Bookings

Features

• Step-by-step booking: service, day, time, who is coming. If there is only one service, the first step is skipped. The page works without scripts.
• Free slots are calculated automatically — from working hours by weekday, the service's duration, closed days and existing bookings.
• A slot is checked both when shown and when booked; if someone took it while the person was filling in the form, they will see “This time has just been taken”. A database constraint also prevents double booking.
• From the visitor — a name and a phone number or email, optionally a note. Bot protection, no more than six submissions per ten minutes from one address.
• Emails: to the owner — about a new booking (to the site's mailbox); to the visitor — a confirmation with a cancellation link. Cancelling by the link frees the slot immediately, and the owner gets an email.
• In the admin panel: bookings “Coming up” and “Past” with “waiting”, “confirmed” and “cancelled” statuses, a count of new ones in the menu; services with duration, price in words and language; weekly working hours and closed days with a reason.
• Services are found by the site search — leading straight to choosing a day.

Configuration

In the admin panel: “Settings”, “Bookings” section, “How the booking works” group.

• Minutes between the start of one slot and the next — 30.
• How many days ahead one can book — 30.
• How many hours before the visit booking closes — 2; with 0, people can book the nearest slot today.

Permissions

• See the bookings.
• Confirm bookings, edit services and hours.

Both permissions are granted on installation to the administrator and the editor.

On the site

/zapis — booking, a “Book a visit” item in the menu and in the sitemap; /zapis/otmena/… — cancellation by the key from the email.

Installation and removal

Four tables: services, working hours, closed days and bookings. Installation sets up a Mon–Fri working week from 9:00 to 17:00 so that slots are visible right away. Removing the module with data erases all four.

Left out on purpose

A visitor account — registering for a single visit scares off half the bookings — and a list of slots that has to be maintained by hand.