Hi,
We are happy to announce a new release of Salon Booking System plugin.
The 3.26 version will bring brand new features and many important improvements.
Let’s see them in details:
Assistants selection only from back-end
A new option that will skip the assistant selection step on front-end but still possible from back-end to the salon administrator.
Disable second shift
A new option that allows you to disable the “Second shift” option in case you don’t need it.
Cancel a reservation from Google Calendar
If you have enabled the synchronization with Google Calendar now you can also cancel a reservation simply deleting the event from your Google Calendar.
Sms notifications Whatsapp support
The Twilio users will be benefiting from this new feature that will allows to use Whatsapp to send booking notifications.
To use this feature you need to have a Twilio telephone number and a Whatsapp business profile.
As this feature is still in beta version on Twilio platform you need to request to enable your Twilio number for Whatsapp here:
https://www.twilio.com/whatsapp/request-access
New parameters for the [salon_booking_calendar] short-code
We’ve added two new parameters:
visibility = “public”
in order to make the calendar visible to the public
days = “10”
in order to decide how many days to be displayed for the upcoming reservations
Restful API
We’ve developed a complete set of API in order to use Salon Booking System inside your third party platforms.
Here the API docs:
https://app.swaggerhub.com/apis-docs/Salon-Booking/Mobileapp/1-oas3
We also made some improvements to the plugin interface:
– “Amount to be paid” inside the booking details on back-end and email notification
– We’ve added more booking details inside the SMS notifications
– We’ve added a real-time availability check on the “assistants” drop-down menu inside the back-end booking creation page.
A bunch of bugs have been fixed:
– Fixed bug on customers search field
– Fixed bug on adding customers from back-end
– Fixed back-end calendar starting week day
– Fixed service booking direct link
– Fixed bug on custom field saving
What’s next?
We are working on “Salon Booking Mobile app” for IOs and Android platforms dedicated to salon administrators and collaborators where they can control, add and manage their reservations. This app will be provided for free to our Premium users.
The app will be available by the end of 2018. Stay tuned!
We are going to release a new add-on called “Salon Booking chat-bot“. Your customers can book a reservation trough your Facebook fanpage messaging system.
