Brindle

Top Small Business WordPress Plugins — Brindle Booking, QuickPop and SleekAnnounce

Three WordPress plugins, documented here. Current documentation set Booking / QuickPop / SleekAnnounce.

Three WordPress plugins, built by one small team

Brindle publishes Brindle Booking, an appointment booking plugin; QuickPop, a popup builder; and SleekAnnounce, an announcement banner and cookie notice plugin. Each one installs as an ordinary WordPress plugin, is licensed with an API key, and is administered from a single My Brindle tab in the WordPress sidebar.

Online appointment booking made simple. A complete library of popups, each with their own style and behaviors. Banners anywhere, plus fully compliant cookie notifications.

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QuickPop admin, content tab
QuickPop admin, content tab

How the plugins were installed

  1. 1

    Download the plugin archive from the account area. The file is named BrindleBooking-master.zip.

    Many operating systems unzip downloads automatically. The file must stay zipped, and its filename must not change — the name is what lets the API key activate.

  2. 2

    In WordPress admin open Plugins › Add New, then Upload Plugin, and choose the .zip from your computer.

  3. 3

    Click Upload, then Activate Plugin. The plugin is installed at this point, but not yet licensed.

  4. 4

    Copy the key from the API Keys list and paste it under My Brindle › API Activation. The status changes to ACTIVATED alongside the number of remaining uses.

    Site caching is the most common reason activation fails, because the site cannot reach the validation server. Disable caching until activation succeeds.

What each plugin did

Brindle Booking

Online appointment booking made simple.

  • Book Services Online or On-Location
  • Accept Payments During Booking
  • Sync with Google Calendar
  • Advanced Calendar System
  • Display Local Time and Time Zone
  • Auto or Manual Approval of Submissions

Read the Brindle Booking tour

Booking form, service and date step
Booking form, service and date step

QuickPop

QuickPop lets you build a complete library of popups, each with their own style and behaviors.

  • Intuitive Popup Builder
  • Event Based Popup Behavior
  • Hubspot Form Support
  • Mailchimp Integration Out of the Box
  • Fully Responsive WordPress Popups
  • Customize Popup Forms & Fields
  • On Click trigger iconOn Click
  • On Exit trigger iconOn Exit
  • On Scroll trigger iconOn Scroll
  • Time Based trigger iconTime Based

Read the QuickPop tour

QuickPop admin, design tab
QuickPop admin, design tab

SleekAnnounce

Banners anywhere, plus fully compliant cookie notifications.

  • Beautiful Banners for WordPress
  • GDPR Compliant Cookie Notifications
  • Full Control of Design & Placement
  • Animated Banner Announcements
  • Stack & Combine Announcements
  • Announcements trigger iconAnnouncements
  • Cookie notices trigger iconCookie notices

Read the SleekAnnounce tour

SleekAnnounce banner across the top of a page
SleekAnnounce banner across the top of a page

More of the admin

Brindle Booking admin, services tab
Brindle Booking admin, services tab
QuickPop admin, settings tab
QuickPop admin, settings tab
SleekAnnounce admin
SleekAnnounce admin
The booking form as visitors saw it
The booking form as visitors saw it

Documentation and support topics

Brindle Booking Documentation
Installation, API activation, services, schedule and the booking admin tabs.
QuickPopFREE Documentation
Setting up the free edition, building a first popup and placing it on a page.
QuickPopPRO Documentation
The full popup library: triggers, forms, design controls and integrations.
SleekAnnounce Documentation
Banner setup, placement rules and the free cookie notification.
SleekAnnouncePRO Documentation
The pro banner set: animation, stacking, targeting and cookie compliance.
Documentation index
Index of all five plugin guides.
Frequently asked questions
Licensing, guarantees and what each plugin does.
Brindle Booking roadmap
Released fixes and planned booking features.
QuickPop roadmap
Released fixes and planned popup features.
Support topics
Where to look first when something does not work.

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