For a site that consistently generates leads, an appointment booking tool is of the essence.

Some themes exclusively are built for this purpose.

But if you don’t have any such theme don’t fret. As with WordPress there are scores of plugins up to every task.

Bookly

The plugin is popular, has lots of reviews extolling its features and benefits and does its job well despite being new to the scene.

One of the best and newest plugins available today for appointment booking. With the plugin taking appointments is a breeze.

Everything can be managed and details of appointments can be recorded through one centralized location— the admin panel.

As soon as any appointee changes a field like time, email or phone number you will be immediately notified as the site admin. You get to choose between many service providers meaning you can have more than a few calendars to set up appointments.

Settings let you choose the time periods for which bookings can be made, the duration of the meeting and other features that you may like to have with such a plugin.

Again, you can also limit the days or limit the period based on your schedule and set a limit on how far into the future the visitor can set an appointment. There’s also an option to create custom categories and assign each category to different bookings.

You can also collect payments with the plugin in case the appointments are for consultancy clients.

There are options to alter the appearance of the content that appears. The user interface is easy so that even a child can plan appointments. Above all the design is responsive meaning you can design appointments with your phone too.

Multi Scheduler plugin

This is another plugin for appointment booking.

Features include appointment scheduling and reporting.

There are multiple booking systems with a modern interface that makes data entry and recording an easy task.

It sports a wide range of features for booking clients. You may schedule resources, events, doctor appointments or anything fancies you. A wide berth of businesses including legal, salon, fitness centers to clinics will find it useful.

your needs.

Schedule artist appointments and show availability based on booked bookings.

There are multiple payment options including PayPal and credit card and local form of payment pertaining to your country of origin.

Whenever appointments are confirmed you get a email notification of the same.

The reporting dashboard is clean. Almost every language is supported. Modern admin panel. Can adapt to your theme’s skin.

Booker

A standout feature of Booker is it directly integrates with Google Calendar. With most people either using Gmail or Gsuite, an appointment recorded on the Calendar is automatically followed up by Google’s systems.

Just before an hour the appointment is scheduled the appointee will get a notification email informing him of the same.

The plugin automatically syncs external feed from Google, Outlook, iCal and other such feeds.

There’s an Add to Calendar button that lets users insert appointments into a tool they choose.

You can permit both guests and registered users to access calendars, submission forms and exert control over who can make appointments.

With user registrations anyone will be able to login, have and manage their online profile and add information about themselves if it’s relevant to the service you provide. You get a more well-rounded picture of the person who booked.

Like all premium plugins this too allows you to accept payments. It’s integrated with Woocommerce letting you use the plugin to fulfill payments. The plugin employs shortcodes to insert calendars and forms in posts and pages.

There’s also the feature of adding different colors to different calendars or calendars belonging to different categories. Sorting through calendars and easily identifying bookings is easy with this.

Multi-language support and SMS alert system is another star feature.

Modern Events Calendar

This plugin features a plethora of options, not easily available on other plugins.

You can plan agendas, write things as lists,  record single events or even have widget views.

You can also create repeating events, schedule events, set countdown timers and even customize different events with different background colors.

You’re spoilt for choice in the dizzying array of choices available to publish calendars and displaying dates.

The different options are timetable, single event, agenda, list and widget views from the number of options available.

You can see them on the Modern Events Calendar site or preview them with a phone to test for responsiveness.

With widget settings you’re able to display calendar on the sidebar and control the appearance and overalls of the calendar.

There’s also the feature to add countdown timers. Countdown timers are great for increasing conversions. You’re not limited to a dry color pattern but have choice in different skins to choose from.

Payment collection is another feature as is common among other premium plugins like this.

Visual Composer Page builder that has gained a lot of repute in the past several years is compatible with the tool and if you like building pages with Visual Composer you will be happy to find yourself adding forms, lists and calendars through drag and drop bulder.

The list of features is hard to compare with and compatibility with Visual Composer is one of the star attractions.

Suffice to say, The world’s your oyster with this plugin.

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