BookingPress saves every appointment as a row in bookingpress_appointment_bookings, with a booking_status column whose values are pending, approved, canceled, and completed, plus any custom values your workflow plugins have registered. The default BookingPress admin shows the records as a calendar and a flat list, both of which surface time as the primary axis. That makes browsing easy but triage hard: you cannot see how many appointments are still awaiting your approval or how many of yesterday's approved slots actually completed.

SleekView Kanban reads the same BookingPress tables, picks booking_status as the natural axis to group by, and renders one column per status. Cards show the customer name, the service, the assigned staff member, the appointment start, the payment status, and the total. Filters let each provider open their own board and only see their own appointments, so the studio's noise stays out of an individual's pipeline.

Drag a card from Pending Approval to Approved and SleekView calls BookingPress's appointment endpoint, which means the configured customer notification email and SMS fire, calendar sync runs, and any third-party hooks behave exactly as if you had clicked the status dropdown by hand. Drag to Canceled and BookingPress's cancellation logic runs, including the refund hook your payment gateway exposes.

BookingPress already handles the hard parts of running an appointment business: it captures the slot, takes the payment, sends the reminder, and links the customer record. What it does less well is help you see the stages those appointments move through. A pending appointment needs approval.

An approved appointment needs to happen. A completed appointment needs to be marked completed so reporting reflects reality. A canceled appointment may need a refund and a follow-up.

Those four verbs are the entire workflow, but the calendar view hides them inside a tiny status pill in the corner of each event. A kanban view promotes status to the primary axis of the screen, which means the day's real workload becomes visible in one look. Staff see how many pending requests are still waiting and reach for them first.

They see how many approved slots remain outstanding by close. They see how many completed appointments piled up. Drag becomes the verb that moves the work forward, and because the writes call BookingPress's own endpoints, the customer experience and the reporting stay identical to what you already trust.