Appointment and business management for WordPress.

The operational problem

Taking a booking is only one part of running a service business. Staff availability, customer history, session packages and collections all need to stay connected to the appointment.

Lite gives businesses a self-contained starting point. Pro extends the workflow into customer, staff, package and finance management, with delivery for hosted WordPress and Scobe Desktop.

What the product does

• Scobe Booking Lite: public booking, calendar, staff, services and manual payment records.
• Scobe Booking Pro: appointments, customer history, staff permissions, packages, collections and expenses.
• Hosted booking on a business’s own WordPress site, with its data in its own database.

Engineering decisions

Reliability and maintenance

• Capability and request-validation checks on administrative actions.
• 2,154 unit tests, run on six PHP versions (7.4 to 8.4) before every release.
• About 4,000 browser checks that use the product the way a salon does, spread over twelve demo sites in parallel.
• An update rehearsal on a copy of real customer data: table checksums and columns are compared before and after.
• Tests for permission transitions, notification freshness and update-package integrity.
• Separate release packaging checks keep development and demo files out of customer archives.
• Independent review: the author and the reviewer of the code are separate, and a release needs evidence from test output.

Testing and delivery

Pro combines a PHP unit suite with browser regression workflows. CI checks PHP syntax across four PHP versions and verifies archive hygiene. Hosted Pro receives signed updates inside WordPress; Lite has a separate WordPress.org distribution path.