Salon Booking System – Free Version

Salon Booking System is a comprehensive, user-friendly appointment scheduling solution designed to help small businesses streamline their booking process and maximize online reservations.

Whether you’re running a salon, spa, workshop, or any service-based business, Salon Booking System takes the hassle out of managing appointments. With an intuitive interface and powerful features, it helps you save valuable time while providing a seamless booking experience for your customers.

Since its launch in 2015, Salon Booking System has become a trusted tool for hundreds of businesses, enabling them to easily accept bookings directly from their website and efficiently manage their daily schedules.

Salon Booking System is trusted by:

• Hairdressers & Barbershops
• Beauty Salons & Spas
• Mechanical Workshops
• Therapists & Tutors
• Health Care Centers & Clinics
• COVID Test Centers

Whether you’re offering one-on-one services, same-day appointments, or a specific time-based reservation, this plugin is the perfect solution for any business that needs to efficiently manage individual appointments.

Key Benefits:

• Easy to Use: Designed for busy professionals with minimal tech experience.
• Flexible Booking: Ideal for businesses offering services that require a fixed time and date.
• Time-Saving: Automates scheduling and reduces administrative tasks, freeing up your time to focus on your customers.
• Customizable: Adapt the system to fit your unique business needs.

With Salon Booking System, growing your client base and managing bookings has never been easier.

Why Choose Salon Booking System?

• Reliability: Trusted by small businesses around the world.
• Seamless Integration: Easily integrates with your WordPress website.
• Customer-Focused: Optimized to provide a smooth booking experience for your clients.

Start managing your appointments efficiently and grow your business with the Salon Booking System today!

With Salon Booking System handling your appointments is very easy, take a look at this 60’’ video:

Online Demo

click here to see it in action

Plugin’s main Free features

Back-end calendar

• Monthly view
• Weekly view
• Daily view
• Assistant view
• Bookings export
• Adding/Edit reservations from daily view
• Block out time slots from daily view

General settings

• Email notifications on new reservation
• Email notification to selected assistant
• Email reminder for the customers
• Email followup
• Email review notification
• Email notification custom logo
• Custom email message to the customers
• Email message to invite users to leave a review on website or on a custom platform ( Google My Business, Facebook, other.. )
• Customisable SMS notification on new reservation
• SMS notification to selected assistant
• SMS reminder for the customers
• SMS followup
• SMS verification code against spam

• SMS Alphanumeric ID supported

• Twilio, Plivo and 1p1sms providers supported by default

• set you favourite date and time format

• set when your week starts
• WordPress Editors as Salon Administrator

Availability settings

• Three bookings methods BASIC / ADVANCED / HIGH END
• Booking time range
• Multiple weekly timetable rules
• Time range validity option for the weekly booking rules
• Multiple holidays rules
• Offset between reservations
• Change booking form steps order ( Date&time – Services – Assistants – Checkout – Payment or reverse )
• Manual booking confirmation
• Users booking cancellation
• Pause online booking form
• Repeat past reservations
• Re-schedule option

Payments options

• Select currency
• Hide prices
• Decimals and thousand separators option

Check-out options

• Enable guest checkout
• Force guest checkout
• Limit the number of services bookable at the same time
• Control form fields
• Log-in with Facebook account
• Enable Advanced Discount System
• Custom fields for check-out form

Two ways Google Calendar synchronisation

• Synchronies reservations on salon administrator’s Google Calendar account
• Salon admin can add and cancel reservations from his Google Calendar account

Front-end booking form styling

• Choose among three different booking form sizes according to your page layout
• Custom colors palette generator

Assistants settings

• Multiple weekly timetable rules
• Multiple holidays rules
• Limit reservations to specific services
• Multiple reservations for the same slot for classrooms booking
• Google Calendar synchronisation
• SMS notification when he’s booked
• Email notification when he’s booked

Services settings

• Price
• Duration
• Unit per session
• Category grouping
• Multiple weekly timetable rules
• No assistant required option
• Service break
• Conditional “Secondary services”
• Direct booking link
• Exclusive service
• Hide service on front-end

Advanced Discount System

• Create unlimited coupon codes
• Create unlimited discounts based on multiple criteria

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Customers archive

• List of customers
• Details page of each customer with a list of his reservations and feedbacks
• Customer’s bookings statistics

Reports

• Stats on reservations and revenues
• Stats on reservations and revenues by services
• Stats on reservations and revenues by assistant
• Stats on reservations and revenues by customers
• Email weekly report

Tools

• Easy import of Users, Services and Assistants and Reservations from a CSV file

Frontend pages

• Booking form page [salon/]
• Customers account page [salon_booking_my_account]
• Assistants bookings calendar [salon_booking_calendar]
• Assistants list [salon_booking_assistant]
• Services list [salon_booking_services]

PRO Edition Features

• Online Payments ( Stripe or PayPal supported by default )
• Deposit
• Tips
• Tax calculation
• Minimum Order

• Transaction Fee

• Service price based on selected Assistant

• Variable duration service
• Multiple Assistants required for a service
• Service Lock

• Service Parallel Execution

• Booking cloning

• Resource based reservations
• Time-zone based on customer location

• Limit Assistant access priviledge

• Mobile Web App for Salon Manager and Staff Members

Restful API

• A complete set of API to use Salon Booking System inside your third party applications

• API DOCS

Complete list of PRO Features...

Official Add-ons

1-Multi-Shops – Manage multiple branches of your Salon
2-WooCommerce Checkout – Integrate Salon Booking System with Woocommerce checkout
3-Services Packages – Build and Sell Bundled Services
4-Communicator– Send Email Marketing Campaigns to your customers
5-SOAP Notes – Keep track your customers progress
6-Geo Referencing Shops– Prompt the nearest shop to the customer location
7-Geo Referencing Assistants– Prompt the nearest Assistant to the customer location

Official Payments Methods Integration Add-ons

1- Takepayments
2- Iyzico
3- Powertranz
4-Cardcom
5-Bancotact
6-Square
7-Paystack
8-Verifone
9-Mollie
10-Viva Wallet
11-Mercado Pago
12-CardConnect
13-Swish
14-Boipa
15-Worldpay
16-RedSys
17-Upay
18-Paytrail
19-PolyPay
20-Wallee
21-Payengine
22-Przelewy24

Official SMS Providers Integration Add-ons

1-OVH
2-SureSMS
3-Spryng
4-SMS Hosting
5-Skebby
6-Capitole Mobile
7-All My SMS
8-SMS to

Other Add-ons

Mailchimp Integration

Third parts integrations

Salon Booking System can be integrated with third part platforms trough Zapier.com.

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This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

1. Upload salon-booking-system folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Go to Salon > Settings to complete your salon settings

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24.11.2025 – 10.30.5

• Fixed issue with dates and times selection on front-end booking form

20.11.2025 – 10.30.4

• Fixed issue on PWA – block slot
• Fixed vulnerability issue
• Fixed cache issue on booking form date&time step
• Update Ip1sms API
• Fixed issue on Reports section
• Improved back-end calendar UI – pending bookings counter

14.11.2025 – 10.30.3

• Implemented a brand new Reports section

13-11.2025 – 10.30.2

• Improved booking form date selection UX
• Improved back-end calendar block time slots UI/UX
• Fixed various php compatibility issues
• Minor fixes and improvements

08-11-2025 10.29.8

• Important changes on booking process (mainly for online payments)
• Fixe issue with booking generated on user message entered during booking process

05-11-2025 10.29.7

• Fixed issue with specific browsers servers that block cookies
• Improved booking tooltip UI
• Improved back-end calendar monthly view date tooltip UI

31.10.2025 – 10.29.6

• Fixed service break representation
• Fixed sms verification step
• Fixed back-end bookings filters
• Minor issues fixed

27.10.2025 – 10.29.5

• Fix variouse php minor issues

25.10.2025 – 10.29.4

• Implemented bookings preview on monthly view

24.10.2025 – 10.29.3

• Upcoming reservations counter

23.10.2025 – 10.29.2

• Fixed error on activation

23.10.2025 – 10.29.1

• Fixed error on activation

23.10.2025 – 10.29

• New back-end calendar style

09.10.2025 – 10.28

• Fixed issue with email notification when booking added from back-end
• Fixed issue with last step of booking process when discount applied

02.10.2025 – 10.27

• Fixed issue with Manual Booking confirmation option

12.09.2025 – 10.24

• Fixed critical issues

09.09.2025 – 10.23

• Fixed issue with free reservations

01.09.2025 – 10.22

• Fix minor issues

31.07.2025 – 10.21

• New PRO feature: CLONE reservation X times

18.07.2025 – 10.20

• Added “Opening hours preview” metabox on “Booking rules” settings
• Improved “Specific date” availability rule UI
• Minor issues fix

23.06.2025 – 10.18.1

Fix critical issue.

23.06.2025 – 10.18

• Various fixes

29.05.2025 – 10.17

• Fixed vulnerability issue
• Fixed unconsistent slots representation
• Fixed issue with PayPal payment booking status
• Fixed Multi-shops booking form shortcode
• Fixed email reminders
• Fixed transaction fee calculation when deposit is active
• Added “Exstensions” page on back-end

02.05.2025 – 10.16

• Minor issues fixed

15.04.2025 – 10.15

• Fixed vulnerability issue
• Fixed minor issues

27.03.2025

• Improved mobile web app
• Minor fixes

21.03.2025

• Fixed issue with Google Calendar library
• Improved PWA

12.02.2025 – 10.11

• Improved UI of Mobile Web App
• Fixed issues with assistant view of back-end calendar
• Restored “Synchronize bookings” and “Delete bookings” buttons on Google Calendar settings
• Other minor issues

04.02.2025 – 10.10.8

03.02.2025 – 10.10.7

• Fixed compatibility issue with Spectra

23.01.2025 – 10.10.6

• Fixed issue with booking creation process

20.01.2025 – 10.10.5

• Fixed issue with booking creation process
• Fixed issue with date picker for Nederlands language
• Fixed minor issues

01.09.2025 – 10.10.4

• Fixed issue with German language

01.08.2025 – 10.10.3

• Fixed issue with German language

02.02.2025 – 10.10.2

• Minor fixes

13.12.2024 – 10.10.1

• Fixed vulnerability issue

05.12.2024

• Improved UI on back-end booking creation
• Added “Discounts details” inside booking export to CSV
• Fixed vulnerability issue
• Fixed minor issues
• Fixed WPML missing text strings

03.11.2024 – 10.9.7

• Fixed issue with time picker on front-end booking form
• Minor fixes

30.10.2024

• Fixed issue with Add to Home screen of Web App
• Fixed issue with deposit

10.10.2024

• Fixed issue with booking form step number
• Fixed issue with services and assistants shortcodes
• Other minor issues fixed
• Minor UI improvements on booking creation on back-end
• Fixed issues with php warnings on booking form

20.09.2024

• Improved UI
• Fixed minor issues
• Fixed vulnerability issue

05.09.2024

• Fixed issue with holidays rules

02.09.2024

• Fixed issue on booking form date&time selection step
• Improvement with WooCommerce checkout add-on
• Minor fixes

28.08.2024

* Fixed issue on booking form on mobile 
* Fixed transaction fee calculation
* Fixed "Hide price" option on Booking my account
* Fixed back-end calendar issue
* Fixed vulnerability issue

31.07.2024

• Fixed minor issues on back-end calendar
• Added a new “Origin” column inside “Bookings” section
• Fixed minor php issues
• Fixed vulnerability issue

10.8.1 23.07.2024

• Fixed minor issues on back-end calendar

10.8 12.07.2024

• Fixed various issues on back-end calendar
• Fixed issue on booking form time-picker when 12h format is enabled
• Improved the bookings search from back-end calendar

10.7 01.07.2024

• Fixed issue with email notifications to customers

10.6 29.06.2024

• Added a new SMS notification message when “Manual booking confirmation” option is enabled
• Added an email notification to salon administrator when a booking is modified
• Fixed issue with back-end calendar loading process when large amount of bookings is present

10.5 22.06.2024

• Fixed issue with assistants columns order on back-end calendar

10.4 20.06.2024

• Fixed various issues on back-end calendar

10.3 – 17.06.2024

• Fixed issues on back-end calendar ( locking slots / bookings order on weekly view / status bar tooltip)