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.
Simply Schedule Appointments
Simply Schedule Appointments® is an easy-to-use WordPress appointment booking plugin. It’s an automated appointment booking system loved by 70,000+ businesses, with a 5-star review average. The Simply Schedule Appointments booking calendars are easy and fast to set up. And enjoyable for your customers and clients to book and schedule appointments. You can set up the appointment scheduling calendars to take your first booking in less than 5 minutes! And, the best part is that our 5-star support team is here to help you each step of the way, either through our comprehensive and organized Help Center, here on the WordPress Forums, or directly from the Simply Schedule Appointments Support Tab within the plugin. Booking System Features to Help You Schedule Business Meeting Appointments Features included with the Simply Schedule Appointments Free Basic Edition for booking appointments: Unlimited Booking Calendars and Customizable Notifications Use Advanced Scheduling Options and Blackout Dates to highly tailor your schedule Embed the appointment booking calendars using the Block Editor, Elementor widgets, Beaver Builder modules, and Divi modules Style and Customize the Booking Calendars to match your brand and website Translation-ready – including Spanish, German, French, and more! Deeply connected with WordPress, including integrations for the The Events Calendar plugin, WP Fusion Automations, and more! Features included with the Simply Schedule Appointments Paid Premium Editions for booking appointments: Group or class event booking – Book time slots up to a certain capacity Booking Flows – Choose from a selection of booking steps and layouts Google Calendar Sync – Allow your site’s booking system to check your personal calendar for conflicts and customize those calendar events Team booking – Allow your staff to receive bookings and customize their own schedules Resource booking – Schedule meeting rooms, rental items and things such as bikes or tables, or set max occupancies Mailchimp – Automatically add users as new contacts to your audience from the booking form Stripe and PayPal for Payments – Instantly get paid for your time and expertise Twilio for SMS notifications and reminders Gravity Forms and Formidable Forms Integration – Create complex booking forms Zoom and Google Meet for virtual meetings Google Analytics and Tag Manager tracking enabled to count booking form conversions Trigger Webhooks for appointment actions and connect to Zapier ICS Subscription Feeds – Sync your personal calendar applications to all incoming bookings. Simply Schedule Appointments is perfect if you want to let your customers schedule phone calls, in-person or virtual video meetings, or coaching appointments. The perfect tool for business consultations, interviews, or scheduling services. You can tame and automate your schedule and easily manage when you’re available for appointments. And block off dates when you don’t want to be disturbed for bookings — no more phone calls or back-and-forth emails to find a meeting time that works. Simply let your WordPress booking system take care of it! Easily limit how many daily appointments you schedule and set the minimum time between bookings. Automate your schedule while still maintaining control of your availability — manage your booking calendars, time slots, and appointments all in one place. Offer different types of appointment calendars for your services. For example, you could allow new clients to schedule on an introduction call calendar or let established customers schedule a longer time slot with a separate calendar. And, forget about double-bookings, Simply Schedule Appointments is capable of preventing unexpected scheduling problems! Are you looking to offer tutoring or remote teaching classes? Let your students quickly book times with you for lessons, reviews, or simple consultations. Localized time zones make meetings for distance learning and remote office hours a breeze to schedule. Simply Schedule Appointments contains all the data from your appointments and customers within your WordPress site. Own your data and be fully GDPR-compliant and make it easier for your booking system to achieve HIPAA compliance. Complete documentation to start booking appointments today is available on our website. Getting Started with the WordPress Booking Calendars is Easy Use the built-in Setup Wizard to create your first Appointment Type in under 5 minutes. Next, just embed the booking calendar on your site using our general booking shortcode [ssa_booking] or our native WordPress editor block: Who This Booking System is For Simply Schedule Appointments is ideal for anyone who needs to automate and book appointments with clients and customers, including booking for: Client Meeting Booking — Entrepreneurs, Web developers, Consultants, Personal and Business Coaches, Lawyers, Car Dealers, Real Estate, Agencies Event Booking — Wedding coordinators, Dress Shops, Boutiques, Workshop Teachers, Food Truck Lots Class Lessons or Tutor Scheduling — Personal trainers, Yoga studios, Exercise Studios, Language / ESL Tutors, Dance Studios, Fitness Professionals, Music Teacher, Instructors, Professors Service Booking — Handyman Services, Contractors, Hair Salons, Barbershops, Photographers, Tattoo Shops, Notaries, Tax Preparations, Home Inspections Visitor Booking — Bakeries, Restaurants, Museums, Retirement Homes, Curbside Pickup Patient Booking — Nutritionists, Vaccination Appointments, Chiropractors, Physical Therapists, Pharmacy Prescription Pickups Simple Reservations — Equipment Rentals, Room Reservations, Table Reservations for Restaurants, Office Reservations Simply Schedule Appointments offers an excellent experience for your customers who need to book appointments. Our WordPress booking plugin has just the features you need without all the extra bloat and needless settings found in other appointment booking plugins. And our UI is snappy, highly responsive, and a joy to use. Flexible, Fast, and Powerful Booking Calendars Other appointment scheduling plugins are either too simple or too complicated. They lack the basic features you need to start automating your schedule and booking appointments, or, if they do have those features, as you grow and add services, staff, and locations, they become complex and confusing to use for booking. Simply Schedule Appointments is ready to grow with your business’ booking needs — without all the confusion and clutter of settings that don’t apply to you. It’s also highly compatible with WordPress and can be added to any theme and page layout on your site. Simply Schedule Appointments offers fully responsive booking calendars and works efficiently on any device – even touch screens. Our WordPress booking plugin will work dependably and reliably, whether you’re managing your appointment availability from your tablet or your customer is booking an appointment from their smartphone. User-Friendly and Accessible Booking System Our WordPress booking calendar system was designed with people in mind, first and foremost. So we’re always thinking about how people will be using our appointment scheduling plugin, what they’ll expect, and what booking features they’ll want and need. This WordPress booking calendar system is built with you and your customer in mind and is accessible for everyone. We believe appointment scheduling should be as clear and straightforward as possible while maintaining the flexibility and booking features our customers need. We’ve made sure that everyone can use our appointment scheduling plugin, including people with auditory, visual, and physical disabilities. Everyone deserves access to everything the web offers, so we built our WordPress booking calendar plugin with accessibility in mind. As a result, you’ll never have to worry that a customer will find themselves unable to schedule an appointment because of their abilities or the device they’re using. Deep Integrations With All the Tools and WordPress Plugins You Love Integrations included with the Simply Schedule Appointments Free Basic Edition for booking appointments: Logged in WordPress users can see their appointments and benefit from auto-filling Name and Email fields. Elementor widgets Beaver Builder modules Divi modules WP Fusion Automation The Events Calendar Integrations included with the Simply Schedule Appointments Paid Premium Editions for booking appointments: Google Calendar Mailchimp Stripe and PayPal for Payments Webhooks for Zapier and Make Twilio for SMS notifications Gravity Forms Gravity Wiz Perks Formidable Forms Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager Zoom and Google Meet for virtual meetings The Events Calendar Project Panorama LifterLMS Webex Facebook pixel Useful Links to Help You Start Booking Appointments Today Help Center for Troubleshooting and Setup Guides Free Basic Edition Setup Guide Booking Demos to Try Before Installation How to Display the Booking Calendars on a WordPress Page or Post Admin Dashboard Walkthrough Guide Full Appointment Type Settings Guide
