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Top 10 WordPress Booking Calendar Plugins 2017

 Last Updated on: January 17, 2017

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There is no denying the fact that WordPress has certainly revolutionized the way businesses establish their online presence today. In fact, the online world is becoming a better place day by day for the webmasters as well as for the web users, thanks to the ever-growing open source software WordPress. From building professional websites to online stores, WordPress has got you covered. And with WordPress plugins, you are sure to find a solution to your every web related problem.

Today, in the article, we are going to share some of the best WordPress booking calendar pluginsthat are becoming a crucial part of online businesses. These booking plugins allow your customers to book an appointment anywhere at anytime.

Let’s explore them:

1. 8 Degree Availability Calendar

8 Degree Availability Calendar is a free appointment booking WordPress plugin designed to help businesses manage their appointments in their website. The plugin is extremely flexible and versatile thus, can be used for any type of business. 8 Degree Availability Calendar plugin shows available date and books date.

Additional features

• Comes with custom fields like color and layout
• Placement Options
• Mobile Responsive
• Simple and User-Friendly
• Allows you to view book date and available date

2. Booking Calendar

Booking Calendar has topped the list of best booking WordPress plugins. This plugin is one of the oldest booking plugins and is extremely easy to use. The plugin is also well-documented for easier configuration and use. Booking Calendar has a calendar view for both webmaster and visitors. The plugin lets you add any appointment or booking form into your website’s page or post. While it is extremely powerful yet simple to use, it comes packed with a wide variety of options that can be configured from its setting’s page. It also lets you customize your appointment functionality by adding own custom fields.

Additional features:

• Comes with jQuery effects
• Responsive front end and back end design
• Widget ready
• Notify you about every new appointment/booking with Email notification
• Has friendly booking interface.

3. Team Booking Plugin

Team Booking Plugin is a newly launched WordPress plugin that certainly seems to be a promising product developed by VonStrohein and launched by CodeCanyon. Team Booking plugin also comes with a user-friendly interface that allows you to manage bookings and appointments. The plugin also syncs with Google calendar to offer up-to-date information.

Team Booking plugin is a premium plugin and can be downloaded by paying a small fee of $21.

Additional features:

• Lets you set up different products and services of your businesses
• Send customized emails about bookings and appointments
• Also comes with custom URLs that redirects customers right after booking an appointment
• Also, allow your customers to cancel their appointments within in a stipulated time period set by you.

4. WP Simple Booking Calendar

Another popular booking WordPress plugin is WP Simple Booking Calendar plugin that allows you to add a calendar to a page or post on your website using the shortcode. The plugin only allows your customers to book an appointment for the whole day instead of booking hourly. Therefore, it is basically designed for businesses that have something basics to offer such as accommodation, room booking, or other per day offerings. WP Simple Booking calendar plugin is available in free as well as premium version.

Additional features

• Simple user-friendly interface
• Offers language translation options with the help of PO files
• Creates a huge number of booking calendars
• Hide booking history from the visitors
• Displays a legend near the calendar

5. BookingEngine

BookingEngine is another straight forward WordPress booking plugin which is developed by the team of professionals at EngineThemes. From aesthetic appeal to useful booking calendar, this plugin has almost everything you probably be looking for in booking plugin. BookEngine  allows your visitors to add services, select a room and make a payment right from your WordPress website.

Additional features

• User-friendly interface to manage bookings and appointments
• Sends invoice receipts automatically to the customers
• Allows adding a booking/appointment form via shortcode

6. CP Appointment Calendar

CP Appointment Calendar is yet another popular WordPress booking calendar that helps webmasters to integrate booking forms on their websites. There are other brilliant features added in the premium version of the plugin. It allows you to add the appointment booking management system to any page or post in your website by adding a shortcode. The plugin also enables you to set available time slots that can be booked by your customers.

Additional features

• Allows to export the appointments to a CSV file
• Block time slots for meetings, holidays and lunch breaks
• Send booking confirmation emails
• 100% Fully responsive designed
• Multilingual

7. Bookly – Responsive WordPress Appointment Booking Plugin

Bookly is an impressive booking/appointment WordPress plugin that comes with a variety of advanced features. The plugin comes with various visual customization options you may not find in any other booking plugin. Bookly responsive WordPress Appointment Booking Plugin, as the name suggests, has a 100% fully responsive design layout.

Additional features

• Offers group bookings
• Comes with a form builder
• Send confirmation notifications via E-mail and SMS
• Allow safe online payments via PayPal, 2CO Checkout, Stripe, Payson, PayU and more

8. Appointments+

Appointments+ is a comprehensive WordPress booking plugin developed by WPMUdev. Whether you are a huge team of professionals or a private dentist, Appointment+ is designed to help you manage your appointments in your WordPress website that customers book online. The plugin allows simple 3-step appointment booking process for your customers to book appointments in a matter of few minutes.

Additional features

• Highly customizable and has simple integration
• Allows easy online payment via PayPal
• Syncs with Google Calendar
• Helps you create blackout dates
• Sends automatic appointment confirmation via email

9. Checkfront and Checkfront WordPress Booking plugin

CheckFront and CheckFront WordPress Booking Plugin is an incredible WordPress booking plugin that adds easy to use and manage appointment booking management system to your WordPress website. The plugin is a feature-rich one stop solution for your appointment booking requirements. The plugin helps you streamline a number of tasks that are associated with managing appointments.

Additional features:

• Allows easy online payments
• Fully responsive and mobile friendly
• Allows you to add the appointment form to any page or post by adding a shortcode
• Send automatic email notifications
• Create coupons for your customers
• Help you manage your business availability

10. BirchPress

BirchPress is an impressive, feature-rich and advanced booking plugin. The plugin enables you to integrate a professional appointment booking management system into your WordPress website. It also allows easy online payments through credit cards and PayPal accounts. The plugin also syncs your appointment form with other calendars like Outlook, Android, iCal, Google Calendar and more.

Additional features

• Comes with email notifications and reminders
• Highly customizable booking form
• Developer friendly – allows developers to developer their own custom functionality
• Reschedule or cancel booked appointments
• Post booking page redirection
• Comes with WooCommerce integrated
• Easy access control

Wrapping up:

All these plugins have been used by hundreds if not thousands of webmasters around the world and are happy with the functionality they offer. However, no two websites are same and a plugin that works great for a website may not be suitable for your website. Therefore, make sure you do a little homework before you dive into spending a fortune on any booking plugin.

If you have any other booking plugin in mind, don’t forget to share it with us

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Author Bio:

Emma is a WordPress Developer by profession and Writer by hobby. She works for Wordsuccor Ltd., one of the best WordPress plugin development company based in the USA. If you need to hire a Plugin Developer you can connect with her on Google+.

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