Yo Booking / Getting Started August 3, 2026

What Yo Booking Does

Understand the complete 2.0.0 booking workflow, including availability, appointments, payments, customer self-service, notifications, reports, integrations, privacy, and maintenance.

Applies to 2.0.2+ Free Stable Verified August 3, 2026

Yo Booking 2.0.2 is a standalone appointment platform for WordPress. It manages service scheduling, staff availability, customer records, offline payments, operational reporting, integrations, and customer self-service without requiring WooCommerce or an external booking service.

Open the feature

Go to Yo Booking > Dashboard.

Before you start

  • WordPress 6.3+ and PHP 7.4+ are required.
  • Confirm the WordPress timezone, date format, and time format.
  1. Review the Booking overview and Needs attention cards.
  2. Create service categories, services, and staff assignments.
  3. Configure business hours, staff schedules, and exceptions.
  4. Configure booking rules, payments, notifications, appearance, and customer policies.
  5. Publish the booking form and customer portal, then complete an end-to-end test.

What success looks like

  • The dashboard reports current appointment, payment, email, and service activity.
  • Customers can book and securely manage eligible appointments.

Important notes

  • Online gateways are separate add-ons; the core includes Pay locally and Bank transfer.
  • The plugin follows the timezone and date/time formats configured in WordPress.

Release and support resources

Changes through Yo Booking 2.0.2

  • Phone fields now use international country selection, validation, E.164 normalization, and persistent ISO-2 country data.
  • The Customer Portal is available as a Gutenberg block as well as the [yo-booking-portal] shortcode.
  • Company branding and notification design now include a Media Library logo, configurable colors/footer, and a live HTML preview.
  • Per-service payment quotes keep no-collection, deposit, and full-payment totals consistent before and after booking.

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