WP Booking Calendar plugin for full-day bookings, time-slot appointments, rentals & events. Accept bookings and inquiries with flexible contact forms
| Last updated | October 11, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
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| Tested up to | WordPress 7.1.4Covers WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 5.3 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 5.6 or newer |
| First published | August 15, 2009 |
| Support, last two months | 1 of 1 threads resolved (100%) |
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| 4 stars | 18 |
| 3 stars | 8 |
| 2 stars | 6 |
| 1 star | 28 |
Booking Calendar – Booking Plugin for Appointments, Reservations, Rentals, Events
WP Booking Calendar is a flexible WordPress booking plugin for appointments, reservations, rentals, and events. Add a responsive availability calendar and booking form to your website, accept online bookings, and manage them from a modern admin panel.
Use Booking Calendar for full-day bookings, time-slot appointments, service scheduling, event registration, inquiry forms, request forms, or even as a simple multi-step contact form with built-in request listing and email notifications.
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Best for appointments, service scheduling, property rentals, equipment rentals, consultations, classes, events, and availability management.
Key Features
Booking Calendar for Different Businesses
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Booking Calendar Personal (or higher versions)
– Multiple booking resources (calendars) – create an unlimited number of booking resources (calendars), which can be your services, properties, or any other items that can be booked by visitors in separate unique calendars.
– Advanced configuration of booking form and emails – fully customize the appearance of your booking form and email templates.
Time Slots Availability & Fast Admin Booking
Manage unavailable time intervals visually from Booking Calendar > Availability or directly from the bookings workflow using the new Time Slots Availability popup.
Administrators can choose a date range and block or unblock exact time intervals in an interactive timeline.
Whether you’re renting a property or you’re a sole business owner looking to automate your service bookings, Booking Calendar can help you.
– Resource scheduling (bed & breakfast, houses, apartments, etc.)
– Client scheduling (photographers, lawyers, beauty salons, spas, etc.)
– Meeting scheduling (coaching, phone advice)
– Patient scheduling (doctor, dentists, clinic, medical)
Step 1: Select your desired date(s)
Customers can select the date(s) they would like to book. The Booking Calendar plugin provides an easy-to-use calendar system that displays the availability of your property or service for those dates.
Step 2: Select a time-slot (optional)
1. Add booking form or availability calendar to your page
Easily insert the booking form on any page of your website using WordPress blocks or Booking Calendar widgets for sidebars or configure shortcode block in page builders like Elementor. Read more here.
2. Set initial unavailable days with just few clicks
Configure multi-day bookings with specific check-in and check-out days, clearly marked with diagonal or vertical lines. Perfect for bookings that require split days. Available in paid editions.
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Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin. The author takes donations at their donate page.
