Appointment booking system for WordPress — schedule appointments, manage calendars, send reminders, take payments. Start booking today!
| Last updated | October 26, 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 | 3.7 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 5.3.7 or newer |
| First published | October 10, 2014 |
| Support, last two months | 1 of 1 threads resolved (100%) |
4.4 / 5 from 586 reviews
| 5 stars | 468 |
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| 4 stars | 30 |
| 3 stars | 19 |
| 2 stars | 16 |
| 1 star | 53 |
Bookly is a free scheduling plugin for WordPress that allows accepting online bookings on your website and automating your reservation system. Manage your booking calendar, services, client base, save time and money – all in one place. Join more than 70,000 businesses all around the world that have already automated their online booking system!
Bookly is designed to grow your online sales and make easy appointments. This is a one-stop shop for any businesses from hair salons or photography to wealth management and transportation. You can start easily with the free version of Bookly and once your business scales you can operate ultimate scheduling software with the paid version available with the Bookly Pro add-on, and various add-ons.
PLEASE NOTE that online payments, unlimited number of staff members and services, and ability to install add-ons are NOT AVAILABLE in the free version. If you would like to find out more about features available with the Bookly PRO add-on, please check our demo.
Bookly Homepage | Pro Features (Bookly Pro add-on required) |
Add-ons (Bookly Pro add-on required) | Bookly Help Center | Demo
1. Benefits for the customers
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You can check the functionality of Bookly by visiting our demo page.
To check out all features available with the Bookly Pro add-on, please visit Bookly Pro demo.
Bookly Pro is a paid version which requires the Bookly Pro add-on. Purchase and download the Bookly Pro add-on here. Install it as a new plugin.
Bookly has a free version which can be used for the unlimited period and contains most of the basic features. You can check the current price and purchase the Bookly Pro add-on here. It includes six months of customer support and lifetime free updates of the plugin. For Pro version you can also install add-ons. You can check the add-ons prices here.
You can use Bookly add-ons with the Bookly Pro add-on only. To install the add-ons you need to upgrade to Bookly Pro first.
We have dozens of add-ons available for Bookly Pro only and continue adding more add-ons regularly. We have add-ons such as:
* ‘Deposit Payments’ allows your clients to reserve the service by paying online just the part of the price and the rest after they receive the service.
Visit our changelog page to stay up-to-date.
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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.
