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, 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 Demo
Explore the live booking demonstration: Massage Packages Demo
Key Features
- Custom Product Type: Seamlessly creates a new ‘SlotNova Booking’ WooCommerce product type.
- Service & Staff Assignment: Assign specific services and staff members (employees) per product with custom pricing and images.
- Inline Calendar & Real-Time Availability: Customer selects date 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.
- 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. - Admin Manual Booking: Create manual bookings directly from the WordPress Admin with an interactive modal dialog.
- Dashboard Analytics: Track total bookings, revenue, upcoming appointments, and staff performance from the admin panel.
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.
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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, 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 real-time slot validation work?
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When a customer picks a date or changes their selected service/employee, an AJAX query checks active orders and cart sessions. If a staff member or service slot is already booked for that specific date and time, the slot button is immediately disabled on the UI.
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Can developers extend SlotNova with custom hooks?
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Yes! SlotNova is built developer-friendly. Access the core plugin instance via
slotnova_booking()and filter or hook into lifecycle points including cart validation, price calculations, and admin modal actions. -
Where can I try a live demonstration?
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You can explore the live booking experience here: Massage Packages Demo.
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Changelog
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.