Appointment Hour Booking – Booking Calendar for WordPress Plugin Directory
By codepeople
Appointment Hour Booking – Booking Calendar is the #12 ranked calendar app on WordPress, with a 4.9 average rating from 521 reviews, as of Aug 31, 2026.
Appointment Hour Booking – Booking Calendar is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by codepeople. With a rating of 4.9★ from 521 reviews, it currently ranks #12 in the Calendar category.
AppRanks data: Appointment Hour Booking – Booking Calendar ranks #12 in Calendar on WordPress Plugin Directory, placing it in the top 3% of that category.
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Appointment Hour Booking – Booking Calendar is a category-leading WordPress app with a growing review traction. It is listed in the Calendar category on WordPress Plugin Directory, which AppRanks treats as the canonical taxonomy node for ranking and competitor comparison. 521 reviews show steady adoption but the app hasn't crossed the heavy-volume bar yet. Review accumulation at this stage tends to come from segment-specific use cases rather than universal adoption, so fit-to-stack matters more than category-leader brand recognition. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +High average rating (4.9★) signals consistent merchant satisfaction
- +Published by codepeople — established developer track record
Cons
- −No declared third-party integrations on the listing — verify compatibility with your existing tools before installing
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How Appointment Hour Booking – Booking Calendar works
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Appointment Hour Booking is a WordPress plugin for creating booking forms for appointments with a start time and a defined duration over a schedule. The start time is visually selected by the end user from a set of start times calculated based in the “open” hours and service duration. The duration/schedule is defined in the “service” selected by the customer. Each calendar can have multiple services with different duration and prices.
This plugin is useful for different cases like booking of medical services where services with different duration and prices may be available, for personal training sessions, for booking rooms for events, for reserving language classes or other type of classes and other type of services/resources booking where start times are selected and the availability is automatically managed using the defined service duration to avoid double-booking (the booked time is blocked once the booking is completed).
Main Features:
Easy visual configuration of calendar data and schedules
Working dates, invalid/holiday dates and special dates can be defined
Supports restriction of default, maximum and minimimum dates
Open hours can be defined for each date
Each calendar can have multiple services defined
Each service can have its own price and duration
Start-times are calculated automatically based in the open hours and service duration
Available times are managed automatically to avoid double-booking
Multiple services can be selected on each booking
Services can have multiple capacity
Automatic price calculation
Customizable email notifications for administrators and users
Form validation and built it anti-spam captcha protection
Manual and automatic CSV reports
iCal addon with iCal export link and iCal file attached into emails
Calendar available in 53+ languages
Multiple date formats supported
Blocks for Elementor and Gutenberg
Multi-page calendars
Printable appointments list
Features in commercial versions:
Visual form builder for creating the booking form fields
Booking form can be connected to payment process (Ex: PayPal Standard, PayPal Pro, Stripe, Skrill, Authorize.net, TargetPay/iDEAL, Mollie/iDEAL, SagePay, Redsys)
Payments are SCA ready (Strong Customer Authentication), compatible with the new Payment services (PSD 2) – Directive (EU)
Addons for integration with external services: reCaptcha, MailChimp, SalesForce, WooCommerce and others
Addons with additional features: appointment cancellation addon, appointment reminders addon, clickatell and twilio SMS add-ons, signature fields, iCal synchronization, Google Calendar API, Zoom Meetings …
Appointment Hour Booking can be used for: Booking services or resources: Define schedule, open hours, services, prices and durations and let the calendar plugin manage the schedule.
Sample cases: Medical services, personal training, resource allocation, booking rooms, classes, etc…
The services can have a maximum capacity (example: number of persons that can book/attend the service at the same time). The default capacity is 1. If the service capacity has been set to 1 the time-slot will be blocked for new bookings after getting one booking. If the service capacity has been set to a greater number (example: service with capacity 10) the time-slot will be blocked after filling the capacity (example: after getting bookings for a total of 10 persons). This feature is described in detail at https://apphourbooking.dwbooster.com/blog/2019/01/24/bookings-for-multiple-persons/
The Troubleshoot Area Use the troubleshot if you are having problems with special or non-latin characters. In most cases changing the charset to UTF-8 through the option available for that in the troubleshot area will solve the problem.
You can also use this area to change the script load method if the booking calendar isn’t appearing in the public website.
The Notification Emails The notification emails with the appointment data entered in the booking form can sent in “Plain Text” format (default) or in “HTML” format. If you select “HTML” format, be sure to use the BR or P tags for the line breaks into the text and to use the proper formatting.
Exporting Appointments to CSV / Excel Files The appointment data can be exported to a CSV file (Excel compatible) to manage the data from other applications. That option is available from the “bookings list”, the appointments can be filtered by date and by the text into them, so you can export just the needed appointments to the CSV file.
Other Versions and Features The free version published in this WordPress directory is a fully-functional version for accepting appointments as indicated in the plugin description. There are also commercial versions with additional features, for example:
Ability to process forms/appointments linked to payment process (PayPal, Stripe, Skrill, …)
Form builder for a visual customization of the booking form
Addons with multiple additional features
Payments processed through the plugin are SCA ready (Strong Customer Authentication), compatible with the new Payment services (PSD 2) – Directive (EU) that comes into full effect on 14 September, 2019.
Please note that the pro features aren’t advised as part of the free plugin in the description shown in this WordPress directory. If you are interested in more information about the commercial features go to the plugin’s page: https://apphourbooking.dwbooster.com/download
Category rankings
As of Sep 4, 2026- Calendar#12of 434Top 3%
- Block-enabled#103of 427Top 25%
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Keyword rankings
Appointment Hour Booking – Booking Calendar ranks for 7 keywords across WordPress Plugin Directory. Here are the top 3:
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- Rank #191
Competitors & alternatives
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Frequently asked questions
What is Appointment Hour Booking – Booking Calendar?
Appointment Hour Booking – Booking Calendar is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 4.9-star rating from 521 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. It is listed under the Calendar category on AppRanks, where you can see its current category position, review-velocity trend, and how it compares against the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by codepeople.
Who uses Appointment Hour Booking – Booking Calendar?
Currently around 10,000 active stores have installed Appointment Hour Booking – Booking Calendar. Its review base of 521 suggests adoption is concentrated in growth-stage and mid-market stores. It is part of the Calendar category on WordPress.
Where does Appointment Hour Booking – Booking Calendar rank on WordPress?
Appointment Hour Booking – Booking Calendar currently sits at position #12 in the Calendar category on WordPress. That places it in the top 3% of 434 apps tracked in the same category. Category positions are read from the live marketplace ranking and refresh on each scrape, so the number you see here reflects the most recent crawl rather than a long-running average.