Google Calendar Two ways synch

If you have correctly connected Salon Booking System with your Google Calendar account like explained here:

https://salonbookingsystem.helpscoutdocs.com/article/77-google-calendar-synchronization

then you can start using the " Two ways synch" feature.

The Salon administrator can Add and Delete reservations from his Google Calendar, the same one connected to Salon Booking plugin.

How to add a reservation from Google Calendar into Salon Booking System

Here the steps to follow:

Select the desired date
Type the event title following this format:

user first name and last name, service name 1 + service name 2, user e-mail address ( only for new customers ), customer mobile number (optional), booking note(optional)

Click on "Add time"
Click on "Save"
No wait for the "cronjob" runs and perform the synchronization - scroll this page for more details on cronjob creation.

Synch success, synch error and synch alert

Once the synchronization has been performed you could have three different scenarios:

ERROR - the event title has a red circle - the reservation has not been created - look inside the event details and have a look at the error message
SUCCESS - the event title has a green circle - you'll find all the reservations details inside the event
SUCCESS WITH AN ALERT - the event title has a orange circle - the reservation has been created but you have a notice inside the event details

Note:

You'll got an error message after the synchronization in the following cases and no reservation will be created:

misspelling the customer name
misspelling the service name ( refer to the "Services" section of Salon Booking plugin to see how you entered them )
entering an existing email address

You'll got an alert message after the synchronization in the following cases but the reservation will be created anyway:

Choose a not available date
Choose a not available time
Choose a not available service

Setup a cronjob

This feature requires a specific cronjob to be executed every X minutes. This is the syntax you need to use to create this cronjob:

wget -O - https://yourwebsite.com/wp-cron.php &>/dev/null

wget -O - https://yourwebsite.com/wp-cron.php?action=sln_sync_from_google_calendar >/dev/null 2>&1

Note: make sure you are using your website URL.

Seutp your WordPress time-zone in a correct way

Make sure to select the name of the city that has your timezone from “Settings > General” of WordPress like this:

Do not use UTC format as it will cause problem with our plugin.

Timezone on Google Calendar settings:

Make sure that the timezone set on your WordPress install is the same you have set on your Google Calendar account.