The Ultimate Guide: Launch Your Coaching Business on WordPress
In today’s world, there’s never been a better time to start an online business. If you’re a coach or provide coaching services, this guide will explain step by step how you can start an online coaching business, or take your existing coaching business online with WordPress. We’ll start with the basics of how you can… Read more The Ultimate Guide: Launch Your Coaching Business on WordPress
Setup Free WordPress Scheduling Plugin in 5 Minutes
We’re going to go over how to setup a free WordPress Scheduling Plugin, just like in this video. All you need is 5 minutes to start taking appointments directly from your WordPress website. Three steps to setting up a free WordPress Scheduling Plugin in 5 minutes: Install and Activate the plugin in your WordPress Dashboard… Read more Setup Free WordPress Scheduling Plugin in 5 Minutes
Introducing: An Appointment Booking Widget for Divi
As a member of the WordPress community, there’s a good chance you’ve come across Divi—a popular WordPress page builder built by Elegant Themes that currently boasts over 700,000 users. Divi is similar to Elementor and Beaver Builder, in that it’s a page builder that makes creating WordPress websites a breeze for those with a non-technical… Read more Introducing: An Appointment Booking Widget for Divi
Capacity Feature: How to Overlap Bookings in Your SSA WordPress Calendar
We’re really excited to finally announce the new Capacity feature for Simply Schedule Appointments! 🥳 With this new feature you’ll be able allow set amount of people to book overlapping appointments. What Are Overlapped Bookings? Let’s say, for example, if I have four tennis courts each with an hour-long appointment. If I set the capacity to… Read more Capacity Feature: How to Overlap Bookings in Your SSA WordPress Calendar
Set specific start times for available appointments
When we were first thinking about how availability for appointments would work, we envisioned big blocks of time where you’d be available to take appointments, and your customers would be able to book any appointment that fit within that available block. For example, if your typical workday was 9am-5pm and a customer wanted to book… Read more Set specific start times for available appointments
Elementor Widgets for Booking Appointments
You’ve probably heard of Elementor—it’s the most popular WordPress page builder, active on more than three million websites. Over time, we’ve heard from a lot of Elementor users who would like to be able to drag-and-drop Simply Schedule Appointments directly into their layouts. To make life easier for our customers who are using Elementor and… Read more Elementor Widgets for Booking Appointments
Beaver Builder Booking Modules
Like anyone else who’s given it a try, we’re pretty big fans of Beaver Builder—a super awesome, drag-n-drop page builder for WordPress. Throughout the last year, we’ve heard from a lot of Beaver Builder users who would like to be able to drag-and-drop Simply Schedule Appointments directly into their layouts. So, to make life easier… Read more Beaver Builder Booking Modules
Book Appointments with Formidable Forms
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 more Book Appointments with Formidable Forms
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
No 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 more No more no-shows with SMS appointment reminders
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