Approve booking is a WordPress ability from LatePoint — usable via Easy MCP AI, which connects Claude, ChatGPT, and any AI assistant to your site.
Install Free Plugin →Approve booking
WriteApprove a pending booking in one step.
Requires the LatePoint plugin on WordPress 6.9+ (the WordPress Abilities API is only available from 6.9 onward). All abilities also require the site's 'latepoint_abilities_api' master toggle to be enabled; write abilities additionally require the 'latepoint_abilities_api_edit' setting, and destructive abilities additionally require the 'latepoint_abilities_api_delete' setting. Each ability further requires the current user to hold the matching LatePoint capability (e.g. 'booking__view', 'customer__edit'), and some abilities also verify the user is allowed to act on that specific record.
What it does
This ability is a convenience wrapper that sets a booking's status to approved by delegating to the change-booking-status ability internally. It's the quickest way to confirm a pending appointment, and doing so may trigger LatePoint's confirmation notifications to the customer.
See it in action
You ask your AI assistant
"Approve booking #310."
Inputs
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| id | integer | Yes | Booking ID. |
Returns
The updated serialized booking with its status set to approved (returned by the underlying change-booking-status call).
Permission
The current user must have LatePoint's 'booking__edit' capability, and both the 'latepoint_abilities_api' and 'latepoint_abilities_api_edit' settings must be enabled. It delegates to the change-booking-status logic internally, which also verifies the current user is allowed to edit this specific record.
More LatePoint abilities
Add off period
Create a new off/blocked period so an agent, or the whole business, stops accepting bookings for a date range.
Cancel booking
Cancel a booking while keeping its record intact.
Change booking status
Set a booking to any valid status — approved, pending, cancelled, no_show, or completed.
Change invoice status
Update the payment status of an existing invoice, such as marking it paid or partially paid.
Change order status
Change the status of an order to open, cancelled, or completed.
Check slot availability
Check whether a given date/time slot for a service and optional agent is free of conflicting approved bookings.