Alternatives for Booking Calendar

Amelia is a capable WordPress booking plugin and an excellent Booking Calendar alternative.

This versatile plugin offers enterprise-level booking functionality for repair centers, gyms, private clinics, and other appointment-oriented businesses.

One of the strong points of Amelia is its versatility. It supports multiple services, locations, and employees in order to accommodate diverse case scenarios.

It also has a very vibrant support team and keeps on churning out new features every now and then.

Just like Booking Calendar, Amelia is a competitively-priced plugin with lifetime plans ranging from $189 to $586. Both plugins also have freemium versions on the WordPress plugin marketplace, but the free version of Amelia does not appear to be as capable as that of Booking Calendar.

Birchpress Scheduler is a highly rated and feature-rich booking plugin for WordPress. It isn't as established as Booking Calendar, but all the same offers a decent appointment booking experience.

One of Birchpress Scheduler's strong points is that it makes it very easy to capture PayPal and credit card payments without the need for third-party gateways.

It also has an extendable codebase that allows developers to write custom functions.

On the flip side, Birchpress Scheduler currently does not offer a freemium version on the WordPress plugin marketplace.

Simply Schedule Appointments and Booking Calendar are equally impressive booking plugins for WordPress.

Both plugins have top ratings (over 4.7 stars). Each of these appointments booking software also offers a powerful freemium version on the WordPress plugin marketplace.

Users seem to like the fact that Simply Schedule Appointments is a very easy-to-use solution that comes with a 5-minute installation wizard and a well-organized admin dashboard.

It offers the right balance between simplicity and functionality, and there's a shorter learning curve involved for users.

Start Booking is one of the newest booking plugins for WordPress.

It is a SaaS-based solution that allows users to separate management of appointments from the WordPress dashboard.

Start Booking is simple and easy to set up and also blends in with the existing design and layout of your WordPress website.

The plugin offers a free version on the WordPress plugin marketplace but it comes with very limited features.

Start Booking is also considerably more expensive than Booking Calendar with annual plans ranging from $120 to $720 per year.