Fluent Booking First Look - Calendly Alternative WordPress Plugin

The recently released Fluent Booking seems to be a great plugin to replace Calendly or similar booking SaaS services with a WordPress plugin. In this video, I'm taking a first look into the software to see how viable it might be as a booking system for a small massage studio.
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[@adamwrightdesign]

Looks pretty slick! The fact you were able to set all that up and test a few things in that short of time shows how simple it is to get going. I’m not in the Fluent ecosystem but can see the benefit of adding this if I was 👍

[@Permaslug]

Same dude! I really only use the social reviews plugin from Fluent, but this one is definitely going in the back pocket

[@markjszymanski]

Terrific as always, brother. I'm very torn on this. I currently use Calendly - worst thing about it is the embed nature. Ends up being a terrible UI. I have a LatePoint LTD, but I think it's still early and a little clunky in certain areas.

[@Permaslug]

I'd have to agree there. This still needs work from a feature standpoint and there's some keyboard-nav accessibility issues (I'd imagine more than that for a real accessibility user). But, I'm confident in the Fluent team to make it better in the coming months. I got tired of yet another subscription with Calendly and all I used it for is now replaced by Fluent Booking - so, it's kind of a win. LatePoint is interesting, for sure. Curious to see where it goes now that it's been acquired.

[@kylevandeusen]

Great overview! How about the accessibility? Its just so hard to consider plugins like this knowing it could itnroduce all kinds of issues on that end 😬😭

[@Permaslug]

Good question and something worth digging into. I've noted a few flaws and will send them on to the team. Do you know how well Calendly and other products do in the accessibility arena?

[@kylevandeusen]

@@Permaslug I don't. I'm just _trying_ to be better about testing the accessibility of things before I add them. At least the basics (like, could I complete tasks keyboard only. Or with no visuals.

[@BenceBaráth-v3e]

Great video! Is this plugin useful for a beauty salon?

[@Permaslug]

I think so, that’s the type of client I’m planning to use it for