Description
SlotNova Booking for WooCommerce is an all-in-one booking and appointment management solution built natively for WooCommerce. Whether you run a SPA center, hair salon, photography business, yacht rental service, wellness clinic, or appointment-based service business, SlotNova allows your customers to select services, pick staff members, choose dates on an inline calendar, and select real-time available time slots.
Live Demos
Explore our live booking demonstrations:
* Photographer Booking Demo
* Yacht Booking Demo
* Wellness Therapy Demo (Free)
* Massage Packages Demo (Free)
* Partial Deposit Demo (Pro Addon)
Key Features
- Custom Product Type: Seamlessly creates a new ‘SlotNova Booking’ WooCommerce product type.
- Whole Day & Time-Slot Bookings: Support both time-slot based bookings (e.g., 2-hour slots) and full-day bookings when time slots are disabled on the product level.
- Fully Booked Dates & « Already Booked » Tooltips: Automatically disables booked calendar dates with strikethrough styling and a sleek hover tooltip (« Already Booked »).
- Dynamic Time Slot Generator: Computes precise time slot start times dynamically between custom Opening Time and Closing Time based on Slot Duration (e.g., 10:00 AM to 04:00 PM with 120-minute slots).
- Interactive Quick Status Change: Change booking order status directly from the All Bookings Management table via AJAX dropdown badges.
- Product Title Column: Displays product titles across both the All Bookings Management table and WooCommerce Admin Orders table.
- Staff-Based Time Slot Availability: Each booking is assigned to a specific staff member. If a slot is booked for that staff member, it automatically becomes visually disabled for that staff member while remaining available for others.
- Custom Staff & Service Labels: Support frontend custom labels (e.g., « Photographer », « Doctor ») while keeping core taxonomy terms intact in administrative areas.
- Inline Calendar & Real-Time Availability: Customers select dates and available time slots update dynamically via AJAX.
- Instant Double-Booking Prevention: Strict server-side and client-side validation prevents double-booking the same staff member or service at the same time.
- Automatic Slot Release: Trashing, cancelling, refunding, or failing an order automatically re-enables its booked slot instantly.
- Partial Deposits & Flexible Payments (Pro Addon): Offer deposit options (percentage or fixed amount) with a seamless Payment Option switcher on single product pages, cart totals, and checkout order tables.
- Dynamic Cart & Checkout Totals: Clean « Due at Appointment » balance breakdown for deposit orders without confusing discount/negative fee lines.
- Modular Extension Manager: Built-in extension architecture supporting pro add-ons, license key management, and automated update delivery.
- Flexible Operating Hours & Off-Days: Set global or product-level business opening/closing hours, slot durations, and weekly/specific off-days.
- Timezone Precision: Built-in UTC timestamp calculation eliminates timezone offset shifts across international users.
- Developer-Friendly API: Exposes global accessor
slotnova_booking()and extensive action/filter hooks for third-party add-on development.
Developer Hooks
SlotNova Booking exposes standard WordPress action and filter hooks:
slotnova_booking()– Global accessor function returning\SlotNova\Booking\Plugin.slotnova_get_booked_slots– Filter array of booked slots for a given product and date.slotnova_validate_booking_data– Filter validation status before adding a booking to the cart.slotnova_save_booking_data_to_order– Action triggered when saving booking metadata to an order item.slotnova_before_booking_form/slotnova_after_booking_form– Actions for inserting custom form content.
Installation
- Upload the
slotnova-bookingfolder to the/wp-content/plugins/directory. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
- Go to SlotNova Booking > Settings to configure your business opening/closing hours and off-days.
- Create a new WooCommerce product and set its Product Type to SlotNova Booking.
- Configure services, staff members, opening/closing hours, and slot durations on the product edit screen.
FAQ
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Does SlotNova require WooCommerce?
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Yes, SlotNova Booking is built natively on top of WooCommerce and requires WooCommerce to be activated.
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How does Whole Day booking work?
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When « Enable Time Slots » is set to « No (Disable) » on the product edit screen, time slots are hidden on the frontend. Customers select a date, and the order is automatically booked for the whole day.
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What happens when a date is fully booked?
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Fully booked dates automatically become disabled in the inline and popup calendar with a strikethrough appearance and a hover tooltip saying « Already Booked ».
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Can I change order statuses directly from the All Bookings management table?
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Yes! The All Bookings Management table features interactive status dropdown badges that update order status instantly via AJAX.
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How does the Partial Deposit Pro Addon work?
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The Partial Deposit addon allows store owners to collect an upfront deposit (e.g. 20% or $50) at checkout while deferring the remaining balance to be paid at the appointment. It adds an interactive « Full Payment vs Pay Deposit » switcher to product pages, cart totals, and checkout pages.
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Where can I try a live demonstration?
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You can explore our live booking experiences here:
* Photographer Booking Demo
* Yacht Booking Demo
* Wellness Therapy Demo (Free)
* Massage Packages Demo (Free)
* Partial Deposit Demo (Pro Addon)
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Journal des modifications
1.2.0
- Added Whole Day Booking mode when time slots are disabled on product level (automatically assigns Time: All Day).
- Added Fully Booked Date disabling on Flatpickr calendar with strikethrough styling and « Already Booked » hover tooltip.
- Added dynamic product time slot generation between Opening Time and Closing Time based on custom Slot Duration (e.g. 10:00 AM to 04:00 PM with 120-min slots).
- Added interactive quick status change dropdown select badges in the All Bookings Management table with real-time AJAX updates.
- Added Product Title (« Title ») column across both All Bookings Management table and WooCommerce Admin Orders list table.
- Added custom staff & service label resolution (e.g. Photographer, Doctor) across admin booking tables and emails.
- Added Pro Addon support for Partial Deposits & Flexible Payment Plans (fixed amount or percentage deposit with remaining balance due at appointment).
- Added dynamic Payment Plan selector on single product pages, WooCommerce cart totals table, and checkout review table.
- Added clean « Due at Appointment » breakdown in cart & checkout, replacing negative fee lines for a polished user experience.
- Added staff-specific time slot availability validation, ensuring booked slots auto-disable for the selected staff member while remaining available for others.
- Added automatic time slot re-enabling when orders are moved to
trash,cancelled,refunded,failed, ordraftstatus. - Added modular Extension Manager architecture supporting pro add-on installation, activation status persistence, and license verification.
- Updated live demo showcase links including Photographer Booking and Yacht Booking demos.
1.1.1
- Added streamlined SlotNova Overview Dashboard Analytics Widget with dynamic Chart.js timeline and metrics summary.
- Added Classic & Clean WP Admin Filter Toolbar with quick 1-click date range presets (Today, Last 7 Days, Last 30 Days, This Month, This Year).
- Added Booking Management List View (showing last 20 bookings) & interactive FullCalendar Schedule tab switcher with View Details modal popup.
- Added prominent « View All Bookings » action button linking directly to full plugin booking management page.
- Fixed currency HTML entity decoding (
$2,515.00) and upgraded metric card visual icons and header status badges.
1.1.0
- Added instant AJAX time slot loading and real-time double-booking prevention.
- Added UTC date normalization (
slotnova_parse_date()) to prevent timezone offset shifts. - Added custom search select dropdowns with price display for services and employees.
- Added developer hook API (
slotnova_booking()) and filter suite across cart and order lifecycles. - Enhanced UI/UX with smooth reveal animations, pulse loading states, and clean receipt summary cards.
- Hidden internal metadata (
_slotnova_service_id,_slotnova_employee_id) from WooCommerce order item displays.
1.0.0
- Initial Release of SlotNova Booking for WooCommerce.






