Unlimited appointments, booking calendars, and notifications. Powerful appointment booking plugin and booking system. Start scheduling for free today!
| Last updated | October 14, 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 | 5.1 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 7.4 or newer |
| First published | May 23, 2018 |
| Support, last two months | 6 of 6 threads resolved (100%) |
5.0 / 5 from 155 reviews
| 5 stars | 153 |
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| 4 stars | 1 |
| 3 stars | 1 |
| 2 stars | 0 |
| 1 star | 0 |
Simply Schedule Appointments® is an easy-to-use WordPress appointment booking plugin. It’s an automated appointment booking system loved by 70,000+ businesses, with a 5-star review average.
The Simply Schedule Appointments booking calendars are easy and fast to set up. And enjoyable for your customers and clients to book and schedule appointments. You can set up the appointment scheduling calendars to take your first booking in less than 5 minutes!
And, the best part is that our 5-star support team is here to help you each step of the way, either through our comprehensive and organized Help Center, here on the WordPress Forums, or directly from the Simply Schedule Appointments Support Tab within the plugin.
Booking System Features to Help You Schedule Business Meeting Appointments
Features included with the Simply Schedule Appointments Free Basic Edition for booking appointments:
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
To embed the Simply Schedule Appointments booking calendars on your WordPress pages or posts you can use a shortcode or a page builder module (ex. Elementor Appointment Booking module). You can paste the booking shortcode below using a text box to display all of your appointment types:
[ssa_booking]
Guide on all the ways you can display the Appointment Type Booking Calendars on your site.
The full documentation is available at our website.
Or, get started with our free Basic Edition guide.
Nope. Once a customer has booked an appointment time, that time is no longer available for booking. So you’ll never find yourself double-booked.
Additionally, we do some extra checks while a customer is booking an appointment just to be sure their selected time is still available.
Yes, you can. We offer settings for color and font that will let you customize the form to blend seamlessly into any theme.
You can additionally add custom CSS to customize the form even further.
No! The free Basic Edition of Simply Schedule Appointments allows you to create an unlimited number of Appointment Types so that you can create a booking calendar for each of your business’ services.
And the booking plugin will never limit the number of appointments that you can book.
Yes, we have a variety of booking demos where you can book test appointments.
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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.
