Bookly

Bookly is a free scheduling plugin for WordPress that allows accepting online bookings on your website and automating your reservation system. Manage your booking calendar, services, client base, save time and money – all in one place. Join more than 70,000 businesses all around the world that have already automated their online booking system!
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Bookly is designed to grow your online sales and make easy appointments. This is a one-stop shop for any businesses from hair salons or photography to wealth management and transportation. You can start easily with the free version of Bookly and once your business scales you can operate ultimate scheduling software with the paid version available with the Bookly Pro add-on, and various add-ons.
PLEASE NOTE that online payments, unlimited number of staff members and services, and ability to install add-ons are NOT AVAILABLE in the free version. If you would like to find out more about features available with the Bookly PRO add-on, please check our <a href="https://demo.booking-wp-plugin.com/?utm_campaign=wp_description&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=WP_ORG/" rel="nofollow ugc">demo</a>.
<a href="https://www.booking-wp-plugin.com/?utm_campaign=wp_description&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=WP_ORG" rel="nofollow ugc">Bookly Homepage</a> | <a href="https://www.booking-wp-plugin.com/pricing?utm_campaign=wp_description&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=WP_ORG" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro Features</a> (Bookly Pro add-on required) | 
<a href="https://www.booking-wp-plugin.com/add-ons?utm_campaign=wp_description&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=WP_ORG" rel="nofollow ugc">Add-ons</a> (Bookly Pro add-on required) | <a href="https://support.booking-wp-plugin.com/hc/en-us?utm_campaign=wp_description&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=WP_ORG" rel="nofollow ugc">Bookly Help Center</a> | <a href="https://www.booking-wp-plugin.com/demo/free/?utm_campaign=wp_description&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=WP_ORG" rel="nofollow ugc">Demo</a>
<h3>1. Benefits for the customers</h3>
Online Scheduling with Bookly couldn’t be any easier for your customers. The booking form is perfectly responsive on any device, and all that customers need to do is pick their desired service and time, provide you with a few personal details, and voilà – it’s done! Your customers will receive an email or SMS notification before the appointment, and it will be automatically added to your Appointment Booking Calendar.
<h3>1.1 When you install Bookly on your website, your customers will be able to:</h3>
– quickly schedule and book appointment without having to directly contact you or your employee; 
– make a booking on any device, since Bookly design is fully responsive; 
– select the category, the service, and employee to perform the service; 
– define the dates and time that work best for them and the booking system will offer only available time slots; 
– fill in the minimum amount of contact details; 
– get an email and SMS notification confirming their online reservations; 
– get SMS reminder about an upcoming appointment.
<h3>1.2 Bookly Key Benefits</h3>
<ul>
<li>Saves time – no action necessary after booking is confirmed</li>
<li>Friendly booking interface – easy navigation</li>
<li>Minimal data input required</li>
<li>Responsive booking form – works on any device</li>
<li>Never forget a booked appointment with SMS and email notifications</li>
</ul>
<h3>2. Benefits for the business owner</h3>
No coding experience required to set up Bookly. We did our best to make it as easy and quick as possible to install and start using Bookly free scheduling software on your WordPress website. And with our Bookly Pro add-on and other add-ons, you will bring online scheduling experience for you and your customers to the next level.
You will be able to navigate the Booking Admin Panel like a pro, approve and adjust your appointments, and automate your online scheduling to concentrate on the most important part of your business – serving your customers and grow sales.
You can change the layout and modify the appearance of the booking form to match your business, website, and branding, manage your services and the customers’ list and send email and SMS notifications – all in one place.
<h3>You can use a wide range of Bookly features to configure your Appointment Scheduler and manage your bookings effectively:</h3>
– easily and effectively manage your Customer list and Appointment Calendar online from the Admin panel; 
– add an unlimited number of clients to your searchable and sortable Customer list; 
– add new customer directly from the calendar; 
– setup and customize SMS settings right from Bookly backend; 
– notify customers and a service provider about approved, pending and canceled appointments via SMS and Email notifications; 
– view calendar in monthly/weekly/daily format; 
– filter, search and sort booking list; 
– automatically approve or cancel appointments.
<h3>Configure the booking form to suit your needs:</h3>
– customize every step of your booking form, including editable headings, texts, and buttons; 
– translate all user interface and notifications into 40+ languages via WPML plugin; 
– add as many booking forms on your website as you want; 
– show or hide specific fields if you don’t want them to be visible to your customers; 
– use pre-defined default values for Category, Service and Employee fields in your booking form; 
– choose the way your customers will see your booking form on the front-end (e.g., show or hide the calendar, show each day in one column, display blocked time slots); 
– display available time slots in the client’s time zone; 
– set duration for each service separately; 
– choose an individual color for each service in order to color code appointments internally in your Appointment Booking Calendar; 
– organize services into categories (you can add up to five services with the free version of Bookly);
<h3>2.1 Key Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Fast online booking with intuitively manageable forms</li>
<li>The fully customizable appearance of the booking form with no coding involved</li>
<li>Unlimited number of booking forms on your site</li>
<li>Comprehensive admin area with an intuitive interface</li>
<li>Monthly/weekly/daily calendar view for the service provider</li>
<li>Manageable list of your customers</li>
<li>Filterable, sortable and searchable booking list of your customers</li>
<li>Variable duration for each service (5 min – 7 days)</li>
<li>Services grouped into categories</li>
<li>Customizable SMS and email notifications settings right from the Bookly backend</li>
<li>WPML integration for multi-language support</li>
<li>Automated SMS Mailing Campaigns for various marketing purposes</li>
<li>Blocks for Elementor and Gutenberg</li>
</ul>
<h3>3. Bookly Pro add-on features:</h3>
Bookly Pro add-on allows you to use more features and settings, install other add-ons for Bookly, includes six months of customer support, and provides you with advanced capabilities for automating your online scheduling system. Some of them include:
<ul>
<li>Unlimited number of staff members with an individual working schedule and ability to manage their profiles and online booking calendar</li>
<li>Unlimited number of services with additional settings (padding time, visibility, limitations, etc.)</li>
<li>Ability to receive secure and flexible online payments on your website</li>
<li>Online payment processing with PayPal, Stripe, 2Checkout, Authorize.Net, Mollie, Payson, PayUbiz, PayU Latam</li>
<li>Additional templates for Email notifications (e.g., reminders about upcoming appointments, follow-up messages, birthday greetings, next day agenda, etc.)</li>
<li>Advanced features for customizing your online booking form (show address fields, birthday fields, Facebook login, timezone switcher)</li>
<li>Google Calendar integration</li>
<li>WooCommerce compatibility</li>
<li>Importable and exportable customer list which includes info about appointments and payments</li>
<li>Built-in analytics so you will be able to see a comprehensive report about the number of bookings, customers and payments received</li>
<li>Integration with Zoom, Google Meet and Jitsi</li>
<li>Mailchimp integration (via add-on)</li>
<li>Ability to export appointments via ICalendar feed</li>
<li>Ability to purchase and use dozens of paid add-ons for deeper customization of your booking system (group bookings, custom fields, service extra items, recurring appointments, deposits, coupons, personal staff cabinet and user account for your clients, automatic invoicing, waiting list, and much more!)</li>
</ul>
<h3>4. Who can benefit from using Bookly:</h3>
Bookly for WordPress is designed to be used by local businesses or individual providers who offer different services to customers. Since the booking form can be fully customized and personalized, it is successfully used in many business segments such as Healthcare, Beauty, Education, Medicine, Consulting etc., as well as by individual professionals.
Also, Bookly is an excellent solution for web studios and developers, who are looking for ways to improve the appointment process for their customers.
<h3>Online scheduling for:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Salon & Beauty (hair salons, nail salons, cosmetology centers, tanning studios, barbershops)</li>
<li>Health and wellness (wellness, spa & massage, aromatherapy, baths)</li>
<li>Medicine (clinics, doctors, dentists, medical centers)</li>
<li>Education (education centers, tutors, language schools, private lessons)</li>
<li>Fitness & Gyms (yoga classes, personal trainers, health clubs, fitness centers, dance instructors)</li>
<li>Professional services (coaches, consultants, lawyers, photographers, consulting psychologist, cleaning services)</li>
<li>or any other services which can be scheduled and reserved online using the booking system.</li>
</ul>
<h3>FURTHER READING</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.booking-wp-plugin.com/?utm_campaign=wp_description&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=WP_ORG" rel="nofollow ugc">Bookly Online Scheduling plugin</a> official page</li>
<li><a href="https://support.booking-wp-plugin.com/hc/en-us?utm_source=WP_ORG&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=wp_further_reading" rel="nofollow ugc">Help center</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.booking-wp-plugin.com/demo/free/?utm_campaign=wp_furtherreading&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=WP_ORG" rel="nofollow ugc">Bookly demo</a></li>
<li><a href="https://demo.booking-wp-plugin.com/?utm_campaign=wp_furtherreading&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=WP_ORG" rel="nofollow ugc">Bookly Pro add-on demo</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.booking-wp-plugin.com/add-ons?utm_campaign=wp_description&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=WP_ORG" rel="nofollow ugc">Add-ons for Bookly Pro</a></li>
<li><a href="https://youtube.com/c/Bookly?utm_source=WP_ORG&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=wp_further_reading" rel="nofollow ugc">Youtube channel</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>AFTER ACTIVATION</h3>
<ul>
<li>Add at least one service (Bookly menu > Services).</li>
<li>Add a staff member linked to your service (Bookly menu > Staff members).</li>
<li>Customize the appearance of your online booking form (Bookly menu > Appearance).</li>
<li>Publish the booking form on your website (WordPress sidebar menu > Pages/Posts).</li>
</ul>

Online Scheduling and Appointment Booking System – Bookly


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Appointment booking system for WordPress — schedule appointments, manage calendars, send reminders, take payments. Start booking today!

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<a href='https://www.etoilewebdesign.com/ultimate-appointment-scheduling-demo/' rel="nofollow ugc">Ultimate Appointment Scheduling Demo</a>
Appointment booking platform that lets your customers schedule appointments directly on your website with an easy-to-use calendar and booking form. Set up locations, services, and providers for those services, and let your clients start booking their appointment reservations online today!
Includes Gutenberg block for displaying appointment booking forms!
<h4>Key Appointment Booking Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Create appointment locations with different opening hours</li>
<li>Create appointment services that cost different amounts and take different amounts of time</li>
<li>Dynamically updated booking calendar and appointment schedules, so it’s impossible to double book</li>
<li>Optional multi-step booking form</li>
<li>Set required information, such as name or phone number</li>
<li>Set up automated reminder emails that will go out to your clients a certain number of days or hours before their appointments</li>
</ul>
Great for businesses that need to set up one-on-one or one-to-many services, such as mechanics, medical professionals, event venues, exercise classes, corporate training sessions, etc. Also works to schedule meetings, for scheduling phone calls and for other situations in which a booking form and reservation system are required.
Appointment Booking Form
Adding your booking form to a page is as simple as inserting the above shortcode. You can search for it by name or find it in the Ultimate Appointment Scheduling block section. With the block, you can also insert your booking form into any widget area in your theme. Ultimate appointment booking flexibility!
<pre><code>[ultimate-appointment-calendar]
[ultimate-appointment-dropdown]
</code></pre>
Alternatively, you can simply insert either of the appointment booking shortcodes above into any page to display a responsive booking form. The first will display a booking calendar, from which you can select and reserve an appointment time. The second will allow you choose a date and then display available appointment booking times that are available for you to book a reservation.
Allow your visitors and customers to book reservations for a wide array of services and appointment types. With options to create an unlimited amount of unique appointment services, to specify multiple different appointment locations, and to create service providers and specify the services they do, the booking locations they work at and their hours, all with an easy-to-use reservation form on the front end, Ultimate Appointment Scheduling provides the most simple and effecting booking solution and reservation system that is perfect for both you the admin as well as your site visitors.
<h4>Email Notifications and Reminders</h4>
The plugin comes with a flexible array of email notification and reminder options. You can configure it to automatically send a notification to the admin and to the customer when a new booking is made.
You can create an unlimited number of custom email messages, which you can assign to your different notifications.
You can also create an unlimited number of reservations reminder notifications, which will allow you to send out emails to your customers at the exact time intervals you need, to help remind them of their upcoming appointments.
Notification and email features include:
<ul>
<li>Send an automatic email to the admin when a new booking is made</li>
<li>Send automatic emails to clients when a reservation is placed and an appointment is successfully created</li>
<li>Create unique email messages that you can assign to your different notifications.</li>
<li>Set up automated reminder emails that will go out to your clients a certain number of days or hours before their appointments</li>
</ul>
<h4>Additional Appointment Reservation Features</h4>
Ultimate Appointment Scheduling comes with many more features that make it the most advanced and versatile booking form solution for accepting reservations on your WordPress site, including options to make your appointment services, locations and providers as specific or broad as you require, and a mobile booking form for the ultimate responsive reservation system.
<ul>
<li>Options to set a minimum and maximum number of days before an appointment that a reservation for a service can be booked</li>
<li>Set the amount of time between appointments. This, combined with the duration set for a service, will decide when appointment reservations can made.</li>
<li>Set the date format and hours format</li>
<li>Set a calendar offset to specify how far ahead the default opening date of the calendar will be</li>
</ul>
<h4>Premium Appointment Features</h4>
The premium version of Ultimate Appointment Scheduling comes with even more features, which will allow you to customize the form both to your exact needs and to your website. Some of the great premium features are:
<ul>
<li>Accept mandatory or optional payments for appointments either via PayPal or WooCommerce</li>
<li>Add reCAPTACHA to your form, to help prevent spam</li>
<li>Option to require login to WordPress before being able to create an appointment</li>
<li>Additional booking form layout option</li>
<li>Labelling options</li>
<li>Customize the look of your form with an array of styling options to help you fit it in seamlessly with the rest of your site</li>
</ul>
<h4>Shortcodes</h4>
<ul>
<li>[ultimate-appointment-calendar]: display a calendar that with available appointment times that users can click to select an appointment</li>
<li>[ultimate-appointment-dropdown]: display a set of dropdown menus to find appointment times and schedule an appointment</li>
</ul>
<h4>Translations</h4>
<ul>
<li>German (Thanks to <a href='https://wordpress.org/support/profile/bkleine' rel="ugc">bkleine</a>)</li>
</ul>

Ultimate Appointment Booking & Scheduling

Appointment booking calendar and scheduling plugin that lets you set up different services, service providers, locations and availability

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