=== Amelia - Events & Appointments Booking Calendar ===
Contributors: ameliabooking, WebFactory
Author URI: https://tms-outsource.com/
Tags: booking, calendar, scheduling, appointments, reservations, booking plugin, booking system, appointment booking, event booking, appointment plugin, event plugin, booking calendar, booking calendar plugin, event booking system, booking with payment
Donate link: https://wpamelia.com/
Requires at least: 4.5
Tested up to: 5.2
Requires PHP: 5.6
Stable tag: 1.0.5
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Appointments & Events Booking Calendar. Get appointments & event payments 24/7. Perfect for clinics, gyms, spas & beauty salons.

== Description ==
Amelia Lite is a free appointment booking WordPress plugin that allows to set up a fully-featured automated booking system on your WordPress website and is a handy tool for small businesses and individuals that depend on stable appointment booking processes.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMzGTIjPQOI]

Amelia Lite was built with newest Enterprise-level of technology both on front-end and back-end, ensuring smooth and slick user experience. Amelia elements are applying single-page-app approach, work without page reloading, and all elements were designed with the mobile first concept in mind - so all the admin and customer interfaces are perfectly responsive.

Amelia Lite supports:

* Configuring the general settings for the company - [General Settings](https://wpamelia.com/general-settings/)
* A convenient Calendar view on the back-end, giving a full overview on all the appointments and the statuses - [Calendar Admin View](https://wpamelia.com/admin-calendar/)
* Flexible Appointment Management page, with an option to add appointments by your staff from the WordPress admin dashboard - [Appointments Admin Page](https://wpamelia.com/admin-appointments/)
* Configuring provider's details and working schedule - [General Settings](https://wpamelia.com/general-settings/)
* Key numbers in the Dashboard - [Dashboard page](https://wpamelia.com/admin-dashboard/)
* Email notifications to the customer and provider when the appointment status changes.

Configuring Amelia Lite to book your first appointment through WordPress is literally a 5-minute job.

* First, you would need to go to your WordPress' admin page, open Amelia -> Services and add categories and services, as described [here](https://wpamelia.com/services-and-categories/).
* On the next step, you would need to add a step-by-step booking wizard to one of your posts or pages. To do that, just create a new post or page, or edit an exiting one, and add [ameliabooking] shortcode where you want to add the booking wizard. Save it - and that's it - now customers can book appointments from your site's front-end using Amelia Lite!
* You can customize provider details and schedule in the [General Settings](https://wpamelia.com/general-settings/) page.

Please note some limitations of the Lite version:

* You can only use a part of the Dashboard page to keep tracks of your business.
* Export option is not supported.
* Filters on the pages are not supported.
* Coupons are not included.
* Group services are not supported.
* Adding the Locations is not included.
* Customization options are not included.
* You can only use Approved and Pending notifications, other types of email notifications are not supported.
* Only basic plugin settings are supported.
* Google Calendar synchronization is not supported.
* PayPal and Stripe payment types are not supported but you can use On-site payment type.
* Booking search view and catalog view are not included, only the Step-by-step booking wizard view.
* Access to our premium support system is not included.
To use these and other options, please upgrade to the Full version!


== Installation ==

Installing Amelia Lite is as easy as 1-2-3!

* First, either locate the plugin through the WordPress' built-in plugins browser, upload the ZIP file through WP Admin, or upload the Amelia Lite folder via FTP to your WordPress' plugins folder on the server.
* Activate the plugin in the "Plugins" page of your WordPress installation.
* Enjoy!

== Screenshots ==

1. Calendar back-end view
2. Appointments back-end view
3. Booking wizard front-end view


== Changelog ==

v1.0.1
* SMS Notifications support added
* Minor changes for compliance with WordPress plugins repository policy

v1.0
* Amelia Lite Launch!