Salon Booking System stores reservations as a custom post type, typically sln_booking in wp_posts, with service IDs, assistant (staff) IDs, start time, duration, status, and deposit details kept in wp_postmeta. Services and assistants are stored as related CPTs (such as sln_service and sln_assistant) and customers are sln_customer entries linked from each booking.

The default admin presents bookings as a calendar and a list with fixed columns. Cross-assistant filtering, deposit-paid queues, and bulk status changes are awkward because the deposit, assistant, and service fields live in postmeta and aren't first-class list columns.

SleekView reads the sln_booking CPT directly, pivots postmeta keys like _sln_b_start, _sln_b_assistant_id, _sln_b_service_id, and the deposit flag into named columns, and joins to the service and assistant CPTs for friendly names. Edits route back through Salon Booking System's own status-change methods so notifications still go out.

Salons are paced by appointments and staffed by assistants whose schedules barely overlap. The salon owner needs to see today's bookings across every stylist, every service, and every payment status, all at once. Salon Booking System stores the data to answer that question, but its calendar and list views show one slice at a time and the deposit and assistant fields hide in postmeta.

The cost is daily: a pending booking nobody confirmed, a deposit that should have been chased, a stylist arriving without knowing who their morning is for. SleekView surfaces every booking attribute as a real column. Filters combine, edits route through the plugin's own status changes so notifications keep working, and each assistant can pin a private view scoped to their own ID.

The owner gets the full salon on one screen and reception works the morning from one grid instead of three tabs.