Title: Robina Author: igor800 Published: 16 junh 2026 Last modified: 29 Agost 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/robina/assets/icon.svg?rev=3574208) # Robina Per [igor800](https://profiles.wordpress.org/igor800/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/robina.1.3.3.zip) * [Details](https://oci.wordpress.org/plugins/robina/#description) * [Reviews](https://oci.wordpress.org/plugins/robina/#reviews) * [Installation](https://oci.wordpress.org/plugins/robina/#installation) * [Development](https://oci.wordpress.org/plugins/robina/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/robina/) ## Descripcion Robina is a free, open-source booking and appointment plugin for WordPress, built for service businesses that want a capable booking system without subscription fees. It is service- and resource-centric: the bookable unit is a service with its own availability, while staff, locations and resources are optional layers you add only if you need them. #### Highlights * **Front-end booking widget (Vue 3).** A clean multi-step wizard — Service, Date& time, Details, Confirm — added to any page with the `[robina_booking_form]` shortcode, or as a popup button with `[robina_booking_button]`. * **Capacity-aware availability.** Slots are computed from your business hours, slot step and buffers. Assign staff to a service and each one adds a parallel slot; a staff member booked anywhere counts as busy. With no staff, a service has a single capacity per location. * **Group classes.** Give a service a capacity above 1 (say 20 or 40 — there is no upper limit) and several customers can book the same session until it fills up — ideal for classes, workshops and large group sessions. * **Front-end class schedule.** Show a public timetable of upcoming classes with the `[robina_schedule]` shortcode — visitors switch between an **Agenda** list and a **Month** calendar grid, each session lists the seats left and links straight into booking. Give a service a weekly schedule (e.g. Monday 18:00) in its editor to put it on the timetable. * **Staff (optional).** Tag the people who provide a service, pin them to one or more locations, and give them their own weekly hours. When a customer picks a location, only the staff who work there are offered. * **Locations (optional).** Offices or branches with their own optional weekly hours; each service declares where it is available. * **Native WordPress admin.** A branded Catalog (services, categories, resources), a Month/Week/Day Calendar with in-place booking creation, plus Bookings, Customers, Staff and Locations screens — all in plain WordPress UI. * **Email notifications** to the owner and the customer on every new booking, plus optional **reminders** a set number of hours before the appointment. * **Customer self-cancellation.** The confirmation email carries a personal cancel link, so a customer can free their seat themselves — instantly bookable again by someone else. Set a cancellation window (e.g. up to 12 hours before) or switch it off. * **Days off and booking notice.** Mark single dates a service does not run (holidays, a break) and close booking a set number of minutes before the start time. * **Optional online payments** — Pay on site, WooCommerce, Stripe or PayPal (see« External services » below). Leave them all off for free bookings. * **Self-contained and private.** No external CDNs and no trackers; the phone-input flags and every front-end asset ship inside the plugin. Uninstalling removes Robina’s tables and options. #### Service-centric by design Robina deliberately keeps availability on the _service_, not on a mandatory « employee». Staff, locations and resources are optional capacity and scope layers, so Robina also suits non-staff models such as equipment rental or table booking. ### External services By default Robina works entirely on your own site and contacts no third party. It only talks to an external service when **you, the admin, enable and configure a payment gateway**, and only when a customer actually chooses to pay with it. No data is sent anywhere otherwise — Robina has no « home » server and sends no telemetry or analytics. **Stripe** — used only when you enable « Stripe » and enter your API keys. When a customer pays by card, Robina creates a Stripe Checkout Session and redirects the customer to Stripe’s hosted payment page, and it receives Stripe webhooks to confirm payment. Data sent to Stripe: the booking amount, currency, a short description and the customer’s email. Card details are entered on Stripe’s site, never on yours. Terms: https://stripe.com/legal — Privacy: https://stripe.com/privacy **PayPal** — used only when you enable « PayPal » and enter your client ID and secret. When a customer pays with PayPal, Robina creates a PayPal order, redirects the customer to PayPal to approve it, then captures it on return. Data sent to PayPal: the booking amount, currency and a reference id. Terms: https://www.paypal.com/legalhub/home— Privacy: https://www.paypal.com/legalhub/privacy-full **WooCommerce** (optional, local) — if you enable WooCommerce checkout and WooCommerce is installed, Robina creates a pending WooCommerce order and hands payment off to WooCommerce. Robina makes no external call itself; any outbound requests are made by WooCommerce and its own gateways under their policies. **Map link** — a location’s address is turned into a plain « view on map » link to Google Maps (https://www.google.com/maps/search/…). It is only a link: nothing is transmitted and no map is loaded unless a visitor clicks it. ### Source code Robina is fully open source (GPLv2+). The front-end widget is compiled with Vite from the Vue source that ships inside the plugin under `/resources`. The build files(` package.json`, `package-lock.json`, `vite.config.js`) are bundled too, so the compiled assets in `/assets/dist` can be regenerated from source with: ``` npm install && npm run build ``` Bundled third-party libraries (installed via npm, both MIT-licensed): * Vue 3 (^3.4) — https://github.com/vuejs/core * intl-tel-input (^29.0) — https://github.com/jackocnr/intl-tel-input ## Screenshots [⌊The booking form — choosing a service, with the steps alongside.⌉⌊The booking form — choosing a service, with the steps alongside.⌉[ The booking form — choosing a service, with the steps alongside. [⌊Date & time — a calendar and the free times for the chosen day.⌉⌊Date & time — a calendar and the free times for the chosen day.⌉[ Date & time — a calendar and the free times for the chosen day. [⌊The admin Catalog — services, categories and prices.⌉⌊The admin Catalog — services, categories and prices.⌉[ The admin Catalog — services, categories and prices. [⌊The admin Calendar — a month of bookings at a glance.⌉⌊The admin Calendar — a month of bookings at a glance.⌉[ The admin Calendar — a month of bookings at a glance. [⌊Settings — business hours, booking rules, cancellation and reminders.⌉⌊Settings— business hours, booking rules, cancellation and reminders.⌉[ Settings — business hours, booking rules, cancellation and reminders. [⌊The public class schedule — upcoming classes by day, with the seats left.⌉⌊The public class schedule — upcoming classes by day, with the seats left.⌉[ The public class schedule — upcoming classes by day, with the seats left. [⌊The class schedule in Month view — a colour-coded calendar grid.⌉⌊The class schedule in Month view — a colour-coded calendar grid.⌉[ The class schedule in Month view — a colour-coded calendar grid. [⌊The class card — description, instructor, location and spots left, continuing into booking.⌉⌊The class card — description, instructor, location and spots left, continuing into booking.⌉[ The class card — description, instructor, location and spots left, continuing into booking. [⌊Getting started — the four setup steps and the shortcodes to copy.⌉⌊Getting started— the four setup steps and the shortcodes to copy.⌉[ Getting started — the four setup steps and the shortcodes to copy. ## Installacion 1. Install the ZIP via Plugins Add New Upload Plugin, or upload the `robina` folder to `/wp-content/plugins/`. 2. Activate Robina through the Plugins screen. 3. Open **Robina Settings** to set your business hours, timezone, currency, slot step and (optionally) payment methods. 4. Add services under **Robina Catalog**. Add Locations and Staff too if you need them. 5. Put `[robina_booking_form]` on any page, or use `[robina_booking_button]` for a popup button. To show a public class timetable, add `[robina_schedule]`. ## FAQ ### I activated Robina — why is nothing on my site? Because a booking form only appears where you put its shortcode. Open **Robina Dashboard**: the Getting started panel walks through the four setup steps and lets you copy `[robina_booking_form]` (the full form), `[robina_booking_button]` (a popup button) or `[robina_schedule]` (a class timetable) straight onto a page. The same list is always in the **Help** tab at the top of any Robina screen. ### Can I translate the booking form into my language? Yes. Every string in the public widgets is registered in PHP, so a translation plugin such as Loco Translate sees them: go to Loco Translate Plugins Robina, add your language and translate. Month and weekday names need no translation at all — the calendar follows your WordPress site language automatically. The phone field also starts on your own country, derived from that same site language — and if your site is multilingual, set **Phone country** in Robina Settings so the dial code stays yours on every translated page. ### Do I have to add staff or locations? No. A service works on its own with a single capacity and your global business hours. Staff, locations and resources are optional. ### How does availability with several staff work? Each staff member assigned to a service adds one parallel slot. A staff member booked on any service at that time is treated as busy. When a customer picks a location, only the staff who work at that location are offered. ### Is payment required? No. With no payment method enabled, bookings are free. You can turn on Pay on site, WooCommerce, Stripe and/or PayPal at any time. ### Does Robina send my data anywhere? No telemetry, ever. The only outbound calls are to the payment gateway you choose to enable, at checkout — see « External services ». ### Will it match my theme? Yes. The admin uses native WordPress UI, and the front-end widget inherits your theme font by default; colours and fonts are configurable. ### Can customers cancel by themselves? Yes, if you leave « Customer cancellation » enabled in **Robina Settings**. Every confirmation email contains a personal cancellation link; opening it shows a confirmation page, and only pressing the button cancels. The seat is freed immediately and both you and the customer get an email. Set « Up to (hours before the start) » to stop late cancellations — with 0 it stays possible until the start time. ### How do reminder emails work? Set « Reminder email (hours before) » in **Robina Settings** — for example 24. WordPress checks hourly and emails each customer once, that many hours before their confirmed booking. 0 turns reminders off. Someone who books inside the window (say, two hours before the class) is not sent a reminder minutes after booking. Reminders rely on WP-Cron, so a site with almost no traffic may want a real system cron. ### A class is cancelled for one day — how do I skip it? Open the service and add the date under **Days off**. The weekly schedule stays untouched; that date disappears from the timetable and the server refuses bookings for it. It works for on-request services too. ### Can visitors see a schedule of classes? Yes. Give a service a weekly **Class schedule** (e.g. Monday and Wednesday at 18: 00) in its editor, then add the `[robina_schedule]` shortcode to any page. Visitors see the upcoming sessions by day and time with the seats left, and can book straight from the timetable. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “Robina” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ igor800 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/igor800/) [Translate “Robina” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/robina) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/robina/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/robina/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/robina/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/robina/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 1.3.3 * New: a **Phone country** setting (Robina Settings Business). The booking form’s phone field starts on that country. Leave it empty and it follows your site language, as before — set it if your site is multilingual, so the dial code stays your own on translated pages. #### 1.3.2 * Fix: the booking form is now **fully translatable**. Every string in the public widgets (wizard steps, buttons, field labels, validation messages, the class timetable) is registered in PHP, so Loco Translate — or any .po/.mo workflow — can translate it. Previously only the admin side could be translated. * The date picker now follows your site language for month and weekday names, with no translation needed. * Fix: the phone field starts on your own country instead of the United States, taken from your site language (a Spanish site gets +34). * Fix: on mobile, the phone country list could open behind the booking popup, so the dial code appeared impossible to change. #### 1.3.1 * New: a **Getting started** panel on the Robina dashboard — four steps from an empty install to a first booking, with one-click copying of the `[robina_booking_form]`,`[ robina_booking_button]` and `[robina_schedule]` shortcodes. Dismissible per user. * New: a short welcome notice after activation, and a **Robina quick start** entry under WordPress’ own Help tab on every Robina screen. * The service editor now says which shortcode publishes a class timetable, right where the weekly schedule is set. #### 1.3.0 * New: **customers can cancel their own booking.** Every confirmation email carries a personal cancellation link; the freed seat is bookable again immediately. Optional cancellation window (e.g. « up to 12 hours before »), and the whole feature can be switched off. * New: **reminder emails** — send customers a reminder a set number of hours before their booking (0 = off). Someone who books inside the reminder window is not reminded minutes later. * New: **days off per service** — mark single dates a class or service does not run (holidays, an ill instructor, a seasonal break). The weekly schedule stays as it is; those dates simply disappear from the timetable and cannot be booked. * New: **minimum booking notice** — close online booking a set number of minutes before the start time. * Redesigned front end: the booking wizard now has a step sidebar and a clearer date/time layout, the class timetable and info card were restyled, and both adapt to the width of the column they sit in. Colours still follow the button colour in Settings. * Accessibility: visible keyboard focus everywhere, higher text contrast, and all animation respects « reduce motion ». #### 1.2.0 * New: **front-end class schedule** — a public timetable of upcoming class sessions via the `[robina_schedule]` shortcode, with switchable **Agenda** and **Month**( calendar grid) views, per-class colours and seats-left. Clicking a session opens a class info card (description, duration, price, spots) that continues into the booking wizard preset to that class, date and time. * New: a **Class schedule** field on each service — set the fixed weekly times it runs as a class, and the booking form then offers only those times. * New public REST route `GET /robina/v1/schedule` (no personal data). #### 1.1.1 * Fix: the booking wizard now formats the chosen date using your site’s language( English by default) instead of the visitor’s browser locale. #### 1.1.0 * New: per-service **capacity** (seats per session). Set it above 1 to turn a service into a group/class where several customers can book the same time until it is full; 1 keeps the usual one-on-one appointment behaviour. #### 1.0.0 * First public release. * Front-end Vue booking wizard (`[robina_booking_form]`) and popup button (`[robina_booking_button]`). * Capacity-aware availability engine: business hours, slot step and buffers; staff as parallel capacity (a free one is auto-assigned); a single per-location capacity when no staff is configured. * Optional Staff with location eligibility and optional per-staff weekly hours; optional Locations with their own weekly hours; the engine resolves hours as staff, then location, then global. * Native admin: Dashboard, Catalog (services, categories, resources), Calendar ( Month/Week/Day with create, edit and delete), Bookings, Customers, Staff, Locations and Settings. * Optional payments: Pay on site, WooCommerce, Stripe (hosted Checkout + signed webhook) and PayPal (Orders v2). * Email notifications on new bookings. Self-contained assets (no CDN). Clean uninstall. ## Mèta * Version **1.3.3** * Last updated **12 oras ago** * Active installations **Fewer than 10** * WordPress version ** 6.0 or higher ** * Tested up to **7.1** * PHP version ** 8.0 or higher ** * Language * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/robina/) * Tags * [appointments](https://oci.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/appointments/)[booking](https://oci.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/booking/) [calendar](https://oci.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/calendar/)[reservations](https://oci.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/reservations/) [scheduling](https://oci.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/scheduling/) * [Advanced View](https://oci.wordpress.org/plugins/robina/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. 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