Description
Booking Calendar – Booking Plugin for Appointments, Reservations, Rentals, Events
WP Booking Calendar is a flexible WordPress booking plugin for appointments, reservations, rentals, and events. Add a responsive availability calendar and booking form to your website, accept online bookings, and manage them from a modern admin panel.
Use Booking Calendar for full-day bookings, time-slot appointments, service scheduling, event registration, inquiry forms, request forms, or even as a simple multi-step contact form with built-in request listing and email notifications.
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Best for appointments, service scheduling, property rentals, equipment rentals, consultations, classes, events, and availability management.
Key Features
- Accept full-day, appointment, and time-slot bookings.
- Display availability and prevent double bookings.
- Create customizable booking and inquiry forms.
- Manage, approve, decline, and edit bookings in WordPress.
- Send email notifications to administrators and customers.
- Build multi-step forms with the Drag & Drop Form Builder.
- Block unavailable dates and time intervals.
- Synchronize bookings using .ics feeds.
- Import Google Calendar events.
- Use responsive booking forms on desktop and mobile.
Booking Calendar for Different Businesses
Use Booking Calendar for appointment scheduling, service reservations, property and equipment rentals, consultations, classes, events, and other availability-based bookings.
Booking Calendar Free includes the essential tools for displaying availability, accepting booking requests, preventing double bookings, sending notifications, and managing reservations in WordPress.
Paid editions add multiple booking resources, online payments, seasonal pricing, advanced availability rules, availability search, and MultiUser administration.
Full-Day Booking Process in Booking Calendar Free
Let visitors complete a full-day property booking through a clear two-step flow. Customers select a property, review available, booked, and pending dates, choose their check-in and check-out dates, enter their contact details, and submit the booking request. The confirmation displays the complete booking summary and provides an option to add the selected dates to Google Calendar.
Appointment Booking with Services and Providers
Let visitors book appointments through a simple step-by-step flow. Customers choose a Service and an available Provider, select a date and start time, enter their contact details, and submit the booking. The confirmation displays the complete appointment details and provides an option to add the appointment to Google Calendar.
Screenshots
Blocks
This plugin provides 1 block.
- Booking Calendar
Installation
Installing the plugin is easy. Just follow one of the following methods:
Install Booking Calendar from within WordPress
- Visit the plugins page within your dashboard and select ‘Add New’
- Search for “Booking Calendar by oplugins”
- Activate Booking Calendar from your Plugins page
- You’re done!
Install Booking Calendar Manually
- From the dashboard of your site, navigate to Plugins –> Add New.
- Select the Upload option and hit “Choose File.”
- When the popup appears select the booking.zip or booking-x.x.zip file from your desktop. (The ‘x.x’ will change depending on the current version number).
- Follow the on-screen instructions and wait as the upload completes.
- When it’s finished, activate the plugin via the prompt. A message will show confirming activation was successful.
That’s it! Just configure your settings and insert booking form shortcode into a page, and you’re on your way to receive the bookings. Need help getting things started? Check out our FAQ and video guides for help with settings and features.
FAQ
Please see FAQ.
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Booking Calendar Personal (or higher versions)
– Multiple booking resources (calendars) – create an unlimited number of booking resources (calendars), which can be your services, properties, or any other items that can be booked by visitors in separate unique calendars.
– Advanced configuration of booking form and emails – fully customize the appearance of your booking form and email templates.
– Manage bookings – perform various actions such as CSV export, adding notes, editing, duplicating, changing resources, and much more…Booking Calendar Business Small (or higher versions)
– Online Payments – accept online payments for your bookings, with support for various payment gateways like Stripe, PayPal, Authorize.Net, Redsys, and more.
– Changeover Days – enable split bookings marked by vertical or diagonal lines, allowing visitors to check out and check in on the same date.
– Advanced range selection rules – enable fixed ranges with one click, configure minimum and maximum lengths or specific permitted lengths, and restrict range starts to selected weekdays.
– Auto Approval / Cancellation – set up automatic cancellation of unpaid pending bookings after a specific time, or enable auto-approval for incoming bookings.
– Advanced Hourly Bookings – increase the flexibility of your Booking Calendar by allowing visitors to book specific start and end times or duration of time, ensuring precise scheduling for your services.Booking Calendar Business Medium (or higher versions)
– Seasonal Prices – customize the daily cost (rates) for different seasons or week days with fixed costs per day or as a percentage from original daily cost.
– Multi-Day Pricing – set different cost of booking based on the number of selected days, and the ability to apply these costs only if the “Check In” day falls within a specific season.
– Last Minute Booking Discount – offer a discount for bookings, if the difference between the booking date and the check-in date is less than a specified number of days.
– Early Booking Discounts – set a discount for bookings made in advance, if the difference between the booking date and the check-in date is greater than a specified number of days.
– Advanced cost – configure the booking cost based on the options selected in the form, by adding extra charges such as taxes, additional services, or by adjusting the cost based on the number of visitors.
– Deposit payments – allows visitors to pay a part of the booking cost such as a fixed deposit value or percentage of the original booking cost after creating a booking.
– Multiple Custom Forms – create multiple form configurations, allowing you to use different forms with different form fields for each of your booking resources.
– Advanced days selection – customize the specific number of days that can be selected on specific weekdays or during certain seasons or allow specific start week days on certain season.
– Different time-slots on different days – configure different time slots for different week days or seasons.
– Advanced Season Availability – set unavailable days for specific seasons, such as holidays or weekends during summer, using conditional season filters.
– Availability from Today – limit or define the number of available/unavailable days starting from today.
– Unavailable time before or after a booking – setting the number of minutes, hours, or days needed for cleaning or other services, applicable to bookings with time slots or change-over days feature.Booking Calendar Business Large (or higher versions)
– Capacity and Availability – set the maximum number of bookings that can be made per full day or time slots in calendar, and ensure that dates in the calendar are only available until the capacity is reached.
– Search Availability – allows your website visitors to quickly search for available booking resources such as properties or services by entering check-in/out dates and other criteria like the number of guests or specific amenities.
– Coupons for Discounts – offer discounts to your visitors by creating coupon codes that can be entered in the booking form.
– Auto-Cancel Pending Bookings – enable automatic cancellation of pending bookings for specific dates when you approve booking for the same resource.Booking Calendar MultiUser version
– MultiUser Booking Admin Panels – enable each registered WordPress user to have their own individual booking admin panel, where they can see and manage only their own bookings, resources, and settings. This includes the ability to configure their own booking form, receive notifications to own separate emails, and activate payment gateways for their own payment accounts. -
Booking Calendar Free Features:
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Time Slots Availability & Fast Admin Booking
Manage unavailable time intervals visually from Booking Calendar > Availability or directly from the bookings workflow using the new Time Slots Availability popup.
Administrators can choose a date range and block or unblock exact time intervals in an interactive timeline. The timeline clearly shows available, booked, unavailable, and full-day unavailable states, making it much easier to understand real availability at a glance.
Administrators can also create a new booking directly from an available time interval. Simply select an available time slot in the popup, open the booking form with the selected resource, date, start time, and end time already prefilled, and save it as a new booking.
This makes Booking Calendar especially useful for appointment scheduling, service bookings, consultations, rentals, and any workflow where administrators need to quickly review availability and create bookings from the WordPress admin panel.
Setup Wizard!
– Easy Time Appointments Configuration for your Bookings
– Set up appointment booking system in less than 2.5 minutes. Designed with a user-friendly flow, the wizard takes you step-by-step through key settings, including booking type selection, calendar appearance, availability preferences, and more. This step-by-step setup helps you get your booking system ready for your business quickly and easily.