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Top 6 Booking and Appointments Plugins for WordPress

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It’s no surprise that the internet changed the world, and it’s definitely changed how people run their businesses. Many small businesses such as Hair Salons, Spas, Therapists …etc used to receive phone calls in order to process their customers’ booking. But with the emergence of Online Booking Systems, this changed.

Since WordPress now run more than 31% of all websites on the internet. And it’s no longer a blog system or a CMS, using plugins you can extend it to unlimited usages. One of them is to use it as an Online Booking Systems. In this post, we explore the most famous booking plugins for WordPress. The list contains free and premium plugins.

Paid Plugins

Booked

 Active Installs: 7,000+   Community Rating: ‎★★★★ 1/2  Price: 49$

Booked has the ability to add multiple calendars with different time slots, this feature would help if you have many branches or if you would like to assign each calendar for a different employee. Moreover, it has the feature of Guest booking where customers can book a timeslot without registering. Also, the plugin offers custom fields and customized Customers profiles.

Team Booking

 Active Installs: 4,700+   Community Rating: ‎★★★★ 1/2  Price: 28$

Team Booking has nice calendar designs with the integration of Google Calendar. Furthermore, the plugin has the ability to accept payments via PayPal and Stripe. Also, discount coupons can be created and offered. In addition to a cancellation system where customers can cancel their appointments.

WooEvents – Calendar and Event Booking

 Active Installs: 2,000+   Community Rating: ‎★★★★★  Price: 35$

WooEvents is a premium WooCommerce extension with many awesome features. The fact that it depends on WooCommerce makes it more powerful. The plugin has no shortage of features, ranging from Recurring events to invoicing.

Free Plugins

Booking Calendar

Active Installs: 50,000+   Community Rating: ‎★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2  Downloads: 1,300,000+

Booking Calendar is a free and open source WordPress plugin which is easy to use and can fit a wide range of businesses. Moreover, it has a customizable design of the calendars in order to suit your website theme. Also, the plugin has calendar blocks for the Gutenberg editor to include calendars in any post or page.

Easy Appointments

Active Installs: 10,000+   Community Rating: ‎★★★★ 1/2  Downloads: 158,000+

Easy Appointments is a flexible time management plugin as it has the ability to create multiple locations, services, and workers. The plugin also has email notifications for most of the plugin actions. Also, it has the ability to customize the booking form and your own custom fields to meet your booking requirements.

Booking Ultra Pro Appointments Booking Calendar Plugin

Active Installs: 4,000+   Community Rating: ‎★★★★ 1/2  Downloads: 81,000+

Booking Ultra Pro has a wide list of features, most notably PayPal integration. Also, an automated invoicing system. Furthermore, a unique 4 steps booking process that makes the booking process easier. They also have a Premium version of the plugin where they have Google Calendar, MailChimp and Stripe integrations.

 

 

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