10+ Best Appointment Booking WordPress Plugins (Paid & Free)

The number of plugins available on WordPress is overwhelming and it becomes hard to choose the best one for your business.

If you are a business owner who relies on reservations, it is obvious that you should use a good and reliable plugin for handling bookings, appointments, and reservations.

Such plugins not only make the whole process simpler but also help you get more bookings and reservations thus helping you grow your business.

There are many WordPress booking plugins that will make it difficult for you to choose the perfect one. This is why I did some research on the best WordPress plugins for booking reservations and have listed the best ones below.

So are you ready to explore these plugins to get more bookings through your website? Let’s begin!

1. Bookly

Bookly Appointment Booking and Scheduling plugin is an automated booking plugin that allows you to customize your booking and appointment system in many different ways.

This plugin offers full customization which allows you to customize booking forms, send SMS and email notifications, Google Calendar integration and more.

Apart from just making the booking customization easy for you, Bookly helps you make the booking journey easier for your clients. The client can book an appointment in anywhere from 2 to 6 steps only.

Here are the steps your client will have to follow to book an appointment using this plugin:

• Step 1. Choose service, time, and staff member.
• Step 2. Pick time slot.
• Step 3. Book multiple appointments (optional for clients).
• Step 4. User information.
• Step 5. Payment.
• Step 6. Booking confirmation.

It’s as simple as that.

What I love about the plugin the most is its clean UI. It helps make the booking process simple and less confusing.

Here are some features of the plugin:

• Easy admin panel.
• Sleek design.
• Customization of form fields, colors, text etc.
• SMS and email notification.
• Seamless mobile integration.
• Add unlimited services and staff members.
• Multi-language support.

• WooCommerce integration.
• Simple customer management.
• Create and distribute coupons.
• Variable pricing for staff members.
• Custom schedules for staff members.
• Google Calendar integration.
• Secure payments.

The list goes on as Bookly offers a ton of features that will help you with managing bookings and reservations.

In my opinion, this plugin offers many features that will help you not only just manage bookings but also get more bookings. The plugin is available for $89.

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2. Amelia

Amelia is an Enterprise-Level Appointment and Event Booking Plugin for WordPress websites suitable for businesses that require appointment and event bookings, this software solution works around the clock, pairs appointments with employee availability, manages changes and cancellations, sends out reminders, and collects payments. Aside from occasionally clicking on a button to check status, you don’t have to do much of anything. With Amelia, you can make events as well and list them on a nice looking event page with photos and descriptions. 

If you want to use Amelia as an appointment booking plugin you have options to create multiple services, employees and locations, create a specific working schedule for each employee including adding services to only specific days and periods of time, and you can also create special days with a totally different schedule from the general one.

Amelia can handle payments online, or you can choose for your customers to pay on-site. If you choose to accept online payment, Amelia offers PayPal, Strype, and Integration with WooCommerce so you can use various payment methods, including taxes and invoices as well as the option to add one tax for all services. Additionally, you can create coupons that can be used for a discount, one of the options is to send coupons automatically when customer books a certain number of appointments, define a notification interval (e.g. issue a coupon after 5 appointments), configure whether the coupon should be generated every time when the defined number of appointments is reached or just the first time, also the usage limit by the customer can be set.

Amelia offers 3 booking forms for appointment booking, all of them are fully customizable, so they fill like native part of your website and you can choose colors that fit your business branding. The “Step-By-Step Booking Wizard” gives your customers the option to choose everything about the booking in a few steps, or you can use the “Front-end Booking Catalog” view when you want to show your service in the form of a catalog, if you prefer to give your customers the possibility to search for appointments by selecting several filters so that they could find the best time slots and services for their needs, you can go with “Front-end Booking Search” view. 

Here are some cool features of the plugin:

• Email and SMS Notifications
• Insightful dashboard and reporting
• Configure the minimum time required before booking and before canceling
• Buffer time before and after service
• Support for Service Extras
• Full financial details of the payments
• Customizable design
• Discount coupons for bookings
• Configure global working hours, breaks and days off for the company
• Custom Fields for booking forms
• Google Calendar Synchronization
• Manage multiple locations
• Employees can work in multiple locations

You should know that all the features are available in a single license, so no addons and no additional costs, the price for this plugin for a single domain $59, you get a whole year of regular updates and full customer support.

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3. Simply Schedule Appointments

Simply Schedule Appointments is an incredibly easy-to-use appointment scheduling plugin for WordPress. Currently used by 10,000+ businesses, Simply Schedule Appointments is known for its 5-minute setup, a robust list of features and integrations, and same-day customer support.

Businesses that use Simply Schedule Appointments can easily set up and add their first booking form to their WordPress website in less than five minutes with the help of an interactive setup wizard.

Additionally, Simply Schedule Appointments integrates with popular page builders like Elementor, Divi, and Beaver Builder, so you can easily drag-and-drop your booking form wherever you’d like on your website.

One thing to highlight about this plugin is its 5-star review average in the WordPress repository. Their dedicated customer support team is known for providing quick responses and being willing to jump on live Zoom calls to troubleshoot any issues you might run into.

Notable Simply Schedule Appointments features:

• Book unlimited appointments
• Create unlimited appointment types
• Send customizable notification emails and texts
• Customize the style of your booking form to match your brand
• Add custom fields to your booking forms
• Track goals and conversions
• Book classes and group events
• Accept payments for appointments

Their list of current integrations:

• Google Calendar
• Mailchimp
• PayPal
• Stripe
• Gravity Forms
• Formidable Forms
• LifterLMS
• Elementor
• Divi
• Beaver Builder

If you’re interested in trying Simply Schedule Appointments, you’ll be happy to know they offer a Basic Edition, which is 100% free and includes several of the features listed above.

If you’re a business looking to get even more out of Simply Schedule Appointments, you can check out their premium editions, which start at just $99.

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4. Booknetic 

Booknetic is a multi-purpose appointment WordPress plugin that lets you easily automate online bookings on your website. 

This appointment scheduling plugin lets you add a clean and beautiful booking widget to your pages. This widget is highly customizable and allows you to choose what steps to enable, change their order, and customize their look. 

Speaking of customization, the plugin comes with a very intuitive form builder to help you design the perfect booking form for your services. 

You can drag and drop elements to the form and decide what information to collect for bookings. 

In the backend, Booknetic offers a very user-friendly admin dashboard where you can get a birds-eye view of the number of bookings, revenue generated, and other appointment details. 

Besides this dashboard, they also provide a detailed reporting dashboard with filtering capabilities to let you extensively analyze your performance. 

Here are the key features of the Booknetic WordPress plugin: 

• Form builder
• Highly customizable widget
• Reorder booking steps
• Email notifications & reminders
• Recurring events
• Deposit payments
• Insightful dashboard
• Group appointment 
• Custom services option
• Calendar view
• Multiple locations booking support
• Coupons support

Let’s take a look at the pricing of this plugin: 

The plugin costs $79 for a single site license and has six months of updates and support. There’s also an option to extend support to 12 months for an additional $27.75. 

There’s no doubt that Booknetic is an excellent plugin for booking and scheduling and appointments. 

It has great features, is very user-friendly, and is affordable, making it perfect for your website. 

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5. Booking Calendar

If you’re looking for a free WordPress booking plugin, then Booking Calendar is for you. Unlike Bookly and BirchPress, this plugin is free.

With this plugin, your site visitors and check the availability of the service you are offering and book an appointment easily.

The plugin offers the ability to select days in the calendar for booking, fill different forms while booking, and submit the booking.

Compared to Bookly and BirchPress, this plugin doesn’t offer much but is quite good if you want to use a free plugin.

But that doesn’t mean this plugin is not good. Booking Calendar has a beautifully designed admin panel, admins can approve and decline appointments, see all bookings in different methods etc.

Here are some features of the Booking Calendar plugin:

• Customizable Calendar Design.
• Responsive.
• Shortcode Support.
• Form Customization.
• Prevent Double Bookings.
• Email Notifications.
• Google Calendar Sync.
• Customizable Design.
• Multi-language Support.
• Widget Support.

This plugin is the best free solution if you want to book appointments, meetings, reservations etc.

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6. Easy Appointments

Easy Appointments is another free plugin in our list of WordPress booking plugins. You can manage appointments easily using this plugin.

As a free plugin, it supports email notifications which is really great. The plugin supports multiple languages.

It provides Google Calendar sync, WooCommerce integration, iCalendar sync, PayPal integration and Twilio SMS notifications.

These are the features provided by Easy Appointments WordPress plugin:

• Multiple Locations, Services, and Staff Members.
• Dedicated Calendar for Each Staff Member and Service.
• Email Notification Support.
• Responsive Layout.
• Custom Form Fields Support.
• Add Custom Currency.
• Hide Price.
• Reports for Admin.
• Import/Export Data.

Easy Appointments is a plugin you must try if you’re a small business and are looking to manage appointments without any complexity.

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7. WordPress Appointment Booking

The WordPress Appointment plugin by MotoPress enables online appointments on any service business website. It suits beauty studios, tutoring centers, clinics, spa salons, yoga instructors, life coaches, teachers, and more related niches. A mobile-friendly booking wizard works for step-by-step service scheduling. 

You can create an unlimited number of employees and add any number of services and customize them. For example, set custom duration and add buffer times between actual appointments. Schedules may include lock-out hours, lunch breaks, vacations, and days off. 

Your clients will be allowed to make an appointment for a group or individual. This plugin smoothly integrates with Elementor, Gutenberg, and Divi page builders. 

This WordPress scheduling plugin also provides such features as:

• Payments via Stripe, PayPal, direct bank transfer, or upon arrival
• Multiple appointments reservation
• A centralized admin bookings calendar
• Sync bookings with an employee’s Google Calendar
• New Appointment Manager and Appointment Employee user roles
• Discount coupons
• Easy-to-manage bookings
• Edit existing bookings
• Automated email notifications

You’ll get this powerful toolkit and a yearly license for support and automatic updates at $59 for a single site and at $199 for unlimited sites.

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8. Booked

If you love good design, then you’re going to love this plugin. This plugin’s design is so slick that you will just want to add it on your website. It will make your website look attractive.

But looks aren’t the only thing this plugin is good at. Booked is a very powerful booking and appointments plugin that supports multiple calendars, assigning booking agents to each booking, guest booking etc.

You can set custom time slots for booking, create custom fields for the booking process, and manage appointments seamlessly with your client’s profile page.

Booked also supports multiple colors for your calendar design, you can add a widget of the calendar anywhere using a shortcode. The plugin is also responsive and works flawlessly on all devices.

Here’s some great features of this plugin:

• Shortcode and Widget Support.
• Custom Time Slots.
• Backend Dashboard for Booking Management.
• Custom Login for Clients/Customers.
• Custom Fields for Booking Form.
• Color Customizations.
• Multiple Color Support for Calendar.
• Multi-language Support.
• Google Calendar Sync.
• Customizable Emails and Notifications.
• Responsive and Front-end and Back-end.

This plugin provides so many great features and I would say it’s as good as Bookly plugin. The advantage this plugin has over Bookly is that it’s cheap at the price of only $29.

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9. WP Simple Booking Calendar

As the name suggests, this is a really simple booking calendar. It’s free and it doesn’t have amazing features like BirchPress, Booked, and Bookly have.

With this plugin, you can display a calendar to show visitors your availability dates. It doesn’t have any booking form or features that allow direct booking.

In a nutshell, it simply shows your availability. It’s a good plugin if you just want to display the dates when you’re available.

Apart from the basic features provided in the free version of the plugin, you can get the following features in the premium version:

• Create Unlimited Calendars.
• Display Multiple Months.
• Hide Booking History from Visitors.
• Shortcode Support.
• User Management.
• Widget Support.
• Responsive.
• Calendar Sync.
• Import/Export Data.

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10. Dokan WooCommerce Booking

Dokan WooCommerce Booking is an extension module for the Dokan Multivendor WordPress plugin. 

With this extension module, you can allow vendors to create bookable products on your website. You can use this for creating hotel, resort, and car bookings. 

You will be able to create any service-based marketplace on your WooCommerce site using this plugin addon. 

Do note that you’ll need three plugins to use the Dokan WooCommerce booking add-on: 

1. WooCommerce
2. Dokan Multivendor plugin
3. Dokan WooCommerce Booking addon 

The plugin is highly configurable and lets you customize the booking duration, calendar, display mode, availability range, and more. 

Here are the features of this plugin: 

• Multiple time blocks for booking
• Product categorization
• Add buffer time in between bookings
• Limits to resources and people in bookings

While it may seem a bit redundant to install three plugins to use the Dokan WooCommerce Booking plugin, it’s actually quite helpful in terms of making bookings easy on your website. 

If you already use the Dokan Multivendor plugin or WooCommerce, then this plugin is perfect for you. The add-on costs $49 for 1 year for a single-site license. 

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11. Team Booking

Team Booking allows you to use your calendar to schedule your availability. The plugin integrates seamlessly with Google Calendar.

Team Booking works in three simple steps:

• Create an Event in Google Calendar.
• It becomes a free slot on your website.
• After booking, the event is updated.

Here are some features of the plugin:

• Timezone Selection.
• Create Unlimited Services.
• PayPal and Stripe Payment Support.
• Approval and Cancel System.
• Customizable Forms.
• Email Notifications.
• Maps Support.
• Responsive.

Team Booking makes booking very simple for your website visitors and if you rely Google Calendar a lot for appointments, then this plugin is a must try for you.

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12. Pinpoint Booking System Pro

This plugin displays a beautiful calendar on your website where visitors can see your availability and book an appointment.

 It gives you the ability to create unlimited booking calendars. You can also create promos number of items available for each day, set different price, set the status of services etc.

The plugin supports multiple languages and also comes with WooCommerce integration. Apart from this, the plugin also supports multi-currency. This is the feature that lacks in many booking plugins. Adding taxes and fees is also a nifty little feature supported in this plugin.

Here are some more features of this plugin:

• Custom Booking Forms.
• PayPal support.
• Multiple CSS templates
• Widget support
• Email notification support
• Coupons/Voucher support
• Create and Set booking rules

This plugin is great and you might think it’s very expensive. But you’re wrong. The plugin is available for only 5$. Sounds like a great deal to me.

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13. Booki

Booki is a WordPress plugin for managing bookings and appointments. The plugin is perfect for you if you’re a small business like a salon, fitness coach, teacher, or provide services.

With Booki, you can create unlimited booking projects and also view the stats and summary of your bookings. This helps in tracking performance which is a feature I really liked.

The types of bookings available in this plugin are: single day booking, multiple days bookings, and time-slot bookings.

The plugin supports PayPal Express but what one feature that’s really good is that you can send direct invoices via email to your clients for offline payment. This feature comes in very handy for clients who prefer offline payments. You can enable book now or pay later options at the same time.

Booki also comes with these features:

• Google Calendar Sync.
• Custom Form Fields.
• Set Up Reminders.
• Create Coupons.
• Set Quantity of Elements.
• Display List of Attendees

Booking plugins like BirchPress and Bookly have many features but Booki has come really specific features that can really help your business. My advice is to give this plugin a look before deciding one.

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Conclusion: Which Is The Best WordPress Booking Plugins?

So these were 10 best WordPress booking plugins you can use to set up a booking and appointment system for your website.

From these 10 plugins, I would totally recommend Bookly because it has all the features and looks really attractive. Bookly plugin will give your website a different look and will help you get more appointments.

But if the price is a concern to you, then Booking Calendar is a plugin made for you. It’s totally free and provides features that are too good for a free plugin.

And before making a decision, do check out the other plugins as may have some feature that could really help you. If you’re having a difficulty in making a choice, first decide what kind of functionality and features you want to add to your booking system and then check if these plugins have those required features.