SmartSlot Appointment Scheduler vs VikAppointments Services Booking Calendar

SmartSlot Appointment Scheduler is a flexible and user-friendly WordPress plugin designed to handle booking and appointment scheduling for any type of service. Whether you are managing consultations, services, events, or general reservations, this plugin allows users to select a service, choose a date and time slot, and confirm their booking seamlessly. A unique booking token is automatically generated for each appointment and sent to the user via email for reference. This plugin is built with performance and scalability in mind, making it suitable for small businesses as well as larger applications. Features Easy-to-use booking system for any service-based business Dynamic time slot management based on business hours Customizable booking settings from admin panel Unique booking token generation with prefix and length control Email notifications sent to users upon successful booking Reports dashboard with search and pagination Export booking data in CSV and Excel formats Built using modern React-based admin interface Manage availability including business days and holidays Custom database tables for efficient data storage Settings Time Slot Interval – Duration between each booking slot. Starting Time of Working Hours – Start time for bookings. Ending Time of Working Hours – End time for bookings. Add Holidays – Dates when bookings are not available. Add Working Schedule – Enable or disable bookings on weekends. Success Page URL – URL to navigate after successful booking. Booking ID Length – Length of the generated booking token. Booking Prefix – Prefix for the booking token. Sender Email – Sender email address. Email Subject – Custom email subject. Email Template – Email body content using dynamic placeholders. Email Footer – Footer content for emails. Developer Notes Built following WordPress coding standards Proper data sanitization and escaping implemented Uses custom database tables for performance optimization Extensible and developer-friendly structure Style Customization You can customize the appearance by adding custom CSS to your theme stylesheet.

Vik Appointments Services Booking Calendar for WordPress The popular appointments booking calendar system is now available also for WordPress as a Native Plugin! If you are looking for a professional tool to schedule and manage both appointments and bookings of various services or employees, then this is definitely the right solution for your project. Vik Appointments is an experienced piece of software with thousands of tailored functions designed to fit the needs of several types of business, such as medical centers, doctors, lawyers, hair stylists, SPA services, escape games and much more. Accept online reservations and schedule the appointments for each employee in a smart and efficient way. Thanks to its key features, Vik Appointments is the perfect plugin for those kind of companies and service providers that have many employees: you will be able to manage and let the employees to receive payments singularly; as well, each employee will be able to manage its working time and the services that he offers thanks to a dedicated personal area. An “employee” can represent a person, an object, a room or anything else that could be scheduled to receive bookings. Those who need to offer/sell online services through meetings or video-conferences can use the complementary (not included) Zoom meetings plugin for Vik Appointments. Born for a different CMS than WordPress, the same powerful framework is now at the service of all webmasters, designers and web-agencies that build websites with WordPress. Do not look any further, the features of Vik Appointments will outnumber any other similar plugin! Visit VikWP.com for more details. Some of its key features Customizable dashboard and analytics pages Custom types of service with custom durations and rates Employees management Employees personalized cost for services Extended working days with custom shifts Front-end smart appointments booking process Manual/offline reservations via back-end to keep the availability calendars up to date Calendars overview and reports Invoices generation Coupons to offer reservation discounts Status codes management Composite taxes WebHooks and API framework Search widget for the front-end to easily book an appointment A stunning widget to book the appointments without leaving the page Some of the Pro version features Full booking management from the back-end Front-end employees area Customers & documents management Services options and special rates Employees locations Packages purchase Employees subscription fees to build a portal Customers subscriptions e-commerce Custom fields management Payments to Service Providers or directly to the Employees Cart system to book multiple appointments at once Custom Payment Gateways (over 60 available on VikWP.com) SMS Gateways and Cron Jobs for automated notifications Various widgets to enhance the look of your front-end Supported Add-ons Zoom meetings & online video-conferences integration (Zoom.us) Google ReCaptcha forms validation The following integrations may require some of our additional plugins, which might not be free in some cases. Please visit VikWP for further details. Interested in, curious about the Pro version? You should take a look with your own eyes at the demo website to see what you can do with Vik Appointments. Do not stop at the front-end though, make sure to visit the wp-admin section too. Front-end Demo Website Admin Demo Website