Best WordPress plugins for bookings and appointments

How important is managing your own calendar? Whether you own a B&B, a hotel, a dental practice, or are a professional photographer, giving your customers the possibility to book or request appointments easily and quickly is essentials for two simple reasons: first, you have the possibility to manage your calendar in a organized way, understand how many customers you’re receiving, how many you’ll get, and have a clear idea of your availability. Secondly, having an effective booking system directly accessible on your website can increase your conversion rate. Have we piqued your interest? Discover with us the best WordPress booking plugins and take your calendar management to the next level!

Booking Calendar

Let’s start right away with the most popular plugin for bookings and appointments. Booking Calendar offers one of the easiest and most intuitive user experience, in fact has already exceeded one million downloads. Your customers will able to check your time availability (if you are a professional/company that offers a service) or property availability (if you are, for example, an accommodation facility) through a calendar that can be inserted with a simple short-code and complete a reservation in just few seconds. The plugin is completely free but also offers some premium features.

Events Manager

Even organizing events can be an important business opportunity for many companies and professionals. With the Events Manager plugin, you can easily  manage events with limited seats and even create a dedicated page for each event with registration form, the number of available seats, a map with directions to the event location, and all necessary information for participation.

Bookly

With this plugin we are on another level. The greatest advantage of Bookly lies in its vast customization possibilities, making it ideal for businesses that process a high number of requests/booking or have particularly complex needs. Among the most important features we find creation, search and filtering of data on printable or exportable booking lists in CSV format, unlimited number of users, integrated templates for mail and SMS notifications to the client, integration with Google Calendar and integrated analytics. The cost is quite high (we are talking about 89$ per license) but it guarantees an absolutely complete tool from all points of view.

easyReservations

Among the plugins that stand our for ease of use, there is also easyReservations. Overall, it is really similar to Booking Calendar, both in terms of usability and bookings management, allowing the clients to check your availability and choose their preferred times and days through an interactive calendar integrated into your website. Also very interesting is the possibility to monitor some statistics regarding the number and economic value of reservations. Like Booking Calendar, easyReservations is completely free.

Typeform

In this case we go a little off the beaten track. Typeform is a really interesting Spanish start-up that provides the possibility to create and integrate “conversational” contact forms on the websites. It’s a different type of form, much more interactive, with an attractive and responsive design that aims to increase the user engagement, encouraging them to complete the action. To stay on topic, we will tell you right away that there is a WordPress plugin that you can install and use to give a different approach to how you manage bookings and appointments on your website.

Hbook – hotel booking system

If your business is a hospitality structure, this plugin is perfect for you. Hbook is great for organizing bookings and availability of B&B, hotels, and vacation houses, by giving you the possibility to manage your calendar, check and adjust your rates, and customize the booking interface with just few clicks. Another great feature is the ability to insert different payment methods including PayPal and Stripe. It’s available for 50$ and it has an Italian version.

Tell us your opinion!

Now that you have discovered the best WordPress plugins for bookings and appointments, we would like yo know your opinion. Have you ever worked with one of these plugins? What was your experience? What do you think is a must-have feature? Let us know!