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WordPress Waitlists and Booking Automation
Configure, verify, and operate WordPress Waitlists and Booking Automation in the official Drecha plugin manual.
What this feature does
Fill cancelled places through timed, capacity-safe waitlist offers and automate booking, pass, and membership notifications with durable retry protection.
Key capabilities
- Per-event and per-service waitlists with duplicate prevention
- Capacity-safe timed offers and manual promotion
- Booking, cancellation, rescheduling, pass, and membership alerts
- Idempotent WP-Cron retries and an append-only activity log
Configure WordPress Waitlists and Booking Automation
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Confirm email and enable a waitlist. In Events & Bookings → Settings, send the inbox check and open its one-hour confirmation link. Then edit an event or service, enable its Pro waitlist, and choose how many minutes a customer has to accept an offered place. The delivery check prevents a timed offer from starting before its acceptance link can arrive.
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Collect demand. When an event is full, customers can join its queue. Service customers can join for a preferred date when no suitable appointment time remains.
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Promote safely. A cancellation schedules the oldest matching customer. Pro creates a normal pending Free booking as a capacity hold, emails a unique acceptance link, and advances the queue if the deadline passes.
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Configure automation. Open Events & Bookings → Waitlists & automation to choose reminder lead times, edit notification subjects and messages, promote entries manually, and inspect delivery and retry activity.
Verify the result
Open the relevant public page in a private browser window and complete the workflow once. Confirm the saved result in WordPress, test keyboard navigation, and repeat the critical path at a mobile width before sharing it with customers.