Sniza Appointment Scheduler vs VikAppointments Services Booking Calendar

Sniza Appointment Scheduler is a self-hosted booking system for sites that sell instructor time in prepaid blocks. Students draw down minutes from packages assigned by an admin or purchased through WooCommerce, and book appointments against per-instructor availability. Features: Per-instructor weekly availability (timeblocks) and ad-hoc time off Configurable package definitions in 30 minute increments up to 4 hours Admin-assigned prepaid packages with optional expiration date and notes Optional WooCommerce integration: mark packages as purchasable and auto-grant minutes when an order completes Frontend month calendar with day-level availability indicators Weekly time-slot view with status colours (available, booked, time off, blocked by another user, too soon, current) Mobile single-day scheduler with mini calendar Per-user appointment booking and cancellation, with a configurable cancellation cutoff “My Lessons” view with AJAX-powered Future / Past filter and in-place cancellation Admin Appointments screen with instructor and date-range filters (defaults to the next 3 days, hides cancelled lessons) Configurable maximum appointment length (admin setting) Sample-data tool for seeding and wiping a fixed demo dataset Timezone-aware: each instructor has their own timezone, and end users see times in the site timezone Available shortcodes: [sniza_scheduler] — booking UI (month calendar + week grid) [sniza_packages] — store front for purchasable packages (requires WooCommerce) [sniza_my_lessons] — logged-in user’s upcoming and past lessons with cancel controls

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