Lots of little foxes, er, fixes for Simply Schedule Appointments today
Today we took a break from finishing up PayPal payments for our Pro Edition to clean up a few little feature requests and bugs. We pulled together a pretty nice release with some features that we think you’ll all appreciate. Here’s a quick round-up of what’s included: Before buffers and start times We shuffled the…
Read MoreFlexible notifications for booking appointments
When we first created Simply Schedule Appointments, we went pretty basic with the notifications that go out to the customer and the appointment administrator. Just a simple email for each with the details about the appointment time, date and time, and some basic customer details. As we’ve gotten more and more people using Simply Schedule…
Read MoreAppointments every 20 minutes
In the latest version of Simply Schedule Appointments, we now have a 20-minute appointment increment available. This is perfect for those of you who need to schedule appointments every 20 minutes, particularly for you photographers out there. We see you. In addition to 10, 15, 30, and 60 minutes, you can now select to have…
Read MoreAccept payments for appointments with Stripe
We had plans to allow folks to take payments for appointments through Simply Schedule Appointments from the very beginning, so that was one thing we guessed right. What we didn’t guess, though, was how crucial this feature would be for so many. So we’re very happy to announce that Simply Schedule Appointments now includes the…
Read MoreNew views for booking appointments – monthly now available!
One of our earliest assumptions when we started building Simply Schedule Appointments was that folks would be mostly booking appointments in the near future – mostly in the next week or two. Of course, there’s nothing like real people using your software to test your assumptions! As more and more folks have started installing and…
Read More1-Click Support built right in!
We’ve done our best to build a really solid product, but with software development, bugs and issues are just a fact of life. No matter how much we test and check, we just can’t predict every possible use case, hosting setup, or potential conflicts with other plugins and themes. When one of our customers is…
Read MoreIn-person appointments in your own timezone
When we first started building Simply Schedule Appointments, we mostly had in mind virtual appointments – things like online meetings, webinars, and phone calls where each attendee would be working in his or her own timezone. But as people have started using the plugin (yay!), we’ve had quite a few folks who were booking in-person…
Read MoreLots of Custom Styling/CSS Options
As we’ve worked on Simply Schedule Appointments and folks have started putting it to work on their own sites, we’ve had lots of requests for customization options for the booking form. We tried a few different approaches, and we’ve finally settled on suite of tools that will allow everyone to customize the appointment booking form…
Read MoreIntegrations galore! Introducing webhooks (for SSA Pro users)
Today we released a brand new and much anticipated feature – webhooks! With this handy new feature you’ll be able to integrate Simply Schedule Appointments Pro with thousands of apps. If you’re wondering what webhooks are, it’s a way to send data between different sites/services. Your CRM or email tool might support webhooks, and there…
Read MoreAdvanced Scheduling Options for Appointments through your WordPress site
There are all kinds of special cases for appointment booking like: interview appointments for a three-day job fair a limited-time offer to your customers preventing people from booking appointments more than 6 months in advance teacher meetings on a parent/teacher night at school We wanted to offer the flexibility to accommodate all these types of…
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