rizar you don’t need a membership plugin for that- you needs a points for actions / karma type plugin and an appointment setting plugin. I have heard of one like that, I guess something similar to https://wordpress.org/plugins/mycred/ and these https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=buddypress+appointments&sort= . From my limited experience dealing with some in the medical field in the states, I am not sure what you are describing is technically ethical or legal – but I don’t know for sure, and I am sure those issues vary by region as well. Just a thought you might want to consider before putting too much into that.
Hey djsteveb, thanks for the prompt reply. without a membership plugin, how am I able to keep a record of the past and pending appointment bookings that the person made? Is there other ways to tackle that? basically this app is to make it easier for my doctors to cross refer the patients should they need to see a specialist. To my knowledge, there are no ethical or legal issues that I’ll face. Thanks for the concern though..
I’ll look through the ones you’ve suggested in the mean time. Thanks much!
@rizar9 – buddypress is a membership plugin (and more) – but you may not need that kind of community (that buddypress essentially creates) – you could use a regular ol’ wordpress site and something like s2member if you are set on a membership plugin.
If you find a way to encrypt all the data that gets stored in the database, please let me know – I have been trying to find a good secure contact form system that encrypts into sql and stuff – which I think would be needed for the hippa stuff with some of my clients..
“without a membership plugin, how am I able to keep a record of the past and pending appointment bookings that the person made?” = I am not sure on that really – but I was pointing you to a couple of plugins up above that seem to do some of what you are describing – so maybe you should install those and play with them – see what they report to you and perhaps some small mercenary (paid) modifications of those could piece together what you are describing(?)
@rizar9
another thought – http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/appointments-plus/ – it’ll cost ya 19$ to play with it – and it might need custom modding to do exactly what you need (costing who knows much time or money, or it may work out of the box for what you need).. they also have a premium membership plugin.. I think their yearly membership is outrageously expensive for most people’s usage.. but their appointments plus plugin does say “Stay informed with integrated notifications system”
I have not used that one yet – but it may be closer to what you are looking for (?)
