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Salon Booking System

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Velocity2.5

WordPress appointment booking plugin for salons and service businesses.

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Small patches every few weeks, and a salon console that keeps moving to mobile.

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◆Current state
Salon Booking System is a WordPress appointment plugin releasing patch versions every few weeks, each a short list of fixes with one or two additions. The 10.30 line carries the substance: a mobile web app interface in March, drag-to-resize booking duration and WhatsApp quick-links in February, two-way Google Calendar sync improvements in April, and a forecasted-bookings screen with in-form service search in June. July's release is purely corrective — Revenue Guard report endpoints returning HTTP 500, and an empty time-slot grid on the booking form.
◆Where it's heading
Two directions run through the patch stream. One is the salon owner's console moving to mobile, with a progressive web app calendar that supports drag-resize, walk-in badges and its own diagnostics. The other is closing revenue leaks: no-show handling, Revenue Guard reporting, a Stripe payment status refresh, discount exclusion rules. Security patches appear inside several of these releases with no announcement of their own, which matters to anyone tracking WordPress plugin risk.
◆Prediction
Revenue Guard now has its own reporting endpoints and needed a fix within weeks of appearing, so it is under active development and likely to grow past reporting cards. The changelog format offers no roadmap beyond that.

◆Recent moves

  1. 2mo ago

    Revenue Guard reports and empty time-slot grid fixed

    Two corrective fixes: the Revenue Guard REST endpoints were returning HTTP 500 from a bad class reference and breaking the Reports dashboard cards, and the booking form's time-slot grid could render empty until the customer switched days. The second was costing bookings outright.

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  2. 4mo ago

    Forecasted bookings and service search in the booking form

    A forecasted-bookings screen and a service search box arrive in the front-end booking form, along with an option to skip the checkout step. All three shorten the path from landing on the form to holding a slot.

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  3. 4mo ago

    Minor improvements and a Multi-shops add-on version bump

    Unspecified minor improvements plus a required version bump for the Multi-shops add-on. Compatibility housekeeping across the add-on line.

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  4. 5mo ago

    Vulnerability fix, availability corrections, new weekly report

    A vulnerability fix ships alongside availability corrections for services with breaks and a revamped weekly report email. The security item gets one line and no advisory, which is the pattern across this changelog.

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  5. 5mo ago

    Two-way Google Calendar sync improved; vulnerability patched

    Two-way Google Calendar synchronisation is improved and online payment session details are tracked more closely, with another vulnerability patched in the same release. Calendar sync accuracy is the difference between a double booking and a full day.

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  6. 6mo ago

    New mobile web app interface for the booking calendar

    A new mobile web app interface lands — the start of the thread that later gains drag-to-resize durations, walk-in badges and calendar diagnostics. It is the clearest bet in this release series: salon owners run the day from a phone, not a desktop dashboard.

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