Bookup Documentation Overview

Bookup is a WordPress booking engine for publishing bookable offerings and turning available sessions into confirmed bookings. Use it for events, classes, appointments, services, tours, and other scheduled experiences.

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New to Bookup? Start with Installation & Activation and then create either your first event or first appointment.

What You Get in Core

• Offerings: Create the bookable item customers see and reserve.
• Schedules and sessions: Add one-off sessions or generate recurring availability.
• Booking options: Sell tickets, services, or other selectable booking options.
• Bookings: Review customers, sessions, status, payment state, and booking details in WordPress admin.
• Resources: Model staff, rooms, equipment, tables, vehicles, or other constrained capacity.
• Customer portal: Give customers a secure way to access and cancel eligible bookings.
• Views and shortcodes: Display offerings as lists, grids, or calendars and embed booking forms where needed.
• Offline and free payments: Run free bookings or collect payment later with on-site and wire-transfer workflows.

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Bookup Pro Pro extends the core workflow with commercial and operational modules such as online payments, coupons, advanced booking operations, notifications operations, offering-owned resources, presenters, sponsors, frontend dashboard tools, and advanced reporting.

How Bookup Fits Together

1. Create an Offering

An offering is the item customers can reserve: an event, appointment, service, class, or custom experience. Manage offerings.

2. Publish Availability

Add custom sessions or use recurring rules to generate the dates and times customers can choose. Configure schedules.

3. Add Booking Options

Add tickets or services with prices, quantities, and—where applicable—resource scheduling rules. Configure booking options.

4. Take and Manage Bookings

Embed the booking form, review bookings, adjust status, and help customers manage eligible reservations. Manage bookings.

Core Concepts

Offerings

An offering is the public item you publish. Bookup includes Event and Appointment workflows, while modules can add or adapt additional offering behavior. An offering can include descriptions, an image, categories, locations, tags, labels, hosts, agenda information, booking options, and a public single page.

Sessions and recurrence

A session is a bookable start and end time. You can add sessions manually for dates that do not follow a pattern, or define recurrence rules such as daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly schedules. The schedule preview helps you check generated sessions before customers see them.

Booking options

Booking options are what a customer selects and pays for. Events normally use tickets; appointment-style offerings normally use services. Each option can define a name, price, availability/count, and additional booking behavior. Appointment services can also use resources and capacity rules.

Resources

Resources represent limited availability beyond the offering itself. A resource can be a staff member, room, vehicle, table, seat group, or piece of equipment. Bookup checks weekly availability, exceptions, capacity, and assignment rules to prevent conflicts.

Bookings and customers

A booking stores the selected offering, session(s), option(s), participant details, payment status, and booking status. Customers can access eligible bookings through the customer portal; administrators can manage records from Bookup → Bookings.

Main Admin Areas

Area	Use it for
Offerings	Create public bookable items, schedules, options, and pages.
Views	Build reusable list, grid, and calendar displays.
Resources	Manage staff, rooms, equipment, availability, and exceptions.
Bookings	Review, update, reschedule, and reconcile reservations.
Coupons Pro	Create discount codes when the module is enabled.
Notification Center	Configure templates and, with Pro operations, inspect delivery activity and reminder jobs.
Reports	Filter and export booking records, with advanced exports available through Pro.
Settings	Configure dates, currencies, data retention, modules, payment behavior, and integrations.

Free and Pro

Bookup Free is the required base plugin. Bookup Pro is installed alongside it and is enabled by an active license and the selected modules.

• Free: offering setup, schedules, booking records, resources, public booking forms, admin rescheduling, customer portal access, customer cancellation, and the module system.
• Pro Pro: online payments and refunds, coupons, advanced display, notification operations, frontend dashboard, offering-owned resource groups, presenters, sponsors, advanced reports, and further business workflows.

注意

Bookup Pro does not replace Bookup Free. Install and activate Bookup Free first, then install Bookup Pro and activate its license.

Next Steps

1. Install and activate Bookup.
2. Build an event or appointment.
3. Test the booking form on the public page.
4. Review the booking in Bookup → Bookings.