1. How To Check Payments Listing ?

2. How To Manage Settings ?

3. OctaBook Change Log

4. How to use PayUMoney Payment Gateway in Octabook?

5. How to use PayPal Payment Gateway in Octabook?

6. How To Manage Services ?

7. How to use TextLocal in Octabook?

8. How to use Twilio SMS Gateway in Octabook?

9. How to use Stripe Payment Gateway in Octabook?

10. How To Check And Export Data ?

11. How To Manage Locations ?

12. Language Translation In Octabook

13. Cron Job

Payments

• Admin can see payment details of client’s appointments bookings.
• Also admin can export details of payment of client using below button like “ Copy ”, “ Excel ”, “ PDF ” etc

Also admin can filter details of payments according to date showing on top.

Settings

• Admin can set settings of plugin using settings menu
• Here we are providing settings tabs like Company settings, General settings, Appearance settings, payments settings, Email notifications, etc. as like below
• Company Setting

• General Settings

• Appearance Settings

• Payment Settings

• Email Notification Settings

• Email Template Settings

• SMS Notification Settings

• SMS Template Settings

• Custom Form Fields

• Promocode

• Google Calendar

Version 2.6

• Bug Fixes 
• New Dashboard Design

Version 2.6

• Bug Fixes 
• New Dashboard Design

Version 2.5

•  Booking Page with URL Adjustable --> Added
•  Geo Location on address --> Added
• Thank You page with redirection time --> Fixed
• Overlap Booking with Break hide slots --> Fixed
• Paytm --> Improved
• Google Calendar --> Improved

Version 2.4

• Partial deposit amount going wrong in cart issue Fixed
• Google Calendar field added
• Twilio sms not working

Version 2.3

• First day of front booking calendar Fixed
• Overbooking time slots Fixed
• Dynamic pricing according to staff schedule Fixed
• Paytm redirect issue Fixed
• Remove confirm button after reschedule issue Fixed
• Booking cancellation email for client issue Fixed
• Manual booking customer details visible Fixed
• Custom fields details in email Fixed
• Auto select date while manual booking Improved
• Manual booking time according to selected date Improved
• Staff schedule configuration Improved

Version 2.2

• While adding service duration from admin validation Fixed
• Staff section display all wp users in list Fixed
• Date and time format according to wordpress general settings Fixed
• Overlapping time slots issue Fixed
• Maximum multiple booking limit issue Fixed
• Custom field options display in admin appointment Improved
• Date and time format according to wordpress general settings Fixed
• Manageable first day of Calendar according to wordpress general settings Improved
• Country code selected Improved
• Already booked slots visible/hide with grey color with admin manageable option, and avoid overbooking. Improved
• Review display in admin section Fixed

Version 2.1

• Time slots with limit is Fixed
• Guest user / new / existing all manageable in admin Fixed
• Octabook booking price in admin/addon visible Fixed
• Custom fields details show in email and admin Fixed

Version 2.0

• Guest user booking feature added
• PayUmoney Payment Gateway added
• Paytm Payment Gateway added
• TextLocal SMS Gateway added
• PayPal payment gateway issue fixed
• Minor design issues fixed
• Front-end booking glitches fixed
• Save staff timezone issue fixed
• Download invoice issue fixed
• Display of booking location Wise issue fixed

Version 1.1

• Term & Condition link on checkout added
• Privacy policy link on checkout added
• Cancellation policy detail on checkout added
• Frontend custom CSS option added
• Minor functionality issue fixed
• Minor CSS issue fixed

Version 1.0

• Initial release

Follow below mentioned steps to easily get your PayUMoney Merchant Key and Merchant Salt Live Credentials :

Step 1: Go to PayUMoney

Step 2: If you have created an account with PayUMoney, login, else Create Account

Step 3:Enter your email address here

Step 4:Once you have logged in into your account, click on Integration Details option under Integration Help

Step 5:Here are your Live Credentials - Merchant Key and Merchant Salt. Copy them

Step 6:Now paste the keys in their respective fields on Octabook Admin settings

• Log in to your PayPal Business account.

• Click the My Account tab.

• Click the Profile tab. If you haven't already done so, you need to verify your account before requesting API credentials.

• Click Request API credentials under Account information.

• Click Set up PayPal API credentials and permissions under Option 1.
• Click Request API Credentials.
• Click Request API signature.
• Click Agree and Submit.

• Copy your API Username, API Password and Signature. And page in your Octabook admin area PayPal settings.

Services

• We are managing service according to category wise.
• So to add service first we need to add category so when you add service its saved according to category
• To add category there is “icon” in top of left side panel in service menu. As showing below

• On click on this icon add category form open using this you can add category
• After category added then category display in left side panel of service menu.
• Once category added then you can click on “+ Add Services” button to add services. as like below

• Filled out service form then click on save button then you service will be display in services listing.
• You can also drag & drop services to set position of services according to requirement.
• Click on category to display services listing according to category in left side panel.

Creating your API key

• Log in to your Textlocal account.

• Navigate to help > All documentation > API Hash Id.

• Scroll Down and here you will get your Hash ID/Key. Copy Hash id and save for future and going to Laundry Admin Settings.

• Put your email id on your Account Username and Paste hash id which you have copied in Textlocal login area.

An SMS Gateway enables a computer to send and receive SMS text messages to and from a SMS capable device over the global telecommunications network (normally to a mobile phone). The SMS Gateway translates the message sent, and makes it compatible for delivery over the network to be able to reach the recipient.

Octabook provide Twilio SMS gateway service free of cost. We have integrate Twilio in default in our product. Please Proceed the steps and Use Twilio On your instance.

Step 1 : Create your account on Twilio with using this link. If you have already register on Twilio then go to login and access the credentials.

Step 2 : If you are not register then Create your account here.

Step 3 : if you already register then login your account here.

Step 4 : After login you will see your Account SID  and Auth Token On your dashboard.

Step 5 : Copy SID and Token and paste in admin area Twilio settings fields. Save and proceed next.

Getting Publishable Key and Secret Key

• Login your stripe account .

• Select Developers > API keys on the sidebar of the Stripe Dashboard.

• On the API tab find the Publishable key and Secret key fields and copy their values.

• Paste both keys in your Octabook admin area Stripe settings.

Exports

• Admin can see Information’s  of Bookings, Staff, Services, Category, and Locations in export section.
• Admin can also filter information of Bookings, Staff, Services, Category, and Locations according to date and month.

Locations

• Step 1: To add new location first you have to click on “+ Add New Location” then  add location form open as showing in below Screenshot.

• Step 2 :  Fill out add new location form details and then click on save button then your location saved successfully. Then its display something like below.
• After locations save then you can perform action of “Update” and “Delete” locations
• To update location click on right side down arrow  like “ V ”  where locations list display as above Screenshot.
• To delete locations click on delete icon then its display popup for delete icon
• We are also providing facilities to display listing of location according to “State/City” as showing in left side panel of locations tab where states or city showing on click on that then only that location display in list
• Also you can drag & drop locations according to requirement to drag & drop  you have to just hover the icon showing like this “ ≡ ” before location title
• Add Multiple locations and manage it as mention in below

Manage Locations

• You can manage location there is “ Locations ” dropdown on top of header of Bookdice menu.
• All your added locations will be display in that dropdown. You can select location which you want and manage it by adding service and staff.
• Once  you select location in dropdown then that location will be selected and we can manage service, staff for that particular locations. As like below

• According to locations you can add service and staff that which service and staff are providing in the location.
• After this we can see that how we can manage services and staff.

Octabook is fully translatable. You can make translation with POedit tool.To make Octabook translation follow following steps:

Step 1 -  Install "Poedit" software on your windows/ios. Please download and install it on your system.

Step 2 - After installation open POedit tool.

Step 3 - Click on a create new translation and select your .pot file from Octabook plugin folder. Please follow the path for select your file for translation. (wp-content\plugins\Octabook\languages) .

Step 4 - Please save the file on given location and set the file name like oct-fr_FR.po,oct-fr_FR.mo (wordpress locale code). like

Step 5 - Please select your language in your WordPress instance.

That's all,Please let us know, if you still facing any issue.Thanks

What are Cron Jobs?

A cron job is a Linux command for scheduling a task to be executed sometime in the future. This is normally used to schedule a job that is executed periodically - for example, to send out a notice every morning.

Cron Jobs run scheduled tasks at specific times. This is good to set up automated maintenance and other unmanned server duties. To create a cron job, please do the following:

Step 1: Click on the "Cron Jobs" icon inside cPanel, under Advanced.

Step 2: Select the Common Setting you want. This will automatically change the other time settings.

Step 3: Alternatively, you may adjust the individual time settings. Minute, Hour, Day, Month and Weekday can be modified to achieve your goal.

Step 4: In the input box to the right of "Command", type the name of the file type, then add a space and provide the path (wp-content/plugins/Cleanto/assets/lib/notification_reminder.php )  to the file which you would like the command to run.

Step 5: Click the "Add New Cron Job" button.

You have just created a cron job to execute a file at a certain time and date with the desired repetition.

Cron jobs are easy to edit and delete.

1. Click on the "Cron Jobs" icon inside cPanel.
2. Scroll down to the last section called "Current Cron Jobs".
3. Find the correct cron job and click either "Edit" or "Delete", under Actions.
4. Editing does not have the nice automated tools, so it may be easier to copy the Command, delete the cron job, and recreate it.