Updates
Elementor widgets for booking appointments
You’ve probably heard of Elementor – it’s the most popular WordPress page builder, active on more than 3 million sites. We’ve heard from a lot of Elementor users who want to drag-and-drop SSA widgets directly into their layouts. To make life easier for our customers who are using Elementor and Simply Schedule Appointments together, we’ve…
Read MoreBook appointments with Formidable Forms and Simply Schedule Appointments
Building out custom forms is pretty complex – folks need to be able to create lots of different types of fields, set custom labels, create conditional fields, and adjust layouts. We knew from the beginning that we had no desire to re-create all that complexity inside Simply Schedule Appointments. It just didn’t make sense to…
Read MoreEasier 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 MoreBeaver Builder modules for appointments
Like anyone else who’s given it a try, we’re fans of Beaver Builder, a pretty awesome page builder for WordPress. To make life easier for our customers who are also using Beaver Builder, we’ve introduced a couple of modules just for Simply Schedule Appointments that make taking appointment bookings and working with customers even easier.…
Read MoreConversion 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 MoreNo more no-shows with SMS appointment reminders
Today’s release includes the ability to send SMS appointment notifications and reminders, either to yourself as the admin or to your customers. Email and SMS reminders are available for the Professional and Business Editions of Simply Schedule Appointments. There are a few different bits to getting set up for this, so we’ll walk you through…
Read MoreAppointment 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 MoreLet 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 MoreLots 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…
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