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Caswell Booking — Plugin Wiki

WordPress plugin for appointment booking — Google Calendar integration, Square + Venmo payments, SMS/email/WhatsApp notifications, recurring series, client accounts. White-label capable.

📦 Latest release: v1.4.7 — email deliverability hardening

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🚀 Getting started

• Installation & Setup — install the plugin, configure pages, first-time checklist
• Admin Settings — every settings tab explained
• Google Calendar Setup — OAuth client, calendar IDs, sharing model

📚 How it works

• Architecture — overall structure, file layout, how pieces fit together
• Database Schema — full column lists for caswell_bookings, caswell_blocks, caswell_recurring_series
• Scheduling — slot generation, buffers, lead time, weekly schedule
• Google Calendar — availability calculation, Glow keyword, blocking events, two-way sync
• Notifications — email/SMS/WhatsApp templates, placeholders, delivery
• Email Deliverability — keep confirmations + reminders out of spam (SMTP, SPF/DKIM/DMARC walkthrough)
• Authentication — client accounts, login, registration, password reset
• AJAX Endpoints — all front-end and admin AJAX actions, request/response shapes
• Payments — Square + Venmo integration overview
• Payment Configuration — keys, sandbox vs production, per-length pricing
• Security — encryption model, nonces, sanitization patterns, AUTH_KEY caveat
• White-Label Configuration — branding, practitioner info, theming hooks

🛠 Developing

• Developer Reference — quick-reference for hooks, classes, helpers, conventions

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💡 The wiki tracks main and is refreshed alongside each tagged release. For the canonical source of any doc, see docs/ in the repo.