Marcus (aka @msykes)

Pixelite

Marcus

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<p>Events Manager is a full-featured event calendar, bookings, appointments, scheduling, and registration management plugin for WordPress ideal for everything from simple meetups to full-scale event planning. Built with flexibility, reliability and powerful features in mind.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://eventsmanager.site" rel="nofollow ugc">Demo</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wp-events-plugin.com/documentation/" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wp-events-plugin.com/tutorials/" rel="nofollow ugc">Tutorials</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Main Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Beautiful calendars, search pages, lists, grids and booking forms to enhance your site events.</li>
<li>Easy event registration (single day with start/end times)</li>
<li>Recurring and long (multi-day) event registration
<ul>
<li>Build complex recurrence patterns with exclusion/blackout dates</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>NEW</strong> Multiple timeslots within the day for events with advanced creation options
<ul>
<li>Overlapping timeslots</li>
<li>Buffer between timeslots</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Bookings Management (including approval/rejections, export CVS, and more!)</li>
<li>Multiple Tickets</li>
<li>Fully-featured graph and statistics including bar/line/pie with comparison and stacking</li>
<li>MultiSite Event Support
<ul>
<li>Cross-Network Event Sharing – show your events and booking fromss on other subsites or main site</li>
<li>Network-wide Global Booking Management</li>
<li>BuddyPress and BuddyBoss Support</li>
<li>Create modular (independent) event subsites or inter-networked events</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>NEW</strong> Multiple custom event types (Archetypes), such as Workshops, Events, Webinars, Appointments etc.
<ul>
<li>Customize your labels, slugs and CPT names</li>
<li>Enable or disable specific features for specific event archetypes.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Multiple Location Types
<ul>
<li>Physical Locations</li>
<li>Online Events (URLs)</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager-zoom/" rel="ugc">Zoom Webinars/Meetings Integration</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>BuddyPress & BuddyBoss Support
<ul>
<li>Submit Events</li>
<li>Group Events</li>
<li>Personal Events</li>
<li>Activity Stream</li>
<li>more on the way</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Guest/Member Event submissions</li>
<li>Assign event locations and view events by location</li>
<li>Event categories</li>
<li>Easily create custom event attributes (e.g. dress code)</li>
<li>Google Maps <a href="https://wp-events-plugin.com/documentation/google-maps/api-usage/?utm_source=repo&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=gmaps-api" rel="nofollow ugc">(see our API usage recommendations)</a></li>
<li>Advanced permissions – restrict user management of events and locations.</li>
<li>Widgets for Events, Locations and Calendars</li>
<li>Fine grained control of how every aspect of your events are shown on your site, easily modify templates from the settings pages and template files</li>
<li>iCal Feed (single and all events)</li>
<li>Add to Google Calendar buttons</li>
<li>RSS Feeds</li>
<li>Compatible with SEO plugins</li>
<li>Timezone Support – create events in different timezones</li>
<li>Plenty of template tags and shortcodes for use in your posts and pages</li>
<li>Actively maintained and supported</li>
<li>Lots of documentation and tutorials</li>
<li>And much more!</li>
</ul>
<h4>Data Privacy and GDPR Compliance</h4>
<p>We provide the tools to <a href="http://wp-events-plugin.com/documentation/data-privacy-gdpr-compliance/" rel="nofollow ugc">help you be GDPR compliant</a>, including:</p>
<ul>
<li>export/erasure of data via the WordPress Privacy Tools, including booking, event and location data</li>
<li>consent checkboxes on our booking, event and location forms on the frontend</li>
<li>settings to control what can be exported/erased as well as where/when to place consent requests</li>
<li>sample text for your site privacy policy describing what Events Manager does with personal data</li>
</ul>
<h4>Premium Features</h4>
<p>We have a premium <a href="http://eventsmanagerpro.com/gopro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro add-on for Events Manager</a> which not only demonstrates the flexibility of Events Manager, but also adds some important features including but not limited to:</p>
<ul>
<li>WooCommerce integration (<a href="https://em.cm/wc" rel="nofollow ugc">sold separately</a>)</li>
<li>PayPal, Stripe, Authorize.net and Offline Payments</li>
<li>Custom booking forms</li>
<li>Individual Attendee custom forms</li>
<li>Upload fields for bookings, attendees and users</li>
<li>Printable Invoices and Tickets</li>
<li>Send PDF tickets/invoices by email automatically</li>
<li>Check In/Out</li>
<li>Move bookings to other dates/times</li>
<li>QR Scanning
<ul>
<li>Manage bookings on your phone</li>
<li>Check In/Out users</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Waitlists</li>
<li>Automation – ultimate flexibility in automation!
<ul>
<li>Triggers:</li>
<li>X time before/after events start</li>
<li>When a booking status changes</li>
<li>When a booking was booked x time ago</li>
<li>Actions</li>
<li>Send Webhook (Zapier, MS Automation and many other services)</li>
<li>Send Email</li>
<li>Send WhatsApp, SMS, Telegram notifications</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>WhatsApp, SMS, Telegram integration and interactive flows</li>
<li>Coupon Codes</li>
<li>Custom booking email per event and gateway</li>
<li>Faster support via private Pro forums</li>
</ul>
<p>For more information or to go pro, <a href="http://wp-events-plugin.com/features/" rel="nofollow ugc">visit our plugin website</a>.</p>
<h4>Additional Plugin Integrations</h4>
<p>Whilst there’s many third party integrations with our own plugin, here’s some we’ve integrated ourselves!</p>
<ul>
<li>Included in Events Manager (automatic integration)
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress/" rel="ugc">BuddyPress</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-fullcalendar/" rel="ugc">WP FullCalendar</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/thrive-automator/" rel="ugc">Thrive Automator</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Additional Add-Ons
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager-zoom/" rel="ugc">Zoom</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager-wpml/" rel="ugc">WPML Multilingual Sites</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>


Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more!

This is a very nice solution for custom designed sites, where you need powerfull event functionality but to be able to design the looks your way. Great job.

A very capable plugin, and very flexible.


This plugin is extremly flexible in the configuration. You choose if you want to use custom WordPress templates, or adapt right in the admin area those that come with their built in template engine. You have robust support of recurring and multi day events. There are even various options to have registration right on the site. You have the possibility to enable registration on the front end and if needed you can extend almost everything with custom programming, and there is a good documentation on how to do that. Quite satisfied to have chosen this option, and am using it already for years!


Extremly flexible event manager

Events calendar with bookings, scheduling, appointments, event registration, tickets, recurring events, and venue management.

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Jeroen van der Kooij

Really Simple Plugins

Renee van Velthuijsen

SimplyBook.me

<p>SimplyBook.me is the easiest way to start collecting bookings on your WordPress website. The plugin will allow you to register your free account and immediately publish your booking calendar on the front-end of your site. With a few clicks, you can easily add your services and service providers, and design the most beautiful booking widget. You will be collecting appointments and reservations in no-time!</p>
<ul>
<li>Easy appointment scheduling</li>
<li>Simple plugin onboarding and configuration</li>
<li>Manage your calendar and bookings using the powerful mobile app (iOS and Android)</li>
<li>Accept touchless payments via the app on your onsite checkout</li>
<li>High email deliverability for reservation confirmations and appointment reminders.</li>
<li>Create multiple services, providers, categories and locations</li>
<li>Send email and SMS notifications to your customers for their bookings</li>
<li>Add “Book now” buttons on your Instagram, Facebook and Google Business Profile</li>
<li>Sell Memberships, packages & gift cards</li>
<li>Manage bookings for Classes & Events</li>
<li>Increase sales by offering products and service add-ons in the booking process</li>
<li>Marketing campaigns by emails and push notifications</li>
<li>Waiting Lists and “Make me look busy” features</li>
<li>Offer Coupons and a Loyalty System to enhance brand loyalty</li>
<li>Insights and statistics about your bookings, reservations, cancellations, workload and revenues</li>
<li>Adjust time zone settings if you have clients in different time zones</li>
<li>Create individual schedules for staff</li>
<li>Create multiple users related to providers</li>
<li>Accepting payments and/or deposits to confirm the bookings in the booking process</li>
<li>Easily implement your booking widget with a Gutenberg block, Elementor Widget or a shortcode</li>
</ul>
<p>SimplyBook.me can be used for free up to 50 appointments per month. In addition, you can use one of the Special features for free! You will automatically be signed up for a Free 14-day trial, which allows you to test the Special Features without any restrictions, including advanced scheduling tools.</p>
<h4>Why SimplyBook.me?</h4>
<p>SimplyBook.me is an advanced online booking system that creates a professional booking widget on your WordPress site where your clients can book your services at any time. You will then have access to an admin interface where you can manage your bookings, calendar, and settings. On top of that you will get an admin app where you can manage all your bookings, handle appointments, adjust scheduling, and accept payments on the go. Thousands of clients all over the world have selected our booking system to make their business easy and comfortable to use (see our testimonials). SimplyBook.me provides users with a broad range of features so that you can tailor the system to your needs, irrespective of what industry you are in.<br />
For a more detailed understanding of the SimplyBook.me service, you can explore at the following link: <a href="https://simplybook.me/?ref=wordpress" title="SimplyBook" rel="friend nofollow ugc">https://simplybook.me/</a></p>
<p>This plugin is developed by SimplyBook.me, is ISO27001 compliant and utilizes its API to transmit and store all information, including settings and details of bookings, as well as other personal client data, directly on SimplyBook.me. Before using the plugin, we recommend that you familiarize yourself with the privacy policy and terms of use of SimplyBook.me at the following links:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://simplybook.me/en/policy" title="SimplyBook Privacy Policy" rel="friend nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
<li><a href="https://simplybook.me/en/terms-and-conditions" title="SimplyBook Terms of Use" rel="friend nofollow ugc">Terms of Use</a></li>
</ul>
<p>This will help you better understand the terms of use of the plugin and ensure your confidentiality.</p>
<p>This is the official SimplyBook.me plugin, developed by SimplyBook.me and Really Simple Plugins</p>
<h4>About Really Simple Plugins:</h4>
<p>Really Simple Plugins is the creator of most-used plugins Really Simple Security and Complianz. With a total of ~6 million installs, we focus on making the most user-friendly and easy-to-use plugins. We work with SimplyBook.me to make the most powerful booking system available directly in your WordPress dashboard.</p>
<h4>Benefits of the Online booking system</h4>
<p>Integrating an online booking system like SimplyBook.me is crucial for service businesses aiming to improve customer experience and extend their market reach. By enabling clients to book appointments outside of traditional office hours, an online scheduling and booking system increases accessibility and customer satisfaction. This system simplifies the entire appointment process, automates important reminders, and reduces scheduling errors, freeing up staff to concentrate on delivering superior service.<br />
Additionally, an online booking system offers powerful analytics that provide deep insights into customer behaviors and preferences. This data is essential for making informed adjustments to service offerings and planning effective marketing strategies. Last but not least it´s the best way to boost your sales by offering service add-ons and products for sale in the booking process, by sending tailored marketing email campaigns, offering coupons on less busy days, by prompting tips during check out and so much more, the options are endless!</p>


SimplyBook.me – Booking and reservations calendar

Simply add a booking calendar to your site to schedule bookings, reservations, appointments and to collect payments.

Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more! vs SimplyBook.me – Booking and reservations calendar