About this plugin
Shark Booking by Carson is an installable plugin for businesses that need a streamlined appointment booking flow on any WordPress site.
Features:
- Admin booking list and calendar views (day, week, month) with filters.
- Service management with duration, buffers, pricing, currency, and active status.
- Resource management with service assignments and weekly schedule editing.
- Availability management with weekly rules and date-specific overrides.
- Frontend booking flow via shortcode.
- Stripe Checkout flow for bookings.
- Stripe webhook processing with idempotency safeguards.
- Quote and pricing engine.
- Manual admin actions for bookings (edit, delete, resend customer notification).
- Built-in FAQ screen and Contact entry point in the admin menu.
- Security hardening for public booking APIs (same-origin checks, rate limits, and nonce-aware permission callbacks for logged-in sessions).
Use [booking_appointment_flow] for the appointment booking flow.
External services
Stripe
This plugin uses Stripe Checkout and webhook APIs to process booking payments.
Data sent: checkout/payment fields such as transaction amount, selected items, customer email, and callback metadata needed to reconcile booking records.
When sent: when a customer starts checkout and when Stripe calls the webhook endpoint after payment events.
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Freemius
This plugin uses Freemius for subscription/account management and premium entitlement checks.
Data sent: installation/account metadata required by Freemius to manage plan/account status and entitlement.
When sent: during Freemius account/plan pages and entitlement synchronization checks.
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What if email delivery fails?
The plugin uses WordPress wp_mail(). Delivery depends on your hosting mail setup or SMTP/mail plugin.