Ants Rootslane

Therapy, books and events on one site#

Ants Rootslane is a systemic therapist, author and host of the podcast "Minu elu, minu reeglid". The site had to present his services, sell books and tickets to his talk evenings, and let a client book an urgent appointment and pay for it straight away.

A booking calendar of our own#

Instead of an off-the-shelf booking plugin we built a calendar that sells a free slot as a WooCommerce product through the normal checkout. Free times come from a REST API per location, and at checkout the slot is re-checked under a database lock, so two people can never buy the same time. The therapist is notified only once the payment lands, and the client gets a calendar file.

QR tickets without a plugin#

Every paid seat gets its own signed code, the PDF ticket arrives with the email and also sits in the customer's account. At the door the QR is scanned with a phone, a ticket cannot be used twice, and tickets from cancelled or refunded orders void themselves.

A switch without a pause#

The store kept taking orders the whole time. So we never overwrote the database: all new content went into the live store as repeatable scripts, rehearsed on a staging copy first.

What changed#

• Booking and payment in one step - the client picks a time and pays, the therapist only sees paid slots.
• Ticket sales and door check-in in one system - no separate ticketing platform and no platform commission.
• A fast site - the custom consent banner loads tracking scripts only after consent.