Easy Appointments vs Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more!

Easy Appointments lets you add a fully-featured booking system to any WordPress site — in minutes. Whether you run a salon, clinic, law firm, gym, or tutoring business, your customers book online while you stay in control of your calendar. Over 10,000+ active sites trust Easy Appointments to handle their bookings every day. Perfect for 💇 Beauty & wellness — salons, spas, massage therapists, barbers 🏥 Health & medical — doctors, dentists, physiotherapists, therapists ⚖️ Professional services — lawyers, accountants, consultants 🏋️ Fitness & coaching — personal trainers, yoga instructors, tutors 🔧 Trades & home services — mechanics, cleaners, plumbers 🏨 Hospitality & leisure — escape rooms, photography studios, event venues Live Demo Responsive Appointment form Responsive Appointment form – two column layout Full calendar NEW Standard Appointment form Doc Documentation Everything you need to run your bookings 📅 Flexible scheduling, your way Set your availability exactly how you need it — multiple locations, multiple staff, multiple services, all with independent time slots. Supports even the most complex schedules without writing a line of code. 📧 Automatic email notifications Customers get instant booking confirmations. Staff get notified. You can customise every email template, trigger reminders, and let customers confirm or cancel via a link — no chasing required. 📱 Booking forms that look great everywhere Responsive single or two-column layouts that work on mobile, tablet, and desktop. Embed anywhere with a simple shortcode. 🛠️ Build the form you need Add custom fields, require information, set up Google reCAPTCHA to block spam, and drag-and-drop your fields into any order. 🌍 Works in any language Translated into 10+ languages. Date picker localised for 77 locales. Full translation support for your custom labels. 📊 Reports & exports View your booking calendar at a glance and export appointments to CSV for use in Excel, Google Sheets, or your CRM. More Features Multiple Locations Multiple Services Multiple Workers Create dedicated calendar for one location / service / worker Create time slots by connecting location – service – worker and date/time Multiple time slots Fine granular option for creating even most complex time table Bulk connections builder Extremely flexible time table Email notifications : Send email notification to customer on creation and update of appointment Send email notification to predefined list of admin users Send email notification to employee Custom content and subject Custom admin email Confirm booking via link provided inside email Cancel booking via link provided inside email HTML content via WYSIWYG editor Custom emails for different status of appointments : pending, reservation, canceled, confirmed Include any information from booking inside email content even from custom fields Single Column Responsive Bootstrap Layout for Appointment form Two Column Responsive Bootstrap layout Custom form fields : Create your own custom form fields in a few clicks textarea select input Make fields required Drag and drop order Google reCAPTCHA v2 Google reCAPTCHA v3 NEW NEW use current logged in user data sa default value for custom field. Internationalization – support for translations (you can create your own translation >> tutorial <<) German translation (thanks to Matthias) Romanian translation (thanks to Vlad) Polish translation (thanks to Maciej Bauza) Finnish translation thanks to Maija Portuguese translation thanks to Antonio Portuguese Brazil translation thanks to seniweb Labels Hide price Add custom currency Set currency before/after price Custom style Localization of datepicker for 77 different languages (day of week, months) Reports Time table overview Export to CSV (for Calc, Excel…) 🚀 Need more power? Upgrade to Easy Appointments Pro The Pro extension unlocks everything serious businesses need: Google Calendar sync — 2-way sync so your team always sees the full picture SMS & WhatsApp notifications — reduce no-shows with automated reminders via Twilio Online payments — collect deposits or full payment via Stripe, PayPal, or WooCommerce at booking AI Booking Assistant — let customers book via a conversational chat widget iCalendar feeds — sync with Apple Calendar, Outlook, and any .ics-compatible app Room & resource booking — book meeting rooms, equipment, or any shared resource 👉 See Pro plans and pricing → For more info follow the link for Extension plugin HomePage easy-appointments.com External services FullCalendar This plugin uses the FullCalendar JavaScript library to display interactive calendars and events within the plugin interface. FullCalendar itself does not collect or transmit personal data. All calendar data is generated and managed locally within the plugin or retrieved from configured services such as Google Calendar. This service is provided by FullCalendar LLC Terms of use and Policy : https://fullcalendar.io/license

Events Manager is a full-featured event calendar, bookings, appointments, scheduling, and registration management plugin for WordPress ideal for everything from simple meetups to full-scale event planning. Built with flexibility, reliability and powerful features in mind. Demo Documentation Tutorials Main Features NEW Integrate easily with your favourite AI via MCP, unlock the power of AI-powered Events! NEW API Rest Integration NEW EU Compliance Tools for “Right of withdrawal” (EU ‘Widerrufsbutton’) Beautiful calendars, search pages, lists, grids and booking forms to enhance your site events. Easy event registration (single day with start/end times) Recurring and long (multi-day) event registration Build complex recurrence patterns with exclusion/blackout dates NEW Multiple timeslots within the day for events with advanced creation options Overlapping timeslots Buffer between timeslots Bookings Management (including approval/rejections, export CVS, and more!) Multiple Tickets Fully-featured graph and statistics including bar/line/pie with comparison and stacking MultiSite Event Support Cross-Network Event Sharing – show your events and booking fromss on other subsites or main site Network-wide Global Booking Management BuddyPress and BuddyBoss Support Create modular (independent) event subsites or inter-networked events Multiple custom event types (Archetypes), such as Workshops, Events, Webinars, Appointments etc. Customize your labels, slugs and CPT names Enable or disable specific features for specific event archetypes. Multiple Location Types Physical Locations Online Events (URLs) Zoom Webinars/Meetings Integration BuddyPress & BuddyBoss Support Submit Events Group Events Personal Events Activity Stream more on the way Guest/Member Event submissions Assign event locations and view events by location Event categories Easily create custom event attributes (e.g. dress code) Google Maps (see our API usage recommendations) Advanced permissions – restrict user management of events and locations. Widgets for Events, Locations and Calendars Fine grained control of how every aspect of your events are shown on your site, easily modify templates from the settings pages and template files iCal Feed (single and all events) Add to Google Calendar buttons RSS Feeds Compatible with SEO plugins Timezone Support – create events in different timezones Plenty of template tags and shortcodes for use in your posts and pages Gutenberg block editor support, with native blocks for the Events Calendar, Events List, and Locations List — usable in posts, pages, the site editor and the widget editor Actively maintained and supported Lots of documentation and tutorials NEW Gutenberg Supported And much more! AI Integration AI is here, and we’re on board! Check out what’s possible with our new and evolving AI integration possibilities: Data Privacy and GDPR Compliance We provide the tools to help you be GDPR compliant, including: export/erasure of data via the WordPress Privacy Tools, including booking, event and location data consent checkboxes on our booking, event and location forms on the frontend settings to control what can be exported/erased as well as where/when to place consent requests sample text for your site privacy policy describing what Events Manager does with personal data Premium Features We have a premium Pro add-on for Events Manager which not only demonstrates the flexibility of Events Manager, but also adds some important features including but not limited to: WooCommerce integration (sold separately) PayPal, Stripe, Authorize.net, Square, Xero and Offline Payments Custom booking forms Individual Attendee custom forms Upload fields for bookings, attendees and users Printable Invoices and Tickets Send PDF tickets/invoices by email automatically Check In/Out Move bookings to other dates/times QR Scanning Manage bookings on your phone Check In/Out users Waitlists Automation – ultimate flexibility in automation! Triggers: X time before/after events start When a booking status changes When a booking was booked x time ago Actions Send Webhook (Zapier, MS Automation and many other services) Send Email Send WhatsApp, SMS, Telegram notifications WhatsApp, SMS, Telegram integration and interactive flows Coupon Codes Custom booking email per event and gateway Faster support via private Pro forums For more information or to go pro, visit our plugin website. Additional Plugin Integrations Whilst there’s many third party integrations with our own plugin, here’s some we’ve integrated ourselves! Included in Events Manager (automatic integration) BuddyPress WP FullCalendar Thrive Automator Additional Add-Ons Zoom WPML Multilingual Sites