Installation

Get Advik Booking installed, activated, and ready to configure in a few minutes. No command line, no server work — just WordPress admin.

Requirements

Requirement	Minimum	Recommended
WordPress	6.0	6.4+
PHP	8.0	8.1+
MySQL / MariaDB	5.7 / 10.3	8.0 / 10.6+
Permalinks	Post name	Post name

Permalinks must be set to 'Post name'

Advik Booking creates pretty URLs for the booking form, customer portal, and success / cancellation pages. These rely on WordPress's rewrite rules. If your site is still on the default ?p=123 permalinks, REST endpoints and pretty URLs will break in subtle ways.

You can change it from Settings → Permalinks → Post name. Save once and you're done.

Install the plugin

Download the plugin
If you've already purchased, you should have received a .zipfile named advik-booking.zip.Otherwise, visit https://adviklabs.com, register, and claim your 30-day free trial license. Once you're satisfied with the product, you can purchase a yearly subscription.
Upload via WordPress admin
In your wp-admin, go to Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin and choose the zip. Click Install Now, then Activate.
Verify activation
A new menu item Advik Booking appears in the left sidebar.
Run the Setup Wizard (recommended)
The wizard takes you through industry, currency, services, staff, integrations, and notifications. You can re-run it any time from Advik Booking → Setup Wizard.

Manual install (FTP / SSH)

If you can't upload via admin:

bash

# 1. Unzip on your computer
unzip advik-booking.zip

# 2. Upload the folder to your WordPress installation
scp -r advik-booking/ user@server:/path/to/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/

# 3. Set ownership so WordPress can read it
ssh user@server "chown -R www-data:www-data /path/to/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/advik-booking"

# 4. Activate in wp-admin → Plugins

Verify the database tables

On activation Advik Booking creates 30+ tables with the wp_advik_ prefix. You can check them with:

bash

# from WP-CLI
wp db query "SHOW TABLES LIKE '%advik%';" --allow-root

If you don't see any, head to Advik Booking → License and click Re-check, or deactivate and re-activate the plugin to trigger the schema installer.

What to do next

Quick start: Follow Quick Start and get a form live in under 10 minutes.
Configure by hand: Open the How It Works page to understand the data model.
Need help? License, support, and refund policy are linked from your purchase email.

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