By logging into WordPress, your customers can view their past and upcoming bookings right on your site, and even be able to cancel them right then and there (optional).
Setup
In Pages > All Pages, click on "Edit" right below the page where you want to add the list of bookings to.
Click on the "Add Bookly appointments list" button.
You'll be offered to check the columns you want to be added to the table, including the "Cancel" button, which will cancel an appointment at one click of a button and bring down your no-show count.
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19 Comments
When you say "By Logging into Wordpress" I take it you mean using a front-end login plugin? Can you recommend one and is the client's calendar always at the same URL?
After adding appointment list shortcode on a page, you'll have a login form when you aren't logged in with a WP user account.
Ah! I can see it now. Maybe add to the doc above that the login functionality comes as part of the plugin/my Appointments page. Thanks
Could the login form include a forgot/reset password link, or can we just add a link to that ourselves?
The login form doesn't have this option, you'll need to use WP standard functionality to reset the password.
OK. I can add a link to the reset page.
After entering "Add Bookly appointments list", nothing appears on the page. Why?
I'm logged in as administrator
Hi Massimiliano, the appointment list can be seen only by customers that have WP user accounts. Please check the customers tab, if this account is linked to a customer.
Ok for WP user accounts like Autor and Editor, but Administrator? Not displeyed?
Hi, it doesn't matter which role the WP user account will have, this WP account needs to be associated with a customer to see the appointment list.
ok, thanks
Hi Denis,
After entering the "Add Bookly appointments list" short cut,
I login as a customer, and see the list, I have only this message :
"No appointments found."
The page show a empty table with header / fields names.
I'm logged in as a customer account, and I see that it was added to the customer
list and the WP account users list.
Can you help me? thanks!
Hi Gustavo, please check if the customer has any appointments. If the problem persists feel free to send us an email to support@ladela.com so we could assist with this matter.
hi there, how do we give limited access to Wordpress dashboard (client login required) as it says here?
When i create a user in WP ADMIN i was expecting to see a new user role that would give the cut down dashboard you mention.
thanks
Hi Cameron, we apologize there's a mistake in our documentation. That information is related to staff member's access to appointments. Customers can see their appointments only if they are associated with a WordPress user account are logged in on a page where the appointment list shortcode was added.
thanks for clearing that up.
it would be helpful if there was a user role that gave access just to the bookings in the calendar, especially as i cant get access to the google calendar sync, so the plugin is not usuable for my client, as they have no way to access booked appointments.
when i click CONNECT on GOOGLE CALENDAR SYNC i just get the following:
401. That’s an error.
Error: invalid_client
The OAuth client was not found.
Request Details
response_type=code
redirect_uri=http://www.rjhgroup.co.uk/wp-admin/admin.php?page=bookly-staff
client_id= 238536990848-bu3v5tgljk68j2g3tdka31t92uii13hu.apps.googleusercontent.com
scope=https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar
access_type=offline
approval_prompt=force
state=MQ,,
That’s all we know.
Maybe somebody reading this knows how to fix this problem hopefully?
Hi Cameron, please send us an email to support@ladela.com with this inquiry and the purchase code to look into this matter.
i have done that but i have a question re Staff Cabinet.
would this ADD ON not achieve the above?
really i just need the website owner to be able to access their bookings and i thought this would be done via Google Calendar sync but it seems there are several other similar options inc this?
Please can you clarify. thanks.
The website owner can access the bookings with this WP administrator account, the staff cabinet add-on is designed for staff member and not for administrators.