---
title: "Installation — Appointments for Laravel | Roundly"
description: "Install via Composer, publish the publish-only migrations for appointments and its provider packages, then optionally the config."
url: https://roundly-consulting.com/open-source/docs/appointments-for-laravel/installation
language: en
---

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# Installation

Require the package. The service provider and the Appointments facade alias are auto-discovered — no manual registration:

```bash
composer require roundly-consulting/appointments-for-laravel
```

## Publish-only migrations

The package never loads its migrations, so php artisan migrate alone creates nothing. Publish them into your app’s database/migrations first — once published they are yours, and they run in the order they were published: appointments, then participants, then the venue location columns:

```bash
php artisan vendor:publish --tag="appointments-migrations"
php artisan migrate
```

## Provider package tables

Appointments builds on six Roundly provider packages that Composer installs alongside it. Their migrations are publish-only as well, so publish the ones the bundled Appointment model relies on — approval requests, contacts and reviews, plus media-library’s media table, which the reviews rating summary reads:

```bash
php artisan vendor:publish --tag="approvals-migrations"
php artisan vendor:publish --tag="contacts-migrations"
php artisan vendor:publish --tag="reviews-migrations"
php artisan vendor:publish --tag="media-migrations"
php artisan migrate
```

These are not optional. Skip one and the first call that reads it fails with a missing-table QueryException — ics() and toIcs() read the contacts table for the ORGANIZER and ATTENDEE lines, an approval-gated booking writes approval\_requests, and ratingSummary() reads reviews and media.

geolocation-for-laravel adds no table of its own — venue coordinates live on the appointments table.

## Configuration (optional)

The config file is optional — every key has a working default. Publish it to swap models, rename tables, change the participant key type or the behaviour defaults:

```bash
php artisan vendor:publish --tag="appointments-config"
```

appointments-config and appointments-migrations are the only publish tags. Status, role and frequency labels come from the enums-for-laravel Helpers trait, so there are no language files to publish.

## Check the setup

The effective configuration is summarised in Laravel’s about command:

```bash
php artisan about --only=appointments
```

## Next steps

- Add the HasAppointments trait to every model that takes part in appointments — see Participants.
- Get to know the entry point — see The Appointments facade.
- Book your first appointment with the fluent builder — see Creating appointments.
- Decide whether double-booking protection should be on for every call — see Conflict detection.

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