WordPress appointment scheduling for growing services
Simply Schedule Appointments Plus, Professional, and Business are paid editions of the Simply Schedule Appointments WordPress booking plugin. They help businesses let customers schedule phone calls, in-person meetings, virtual appointments, coaching sessions, consultations, interviews, and services directly from a WordPress website.
The booking calendars are designed to be set up quickly and can be embedded into WordPress pages and posts with a shortcode. You can also display them through Block Editor content, Elementor widgets, Beaver Builder modules, or Divi modules. Calendar styling and customization help the booking experience fit the surrounding website.
Paid booking capabilities
Premium editions support group or class event booking, allowing time slots to accept bookings up to a defined capacity. Booking Flows provide a selection of booking steps and layouts, helping you organize how customers move through the scheduling process.
Google Calendar Sync lets the booking system check a personal calendar for conflicts and customize calendar events. Team booking allows staff members to receive bookings and customize their own schedules. Resource booking can be used for meeting rooms, rental items, bikes, tables, or maximum occupancy arrangements.
For businesses that collect payment during scheduling, Stripe and PayPal integrations can be used to get paid for time and expertise. Mailchimp can automatically add people from the booking form as new contacts in an audience. Twilio supports SMS notifications and reminders.
Forms, meetings, and connected workflows
Gravity Forms and Formidable Forms integrations support more complex booking forms. Gravity Wiz Perks is also listed among the paid integrations. For virtual appointments, the plugin connects with Zoom and Google Meet, while Webex is included among the available integrations.
Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager tracking can count booking form conversions. Webhooks can be triggered for appointment actions and connected to Zapier and Make. ICS Subscription Feeds synchronize incoming bookings with personal calendar applications.
Paid editions also connect with WordPress tools and services including The Events Calendar, Project Panorama, LifterLMS, and WP Fusion Automations. These connections can help place appointment scheduling within an existing WordPress and business workflow.
Practical scheduling workflow
Create appointment types for the services you offer, define when appointments are available, and use advanced scheduling options or blackout dates to tailor the calendar. Add group capacity, staff schedules, resources, payment options, forms, or meeting integrations as needed. Then place the relevant booking calendar on your website.
Customers can use the embedded calendar to select an available time and submit the booking information requested in the form. Your connected calendar, staff, payment, notification, meeting, analytics, or automation tools can support the next steps in the process.
Installation and setup
- Purchase and download the Simply Schedule Appointments premium edition.
- Install it on your WordPress website and create your appointment types.
- Configure availability, blackout dates, booking options, and any paid integrations you need.
- Display the calendars with the booking shortcode, Block Editor, Elementor, Beaver Builder, or Divi.
The publisher provides setup guides, booking demos, documentation, a WordPress support forum, and a support contact option within the plugin.
