Circumflex Booking

Circumflex Booking is a self-hosted appointment booking plugin for treatments, consultations, and other scheduled services. Customers request an available time, and authorized staff approve or reject each request manually.

Customer booking

• Let customers select one or more services in a single booking.
• Show a practitioner choice or “first available” when several practitioners qualify. The choice is hidden automatically when only one qualifies.
• Present available dates and times in accessible calendar and list views. Unavailable times are visually distinct and not selectable.
• Collect name, email address, phone number, and an optional practical comment.
• Reserve a requested time while the booking is pending, preventing another customer from taking it.
• Send customer and staff notifications for booking events and reminders.
• Give confirmed customers a private link to view the booking, request another time, or cancel within the configured deadline.

Administration

• Configure services, durations, preparation buffers, prices, booking and cancellation deadlines, and drag-and-drop service order.
• Configure one or more practitioners and assign the services each can provide.
• Combine recurring weekly hours with closures, extra opening dates, and manual blocks.
• Review and process bookings in a filterable list or calendar with role- and practitioner-scoped permissions.
• Configure the site identity shown in email headers, edit plain-text notification templates, and preview the matching responsive HTML email and exact plain-text alternative.
• Use WordPress privacy tools, configurable retention, local diagnostics, configuration transfer, and Site Health checks.

Add the booking form anywhere

Use the [circumflex_booking] shortcode, the dynamic Circumflex Booking block, or the optional Elementor widget. Elementor, WooCommerce, and customer accounts are not required.

All shipped functionality is available without payment or a license key. Payments, recurring bookings, and multiple locations are outside scope. Email uses wp_mail(); a separate SMTP plugin is recommended.

Booking and diagnostics stay on the site. Optional Cloudflare Turnstile is disabled by default and disclosed below.

Privacy and External Services

The site’s database stores customer contact details, optional practical comment, services, practitioner, appointment time, and customer-notice snapshot. Internal notes are visible only to authorized roles.

By default, personal data is anonymized 365 days after a terminal status; the period is configurable. Anonymization removes contact details, free text, customer tokens, and identifying notification and audit data. Anonymous booking facts may remain for statistics. WordPress privacy export and erasure are supported. Erasing an active booking does not release its reserved time.

Authorized administrators can generate local diagnostics that omit personal data, free text, tokens, secrets, IP addresses, and site URLs. Nothing is sent to Circumflex AS.

Cloudflare Turnstile

Cloudflare Turnstile is an optional anti-spam service. It is disabled by default and requires Cloudflare keys plus explicit administrator activation.

When enabled, the browser loads https://challenges.cloudflare.com. Cloudflare processes signals including IP address, TLS fingerprint, User-Agent, site key, and origin. WordPress sends the secret and response token to Siteverify but does not explicitly add the visitor IP. Bookings fail closed if verification cannot finish.

Review Cloudflare’s Turnstile Privacy Addendum, Privacy Policy, and Terms before enabling the service. The site owner must reflect this processing in the site’s privacy information.

Source Code

Human-readable source, tests, build configuration, and release tooling are maintained in the public GitLab repository. Generated JavaScript and CSS in assets/build are built from assets/src.

With Node.js 20.10+, PHP 8.3+, and Composer:

1. Run composer install in the circumflex-booking directory.
2. Run npm ci.
3. Run npm run build.
4. Run npm run plugin:zip for the deterministic production archive.

The complete quality gate is npm run check.

Support

Use the Support tab on the WordPress.org plugin page for free-version support after the directory listing is published. Product information is available at circumflex.no/circumflex-booking. Do not post customer data, private booking links, credentials, or health information in a public support topic.