboard – Visual Representation and Statistical Overview of all appointments, sales, services and others.
  • New : Added Onboarding Steps – Now Business owners are more flexible to get started quickly.

1.1.0 – MAY 24 2024

  • New : Added Email Notifications – Automated emails will be sent to Customers and Staffs.
  • New : Added Gutenberg Block – Now PreBook Modal and Widget can be created through Block Editor.

1.0.0

  • Initial release.