DOCS / DRYCLEANER BOOKING / v2.3.8
Getting started with Drycleaner Booking
Drycleaner Booking turns any WordPress page into a booking flow for a dry cleaner or laundry. Customers choose services, pick a date and time, and book in a few taps. It is standalone — no WooCommerce needed.
#1. Install and activate
- Upload the
drycleaner-bookingfolder to/wp-content/plugins/, or upload the zip under Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin. - Activate the plugin.
- Go to Drycleaner → Settings and set your business details and opening hours. Time slots are generated from those hours.
- Review your services and prices under Drycleaner → Services, and your lockers under Drycleaner → Lockers.
#2. Add the booking form
Create a page and add the booking shortcode:
[drycleaner_booking]Optionally, add the order-tracking portal to a "Track my order" page:
[drycleaner_portal]#3. Free vs Pro
The free version is fully functional for in-store drop-off bookings. Pro adds the following, and upgrading, licensing and updates for Pro are handled by Freemius.
Free
- In-store drop-off bookings
- Service & garment catalogue with quantity-based pricing
- Date and time slots generated from your opening hours
- Email confirmation to the customer and to your business
- Admin dashboard, bookings list, services manager and locker inventory
- Customer records with new vs returning tracking
- Customer order-tracking portal ([drycleaner_portal])
Pro
- Pickup & delivery with the customer's address
- Card payments at booking via Stripe
- SMS confirmations and status updates via Twilio
- Automatic locker assignment with phone-last-4, fixed-PIN or customer-chosen codes
- Per-item description, photo upload, and per-kg pricing
- Service categories, turnaround/SLA plans, printable thermal slip and QR signage
Stripe and Twilio are only contacted when you enable them. Freemius receives your site details only if you opt in.
#Requirements
WordPress 5.5 or later (tested up to 7.0), PHP 7.4 or later.
#Changelog
Compliance: set an explicit version on the Stripe.js script enqueue.
Maintenance release to regenerate the free build.
Compliance: translators comments, tested up to WordPress 7.0, DB annotations on admin views.
Compliance pass: escaped all admin output, translators comments, plugin headers, settings sanitize callbacks, annotated custom-table queries.
New shop-wide "Locker PIN mode": phone last-4, fixed PIN per locker, or a customer-chosen PIN entered at booking.
QR library bundled locally with graceful fallback - no external requests.
Editable signage QR content.
Link phone-first customers to WordPress accounts; convert/link from the Customers screen.
Optional themed login / registration / lost-password pages.
Customer records & portal, SLA plans, Terms of Business, locker code modes, pickup confirmation, printable thermal slip.