Syed Balkhi

Jared Atchison

Gregor Capuder

Ivan Hryhorenko

Alexander Sakal

<h4>WordPress Appointment Booking Plugin</h4>
<p><a href="https://sugarcalendar.com/bookings/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteplugin" rel="nofollow ugc">Sugar Calendar Bookings</a> is a lightweight yet powerful WordPress booking plugin that makes appointment scheduling simple for you and your customers. Set up your booking system in minutes, accept online bookings and payments, and manage all your appointments from a beautiful admin calendar.</p>
<p>Whether you run a salon, consulting practice, healthcare office, or any service-based business, your clients get 24/7 access to book appointments while you stay in complete control of your schedule. No coding required. No bloated features you don’t need.</p>
<p>Built by the team behind <a href="https://wpforms.com/?utm_source=scb-wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteplugin" rel="nofollow ugc">WPForms</a>, <a href="https://wpmailsmtp.com/?utm_source=scb-wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteplugin" rel="nofollow ugc">WP Mail SMTP</a>, and other top WordPress plugins trusted by over 25 million websites.</p>
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<p><strong>Sugar Calendar Bookings Pro</strong><br />
  This plugin is the Lite version of Sugar Calendar Bookings Pro, which comes with multiple employee management, staff scheduling, per-service email templates, and more. <a href="https://sugarcalendar.com/pricing/bookings/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteplugin" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to purchase the best premium WordPress appointment booking plugin now!</a></p>
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<h4>Booking Forms That Convert</h4>
<p>Add a professional booking form to any page on your WordPress site in seconds. Your customers choose a service, pick an available date and time from the booking calendar, enter their details, and complete payment. The entire booking process takes about 60 seconds from start to finish.</p>
<p>The booking form is fully responsive, works on all devices, and is designed for maximum conversions. Embed it anywhere using the dedicated Gutenberg block, the <code>[sugar_calendar_bookings_form]</code> shortcode, or the native Elementor widget.</p>
<p>You can customize the form appearance with light and dark modes, choose between 2-column and 3-column time slot layouts, and filter which services to display on each page.</p>
<h4>Service Management</h4>
<p>Create unlimited services with custom names, descriptions, feature images, colors, durations, and pricing. Organize your services with tags and assign them to specific locations and staff members.</p>
<p>Each service can have its own working schedule, so you can offer different appointment types at different times. Support both in-person appointments and online meetings with flexible location options.</p>
<h4>Admin Calendar & Appointment Management</h4>
<p>Manage all your bookings from a clean, intuitive admin calendar built right into your WordPress dashboard. Switch between month, week, day, and agenda views to see your appointment schedule exactly how you want it. Appointments are color-coded by service for quick visual reference.</p>
<p>View appointment details, reschedule bookings, process cancellations, and keep track of customer notes with the built-in activity log. Filter by service, status, or search by customer name, email, or phone number to find any appointment instantly.</p>
<h4>Availability & Scheduling</h4>
<p>Set your availability with weekly working hours and multiple time periods per day. Need to block off holidays or set special hours for a specific date? Use date overrides to manage your booking calendar with ease.</p>
<p>Control how far in advance customers can book with minimum and maximum advance booking windows. The availability system automatically prevents double-booking and only shows open time slots on your booking form.</p>
<h4>Online Payments with Stripe</h4>
<p>Accept credit card payments directly through your booking form with the built-in Stripe integration. Customers pay when they book, reducing no-shows and saving you time.</p>
<p>The plugin uses Stripe Connect for a quick, secure setup. You can also accept on-site payments for customers who prefer to pay in person. Manage all transactions, issue refunds, and track revenue from the payments dashboard in your WordPress admin.</p>
<h4>Email Notifications & Reminders</h4>
<p>Keep everyone informed with automated email notifications. Customers and staff receive instant emails when bookings are created, confirmed, updated, or cancelled. Customize every email template with smart tags that automatically fill in appointment details like customer name, service, date, time, and location.</p>
<p>Set up appointment reminders to reduce no-shows. Customers receive a reminder email before their scheduled appointment so they never forget.</p>
<h4>Customer Management</h4>
<p>Build your customer database automatically as bookings come in. Every customer profile includes their contact information, complete booking history, and any notes you add. The system automatically detects returning customers by email or phone to avoid duplicate records.</p>
<h4>Who Is Sugar Calendar Bookings For?</h4>
<p>Sugar Calendar Bookings is the ideal appointment scheduling solution for any service-based business that needs a simple, reliable system to manage calendars and accept reservations on WordPress.</p>
<h3>Salons & Spas</h3>
<p>Hair stylists, beauty therapists, and wellness practitioners love this plugin because clients can schedule their own appointments 24/7. Set up services with different durations and prices, manage your availability, and accept payments online to reduce no-shows.</p>
<h3>Consultants & Coaches</h3>
<p>Business consultants, life coaches, and career advisors use our appointment scheduling plugin to let clients reserve one-on-one sessions directly. Your availability calendar syncs with your schedule so clients always see accurate openings.</p>
<h3>Healthcare Providers</h3>
<p>Doctors, therapists, dentists, and other healthcare professionals rely on Sugar Calendar Bookings to manage patient appointments efficiently. The clean scheduling form and automated confirmations save front-desk staff hours of manual work.</p>
<h3>Fitness & Personal Training</h3>
<p>Gym owners, personal trainers, and yoga instructors use the scheduling system to let clients reserve training sessions and classes. Set different services for different workout types and manage your weekly availability with ease.</p>
<h3>Education & Tutoring</h3>
<p>Tutors, music teachers, and academic advisors use our scheduling plugin to manage student appointments. Students pick available time slots from your calendars and receive automated reminders so no session gets missed.</p>
<h3>Professional Services</h3>
<p>Photographers, lawyers, accountants, and real estate agents use Sugar Calendar Bookings to manage client meetings and consultations. The professional scheduling form makes a great first impression.</p>
<h4>Easy Setup in Minutes</h4>
<p>The plugin comes with a guided setup wizard that walks you through the entire configuration. Create your first service, set your working hours, connect Stripe for payments, and you’re ready to accept appointments. The whole process takes less than 5 minutes.</p>
<h4>Switching from Another Plugin?</h4>
<p>Moving to Sugar Calendar Bookings from Amelia? Our built-in migration tool imports your services, locations, customers, and appointments automatically. No manual data entry required.</p>
<h4>Zoom Integration for Online Appointments</h4>
<p>Take your online appointments to the next level with the built-in Zoom integration. When a customer books an online service, a Zoom meeting is automatically created and the unique meeting link is included in the confirmation email and the booking confirmation tab. No copy-pasting links, no manual meeting setup.</p>
<p>Connect your Zoom account in seconds with the one-click setup, and every online booking gets its own unique Zoom meeting. With the Pro version, each employee can connect their own Zoom account so meetings are created under the right host automatically.</p>
<h4>Employee Accounts & WordPress User Linking</h4>
<p>Connect employees to existing WordPress user accounts so each team member gets their own dedicated admin pages inside WordPress. Staff see only their own appointments, customers, and payments, while admins keep full oversight across the whole business.</p>
<h4>Full Sugar Calendar Bookings Feature List</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://sugarcalendar.com/bookings/features/online-appointment-booking/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteplugin" rel="nofollow ugc">Online booking form</a> – Multi-step booking flow with service selection, date/time picker, contact form, and payment.</li>
<li><a href="https://sugarcalendar.com/bookings/features/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteplugin" rel="nofollow ugc">Stripe payments</a> – Accept credit card payments via Stripe Connect. Free to set up.</li>
<li>On-site payments – Accept in-person payments without online processing.</li>
<li><a href="https://sugarcalendar.com/bookings/features/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteplugin" rel="nofollow ugc">Service management</a> – Unlimited services with custom names, descriptions, images, colors, durations, and pricing.</li>
<li>Multiple employees – Full staff management with individual profiles and working schedules.</li>
<li>Smart employee assignment – Automatic best-available staff selection when customers choose “Any”.</li>
<li><a href="https://sugarcalendar.com/docs/bookings/a-complete-guide-to-sugar-calendar-bookings-settings/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteplugin" rel="nofollow ugc">Availability management</a> – Weekly schedules with multiple time periods and advance booking windows.</li>
<li>Per-employee scheduling – Custom working hours and availability for each staff member.</li>
<li>Date overrides – Holiday management and special hours for specific dates.</li>
<li><a href="https://sugarcalendar.com/docs/bookings/a-complete-guide-to-sugar-calendar-bookings-calendar/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteplugin" rel="nofollow ugc">Appointment calendar</a> – Month, week, day, and agenda views with color-coded bookings.</li>
<li>Employee calendar columns – Day view with separate columns for each team member.</li>
<li><a href="https://sugarcalendar.com/bookings/features/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteplugin" rel="nofollow ugc">Email notifications</a> – 11 notification types for customers and staff (booking confirmation, booking pending, update, cancellation, reminder, and payment refund).</li>
<li>Appointment reminders – Automated email reminders before scheduled appointments.</li>
<li>Service-level email templates – Custom notification content per service.</li>
<li>Smart tags – Dynamic content in email templates (customer name, service, date, time, location).</li>
<li><a href="https://sugarcalendar.com/bookings/features/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteplugin" rel="nofollow ugc">Location management</a> – Support in-person and online appointment locations.</li>
<li>Customer management – Customer profiles with booking history and contact details.</li>
<li>Customer self-cancellation – Customers cancel bookings via unique confirmation code.</li>
<li>Payment management – Track payments, process refunds, and monitor revenue.</li>
<li>Service-level payment settings – Different payment gateways per service.</li>
<li>Currency settings – Multiple currencies with custom symbol and format options.</li>
<li>Employee real-time availability – Live availability status for staff members.</li>
<li>Gutenberg block – Dedicated booking form block for the WordPress editor.</li>
<li>Shortcode support – <code>[sugar_calendar_bookings_form]</code> for any editor or page builder.</li>
<li>Elementor widget – Native Elementor integration for drag-and-drop booking form placement.</li>
<li>Setup wizard – Guided configuration for quick first-time setup.</li>
<li>Dashboard widget – Appointment and revenue overview on the WordPress admin dashboard.</li>
<li>Tags system – Organize services and customers with custom tags.</li>
<li>Activity log – Notes and audit trail on appointment detail pages.</li>
<li>Translation ready.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Integrations</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://sugarcalendar.com/bookings/features/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteplugin" rel="nofollow ugc">Stripe</a> – Accept credit card payments directly through your booking form via Stripe Connect.</li>
<li><a href="https://sugarcalendar.com/bookings/features/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteplugin" rel="nofollow ugc">Zoom</a> – Automatic Zoom meeting creation for online appointments with one-click account setup.</li>
<li>Elementor – Native booking form widget for the Elementor page builder.</li>
<li>Gutenberg – Dedicated booking form block for the WordPress block editor.</li>
</ul>


Sugar Calendar Bookings Scheduling Appointments Lite

The easiest appointment booking plugin for WordPress. Create booking forms, manage services & schedules, and accept Stripe payments.

SAASPROJECT

<p><strong>Booking Package</strong> is the simplest way to facilitate room rentals, service bookings, event bookings, or any type of online booking on WordPress.</p>
<p>The appointment booking system within the <strong>Booking Package</strong> management tool allows for direct handling within WordPress pages. By transitioning from manual paper registrations to digital appointment management on the server, you can effortlessly monitor booking availability.</p>
<h3>VIEW OUR PLUGIN DEMO PAGES:</h3>
<h3>Booking Calendar System for Hairdressers, Clinics, etc.</h3>
<ol>
<li><a href="https://booking-package.saasproject.net/demo-booking/" rel="nofollow ugc">Booking Demo in English</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://booking-package.saasproject.net/ja/demo-booking/" rel="nofollow ugc">Booking Demo in Japanese (日本語版の予約システムのデモ)</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://booking-package.saasproject.net/ja/demo-booking-for-salon/" rel="nofollow ugc">Booking Demo in Japanese (日本語版のエステ・エアサロン向け予約システムのデモ)</a> </li>
</ol>
<h3>Booking Calendar System for Hotels</h3>
<ol>
<li><a href="https://booking-package.saasproject.net/demo-booking-for-hotel/" rel="nofollow ugc">Booking Demo in English</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://booking-package.saasproject.net/ja/demo-booking-for-hotel/" rel="nofollow ugc">Booking Demo in Japanese (日本語版のホテル用予約システムのデモ)</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://saasproject.net/demo-booking/?type=hotel&locale=es_ES" rel="nofollow ugc">Booking Demo in Spanish (Demostración del calendario de reservas para español)</a> </li>
</ol>
<h3>Easy and Intuitive Interface – Supports Various Booking Types Across Industries</h3>
<p><strong>Booking Package</strong> makes it incredibly easy to set up, from system installation to creating a booking schedule. With its simple and intuitive interface, even beginners have no worries.<br />
It offers a rich set of features that cater to various booking types in different industries, such as school bookings, classroom bookings, massage bookings, event bookings, seminar bookings, facility bookings, conference room bookings, studio bookings, hospital appointments, dental appointments, briefing bookings, and more.</p>
<h3>Responsive Booking Interface</h3>
<p>The interface of the booking calendar is highly responsive, allowing clients to view it on commonly used browsers and devices.</p>
<h3>Seamless integration with your website</h3>
<p><strong>Booking Package</strong> plugin ensures a seamless integration with your website, without the need for iframes or new windows during the booking process. Your customers can always stay on your website while making their bookings.</p>
<h3>Setting Booking Time in Hours or Minutes</h3>
<p><strong>Booking Package</strong> allows for easy management of booking time. The time can be defined in hours or minutes, with the flexibility to set it at one-minute intervals for creating a versatile schedule.</p>
<h3>Online Payments</h3>
<p>By integrating PayPal and Stripe payment systems, customers can easily make payments during the booking process.</p>
<h3>User Account Functionality</h3>
<ol>
<li>Customers visiting the website can register as users through the Booking Package plugin, allowing them to skip entering personal information during the booking process.</li>
<li>Administrators can manage registered customers under Booking Package > Users in the dashboard.</li>
<li>Users with the “Subscriber” role in WordPress, in addition to Booking Package users, can also skip entering personal information during the booking process.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Features of the Free Version booking System:</h3>
<ol>
<li>You can create a booking schedule on a day-by-day basis, considering weekdays.</li>
<li>You have the ability to create unlimited booking calendars.</li>
<li>Manage booking information.</li>
<li>Edit personal information of booking users.</li>
<li>By using the service feature, your customers can select their preferred services during the booking process.</li>
<li>The service feature allows unlimited registration of service names, durations, and costs.</li>
<li>You can operate the booking system simply by embedding a shortcode into fixed pages or posts.</li>
<li>Upon completion, modification, or cancellation of a booking, emails are sent to the customer and the administrator.</li>
<li>No advertisements are displayed.</li>
<li>If you choose to make bookings through phone calls or direct visits by customers, it can be easily done through the booking calendar on the dashboard.</li>
<li>You can accept an unlimited number of bookings from customers or through the dashboard.</li>
<li>In the booking system for customers, you can freely change the background color of the calendar and input forms.</li>
<li>It supports booking reception for accommodation facilities such as hotels.</li>
<li>You can manage the booking calendar for each type of hotel room.</li>
<li>Easily view customer information from the dashboard.</li>
<li>Added a download function for visitor booking information.</li>
<li>There is a feature to notify developers of JavaScript syntax errors in the Booking Package.</li>
<li>Visitors can now perform booking procedures within the widget.</li>
<li>You can set regular closing days.</li>
<li>You can specify a deadline time for each booking time slot. For example, if you set a deadline 30 minutes before the 15:00 schedule, the booking will end at 14:30.</li>
<li>Each input field that customers enter during the booking process can be freely added or edited within the dashboard.</li>
<li>You can use a feature to display the remaining capacity of booking dates as a string or symbol.</li>
<li>It is compatible with WordPress site networks.</li>
<li>You can delete all published booking schedules for all dates or dates from the current day onwards.</li>
<li>You can insert any page into the booking completion page.</li>
<li>You can set Google Analytics goals on the booking completion page.</li>
<li>In the booking calendar for hotels, you can set hotel rates for each day of the week.</li>
<li>In the booking calendar for hotels, you can set minimum and maximum stay durations.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Extra features of the Premium version:</h3>
<ol>
<li>Ability to modify visitor’s booking time and service details.</li>
<li>Online payment through Stripe, including support for “Apple Pay” and “Pay with Google”.</li>
<li>Online payment through PayPal.</li>
<li>Fixed year and month for visitor’s booking calendar. When enabled, visitors can only view the specified month and cannot navigate to other months.</li>
<li>Display of remaining capacity for each booking time slot.</li>
<li>User account functionality for visitors within our plugin.</li>
<li>Option to define a specific period and delete published booking schedules within that period.</li>
<li>Ability to add options to services, providing flexibility for visitors.</li>
<li>Cancellation of bookings by visitors or users.</li>
<li>Service availability can be specified within specific time frames. For example, a service may be available only on Mondays and Fridays from 09:00 to 12:00.</li>
<li>Selection of multiple services within a single booking.</li>
<li>Multiple booking calendars can share schedules from a single booking calendar.</li>
</ol>
<h3>About the side menu of Booking Package in your Dashboard.</h3>
<h3>What can I do with “Booked Customers”?</h3>
<ul>
<li>You can check and edit customers’ bookings.</li>
<li>You can change the status of customers’ bookings.</li>
<li>You can create bookings for customers.</li>
<li>You can download a CSV file.</li>
</ul>
<h3>What can I do with “Users”?</h3>
<ul>
<li>You can check the user’s booking history and modify the status.</li>
<li>You can update the user’s email address and password.</li>
<li>You can add and remove users.</li>
</ul>
<h3>What can I do with “Calendar Settings”?</h3>
<ul>
<li>Create a new booking calendar.</li>
<li>Add, edit, and delete appointment times for the created booking calendars.</li>
<li>Add and edit items for personal information entry in the created booking calendar.</li>
<li>Add and edit services to the created booking calendar.</li>
<li>Manage taxes and surcharges in the created booking calendar.</li>
<li>Set up rules for the created booking calendar.</li>
</ul>
<h3>What can I do with “Calendar Settings”?</h3>
<ul>
<li>Create a new booking calendar.</li>
<li>Add, edit, and delete appointment times for the created booking calendars.</li>
<li>Add and edit items for personal information entry in the created booking calendar.</li>
<li>Add and edit services to the created booking calendar.</li>
<li>Manage taxes and surcharges in the created booking calendar.</li>
<li>Set up rules for the created booking calendar.</li>
</ul>
<h3>What can I do with “General Settings”?</h3>
<ul>
<li>Set up the common rules for all booking calendars.</li>
<li>Set up PayPal and Stripe payment gateways.</li>
<li>Configure regular holidays and special holidays.</li>
<li>Customize the CSS for the front-end booking calendar.</li>
<li>Renew or cancel your subscription.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Supported language</h3>
<ul>
<li>English </li>
<li>Danish</li>
<li>Spanish</li>
<li>Russian</li>
<li>Japanese (日本語) </li>
<li>Chinese (简化的字符预订系统) </li>
<li>Taiwan (繁體中文預訂系統)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Supported currency</h3>
<ul>
<li>USD</li>
<li>EUR</li>
<li>GBP</li>
<li>AUD – Australian Dollar</li>
<li>BRL – Real brasileiro</li>
<li>CAD – Canadian Dollar</li>
<li>CHF – Swiss franc</li>
<li>COP – Colombian Peso</li>
<li>CZK – Koruna česká</li>
<li>DKK – Dansk krone</li>
<li>HUF – Magyar forint</li>
<li>HRK – Croatian Kuna</li>
<li>PHP – Philippine Peso</li>
<li>UAH – Ukraine Hryvnia</li>
<li>RUB – Российский рубль</li>
<li>THB – Thai Baht</li>
<li>JPY – 日本円</li>
<li>TWD – 台湾元</li>
<li>CNY – 人民币</li>
<li>KRW – 한국 원</li>
<li>AED – United Arab Emirates</li>
</ul>


Booking Package

Things I really like and what I did not found in other plugins I tested:
- individual time slots per day
- nice design
- easy to set up (although its a bit confusing in the beginning)
- configurable submission form

Things that could be better:
- There is no custom css class for the first row (so its not possible to style these cells comfortable)

love it

Booking Package is the simplest solution for integrating an online appointment booking calendar system and event calendar into your WordPress website.

Sugar Calendar Bookings Scheduling Appointments Lite vs Booking Package