Booking Calendar is a WordPress app, with a 4.7 average rating from 652 reviews, as of July 8, 2026.
Booking Calendar is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by wpdevelop. With a rating of 4.7★ from 652 reviews.
AppRanks data: Booking Calendar ranks #0 in Appointment booking on WordPress Plugin Directory, placing it in the top 1% of that category.
AppRanks verdict
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Booking Calendar is a highly rated WordPress app with a growing review traction. It is listed in the Booking calendar category on WordPress Plugin Directory, which AppRanks treats as the canonical taxonomy node for ranking and competitor comparison. 652 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 (4.7★) signals consistent merchant satisfaction
- +Published by wpdevelop — established developer track record
Cons
- −Sparse visual evidence (0 screenshots) — harder to evaluate the UX before installing
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How Booking Calendar works
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Booking Calendar – Booking Plugin for Appointments, Reservations, Rentals, Events WP Booking Calendar is a flexible WordPress booking plugin for appointments, reservations, rentals, and events. Add a responsive availability calendar and booking form to your website, accept online bookings, and manage them from a modern admin panel.
Use Booking Calendar for full-day bookings, time-slot appointments, service scheduling, event registration, inquiry forms, request forms, or even as a simple multi-steps contact form with built-in request listing and email notifications.
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Best for appointments, service scheduling, property rentals, equipment rentals, consultations, classes, events, and availability management.
Key Features
Block unavailable time intervals by resource and date range
Create admin bookings from selected available time slots
Configure global availability rules with live preview
Accept full-day and time-slot bookings
Show calendar availability on your website
Create booking, contact, and inquiry forms
Use the new Drag & Drop Booking Form Builder
Build multi-step forms with rows and columns
Customize form fields and email notifications
Prevent double bookings
Manage bookings in a clear admin panel
Sync bookings with external services using .ics feeds
Import Google Calendar events
Works for properties, services, rentals, and events
New Time Slots Availability & Fast Admin Booking Manage unavailable time intervals visually from Booking Calendar > Availability or directly from the bookings workflow using the new Time Slots Availability popup.
Administrators can choose a date range and block or unblock exact time intervals in an interactive timeline. The timeline clearly shows available, booked, unavailable, and full-day unavailable states, and full-day unavailable states, making it much easier to understand real availability at a glance.
Administrators can also create a new booking directly from an available time interval. Simply select an available time slot in the popup, open the booking form with the selected resource, date, start time, and end time already prefilled, and save it as a new booking.
This makes Booking Calendar especially useful for appointment scheduling, service bookings, consultations, rentals, and any workflow where administrators need to quickly review availability and create bookings from the WordPress admin panel.
New Drag & Drop Booking Form Builder Create booking forms visually without manually editing complex shortcodes or form code. Simply drag fields from the sidebar, drop them into the canvas, organize them into rows and columns, edit settings in the sidebar, and preview changes instantly.
The new builder also makes it easy to create contact and inquiry forms where the calendar is optional.
With the new interface, you can:
drag and drop fields into the form layout,
organize fields into sections and columns,
create multi-step form pages,
resize columns for better layout control,
edit field settings in the right sidebar,
instantly preview the form while building.
This new functionality brings a more modern, user-friendly, and flexible way to create forms in Booking Calendar, making form setup faster, clearer, and much more convenient for website owners.
Perfect solution for any booking logic As the first booking system for WordPress, we have created a huge number of features to match your specific booking needs.
Easily define available dates and allow your visitors to reserve your property or service for a full day or time-slot.
For those who need more advanced functionality, our premium versions offer an extensive system with multiple resources, seasonal prices, conditional dates selection, availability search, and even a multi-user system where users can independently manage their own availability, much like an Airbnb portal.
Full Day Bookings – Drag and Drop Booking Form Builder Easily configure Booking Calendar for full-day bookings with the new Drag and Drop Booking Form Builder. The new Booking Calendar Form Builder makes it much easier to create flexible booking forms without manually editing form code. It is a simple and visual way to build booking forms for different use cases directly inside WordPress.
Appointment Forms with Time Slots or Start Time + Service Duration Selection Create a time-slot booking form in just a few minutes with the new Booking Calendar Form Builder. Visually add the calendar, time fields, and contact fields, adjust the layout, and preview changes instantly — without manually editing form code.
Changeover Multi-Day Bookings – Setup Wizard (Pro) Configure multi-day bookings with specific check-in and check-out days, clearly marked with diagonal or vertical lines. Perfect for bookings that require split days. Available Pro versions.
Category rankings
As of Jul 8, 2026- Appointment booking#0of 29Top 1%
- Booking calendar#0of 36Top 1%
- Booking form#0of 8Top 1%
- Reservations#0of 24Top 1%
- Events#5of 396Top 2%
- Contact Form#15of 592Top 3%
- _browse_blocks#58of 427Top 14%
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Keyword rankings
Booking Calendar ranks for 13 keywords across WordPress Plugin Directory. Here are the top 3:
- Rank #88
- Rank #108
- 3.faqRank #109
Competitors & alternatives
Booking Calendardoesn't have curated competitor matchups yet. Other tracked booking calendar apps on WordPress:
Where Booking Calendar stands in the Booking calendar category
Booking Calendar ranks #0 of 36 apps in the Booking calendar category, placing it in the top 1% of the listing.
Frequently asked questions
What is Booking Calendar?
Booking Calendar is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 4.7-star rating from 652 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on a daily refresh cycle. It is listed under the Booking 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 wpdevelop.