Easy Appointments vs Store Vacation Lite for WooCommerce

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

Formerly known as Woo Store Vacation — trusted by WooCommerce stores since 2017. Going on vacation, closing for a holiday, or pausing for a fulfilment break? Store Vacation Lite for WooCommerce lets you temporarily stop taking new orders while keeping your store visible to customers. Instead of taking your website offline, the plugin keeps your shop browsable and your products indexed while giving you control over whether visitors can place new orders. Schedule a vacation period, disable purchases, display a clear notice, and automatically reopen your store when the vacation ends. This is useful when you want to: Take time off without receiving new orders. Pause checkout while still letting customers browse products. Show a clear vacation or holiday notice on your store. Let customers know when your shop will reopen. Keep selected products available during vacation mode. Avoid confusion, missed expectations, or unnecessary support messages. Pause WooCommerce orders while keeping your store visible When vacation mode is active, your shop remains online and accessible to visitors. Customers can still browse your products, but purchases can be paused by disabling the cart, checkout, and add-to-cart buttons. This preserves your storefront and product visibility — and your SEO ranking — while preventing new orders during periods when you are unavailable. Schedule your vacation dates Set a start date and end date for your vacation period based on your site’s local timezone. Store Vacation Lite for WooCommerce automatically applies the vacation settings during the scheduled period and restores normal store behavior when the vacation ends. You can also deactivate vacation mode manually at any time if you return earlier than planned. Display a custom vacation notice Create a clear vacation message to explain why the store is temporarily closed and when customers should return. The vacation notice can include: Custom message text. Start and end date smart tags. Custom text and background colors. A call-to-action button. A custom button URL, such as a contact page. The notice appears on WooCommerce shop and product pages. You can also place it on other pages using the Store Vacation Notice block, Elementor widget, or [woo_store_vacation] shortcode. Control product availability during vacation mode Sometimes you may want to pause most of your store while keeping selected products available. Store Vacation Lite for WooCommerce includes condition settings that let you keep specific items purchasable while vacation mode is active. You can exclude selected: Products. Product categories. Product tags. Product types. Shipping classes. This gives you more flexibility than fully closing the entire store — perfect for keeping digital downloads, gift cards, or pre-orders available while pausing physical fulfilment. Built for real store situations Store Vacation Lite for WooCommerce is designed for the closure situations WooCommerce merchants actually run into: personal vacations, holidays, illness, family emergencies, fulfilment delays, stock reviews, maintenance windows, or short business breaks. The plugin is translation-ready and includes configuration support for multilingual stores using WPML and Polylang. Lite features Schedule a temporary vacation period. Pause purchases automatically during vacation mode. Keep your shop and products visible while paused. Display a vacation notice on WooCommerce shop and product pages. Add the notice anywhere with a block, shortcode, or Elementor widget. Add a call-to-action button to the notice. Use {{start_date}} and {{end_date}} smart tags in your message. Customize notice text and background colors. Keep selected products, categories, tags, product types, or shipping classes available. Allow shop managers to manage vacation settings. HPOS compatible. Translation-ready with WPML and Polylang support. Need more control? Upgrade to Store Vacation Pro Store Vacation Pro adds advanced scheduling, saved-cart tools, storefront controls, and vacation reporting for stores that need to do more than pause purchases. Upgrade to Store Vacation Pro to unlock the full workflow. With Store Vacation Pro, you can: Plan closures for real business rhythms Schedule unlimited vacation periods — plan holidays and seasonal breaks months in advance. Set recurring weekday closures — close every Sunday, every Monday morning, or any custom pattern. Configure opening hours — publish your business hours and auto-close the shop outside them. View a calendar of every upcoming, active, and past closure at a glance. Turn closures into conversions, not lost customers Save Cart for Later — customers can save their cart before you close, then restore it in one click when you reopen. Shareable saved cart link — customers copy, bookmark, or share their cart across devices. Email the saved cart — send the restore link straight to the customer’s inbox from the storefront. Allow cart building while checkout is closed — shoppers keep adding items during vacation and check out the moment you reopen. Countdown timer — show a live counter to your reopening date directly in the notice. Announcement bar — display a site-wide vacation banner across every page. Advance notice before closure — warn customers days ahead so they can order early. Measure what happens while you’re away Vacation reports dashboard — see cart interactions, checkouts, revenue, and unique customers during each closure. Recent activity table — every add-to-cart, cart update, saved cart, and checkout that happened while paused, with product and customer resolution. Filters and CSV export — narrow by date range and vacation period, export the raw event log. Configurable data retention — auto-prune old event logs after your chosen number of days, weeks, months, or years. Track vacation orders — flag and filter orders placed while vacation mode was active, right from the WooCommerce Orders screen. Control exactly what customers see Replace shop pages with custom content — serve your own vacation landing page instead of the default product grid. Password-protect shop access — gate the store behind a shared password. Private access links — send unique URLs that unlock the store for approved customers. Bypass restrictions for unlocked visitors — approved shoppers check out normally while the rest of the store is paused. Hide prices, add-to-cart, and mini cart — strip commerce UI entirely during vacation, converting the store into a browsable catalog. Advanced vacation notices — reusable templates with smart tags, rich text, CTAs, and custom styling. Vacation Content block — build custom pages that only appear while the store is in vacation mode. Fine-tune product availability Exclude by product, category, tag, product type, shipping class, WooCommerce brand, or user role. Copy conditions between schedules so you don’t rebuild the same exceptions for every closure. Ship it with confidence Admin reminder emails — get an email before each vacation starts. Dashboard widget — see upcoming closures at a glance on your WP admin dashboard. Force close the store instantly — pause purchases immediately without setting up a schedule. Import and export settings — move Store Vacation configuration between sites. REST API — access vacation schedule data programmatically. If your store needs recurring closures, multiple schedules, opening hours, saved carts, vacation reporting, or more control over what customers see while the shop is closed, Store Vacation Pro is the best upgrade path.