• • NEW Services catalogue: Create Services with a picture, description, duration, buffers, price, status, Booking Form, and compatible Providers.
• • Clear Provider overview: Search and sort Services, review assigned Providers and weekly availability, and open the relevant availability settings directly.

• • NEW [booking_appointment] shortcode: Customers choose a Service and compatible Provider before the native calendar and Booking Form load on the same page with AJAX.
• • A new Start Over field in the Booking Form Builder lets customers restart the Appointment flow without reloading the page.
• • A new Appointments and Services Flow template and Weekday Start Time field provide an Appointment-ready Form Builder starting point.
• • Reliable scheduling: Service duration, buffers, and Provider-specific overrides are checked on the server before an Appointment is saved.

• • Choose Classic, Appointments, or Rentals to use familiar terminology and focused navigation without changing existing bookings, resources, availability, or page URLs.
• • Mode selection is stored for the active Booking Calendar owner, including supported MultiUser owner contexts.
• • Explicit Appointment QuickStart and Rental QuickStart actions can reuse or prepare the minimum booking page setup and remain safe to run again.
• • The mode-aware Setup Wizard follows the selected booking profile through the relevant Service, Provider, form, availability, appearance, publish, and test-page steps.

• • The new [booking_resource_selector] shortcode lets visitors choose a permitted Booking Resource before its native calendar and Booking Form load on the same page.
• • Restrict, preselect, or optionally auto-open Resources from the shortcode popup or WordPress block, while retaining Start Over and the established availability, pricing, payment, and booking engines.

Appointment Administration

• • NEW Add Appointment page: Create an Appointment through the same Service-first flow from a focused admin canvas with contextual inspector panels.
• • Filter the Booking Listing by Services and Providers using reusable searchable multi-select controls.
• • Appointment details, Service and Provider snapshots, duration, buffers, and blocked time are available in administration details and supported outputs.
• • Providers remain existing Booking Resources, preserving established availability, permissions, and ownership behavior.

Redesigned Add Booking Page

• • Focused booking canvas: The standard Booking Form remains in the main workspace while setup and actions move into a consistent right-side inspector.
• • Important actions stay visible: Add Booking and Auto-fill Form are placed together with a concise summary of the selected Booking Resource, Booking Form, email notifications, and past-date behavior.
• • Temporary Date selection override: Administrators can switch between Single day, Multiple days, and Range days immediately without reloading the page or changing saved front-end settings.

• • Choose an optional Custom accent color for primary buttons, secondary-button hover borders, focused fields, selected choices, navigation, and compatible time slots.
• • Use Apply accent to form elements to copy the accent into supported editable components, with global time-picker display and style controls available in Time field inspectors.
• • The new Automatic - Match Booking Form time-slot style follows the selected Form Style while existing time-picker skins keep their own colors.
• • Custom button controls and unified primary, secondary, submit, and wizard styles provide consistent dimensions, borders, hover behavior, dark-theme colors, and accessible keyboard focus.

Compatibility and Extensibility

• • Existing Booking Resources, availability, Booking Forms, pricing, payments, and bookings remain authoritative; the Appointment experience builds on them instead of replacing them.
• • Appointment information is included in supported confirmations, emails, Booking Listing details, print views, and CSV exports.
• • Safer customer access: Public Timeline links are scoped to the exact authorized booking and Resource; Personal and higher editions use one-time email verification for customer booking lists.
• • New filters and hooks allow commercial editions and extensions to adapt capabilities, Service and Provider catalogues, and Appointment form routing.