Easier translations for your appointments – booking in your language
As more people start using Simply Schedule Appointments, we’ve had lots of folks who need to translate the plugin into other languages. Understandably, people were most interested in having the booking form translated. Simply Schedule Appointments is and always has been translation-ready, but we started to bump into some of the limitations of the WordPress… Read more Easier translations for your appointments – booking in your language
Conversion tracking – Appointment Booking Funnels
Today, we’re introducing conversion tracking to our Professional Edition – which means we can officially mark SSA Pro complete! Thanks to everyone who pre-ordered 🙂 Just like the rest of Simply Schedule Appointments, it’s a snap to set up and start using. Just head to your Simply Schedule Appointment settings, and click the toggle to… Read more Conversion tracking – Appointment Booking Funnels
Appointment reminders and followups for Pro Edition
Ever wanted to send a reminder email to your customers the day before their appointment to make sure they remember? If you’re a Pro Edition customer, now you can! Today’s release includes the first part of our flexible reminders feature, which allows you to send out email reminders and email followups as needed. Here’s a… Read more Appointment reminders and followups for Pro Edition
Let your customers pay for their appointments with PayPal
Back in February, we released the ability to allow your customers to pay for their appointments with Stripe. That’s been really handy, but quite a few folks also wanted to add PayPal to the mix. Today, we released PayPal payments for Simply Schedule Appointments! Preparing for payments First things first – if you want to… Read more Let your customers pay for their appointments with PayPal
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 more Lots of little foxes, er, fixes for Simply Schedule Appointments today
Flexible 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 more Flexible notifications for booking appointments
Appointments 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 more Appointments every 20 minutes
Accept 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 more Accept payments for appointments with Stripe
New 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 more New views for booking appointments – monthly now available!
1-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 more 1-Click Support built right in!
In-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 more In-person appointments in your own timezone
Lots 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 more Lots of Custom Styling/CSS Options