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.
• Optionally let linked practitioners decide only requests assigned to them.
• Configure email identity and templates, then preview the responsive HTML and plain-text versions.
• Use WordPress privacy tools, configurable retention, local diagnostics, configuration transfer, and a link to the WordPress-selected privacy policy.

Add the booking form anywhere

Circumflex Booking does not create or reserve a booking URL. Create or edit a normal WordPress page and insert the Circumflex Booking block, the [circumflex_booking] shortcode, or optional Elementor widget. Publish it and share that page’s URL with customers. 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

Source and build instructions are in the public GitLab repository.

Support

Use the Support tab for help. Product information is at circumflex.no/circumflex-booking. Never post customer data, private links, credentials, or health information.