Full Appointment & Scheduler Booking System in One Powerful WordPress Plugin
This efficient online scheduling plugin for WordPress offers a self-service scheduling system for 1-on-1 appointments.
Perfect for any B2C service like medical practitioners, wellness centers, or consultants, create multiple calendars on the same site, with unique booking forms, calendar owners, and moderation settings for each.
Customers can then book appointments automatically, or after moderation by submitting a booking request form.
Complete Tutorial
Overwhelmed? Check our complete guide on how to create and add calendars to your WordPress site.
Read now: How to Create a Calendar Booking System in WordPress.
Appointment Scheduling With the Appointments Booking Plugin
- Superb Online Booking Experience – User-friendly online booking software with a modern and customizable user interface. The best alternative for managing online appointments.
- Calendar Availability Management – Define booking periods using predefined dates in the calendar or repeating days in the week.
- Manage Session Length and Available Slots – Scheduling options allow you to easily define availability and session length – for instance, three hours duration with five openings.
- Approve Bookings Automatically or Manually – Book or schedule appointments automatically or moderate each appointment booking.
- Discussion Thread – If further discussion is needed to confirm the appointment, contact the customer directly from their booking request. All correspondence will be logged with the booking request and is viewable by both the admin and the customer.
- Pay For Booking – Payment support using WooCommerce or Easy Digital Downloads cart system with 50+ payment gateways. Requires the Booking Calendar Payment Addon
- Appointment Reminders – Send appointments reminders to both the customer and admin prior the scheduled appointment.
- Custom Booking Form – Customize your scheduling form using the form builder to gather essential pre booking information.
- Multiple Booking Calendars – Manage multiple calendars on the same site.
- Mobile-Friendly – Calendars automatically resize to display on mobile, making it easy to book both from mobile or desktop devices.
5 Simple Steps to Build an Appointment Calendar
- Create your booking calendar and set the moderator emails and session length
- Define recurring calendar availability on certain days and hours or specify available days
- Define vacation or holiday days – for instance Saturdays and Sundays.
- Customize the calendar booking form to include the information you require for each appointment
- Embed the dynamic booking calendar on any post or page by using a simple shortcode
What happens when a new booking appointment is received?
When a customer submits their booking, the calendar moderator receives an email that includes all the information the customer has submitted on the booking request form to make reservations.
Booking can also be automatically accepted if the calendar is set to accept online booking without moderation.
Appointments Booking Plugin Resources
Appointments Booking Plugin Related Use Cases
- How to Create a Calendar Booking System in WordPress
- How to Charge Users for Booking Appointments
- How to Let Users Manage Booking Calendars
- How to Export Calendar to Google/Windows/Apple Calendar And More
Appointments Booking Related Products
Appointments Booking Features
Please check the user guide to learn more about this plugin
Calendar Management
Slick Booking Calendar – Add calendars anywhere on your site, allowing users to book appointments easily | |
Multiple Calendars – Supports multiple calendars at the same time with individual scheduling preferences. Each calendar can have its own appointment form, event duration times, moderator, session length, availability period etc | |
Multiple Spots – Calendars can have multiple spots for each time slot. The Front-End view will display how many spots are available, if any. If the booking is full, it will be shown as blocked | |
Availability – Bookings include an advanced calendar feature set where you define the exact availability of calendar dates and times that customers are permitted to book. You can also define days off when booking is not permitted within the calendar (for instance, weekends) | |
Appointment Form – Each calendar has a unique booking form that includes all the necessary information to make bookings. The form is essential for managing scheduling requests and can include any number of fields and can be customized as needed. Also, this scheduling form comes with reCaptcha support | |
Min hours ahead for booking – For each calendar, you can define how many hours from the current time a user can book a new appointment | |
Max hours ahead for booking – Likewise, for each calendar, you can define how many hours from the current time a user can’t book a new appointment | |
Zoom Integration – Create a Zoom meeting for every booking and send the details to the user. Requires a free Zoom account. Learn more: Scheduling Zoom Meetings |
Moderation
Moderation – Bookings can be accepted automatically or can be moderated before acceptance. This setting is available for each calendar | |
Individual Moderator – Each calendar has a moderator who receives new booking notifications and can discuss booking requests with the customer |
Interface
Personalized Timezone – The calendar Front-End view is adjusted based on the customer’s timezone | |
Mobile Support – When a small screen device is detected, the responsive plugin will switch to Day view, which is adjusted to fit small screens and mobile | |
Multiple Views – Supports Day, Week and Month view on the meeting scheduler | |
Next available slot – Calendars always load the next available slot for new booking | |
Shortcode – The calendar can be added to any page or post using a simple shortcode | |
Ready to Translate – All plugins labels and messages are editable and can be adjusted to any language and terminology in the label settings |
User Interaction
Calendar Reminders – Send automatic reminders to the admin and customer before booking events start. Customize how many hours in advance notification emails will be sent | |
Notifications – Each booking creates notifications for both the moderator and the customer who has completed the booking | |
Discussion – If moderation is set to “yes”, appointment requests can be accepted, rejected or discussed. All discussions are held within the plugin appointment system, so both the moderator and customer can track them easily | |
Manual Booking – Manually add bookings from the admin dashboard | |
Reschedule Appointments – The admin can edit existing booking date to reschedule bookings. Once changed, a notification will be sent to the user |
WordPress Appointments Booking Editions and Pricing
Feature | Pro | Deluxe | Ultimate |
$39 | $69 | $119 | |
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$39 | $69 | $119 |
WordPress Appointments Booking Additional Addons and Modules
The following list is additional modules and addons which can be installed together with the Booking Calendar plugin and provide additional functionality
WordPress Appointments Booking Plugin Frequently Asked Questions
Please check the user guide to learn more about this plugin
How and where do I see the bookings?
Check out our documentation article to learn more.
How do I get an appointment scheduler to show up on my page?
Does the plugin support multiple calendars?
Can the admin manually add bookings?
Check out the user guide to learn more.
What type of fields can I include in the booking form
Does this plugin support appointment payment
Can appointments be automatically approved without moderation?
If clients must input payment information at the end of the booking, does the payment go through immediately or can it be held until the booking is approved?
If booking is moderated then client will be asked to pay ONLY after moderation is confirmed therefore he will not add his credit card information when making the booking but only once booking is approved. When booking is approved an email will be sent to him to pay for booking and if he fails to pay within set amount of time booking will be canceled.
If booking is not moderated then client will be required to pay immediately once making the booking.
WordPress Appointments Booking Plugin Online Demo
![]() ![]() ![]() | Book appointments to speak with a CreativeMinds representative |
![]() ![]() ![]() | This demo shows an online calendar which you can use to book appointments |
SITES USING THE WP BOOKING CALENDAR PLUGIN
WordPress Booking Calendar Plugin Gallery
Booking Calendar Plugin Reviews
- One of the bestThe plugin is one of the best I ever used. You can tailor the calendar and its options to your needs and it has everything that you may want. They have a very responsive and helpful customer support and I'm a member here for 4 years, having tried over 50 plugins. 5 stars is absolutely not enough! I highly recommend it.
- Best Booking PluginThis super responsive plugin is a great option for customer support and requires almost no maintenance. The ability to create and manage multiple calendars is a life-changing option especially when you have business offices in multiple countries and time zones. Booking is so much easier for everyone with this plugin!
- Top-notchWe use several calendars (beauty salons), each with their schedule. Not only functional, but the calendar looks pretty good too, and is responsive. Five starts
- Great for bookingAfter setting the calendar up, we started charging customers for appointments (requires an add-on, worth it). Minimal maintenance required
WordPress Booking Calendar Changelog
Version 1.4.9 31st March 2021
- Bug: Fixed bug with wp_localize_script (localizeTimezones is undefined)
Version 1.4.8 124th March 2021
- Feature: Added “Change Available Timezones” option Allows to choose timezones that will be displayed on frontend calendar
- Bug: Fixed bug when on timezone change, the calendar doesn’t reload
Version 1.4.7 12th March 2021
- Feature: “Days off” is now removed from the date picker on front-end
- Bug: Fixed bug with “Cancel booking” is not canceling the booking with modified permalinks settings
Version 1.4.6 5th March 2021
- Bug: Fixed bug with BuddyBoss plugin pre_get_posts hook
- Feature: Added cm_booking_list shortcode
- Bug: Fixed bug with “Hide timezone dropdown” option
Version 1.4.5 13th Dec 2020
- Feature: New general option “From Email”
- Feature: New general option “From Name”
- Feature: New general option “Show timezone in booking title”
- Label: New Label “Booking spots”
- Styling: Navigation buttons styling bugfix
- Minor fixes
Version 1.4.4 13th Oct 2020
- Feature: “Cancel booking” functionality for users within “Discussion form”
- Added new email templates
- Added new email placeholder {booking-cancel-link}
- Added new label “Cancel booking” for the button
- Minor fixes
Version 1.4.3 5th Oct 2020
- Added few filters/CSS classes for customizations
- Minor fixes
Version 1.4.2 30th Sep 2020
- Bug: Fixed bug in calendar schedule
Version 1.4.1 26th Aug 2020
- Added: “Direct payment” data support for CM Appointments Booking Payments Pro add-on option
- Minor fixes
Version 1.4.0 2nd Aug 2020
- Bug: Fixed bug which caused booking slots to disappear when they were accepted
- Feature: Added ability to create Zoom meetings on booking
- Feature: Notification placeholder – {booking-zoom-link} — link to Zoom meeting
- Feature: Notification placeholder – {booking-zoom-password} — Zoom meeting password
- Feature: New label category in Options – “Placeholders email notification defaults”
Version 1.3.16 6th Apr 2020
- Fixed: auto accept new booking issue
- Fixed: booking form disappears on mobile devices
Version 1.3.15 31st Mar 2020
- Fixed: auto accept new booking issue
Version 1.3.14 28th Feb 2020
- Fixed: Keeping time slot correct with Daylight Time Saving transfer
Version 1.3.13 30th Nov 2019
- Fixed: calendar view depending on option “View of calendar”
- Fixed: date/time format in Schedule “Days on” settings admin page
- Added: option “Small screen width” to set viewport width limit for mobile devices detection
Version 1.3.12 27th Nov 2019
- Minor fixes – booking time limits descriptions
Version 1.3.11 19th Oct 2019
- Feature: Added new attributes for calendar shortcode
- Feature: Added the option to change background color for the month days that have an event
Version 1.3.10 9th Oct 2019
- Bug: Fixed bug – booked and expired slots don’t show in month view
Version 1.3.9 28th July 2019
- Feature: Added the option to offer multiple event durations
- Bug: Fixed bug which didn’t allow to add manual booking
- Updated licensing package
Version 1.3.8 18th Apr 2019
- Fixed bug in the booking form when using Group Meetings Addon
- Updated licensing package
Version 1.3.7 28th Mar 2019
- Added option “Booking can’t be made after (hours)”
- Improved admin search on the Bookings page
- Added hooks for plugin addons
- Updated licensing package
Version 1.3.6 7th Mar 2019
- Added hook for plugin addons
- Fixed small bugs
Version 1.3.5 13th feb 2019
- Fixed bug which sent Reminder to a user two times
- Fixed bug which didn’t allow the calendar to load in Safari
- Updated licensing package
Version 1.3.4 10th Jan 2019
- Added option to hide dropdown with timezones
- Added option to set default timezone
- Added 4, 5 and 6 hours to Event Duration option
- Added hooks for plugin addons
- Updated licensing package
Version 1.3.3 3rd Dec 2018
- Added an option to show an email in booking title
- Added an option to ignore daylight savings calendar
- Fixed an issue with french calendar
Version 1.3.2 12th Aug 2018
- Added an attribute to choose view of calendar to shortcode
- Added an option to choose view of calendar
- Fixed timezone bug in calendar script
- Added french support to jquery datepicker
- Added options for month day format
- Added an option for week days label
Version 1.3.1 29th July 2018
- Fixed the bug with the slots being reopened on the booking rejection
- Updated the Licensing Package
Version 1.3.0 8th July 2018
- Added multispot option for all calendars
- Added option to allow users to see number of spots in the front-end
- Bug fixes
Version 1.2.5 22nd Oct 2017
- Added the new admin and user notifications X hours before the appointment
- Added the support for “min_date” and “max_date” attributes in the calendar shortcode
- Added the display of the shortcode on the calendar edit view
- Added the button allowing to display the button allowing to add to Google Calendar on Booking discussion page
Version 1.2.4 3rd Aug 2017
- Added mail placeholders for local WordPress timezone name and offset
- Added timezone information in booking status metabox and booking title
- Updated admin mail default templates
- Fixes for older PHP versions
Version 1.2.2 13th July 2017
- Better time zones handling
Version 1.2.1 8th July 2017
- Days on time select bugfix
Version 1.2.0 7th July 2017
- New days on feature
- Minor frontend bugfix
Version 1.1.4 29th June 2017
- Calendar templates encoding fix
Version 1.1.3 25th May 2017
- Updated licensing dashboard
Version 1.0.20 from 7th April 2017
- Added option to use categories from feed item
Version 1.1.2 23rd April 2017
- New licensing API fix
Version 1.1.1 19th April 2017
- New licensing API with addons and shortcodes details
- Added hooks for plugin addons
Version 1.1.0 13th April 2017
- New calendar theme
- Added hooks for plugin addons
Version 1.0.9 30th March 2017
- Fix reCaptcha related bug
Version 1.0.8 20th Feb 2017
- Added link to booking details directly from frontend calendar (for admin only)
Version 1.0.7 10th Feb 2017
- Plugin labels update
Version 1.0.6 4th Feb 2017
- Added server side booking form validation
- Added reCAPTCHA support
- Added hooks for plugin addons
- Bugfixes
Version 1.0.5 19th Jan 2017
- Added ajax date checking on manually booking adding or editing
- Added calendar scroll to top on form submit or cancel
- Some minor bugfixes
Version 1.0.4 16th Jan 2017
- Added ability to manually add booking and change date of existing bookings
- Added option to search for first open slot
- Added calendar month view
- Bug fixes
- Mobile view adjustments
Version 1.0.2 7th Jan 2017
- Added automatic acceptation option for calendars
- Added parameter defining how many days from current day bookings are allowed
- Calendar opens on the first open booking slot instead of “today”
- Small fixes and improvements
- labels and color for new state (booking no min ahead) are added,
- Reject button is visible always</
- Opening calendar on first open slot now is set up to 21 days ahead
Version 1.0.1 29th Dec 2016
- Added views support
- Added mobile view support
- Fixed bugs