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BookPilot AI lets you accept and manage appointments directly from your WordPress site. Build a fully branded booking experience — no third-party redirect required.
Key features:
- Services & staff — Create unlimited services with custom pricing, duration, and capacity. Assign staff members with individual schedules and time-off.
- Three booking views — Embed the booking widget in Grid, List, or Calendar layout via the included Elementor widget.
- Payments — Accept Cash/Pay on Arrival, PayPal Standard, or Stripe. Optionally route everything through WooCommerce for unified order management.
- Coupons — Create percentage or fixed-amount discount codes with expiry dates and usage limits.
- Notifications manager — A dedicated Notifications screen to create unlimited custom email notifications. Choose action-based triggers (approved, pending, rejected, cancelled, details changed, rescheduled) or scheduled reminders/follow-ups (X minutes before/after the appointment), filter by service and appointment status, send to multiple recipients (client, staff, admins, custom address), and write the message with a full rich text editor and dynamic placeholders.
- Staff widget — Show your team in a Grid or List with five layout presets (Card, Overlay, Minimal, Classic, Compact), columns, ordering, pagination, AJAX category filter chips, and a built-in “Book Now” popup that opens the booking flow pre-filtered to that staff memberÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’s services.
- Works in any page builder — Use the
[bpai_staff]shortcode in Gutenberg, WPBakery, Divi, Beaver Builder, or the Classic editor — not just Elementor. - iCal export — Let customers add their appointment to any calendar app.
- Elementor widgets — Style every aspect of the booking and staff widgets (colours, typography, card layout, button, calendar) with ElementorÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’s visual controls. No coding required.
External Services
This plugin optionally connects to the following third-party services:
Stripe (optional)
If you enable Stripe payments in Settings Payments, the plugin loads the Stripe.js library from https://js.stripe.com/v3/ on any page that contains the booking form. This is required by Stripe for PCI DSS compliance; bundling Stripe.js locally is prohibited by StripeÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’s terms.
When a customer submits a booking with Stripe as the payment method, their card details are sent directly from the browser to StripeÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’s servers to create a Payment Intent. No card data passes through your WordPress server. The plugin sends the Payment Intent amount and currency to StripeÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’s API (https://api.stripe.com/v1/payment_intents) using your configured secret key.
PayPal (optional)
If you enable PayPal payments, customers are redirected to PayPalÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’s hosted checkout page to complete payment. No payment data is processed on your server.
Source Code
The full, human-readable source code for this plugin (including all build assets and JavaScript source) is publicly available at: https://github.com/derwaish05/bookpilot-ai
The admin calendar view uses FullCalendar v5.11.5 (MIT licence). Source: https://github.com/fullcalendar/fullcalendar
The reports view uses Chart.js v4.5.1 (MIT licence). Source: https://github.com/chartjs/Chart.js
The booking date picker uses Flatpickr v4.6.13 (MIT licence). Source: https://github.com/flatpickr/flatpickr
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Ìgbéwọlẹ̀
- Upload the
bookpilot-aifolder to/wp-content/plugins/. - Activate the plugin through the Plugins screen in WordPress.
- Go to BookPilot AI Settings to configure your services, staff, and payment options.
- Add the BookPilot AI Elementor widget to any page, or use the
[bpai_booking_form]shortcode.
FAQ
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Does this plugin work without Elementor?
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Yes. Use the
[bpai_booking_form]shortcode for the booking form and the[bpai_staff]shortcode for the staff listing on any page or post. Both work in Gutenberg, WPBakery, Divi, Beaver Builder, and the Classic editor. -
How do I add a custom notification?
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Go to BookPilot AI Notifications and click Add Notification. On the editor page, give it a name, pick an action-based trigger or a scheduled time (before/after the appointment), choose the recipients (client, staff, administrators or a custom email), optionally limit it to specific services, then write the subject and message using the rich text editor. Click any placeholder chip (such as
{customer_name}or{service_name}) to insert it. Scheduled reminders and follow-ups rely on WordPress cron running. -
How do I show my staff and let visitors book a specific person?
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Add the BookPilot AI — Staff Elementor widget or the
[bpai_staff]shortcode to a page. Set the Book Action to “Open booking form” and the “Book Now” button will open a popup listing only that staff memberÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’s services; choosing one starts the booking flow with that staff member locked in. -
Can I use WooCommerce for payment?
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Yes. Go to Settings Payments and enable Use WooCommerce for checkout & order management. Bookings will flow through the WooCommerce cart and checkout, and booking status will sync automatically with the WooCommerce order status.
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Is Stripe or PayPal required?
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No. Cash / Pay on Arrival is enabled by default. Stripe and PayPal are optional.
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Where is booking data stored?
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All bookings, services, staff, and schedules are stored in your own WordPress database. No booking data is sent to external servers by this plugin.
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Does the plugin add any “powered by” links?
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No. The plugin does not add any front-end branding or links without your permission.
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1.1.3
- Final Plugin Check cleanup: removed the dot-file from the build, moved inline phpcs annotations onto the flagged lines, and annotated the admin dashboardÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’s prepared stat queries. No functional changes.
1.1.2
- Plugin Check fixes: escaped all flagged output, added missing “translators:” comments, sanitised/justified remaining input handling, bumped “Tested up to”, trimmed the upgrade notice, and removed development-only files from the distributed build. No functional changes.
1.1.1
- Compliance & polish: added missing i18n translators comments and minor readme/header housekeeping ahead of WordPress.org submission. No functional changes.
1.1.0
New
* Notifications manager — New BookPilot AI Notifications screen to create and manage unlimited custom email notifications, replacing the three fixed templates in Settings. Each notification has its own dedicated add/edit page.
* Action-based triggers: Approved, Pending, Rejected, Cancelled, Details changed, Rescheduled.
* Scheduled notifications: send a configurable number of minutes/hours before or after the appointment (e.g. a 24-hour reminder or a follow-up), driven by the hourly cron with per-booking de-duplication.
* Per-notification targeting: filter by service and by appointment status, and an optional “Send only this notification” to suppress the default for the chosen services.
* Multiple recipients per notification: Client, Staff, Administrators, and/or a Custom email address.
* Rich text (TinyMCE) editor for the message body, plus one-click dynamic placeholders ({customer_name}, {service_name}, {staff_name}, {date}, {time}, {price}, {booking_id}, and more).
* Enable/disable toggle and Send test for every notification.
* Staff widget (Elementor) — Display staff in Grid or List with five layout presets (Card Grid, Grid Overlay, Minimal, Classic, Compact), column count, photo shape, ordering (name, date added, random, manual display order), posts-per-page, AJAX pagination, and AJAX category filter chips.
* Staff “Book Now” can now open a popup of only that staff memberÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’s services and run the full booking flow with the staff member locked in.
* New [bpai_staff] shortcode so the staff listing works in Gutenberg, WPBakery, Divi, Beaver Builder, and the Classic editor (not only Elementor).
* New Display Order field on the staff add/edit screen for manual ordering.
Changed
* The admin menu was reorganised (Dashboard, Calendar, Appointments, Staff Members, Services, Customers, Notifications, …) and “Bookings” is now labelled “Appointments”.
* The booking modal markup was centralised into a single shared renderer used by the booking widget, the staff widget, and the shortcode.
* Brand accent colour updated from #3498db to #3858e9 across the plugin.
Developer
* New database tables {prefix}_bpai_notifications and {prefix}_bpai_notification_log; new display_order, and notification recipients, services, appointment_status, and send_only columns. All created/upgraded automatically on update.
1.0.0
- Initial release.