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 choose one service or combine several, according to the
  standard-profile setting.
• Show a practitioner choice or “first available” when several practitioners
  qualify. The choice is hidden automatically when only one qualifies.
• Present available dates and start times in accessible calendar and list views.
• 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

• Choose appointments or a validated add-on workflow without changing stored
  services, resources, hours, or bookings. Returning from an add-on to the Core
  default is kept behind a deliberate, confirmed control.
• Configure services, durations, buffers, prices, deadlines, displayed
  duration, drag-and-drop order, and whether buffers must fit opening hours.
• Configure practitioners and assignments; inactive, unused catalog items can
  be permanently deleted while booking-linked history remains protected.
• Add date exceptions below the weekly schedule, with one checkbox to close or
  add extra opening hours for either the selected practitioner or every
  practitioner across an inclusive date period; manual blocks remain available.
• Review bookings across all services in a day/week time grid with resource
  tracks, continuous publicly bookable periods and visibly distinct Pro-held
  online capacity; month view remains a compact booking overview.
• Optionally let linked practitioners decide only requests assigned to them.
• Configure and preview email identity and templates.
• Use WordPress privacy tools, retention, diagnostics, configuration transfer,
  and the selected privacy policy.

Add the booking form anywhere

Circumflex Booking does not create or reserve a booking URL. Create or edit a
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 Core functionality is available without payment or a license key.
Payments and recurring bookings are outside scope. Optional free profiles can
add domain-specific resource facts such as room locations without changing the
default appointment workflow. Email uses wp_mail(); a separate SMTP plugin
is recommended.

Optional Pro add-on

Circumflex Booking Pro separately adds automation, capacity controls,
notification channels, follow-up, and anonymous statistics. Free remains fully
usable; its license controls only Pro updates and support.

Compare Free and Pro.

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. Contact details, free text, customer tokens, and
identifying notification and audit data are removed. WordPress privacy export
and erasure are supported. Erasing an active booking keeps 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.