Your booking does not look like the plugin's
One group rents the whole place. A class has instructor capacity, not rooms. A tutor sells blocks of sessions. The plugin fights you on every one of these.
/Services — Booking
Booking System Development
I build booking on WordPress that matches how you actually take bookings: whole-property dates, appointment slots, class capacity or session packages, with holds, payments, reminders and an admin calendar your team can run. Six of the 16 documented booking builds are below. 1,000+ projects for 600+ clients across 40+ countries, since 2019.
7+years
1,000+projects
600+clients
40+countries
71documented case studies
/Where it gets stuck Three reasons the booking plugin
Three reasons the booking plugin
was not enough.
Most booking plugins assume rooms, staff and hourly slots. Real businesses sell a whole property, a class with six places, or a package of sessions.
Double bookings and dead holds
Two people book the same slot, or someone holds a date and never pays, and the team finds out by phone. A booking system has to lock, expire and release on its own.
Payments and messages that fit your market
Stripe for one client, bKash Send Money for another, SMS where nobody reads email, reminders before the day. The booking is only done when the message arrives.
/What I build Built and shipped
Built and shipped
into booking.
Every item has shipped on a live client site. Each tile links to the case study.
Whole-property dates with payment holds
A date is sold once. Requests hold their dates while the advance is checked, expire on schedule, and reopen with an SMS to the guest.
Slot locking against double bookings
A booking funnel that locks each time slot the moment it is selected, so two visitors never book the same one.
Class capacity per instructor
Classes booked against instructor capacity, 5 and 10-month memberships sold through WooCommerce, and camp sign-ups with meal options and sibling discounts in one checkout.
Member plans and a live class calendar
Members pick classes from a touch-friendly calendar with live spaces, on monthly plans or class packs.
Tutoring bookings for parents and students
Parents and students book group, one-to-one or online lessons with date pickers, backed by custom PHP and MySQL booking logic.
Sessions and packages paid online
A booking page where visitors choose a session or a package and pay through Stripe before the slot is confirmed.
/Which one Four kinds of booking,
Four kinds of booking,
four different builds.
The first question on the call is which of these you are. It decides whether a plugin will do or the booking needs to be built.
- 01
Whole property or date range
Resorts, villas, venues. One booking takes everything for a day or a stay. Usually custom: the plugins assume rooms.
- 02
Appointment slots
Clinics, consultants, services. Fixed-length slots per staff member, with locking and reminders. A good plugin plus careful setup often does it.
- 03
Class or cohort capacity
Studios, academies, courses. A class has a capacity and a schedule; members book into it. Needs capacity logic and a calendar the team edits.
- 04
Session packages and subscriptions
Tutors, coaches, therapists. Blocks of sessions or monthly plans, redeemed over time. Needs balances, expiry and a clear history for the client.
/Case studies Six of the 16,
Six of the 16,
with the full story.
Each one links to a case study: what was in the way, what I built, and what changed.
HospitalityElementorElementsKit
Neel Potro
Neel Potro is a private resort near Dhaka that rents the whole property to one group at a time. A custom booking plugin handles dates, packages, bKash advance…
HospitalityElementorACF
Ahlan24
Ahlan24 is a 24/7 service and booking hub. Visitors book at any hour through a funnel that locks each time slot on selection to stop double bookings, the…
Sports & fitnessElementorWooCommerce
Climb Academy
Climb Academy runs youth climbing and gymnastics classes in Sofia, Bulgaria. The site books classes against instructor capacity, sells 5 and 10-month memberships through WooCommerce, and takes summer…
Sports & fitnessElementorWooCommerce
Fit & Flow Malaysia
Fit & Flow is a Pilates and yoga studio in Malaysia. Its site lets members book classes from a touch-friendly calendar with live spaces, choose between monthly plans…
E-learningElementorElementsKit
Owls Math Tuition
Owls Maths Tuition is a London tutoring service for GCSE maths and other levels. The site explains group, one-to-one and online options, and lets parents and students book…
E-learningElementorWooCommerce
Sakeena Academy
Sakeena Academy offers courses, coaching and guided programmes rooted in Islamic psychology. Its booking page lets visitors choose a session or package, pay through Stripe and confirm in…
/How it runs One call, one written
One call, one written
scope, one fixed price.
No hourly meter running in the background. You know the price and what it covers before anything starts.
- 01
Call
30 minutes on Google Meet. You walk me through how a booking happens today, from first contact to payment.
- 02
Scope
A written scope and a fixed quote: plugin or custom, which payments, which messages, what the admin side looks like.
- 03
Build
Half up front, then the build. You test bookings end to end before anything goes live.
- 04
Launch
Go live, run a real booking through payment and confirmation, hand over. The second half is due on launch.
- 05
Care
Optional monthly retainer for updates, fixes and small features. Pause it any time.
/Pricing What a booking system
What a booking system
costs.
Fixed quotes after the call. Half up front, half on launch.
- 01from $49
Booking fix or small feature
- 02from $499
Booking system on your existing site
Plugin setup, payments, notifications and the admin calendar.
- 03from $499
Custom booking plugin
When no plugin matches how you sell.
- 04$2,500–6,000
Full booking website
Design, booking, payments, integrations.
- 05$199 / month
Care and retainer
/Questions Asked on almost
Asked on almost
every booking call.
Plugin or custom?
If your booking is standard appointment slots, a good plugin set up properly is cheaper and fine. If one booking takes a whole property, a class has capacity, or payment is by bank or mobile money with a hold, a small custom plugin usually costs less than fighting a plugin for a year.
Which payments can you take?
Stripe, PayPal, iDEAL and other WooCommerce gateways, and offline flows such as bKash Send Money with an advance hold that expires if nobody pays. The booking only confirms when the payment rule you set is met.
How do you stop double bookings?
The slot or date is locked the moment it is selected, holds expire on a schedule and release automatically, and the admin calendar lets the team add manual blocks and phone bookings alongside the online requests.
Can it send SMS and email?
Yes. Email through your SMTP, and SMS through a gateway such as Novocom in Bangladesh, or an equivalent gateway in your country, for the request, confirmation, cancellation, expiry and a reminder before the day.
Can it sync with Google Calendar?
Yes. The booking page on this site reads my free and busy times from Google Calendar and writes each call back into it; the same approach works for your team.
Can you add booking to my existing WordPress site?
Yes. Most booking work is added to a site that already exists, matching its design and theme. Small additions start at $49.
Where are you based, and how fast do you reply?
Dhaka, Bangladesh (GMT+6). I work with clients in 40+ countries and reply to every brief within one business day.
Tell me how you take bookings today.
Book a 30-minute call, or send the brief first. Either way you get a written scope and a fixed price.
/Contact — pick a slot or write Thirty minutes.
Thirty minutes.
Then a written scope.
Book directly into my calendar, or send the brief and I reply within one business day, GMT+6.
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Send the brief — what you are building, what it runs on today, roughly when. I read every one myself and reply with questions or a written scope.
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