Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar – Amelia vs BA Book Everything

Experience the most powerful booking system for appointments and event booking on WordPress! Amelia (wpamelia) is a reliable booking calendar that automates online appointment scheduling and event booking processes. Our easy-to-use scheduling and event booking WordPress plugin has an intuitive design and provides you and your clients with an unparalleled booking experience. Amelia’s booking calendar presents services and events in a perfectly organized and easy-to-navigate manner, enabling your clients to find the most convenient time slots for their appointments or to reserve their spots for upcoming events. Amelia Lite WordPress Booking Plugin is an excellent solution for appointment-based businesses, individuals, and event management agencies. Our booking system guarantees a comfortable and user-friendly experience. In addition, the whole booking calendar is designed with a mobile-first approach, and both the admin and customers will experience a booking system that works perfectly across various devices. A free appointment and event scheduling app gives your business the freedom to grow 📈 No more no-shows with email and SMS reminders and follow-ups. Reach global customers with automatically detected time/zones and online meetings and events. Developers and website admins love Amelia’s WP admin panel easy to understand and uses clean, concise code with webhooks. Amelia’s booking plugin features a new modern, smooth & fast appointment booking form optimized for conversion and ready in a minute. Who is the Amelia WordPress Booking Plugin For? Many businesses and individuals who depend on stable appointment booking, service booking, or event booking and scheduling on their WordPress websites can entirely rely on Amelia’s appointment and event booking system. Salon booking Features of our booking system salons love are automated reminders because their clients show up on time; payment integrations because they get paid on time; Google Calendar synchronization because it prevents double bookings; and more because running your salon has never been easier than with powerful booking system. Consultants Features of our appointment booking system consultants love are recurring appointments because they always have time for regulars and it offers them financial stability; group appointments because they can help more people at once; and video conferencing tool integrations because they cater to clients all over the world. Healthcare booking Healthcare service providers love using our WordPress booking plugin, especially features like custom input fields, service packages and promotions, and custom schedules for doctors and nurses because they provide top-notch care to patients without worrying about management. Education Education professionals especially love our scheduling features that allow them to show their availability calendar and book one-on-one and group classes without having to worry about administrative tasks. Fitness & Gyms Fitness specialists and gym staff love our WordPress booking plugin because clients can book 24/7, they can offer discount coupons with Amelia, and automate email and text notifications so clients always show up and get amazing results. Coaching sessions Coaches enjoy the power of an easy-to-navigate booking system with features like virtual sessions, 24/7 booking, high-converting booking forms, secure online payments, and coupon codes that boost loyalty. Personal and Professional Services Professional service providers especially love scheduling and availability calendars because clients can book appointments 24/7 and they can focus on delivering high-quality services. Any Event type Event booking has never been easier than with our Event booking WordPress plugin because it’s rich in features like dynamic ticketing, deposit payments, and recurring events. ⚠️ Important note: Certain integrations, unlimited number of employees, custom notifications, reminders, multilingual support, different ticket options for events, and other features are not available in Amelia Lite. If you want to know more about Amelia premium versions, please visit our official Amelia Booking home page. You can also try out Amelia before committing Amelia Demo. USEFUL LINKS 🔗 Official Page || Amelia Demos || Documentation || Youtube || Instagram || Twitter || Facebook || Discord Community || Premium Versions Amelia Lite Booking Plugin Features Amazing Deal Alert! We’ve partnered with SuperbThemes to bring you and your customers an unparalleled booking experience and more appointments than ever. As a result of this partnership, you get a FREE WordPress theme to use on your website integrated with Amelia’s booking system. You will literally get more online bookings than ever before, without any hassle as you get both the theme and the wpamelia booking system in all-in-one. Booking forms for online scheduling appointments and events management with a great user interface and user experience your customers will love. You can easily embed appointment booking forms with two shortcodes: – [ameliastepbooking] – [ameliacatalogbooking] By choosing one of them, you can choose whether you want to show the booking flow in a step-by-step view to your customers or you prefer the catalog view. With a catalog view, all services are presented in the form of cards. No coding or design skills are required to embed Amelia booking shortcode into your website – Amelia Booking shortcode Easily embeddable event-booking form with the [ameliaeventslistbooking] shortcode, which allows you to show your events in the form of a list where all the most important information will be shown: Event date and time, location, capacity, status, price, etc. Accept online payments through Square. A convenient Calendar view on the back-end, giving a complete overview of all scheduled appointments end events – Calendar Admin View Configuration of your provider’s details and working schedule so you can choose in which time frames you want to be available for booking – General Settings Creation of services and categories in which those services will be organised – Services and Service Categories Creation of Events that can last one or multiple days – Events Tracking your booking business’ KPIs in the Dashboard like revenue, percentage of load, number of approved appointments and daily ocuppancy. You can also take a look at your next upcoming appointments easily – Dashboard page Customization of booking confirmation Email and SMS notifications for both customers and the provider – Email and SMS notifications. Automatic prevention of double-booking. Picking a primary between 20+ languages. Setting the redirect URL on which the customers will be redirected after the booking. You can build your website pages with booking forms using Elementor, Divi, or Gutenberg blocks, and you can now choose between an on-page or pop-up booking form. Importing customers from a CSV file – Import Customers. Showing booking slots on the Calendar in the client’s time zone. Easy customization of the booking form to fit your branding – How to Customize ACCEPT ONLINE PAYMENTS FOR FREE We’re thrilled to announce an exciting new integration between Square and Amelia, that brings free payment processing to your fingertips! Now, even in the free version of Amelia, you can effortlessly accept payments for bookings and events using Square. Download Amelia Lite today, integrate it with Square, and forget about missed payments! What does Amelia Premium and Square integration mean for you? By integrating Amelia with Square, you can effortlessly accept online payments, providing clients with a secure and easy payment experience. Collect payments online, request deposit payments to reduce no-shows, offer refunds, and maintain full control over your bookings and payments at all times. This powerful integration improves your business operations, ensures smooth transactions, and improves client satisfaction. Premium Appointment and Event Booking Features Custom Service Duration – Define a single Service with multiple durations your customers can choose from, define different prices for these durations, and define different prices for those durations per employee. Resources – Ability to create shared or single resources that limit the bookings, available only in Pro and Elite licenses. Address Custom Fields – Customers can enter their address which is linked to Google Maps, so it is easier to find the location where you will provide your service. Pay via a link – A great option for your customers to be able to pay after booking through a link, from mail, or Customer Panel. Email and SMS scheduled notifications – Different types of reminders and follow-ups with templates. Custom notifications – Create new templates, multiple reminders or follow-ups for appointments, schedule them at different times, or create a specific message for each service. Recurring appointments – Book multiple appointments for the same service that will repeat in a specific time increment. Custom Fields for the booking forms – Create different types of custom fields for the customer to enter during the booking process (special requests, their address, file upload or any question relevant to your business) Integrations – Zoom, Google Meet, Google Calendar, Outlook Calendar, Lesson Space, Facebook Pixel and Google Analytics. Accept online payments through PayPal, Stripe, WooCommerce, Mollie, and Razorpay. Online payments through Square are part of the AMELIA LITE and are FREE. Search the booking form for Appointments that give you the option to show the available appointments based on the search criteria 🔎 Event Calendar – Booking form that gives you the option to show upcoming events in a monthly calendar view. Manage multiple employees – Create the employees’ database, with specific working hours, service schedule, capacity, and price for each, as well as configure the days off and special days. Manage multiple locations – Suitable for businesses that offer their services in multiple locations. Multilingual support – Translate the names of services, categories, events, extras, notification templates, etc. into multiple languages that customers can choose on your website. More customization options to fully adjust your booking experience. Choosing colors, the order of the fields, and which fields will be mandatory. Custom options – Such as group booking, buffer times before and after the appointment, and extras. Customers panel and Employees panel – For tracking and managing appointments and events. Discount coupons – For bookings, creating and sending discount coupons to loyal customers. Packages of services – Creating the packages (bundles) of one or multiple services with a discount available to customers on the booking form. Event tickets – Create and offer different types of tickets for each event, with different prices. Set up the minimum or maximum number of attendees for each event . WebHooks– Connect Amelia with any other application using several different hooks and choosing which data you want to send. WhatsApp integration – Remind your customers or event attendees with WhatsApp reminders and follow-up messages. Show busy time slots – Display the availability of time slots, indicating how many slots are already booked. Refund option – Initiate a refund that will be processed through the online payment provider used to pay for the appointment/event. REST APIs management – Empowering developers to extend integrations and customize the booking process. Cart Feature – Streamline your booking process with seamless multiple appointments in a single transaction. Multiple Selections in Shortcode– Enhance flexibility by choosing from various options on a single webpage. No-show Customers Tag– Efficiently manage no-show customers on the backend with this tagging feature. Employee Badges– Elevate your booking experience by customizing badges for your employees. Hassle-Free Tax Management – Effortlessly handle and automate tax management for all your bookings and events. 5 easy steps to set up Amelia Lite Booking System Go to your WordPress’ admin page, open Amelia -> Services, and add categories and services, as described here. If you already have a customers database you can easily Import it on the Customers page. Customize the colors for your booking form on our Customize page. Add WPAmelia booking plugin shortcode for the desired booking form to one of your posts or pages. For appointments, add [ameliastepbooking] or [ameliacatalogbooking] shortcode, for events add [ameliaeventslistbooking] shortcode. If on your website, you have different pages for different categories of services or each of your service has a page and you want to show the booking form just for one certain service/category you can use our “Preselect Booking Parameters” option while adding the shortcode to the page or post and select one specific category or service that will be shown for the booking. Save it and you are ready to receive your first bookings. Note: You can customize provider details and schedule on the General Settings page. What makes our booking form the best on the market Our appointment scheduling form is smoother, steps load faster and the conversion rate is higher. Modern design – The design of the Amelia’s booking form will help you convert more website visitors into customers. Smooth and animated step-to-step transition – A step-to-step transition process is accelerated with modern loaders working from behind. Contact us option – If your clients have any questions or concerns, they can contact you using clickable email that is positioned at a visible place. Sidebar with the selected booking-related details – Display of the booking process in real-time is presented via sidebar. This is how we differentiate finished and unfinished steps. Simple customization page – You can effortlessly customize the form to extend where the look and feel match your brand needs. Improved conversion rate – The intuitive, simple, informative, and fast-loading form impresses customers and has higher conversion rates.

BA Book Everything plugin – the really fast and powerful Booking engine with a management system for theme/site developers to create any booking or rental sites (tours, hotels, hostels, apartments, cars, events, yachts, etc., or all together). Magic one-click “Demo Setup” feature helps you get started with the plugin in minutes! Rates and prices system is easy to use and incredibly flexible in adjusting any price variations based on seasons (dates), week days (weekend rates, etc.), number of the guests or/and number of the days/nights. Thanks to integration with Elementor plugin, you’ll be able to see BA Book Everything shortcodes and widgets (e.g. search availability form, booking form, booking item calendar, slideshow and other post elements) in the list of the content modules in the Elementor builder. It’s highly customizable via hooks, but even “out of the box” the plugin is ready for use and works fine – Try Demo and Read details. Docs & Support You can find Docs and more detailed information about BA Book Everything on ba-booking.com. If you were unable to find the answer to your question in any of the documentation, you should check the support forum on WordPress.org. If you can’t locate any topics that pertain to your particular issue, post a new topic for it or send us a message via the site contact form. Features One-click Demo content setup Booking rules for nights, days, hours or event (tour) booking Custom categories (tours, hotels, apartments, cars, events etc.) with own booking rules Easy to create custom taxonomies from the administrator screen to use them when editing booking objects Easy to create schedule and prices Flexible rate rules: minimum/maximum booking period, days of the week to which the rate applies, days of the week in which the reservation can be started Variable prices based on number of the guests or/and number of the days/nights Cyclic availability: schedule items availability every N days for M days. Useful for cruises and other types of rentals with cycles other than a week. Exclude certain dates from availability calendar Setup prices for any age categories (customizable) Search form builder: allows to use custom taxonomies as filters, price range picker, guests selection, keyword search, search tabs (different search field set per booking category) Promotional: discount Coupons, discounted prices with time constraints Full control on the Booking process – e-mail confirmations and notifications, customizable booking form, checkout form, option for manually availability confirmation (both email and admin dashboard) Availability calendar with prices, synchronized with booking form widget Widgets: booking form, search form, taxonomy terms filter, prices filter Shortcodes [all-items], [babe-listing] Elementor support 5 stars rating integrated with WP comments Product schema markup Service post type – sell services with booking! Variable prices for services FAQ post type Google Maps API integrated to show address map or find nearest meeting points (for tours etc.) Internationalized and Translation ready Multilingual support for WPML plugin Post duplication supported with Post Duplicator plugin Hooks for customization (developers) Integrated with WP xml export/import and more… Available in Addons Currency switcher Backoffice: iCal synchronization, PDF invoices, backend bookings, editing/cancellation orders for both customers and administrators, extra charge, full or partial refund, custom refund rules, export orders to XLSX file, custom order statuses and email notifications, etc. Multi Vendor Marketplace extension Payment gateways: PayPal, Stripe, Razorpay, ePayco, Yoco, Wompi, Mercado Pago, Mi Cuenta Web (IZIPAY), Kashier, PARAM, IfthenPay, “Bank transfer” payment option and more You can find all BA Book Everything Addons and Themes and more detailed information about the plugin on ba-booking.com. Limitations The War is a fact that has already affected many businesses around the world, including ours. Until the war is over, we are not providing any products or services to the russian audience. When using our products, russian audiences may encounter unexpected behavior.