WordPress Appointment Booking Calendar
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.
Calendar Booking ViewsEasily manage your bookings by blocking out your availability or setting specific date and times that customers are allowed to book appointments.The calendar booking system automatically adjusts so customers view the calendar in their local time zone. |
Showing Calendar Availability and Booked Slots |
Set the session length and price for each booking slot. Customers can then book appointments automatically, or after moderation by submitting a booking request form.
Customize Your Calendar Booking FormThe calendar booking form can be customized to include any additional information you may require by adding any number of supplemental fields.The calendar owner can then communicate with customers before approving their booking based on the information provided on the booking form. The scheduling form is a handy way to ensure the admin has all the required information before accepting the booking request. |
Booking Form Example |
Easily Manage your BookingsThe appointment booking calendar integrates into any WordPress website using shortcode.Our calendar booking software has a user friendly interface that eliminates the back and forth communication in appointment booking. View all booking requests on one dashboard, where you can then easily approve, decline, or cancel appointments. |
Dashboard Displaying All Booking Requests |
Appointment Scheduling With the Booking Calendar 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 your 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.
Managing your Booking RequestThe online booking moderator can then approve, reject or communicate directly with the customer about the booking.All communication is done using a discussion form which is attached to the specific appointment, so both calendar moderator and customer can track the conversation until it is approved or declined. |
Showing Full Booking Request Details |
Booking can also be automatically accepted if the calendar is set to accept online booking without moderation.
Booking Calendar Plugin Resources
WordPress Booking and Appointment Plugin 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, 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 |
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 |
Booking Calendar Editions and Pricing
| Feature | Pro | Deluxe | Ultimate |
| $39 | $69 | $99 | |
| Multiple calendars support |  | | |
| Appointments form Manager | | | |
| Booking moderation | | | |
| Booking notifications | | | |
| Manual booking | | | |
| Multiple calendar views | | | |
| Mobile responsive | | | |
| Payment integration |  | | |
| Ical sync | | | |
| Group meetings | | | |
| Events | | | |
| User Defined Calendar | | | |
| $39 | $69 | $99 |
Booking Calendar 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
Booking Calendar Group Meeting
Allow multiple bookings for the same meeting. Serves as an event booking solution for your calendar
$29.00
Booking Calendar Payments
Supports payment for setting an appointment using the booking calendar. Based on WooCommerce or EDD cart with more than 50 payment gateway support.
$29.00
Booking Calendar iCal Sync
Supports exporting the booking calendar using an iCal feed. You can read this feed using Google calendar and other iCal calendars
$29.00
Booking Events Addon
Allows adding Event booking with a full event description page. Serves as an event booking solution for your calendar.
$29.00
User Booking Calendar
Supports user ability to manage his own booking calendar using a frontend interface. This includes defining his availability, manage booking requests and more
$29.00
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Booking Calendar Plugin Online Demo
 | This demo shows an online calendar wwhich you can use to book appointments |
SITES USING THE WP BOOKING CALENDAR PLUGIN
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- Appointment Calendar front-end view
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- Appointment approval / rejection dashboard
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- Appointment view from admin dashboard
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- Appointments grid in admin panel
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- Appointment booking form
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- Calendars management
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- Appointment form customizaer
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- Calendar days off setting
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- Calendar availability settings
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- Plugin general settings
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- Plugin notifications settings – 3
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- Plugin notifications settings – 2
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- Plugin notifications settings – 1
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- Plugin labels settings
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- Plugin colors settings
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- Bookings
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- Add New Booking
