Rabie Eltegani

<blockquote>
🚀 WHY CHOOSE ORYX BOOKINGS? 
 Most booking plugins force you to buy a “Pro” version to accept payments or manage staff. Oryx gives you everything for FREE.
<ul>
<li>WooCommerce Integration? ✅ FREE (Accept Stripe, PayPal, etc.)</li>
<li>Unlimited Services? ✅ FREE</li>
<li>Unlimited Staff Members? ✅ FREE</li>
<li>6 Premium Form Designs? ✅ FREE</li>
<li>Interactive Admin Calendar? ✅ FREE</li>
</ul>
Stop paying monthly subscriptions. Oryx is the open-source solution for Salons, Clinics, and Service Businesses.
</blockquote>
Oryx Bookings is a complete appointment and service booking system for WordPress. Manage services, staff, schedules, and accept bookings with a beautiful frontend form.
<h4>🔥 KEY HIGHLIGHTS</h4>
<ul>
<li>Unlimited Services & Staff — Create as many services and team members as you need.</li>
<li>WooCommerce Ready — Sell appointments like products and use any payment gateway.</li>
<li>Interactive Calendar — Visual calendar view to manage all your bookings at a glance.</li>
<li>6 Booking Form Templates — Grid, Stepper, Accordion, Card Flow, Flat Split, and Focus Input.</li>
<li>Smart Scheduling — Real-time availability with automatic double-booking prevention.</li>
<li>Secure & GDPR-Ready — Built-in spam protection, rate limiting, reCAPTCHA v3, and WordPress privacy tools integration.</li>
</ul>
<h4>🛠️ DETAILED FEATURES</h4>
Services Management 
* Custom name, duration, price, description, and featured image per service. 
* Rich content editor with media support. 
* Organize services into categories. 
* Two scheduling modes: Staff-based (user picks staff) or Service-only (auto-assign based on company hours).
Staff & Team 
* Staff profiles with name, job title, and photo. 
* Flexible availability: follow company hours or set a custom weekly schedule. 
* Individual days off per staff member. 
* Assign multiple staff to each service.
Bookings & Workflow 
* Real-time available time slots based on service duration. 
* Booking statuses: Pending, Confirmed, Cancelled, Completed. 
* Collects customer name, email, and optionally phone, address, and notes. 
* Configurable form fields — enable or disable optional fields from Settings.
Interactive Calendar 
* Full interactive calendar (day, week, month, and list views). 
* Create, edit, drag-and-drop, and delete bookings directly from the calendar. 
* Filter by staff or service. 
* Visual color coding by booking status.
Working Hours & Holidays 
* Set opening and closing times for each day of the week. 
* Mark specific days as closed. 
* Add company holidays — bookings are automatically blocked on those dates.
Elementor & Gutenberg Support 
* Elementor Widget: Drag-and-drop from the “Oryx Bookings” category with live preview. 
* Gutenberg Block: Search “Oryx – Booking Form” with server-side preview. 
* Shortcode: Use <code>[oryx_bookings]</code> anywhere.
<h4>🎨 CUSTOMIZATION</h4>
<ul>
<li>Primary Color — Match your brand with a single color setting.</li>
<li>Display Toggles — Show or hide service image, description, price, duration, and staff image.</li>
<li>Custom Labels — Change step titles, button text, and the success message.</li>
<li>Redirect URL — Send customers to a thank-you page after booking.</li>
</ul>
<h4>🔒 SECURITY</h4>
<ul>
<li>Rate limiting per IP for slot lookups and booking creation.</li>
<li>Honeypot fields and time-based tokens to block bots.</li>
<li>Google reCAPTCHA v3 support.</li>
<li>Booking limits per email, IP, and phone number.</li>
<li>Email and IP blocklist.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Third-Party Libraries</h3>
This plugin includes the following third-party libraries:
<h4>Flatpickr</h4>
<ul>
<li>Version: 4.6.13</li>
<li>License: MIT</li>
<li>Copyright: Gregory Petrosyan</li>
</ul>
<h4>FullCalendar</h4>
<ul>
<li>Version: 6.1.10</li>
<li>License: MIT</li>
<li>Copyright: Adam Shaw</li>
</ul>

Oryx Bookings: WooCommerce Appointments & Scheduling (100% Free)

The only 100% FREE Booking Plugin with WooCommerce Payments, Unlimited Staff, and 6 Premium Templates. No hidden costs.

Mark

Wim Braam

Really Simple Plugins

Renee van Velthuijsen

Kelvinkuiper

Jeroen van der Kooij

SimplyBook.me

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!
<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>
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.
<h4>Why SimplyBook.me?</h4>
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. 
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>
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:
<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>
This will help you better understand the terms of use of the plugin and ensure your confidentiality.
This is the official SimplyBook.me plugin, developed by SimplyBook.me and Really Simple Plugins
<h4>About Really Simple Plugins:</h4>
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.
<h4>Benefits of the Online booking system</h4>
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. 
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!

SimplyBook.me – Booking and reservations calendar

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

Oryx Bookings: WooCommerce Appointments & Scheduling (100% Free) vs SimplyBook.me – Booking and reservations calendar