Creavi Appointment Booking Calendar
Creavi Appointment Booking Calendar is a clean, beautiful, and scalable appointment booking plugin for WordPress. It is simple to launch, easy to integrate, and free to use without plugin-imposed service or booking limits. Create bookable services, define availability, collect the details you need, and let customers schedule through a polished calendar flow. The modern service editor combines clear settings with a live preview, so every step is easy to understand and customize. Connect Google Calendar or Outlook Calendar for free to create events and block busy times. Offer in-person appointments, phone calls, custom meeting links, or free video meetings generated by the plugin. Confirmation emails, reminders, calendar files, timezone handling, and booking buffers are included. Add Creavi anywhere with shortcodes, Gutenberg blocks, Elementor, or another page builder. Use an inline calendar or a styled popup button, and scale from one service to as many services and bookings as your WordPress hosting can support—without a monthly booking-software fee. Easy Setup – Ready in 2 Minutes Watch how it works in action: Check out the live demo: https://wordpress.creavi.dk/booking/ We’re open to any suggestions! Feel free to reach out via the support forum — we’re happy to hear your ideas and may implement them in future updates. Free Features Included Creavi provides a complete, user-friendly booking setup for free, including calendar connections, automated reminders, flexible forms, video meetings, exports, and ready-made Gutenberg layouts. Add booking button anywhere via shortcode: [creavibc_booking_button id="123"] (opens booking popup) Embed full booking interface directly on page via shortcode: [creavibc_booking_inline id="123"] Support multiple booking widgets on the same page (different services) Smooth booking experience: Popup or inline layout Step-by-step flow: Date → Time → Details Clean, customizable calendar design with a live admin preview Optional start-time-only summaries and confirmation emails Fully responsive and mobile-friendly Flexible availability settings: Admin-defined available days via date picker Rolling availability range (e.g. next 30–365 days) Exclude specific dates (days off, holidays) Minimum booking notice before an appointment can start Optional 5–60 minute buffer between appointments and connected calendar events Live admin availability grid that updates when the appointment duration or buffer changes Flexible weekday-based time slots: Visual grid selector (e.g. Mon 9:00, Tue 10:30) Different time slots per weekday Optional slot duration: 10 / 15 / 20 / 30 / 60 minutes Dynamic time slots based on selected date Smart timezone handling: Admin timezone detection Timezone modes: Localized (auto-adjust to user timezone) Locked (fixed business timezone) Clear timezone indication on frontend Customizable booking form fields: Editable Name, Email, and Phone default fields Include or hide each default field and choose whether it is required Add custom Text, Textarea, Telephone, and Number fields Edit consent text and privacy-policy links Add as many custom fields as needed Automated email notifications & reminders: Sent to both admin and customer Safe visual HTML editor with media support and plain-text fallback Dynamic tags: {name}, {email}, {phone}, {date}, {time}, {service} Optional reminder emails before the appointment (reduce no-shows) Google Calendar integration: Automatically push bookings to Google Calendar Block already booked time slots from Google Calendar Google Calendar link generation for attendees Custom Google event title and description templates Outlook Calendar integration: Automatically push bookings to Outlook Calendar Per-service Outlook connection and sync Block busy Outlook time slots on the frontend Custom Outlook event title and description templates Calendar & scheduling: Downloadable .ics (iCalendar) file Per-service calendar language and localized date summaries 67 explicit language and regional calendar choices, plus the website default Automatic cleanup of completed booking records after a preset or custom retention period Choose whether eligible records move to Trash or are deleted permanently Booking management and exports: Select bookings in All Bookings and export them to CSV or Excel Exported columns include customer, service, date, time, meeting, and custom-field data CSV files are ready to open or import into Google Sheets Meeting & location options: In-person meetings Online meetings (video or custom link) Phone call option Built-in video conferencing: Free automatic meeting link generation Personalization options: Custom brand color Personalized thank-you message Clear booking management with no plugin-imposed service or booking limits Beautiful, aligned admin UI designed for fast setup Works with Gutenberg, Elementor, and other page builders Multilingual & Translation Ready Languages This plugin is fully translation-ready and supports localization via translate.wordpress.org. Bundled plugin-interface translations include: * English (default) * French * Danish The customer-facing calendar can follow the website language or use one of 67 explicit language and regional choices. This localizes month names, weekdays, selected-date summaries, and confirmation dates without loading a separate Flatpickr language file for every choice. You can help translate this plugin into your language at: https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/creavi-booking-service/
Easy!Appointments
Let customers book appointments on your website, 24/7, without paying a monthly subscription or a fee on every booking. Easy!Appointments gives your visitors a proper booking experience: they pick a service, pick a staff member, see the real free slots from your calendar, choose a time, and confirm. You and your customer both get an email. The appointment lands in your calendar. That’s it. It runs on your own hosting, so there is no subscription, no per-booking cut, no cap on how many appointments you take, and no third-party company sitting on your customers’ names, phone numbers, and appointment history. See it working before you install anything Try the real booking form and the real admin calendar, right now, no signup: https://demo.easyappointments.org That takes about 60 seconds and will tell you more than this page can. Please read this bit: it explains the two pieces This is the part most people ask about, so here it is up front and in plain language. Easy!Appointments is made of two things: Easy!Appointments, the booking engine. It holds your calendar, services, staff, working hours, holidays, customers and emails. It is free and open source, and you install it on your own hosting (most shared hosts handle it fine, as it needs PHP and MySQL, the same as WordPress). This plugin, the bridge. It puts the booking form from that engine straight onto a page of your WordPress site, on your domain, inside your theme, so customers never get bounced off to a different-looking website to book. So yes, you need Easy!Appointments installed somewhere before this plugin does anything. We would rather tell you that in the first 30 seconds than have you find out after installing. Why it is built that way: keeping the booking engine separate is exactly what lets it be free, unlimited and fully yours. Nobody can raise your price, change the terms, or lock your customer list behind an upgrade, because nobody else is holding it. Get the engine here: https://easyappointments.org What it costs Nothing. There is no paid tier, no trial that runs out, and no feature held back for an upgrade. No monthly or yearly subscription No commission or fee on any booking No per-staff or per-user pricing No cap on appointments, services, staff or customers What it does cost is the hosting you are already paying for, plus the time to install the booking engine once. Because you own that installation, nobody can raise your price, change the terms, or put your customer list behind an upgrade later. Setting it up Once your Easy!Appointments engine is running, the WordPress side takes about three minutes: Install and activate this plugin. Open Easy!Appts in your WordPress menu, paste your Easy!Appointments web address, click Connect. Open the page where you want bookings and add the Easy!Appointments block. Publish. Your booking form is live on that page. Bookings appear in your Easy!Appointments calendar as they come in. Three ways to place the booking form Block editor (Gutenberg). Click +, search “Easy!Appointments”, drop it in. Size and options are in the settings panel on the right. No code. Elementor. Search “Easy!Appointments” in the widget panel and drag it onto the canvas. Everything is configured with normal Elementor controls. Anything else. Classic editor, WPBakery, Divi, a theme widget area: the [easyappointments] shortcode works wherever shortcodes work. You can also point a specific page at a specific service or staff member, so “Book a haircut with Maria” is its own page. Who this is for It was built first for appointment-based local businesses: salons, barbershops, spas, nail studios, tattoo studios, physiotherapists, dentists and clinics. Anywhere customers book a named person for a fixed-length slot. It also gets used well beyond that: consultants and coaches, tutors, driving schools, workshops and repair shops, vets, law and accountancy practices, and university and government departments. Who is behind it Easy!Appointments has been developed in the open since 2014. 4,300+ stars and 1,500+ forks on GitHub Used by organisations including NEOM, Doctors Without Borders and Dolce & Gabbana Active public support community and issue tracker GPL licensed, so you can read every line, fork it, and never be locked out What you get Real-time availability from your own calendar Multiple services with individual durations and prices Multiple staff members with their own hours and days off Confirmation and reminder emails to both sides Google Calendar sync Works on phones, where most bookings come from Booking form available in 33 languages, plugin screens in nine Your branding, your domain, your data Honest notes You do need to install the Easy!Appointments engine on hosting you control. If you want a booking form with no separate installation at all, this is not that plugin, and we would rather you knew now. It is a self-hosted, open-source project. That means no bill, and it also means you set up your own email sending and updates. The documentation walks through both. Support comes from the community and the issue tracker rather than a paid helpdesk. Response times vary. Get in touch Easy!Appointments is built and maintained by Alex Tselegidis. If you are weighing it up, stuck on an installation, wondering whether it fits an unusual booking workflow, or you need custom work or a commercial arrangement around it, write to me directly: info@alextselegidis.com and https://alextselegidis.com Feature ideas and bug reports are just as welcome. Tell me what you were trying to do and where it got in the way. Documentation: https://easyappointments.org/documentation More about the WordPress integration: https://easyappointments.org/wordpress Minimum requirements: WordPress 5.0 and PHP 5.6.
