Get pending bookings count 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 →Get pending bookings count
Read-onlyGet the total number of bookings currently awaiting confirmation.
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 takes no inputs and simply counts every booking in the system whose status is pending, returning that total as a single count field. It's a lightweight way for an AI assistant to check whether there are bookings that need attention without pulling back the full list of pending records. The count reflects all pending bookings at the time of the call, with no date filtering applied.
See it in action
You ask your AI assistant
"How many bookings are currently pending?"
Returns
An object with a single 'count' field (integer) holding the total number of bookings currently in pending status.
Permission
The current user must have LatePoint's 'booking__view' capability, and the site's 'latepoint_abilities_api' Abilities API setting must be enabled.
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