No. BirchPress still owns the booking flow, the front-end widget, the calendar syncs, the reminders, and the storage schema. SleekView is a back-office grid for staff. If you remove SleekView, BirchPress continues to run exactly as it did before, with no data left behind, because SleekView never created its own tables.

Yes. Updates go through the plugin's own update paths so triggers fire as expected. Email reminders, ICS feed refreshes, and any custom hooks you have wired up to BirchPress events all behave the same as if a staff member used the native admin. There is no parallel save path that bypasses the plugin's own logic.

Yes. Any meta on the booking, client, or service can be added as a column. For services with intake forms, the form answers can become per-service columns that only show when the relevant service is filtered. This avoids the confusion of empty columns for services that do not use those fields.

Yes. Location is a first-class filter and column, so a practice with three locations can give each location its own saved view of today's appointments. Cross-location operations, like covering a clinician's appointments at another site, become easy because the grid never forces you to pick one location.

Yes. Per-role row scoping limits visibility per staff capability, which means a clinician sees only their own appointments by default. Practice managers and front desk staff get full visibility. The capability check uses BirchPress's own staff-to-user mapping, so there is nothing extra to maintain.

It reads through the standard data layer, so it works with current free and paid editions. Older BirchPress versions with table schema changes are tested before release; if you are on a release predating active maintenance, the grid still reads correctly because the core table structure has been stable for years.

Yes. A row action can trigger BirchPress's own reminder send for that appointment. The email template, the timing, and the sending integration are all unchanged; the grid simply gives the front desk a one-click path to invoke it without opening the appointment editor.

Recurring appointments show as separate rows for each occurrence, which is what you want for daily operations. The grid retains a parent reference column so you can filter to all occurrences of a recurring series when a clinician needs to reschedule the whole sequence.