As a small business owner, you need to save time and money while offering your clients awesome customer service. Integrating an appointment booking feature with your website can help you streamline your booking process and open up your services to online clientele. Here are a few booking plugins for WordPress websites we recommend…
Appointments + by WPMU DEV
Appointments + is a heavy hitting appointment booking plugin with loads of features. From your clients’ standpoint, it offers 3-click booking, and you know the easier it is, the more likely they are to book. It is also easy for you and your staff to manage.
What are the features?
Here is a list of some of the features Appointments + has to offer:
- Unlimited services
- Unlimited service provider profiles
- Set “black out” dates and times
- Choose working hours
- Back end and front end schedule edit
- Simple appointment manager
- Login with Facebook, Twitter, WordPress or Google+
- Require payment or deposits
- Auto-fill for repeat clients
- Appointment reminders
- Define appointment locations
What’s the cost?
The cost of this feature-filled plugin is $19/mo. Click here to learn more.
Appointy
Appointy is a popular online scheduling software that offers a free version that integrates with WordPress. They also have paid options for larger businesses with more locations or more services. They tout increased productivity, social network promotion, and better customer retention.
What are the features?
Here is a list of some of the features Appointy has to offer:
- Unlimited bookings
- Set working hours at staff level
- Flexible time-slot interval
- Back-to-back service booking
- Recurring booking (paid version)
- Require payment or deposits (paid version)
- Customer Relationship Management Tool
- Appointment reminders
- Ratings / feedback
- Automatic appointment assignment to the most free resource
- Appointment rescheduling
What’s the cost?
The cost of this popular plugin is FREE (1 staff, 5 services), unless you need/want the features offered only with their paid plans:
$19.99/mo includes customization, analytics, no ads, email marketing, email support, payments integration
$39.99/mo includes separate staff login, advanced analytics, phone support
$59.99/mo includes multiple locations
Click here to learn more.
vCita
vCita boasts a personalized, self-service portal for customers, contact management and CRM software for you, and document sharing for both. You can choose the features you need for your business.
What are the features?
Here is a list of some of the features vCita has to offer:
- Personalized customer portal
- Integrated client management
- File sharing
- Require payment or deposits
- Appointment reminders
- Appointment rescheduling
What’s the cost?
The cost of this online scheduling plugin is as follows:
$24.90/mo
Starting at 39.90/mo includes 3 staff, company branding/customization, the ability to assign clients and appointments to specific staff members, and a dedicated account manager (additional staff $9.95/mo)
Click here to learn more.
