bookinda

<p>Add a professional online booking experience to your WordPress site in minutes. The Bookinda Booking Widget embeds your Bookinda booking flow natively, so visitors can book appointments without ever leaving your website.</p>
<p><strong>Four ways to embed, no code required:</strong> a Gutenberg block, an Elementor widget, a Classic editor toolbar button, or the <code>[bookinda]</code> shortcode. Pick an inline iframe that sits right in your content, or a fullscreen lightbox that opens from a button.</p>
<p>The plugin is a lightweight client for the Bookinda SaaS booking platform (https://bookinda.hu). It loads your booking flow from your Bookinda subdomain (<code>{slug}.bookinda.hu</code>) and bridges its lifecycle events to your page as native DOM CustomEvents, so you can wire up your own analytics, CRM, or post-booking redirects.</p>
<p><strong>You need an active Bookinda account to use this plugin. The plugin itself is free.</strong></p>
<h4>Perfect for</h4>
<ul>
<li>Salons, spas, barbershops, and beauty studios</li>
<li>Clinics, dentists, and medical practices</li>
<li>Personal trainers, coaches, and consultants</li>
<li>Any service business that takes appointments on a WordPress website</li>
</ul>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Gutenberg block</strong> in the Widgets category with sidebar InspectorControls for every parameter.</li>
<li><strong>Elementor widget</strong> with three tabs (Content, Preselection, Style) in the sidebar.</li>
<li><strong>Classic editor (TinyMCE) toolbar button</strong> with a dialog that inserts the appropriate shortcode.</li>
<li><strong>Shortcode</strong> <code>[bookinda]</code> / <code>[bookinda mode="lightbox"]</code> for any template, widget area, or content block.</li>
<li><strong>Inline mode</strong>: the booking iframe is embedded directly in the content (auto-resize).</li>
<li><strong>Lightbox mode</strong>: a button opens a fullscreen modal with the booking flow (mobile-optimized with sticky continue button, ESC and backdrop click to close).</li>
<li><strong>Preselection</strong>: pass <code>services</code>, <code>staff</code>, <code>category</code>, <code>promo</code>, <code>location</code> parameters to pre-select fields in the booking flow.</li>
<li><strong>Host DOM events</strong>: <code>bookinda:complete</code>, <code>bookinda:error</code>, <code>bookinda:step</code>, <code>bookinda:resize</code> CustomEvents dispatched on <code>document</code> for custom integrations.</li>
<li><strong>Optional GA4 and Meta Pixel tracking</strong>: if the host page already loads <code>gtag</code> or <code>fbq</code>, the plugin can fire a <code>purchase</code> event on booking completion. Configured via plugin settings (off by default).</li>
</ul>
<h4>Where to find your tenant slug</h4>
<p>Your tenant slug is the prefix of your Bookinda URL: <code>https://YOUR-SLUG.bookinda.hu/manager/calendar</code>. The slug is the part before <code>.bookinda.hu</code>.</p>
<h3>External Services</h3>
<p>This plugin connects to <strong>Bookinda</strong> (https://bookinda.hu), a third-party SaaS booking platform operated by Bookinda Kft. The connection is required for the plugin to function: the booking widget is hosted by Bookinda and embedded in your WordPress site via an iframe.</p>
<p><strong>What is sent to Bookinda:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>When a visitor opens a page containing the booking widget, their browser loads <code>https://{your-tenant-slug}.bookinda.hu/embed/{your-tenant-slug}</code> in an iframe. The URL includes the embed configuration parameters you set (mode, color, preselected service IDs, etc.) and an analytics-only <code>source=wp-plugin</code> parameter so Bookinda can distinguish WordPress plugin traffic from other embed sources.</li>
<li>When the visitor proceeds with a booking, they interact directly with the Bookinda iframe. Any data they enter (name, email, phone, payment details) is sent to Bookinda’s servers, not to your WordPress site. The plugin does not collect or store visitor data on the WordPress site.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>What is received from Bookinda:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>The booking widget HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, served from the Bookinda CDN.</li>
<li>postMessage events containing booking lifecycle data (completion confirmation, step changes, iframe height). The plugin re-broadcasts these as DOM CustomEvents on the host page.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Service documentation:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Bookinda website: https://bookinda.hu</li>
<li>Privacy Policy: https://bookinda.hu/adatkezeles</li>
<li>Cookie Policy: https://bookinda.hu/cookie-szabalyzat</li>
<li>Terms of Service: https://bookinda.hu/aszf</li>
<li>Data deletion request: https://bookinda.hu/adatok-torlese</li>
</ul>
<p>By installing and activating this plugin you acknowledge that visitor interactions with the embedded widget are subject to Bookinda’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. Please review them and ensure your site’s privacy notice reflects the data flow described above.</p>


Bookinda Booking Widget

Native WordPress plugin for the Bookinda online booking widget. Gutenberg block, Elementor widget, Classic editor button, shortcode, lightbox.

Amrit Anandh

Midhu

WPCal.io

Yuvaraj Senthil

<p>Schedule Meetings in under 30 seconds without searching through your calendar and all the back-and-forth emails.</p>
<p>Check the website – <a href="https://wpcal.io/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://wpcal.io/</a></p>
<p>Try a demo – <a href="https://demo.wpcal.io/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://demo.wpcal.io/</a></p>
<h4>FULLY NATIVE & SELF-HOSTED</h4>
<p>This is a fully native, self-hosted plugin where all booking management is done completely inside the WP-Admin itself.</p>
<h4>HOW IT WORKS:</h4>
<ol>
<li><strong>Set your availability (One-time setup)</strong> –<br />Let us know your availability by either setting it up yourself or by connecting your calendars.
</li>
<li><strong>Send your clients a link to your booking page</strong> –<br />To schedule a meeting with someone, share the link to your personalized booking page via email.
</li>
<li><strong>They choose a convenient slot</strong> –<br />Your clients can choose an available slot by selecting a preferred date and time.
</li>
<li><strong>Voila! Your meeting is scheduled!</strong> – <br />Your meeting is scheduled in just a few clicks. No checking calendars or sending emails back and forth.</li>
</ol>
<p><strong><em>Never ask “what time works for you?” again.</em></strong><br />Your clients can quickly view your real-time availability and self-book their own appointments—reschedule with a click, and eliminate all back-and-forth emailing.</p>
<h4>WHAT YOU CAN USE IT FOR?</h4>
<ul>
<li>Consultation</li>
<li>Interviewing</li>
<li>Customer Engagement</li>
<li>Sales & Marketing</li>
</ul>
<h4>YOUR TIME. YOUR RULES.</h4>
<ul>
<li>Control the duration of meetings</li>
<li>Add multiple types of locations like in-person meeting, over the phone, web conferencing apps or even ask the invitee to enter a location etc from which invitees can choose one</li>
<li>Cap the number of bookings per day</li>
<li>Completely flexible availability – Choose particular days of the week, hours of the day etc. to be available/unavailable</li>
<li>Prevent last-minute bookings</li>
<li>Set aside time before or after events</li>
<li>Let invitees answer a question while booking an event</li>
</ul>
<h4>CALENDAR APPS INTEGRATIONS</h4>
<p>2-way sync for Calendars – New meetings booked via WPCal will be added to your Calendar app and when an event is directly added to your Calendar app, that timeslot will be blocked from your WPCal availability.</p>
<ul>
<li>Google Calendar</li>
<li>Outlook Calendar (coming soon)</li>
<li>Office 365 (coming soon)</li>
<li>iCloud Calendar (coming soon)</li>
</ul>
<h4>WEB CONFERENCING APPS INTEGRATIONS</h4>
<ul>
<li>Google Meet/Hangouts</li>
<li>GoToMeeting</li>
<li>Zoom</li>
<li>Microsoft Teams (coming soon)</li>
<li>Webex (coming soon)</li>
</ul>
<h4>>> ALL PREMIUM FEATURES ARE 100% FREE DURING THIS TIME OF CRISIS</h4>
<p>Install this plugin and we’ll onboard you to use the Premium features for free.</p>
<h4>PREMIUM FEATURES (RELEASED)</h4>
<ul>
<li>Unlimited admin users per site.</li>
<li>Unlimited Event types.</li>
<li>Unlimited calendar accounts per admin user.</li>
<li>Customizable email notifications and reminders.</li>
<li>Brand customization of booking page – Customize the fonts and accent colors of the booking widget to match your brand’s look and feel.</li>
</ul>
<h4>PREMIUM FEATURES (COMING SOON)</h4>
<ul>
<li>Recurring events – Invitees can book an event that recurs periodically.</li>
<li>Group events – Host multiple invitees at the same event for tours, webinars, trainings and more.</li>
<li>Team events – Pooled availability options for teams (round robin, collective scheduling, multiple team members on one page).</li>
<li>Make me look busy – If you have a lot of availability, you can appear a bit more booked up or busy to your clients.</li>
<li>Avoid meetings scattered throughout your day – If you offer slots throughout the day, you can avoid meetings scattered through your day.</li>
<li>Custom multi-type questions for invitees while booking (Answer type: Checkbox and Radio).</li>
<li>Stripe and PayPal integrations – Connect your payment accounts so invitees can submit credit card payments securely upon scheduling a meeting with you.</li>
<li>Custom integrations with webhooks – Build your own integrations using the plugin’s webhooks.</li>
<li>Over 700 app integrations with Zapier – Easily trigger actions in other apps after an event is scheduled or canceled. Zapier supports 700+ apps including Slack, ActiveCampaign, MailChimp, join.me and much more.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong><em>Take back control of your time!</em></strong><br />If you regularly schedule meetings with others, you should really check out the plugin.</p>
<p>A simple and more native alternative to Calendly for WordPress.</p>


WPCal.io – Easy Meeting Scheduler

Your clients can quickly view your real-time availability and self-book their own slots, and eliminate all back-and-forth emailing.

Bookinda Booking Widget vs WPCal.io – Easy Meeting Scheduler