Rabie Eltegani

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

Amrit Anandh

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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.

Oryx Bookings: WooCommerce Appointments & Scheduling (100% Free) vs WPCal.io – Easy Meeting Scheduler