Online Booking for Craft CMS

Stub is a booking and appointment scheduling plugin for Craft CMS 5. It lets service businesses accept bookings online with multi-provider support, availability rules, Stripe payments, and a multi-step booking form wizard — all managed from the Craft control panel.

Stub is a one-time $79 license per site, which includes every feature and one year of updates. After the first year you can renew for $59/year to keep getting updates — and if you choose not to renew, your installed version keeps working, you just won’t receive new releases.

Yes. You can define multiple providers, each with their own services, availability windows, and booking rules. Customers pick the provider and service, and Stub only offers time slots that provider is actually available for.

Availability is calculated from each provider’s working hours, service durations, buffer times, and any existing bookings. Booked and blocked slots are automatically removed, so customers can only choose times that are genuinely open.

Yes. Stub integrates with Stripe so you can collect payment or a deposit at the time of booking. Bookings can also be configured as free or pay-in-person if you don’t need to charge upfront.

Stub renders a step-by-step wizard — choose a service, pick a provider, select a date and time, enter details, and confirm. The templates are fully overridable, so you can style the form to match your site.

Yes. Stub emails the customer ahead of their appointment — 24 hours by default, and configurable — and can send the same reminder to the provider and your admin address. The wording lives in Craft’s System Messages like every other Stub email, so you can edit and translate it. Craft has no scheduler, so reminders need one cron entry (craft stub/reminders/send); they stay switched off until you add it, rather than promising an email that never arrives. Only confirmed bookings are reminded, each exactly once. See reminder emails.

Either. Stub → Bookings → New Booking takes a booking in the control panel for phone calls, walk-ins, and regulars. The time picker uses the same availability engine as the front-end form, so what you’re offered is genuinely free — and Override availability turns every check off when you need to double-book, squeeze someone in outside a provider’s hours, or record an appointment that already happened. You set the booking and payment status yourself, and decide whether the customer gets a confirmation email. See taking a booking yourself.

Yes. craft.stub.services() and craft.stub.bookingForm() both take a filter, so you can list the services belonging to one provider ({ user: currentUser }) or build a page around a single service ({ handle: 'consultation' }). A form narrowed to one service or one provider skips those steps of the wizard automatically. Services are configuration rather than content, so they have no custom fields — provider, and the Craft user a provider is linked to, is how ownership is modelled. See filtering services.

Yes. Each booking is a first-class Craft element, so you can view, search, sort, and filter bookings in the control panel, and query them in Twig with the usual element query API.

Stub requires Craft CMS 5.0 or later and PHP 8.2 or later. It supports both MySQL and PostgreSQL databases. Stripe is only required if you want to collect online payments.

Yes. Showtime bundles Owl (events & calendars), Stub, and Headcount (memberships & subscriptions) into a single plugin for $249 one-time, versus $327 buying the three separately. It is one install, one settings screen, and one renewal date instead of three — and it adds things the standalone plugins can’t do alone, like member discounts on Stub services and provider events blocking appointment slots. See the bundle comparison.

Yes, and your bookings come with you. Installing Showtime adopts an existing Stub install in place — settings are re-homed under Showtime and the tables and migration history are left untouched. Do not run plugin/uninstall first, as that runs the install migration backwards and drops the data. Craft’s Plugin Store has no upgrade pricing, so email me and I’ll credit what you already paid. Full steps are in the Showtime upgrade guide.

Buy a license from the Craft Plugin Store, then install with Composer (composer require justinholtweb/craft-stub) and enable it from Settings → Plugins. See the installation docs for full details.