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Appointment Plugins

Manage appointments

Appointment Solution by Crocoblock comes at a fixed yearly price – $69 for One project and $142 for Unlimited projects. It consists of three perfectly matching plugins, which are JetAppointmen, JetEngine, and JetSmartFilters. Thanks to this combo, it's possible to create websites where services are booked on an hourly basis. Crocoblock Appointment Solution covers a bunch of appointment settings like working hours, days off, buffer time, capacity rules, support for multiple services and providers, customizable calendar labels, multi-step forms, automatic confirmation, booking Wizard, and more.

Priced at $69, Bookly PRO is the closest to Crocoblock in terms of functionality despite lacking such settings as custom calendar labels, booking Wizard, and multiple locations support. It offers though multi-day scheduling, timezone conversion feature, backend appointment booking, and staff management & login functionality.

Amelia's appointment booking package comes for $59–$249. Of all the previously mentioned features, it lacks multi-day scheduling, custom calendar labels, and multi-step forms.

BirchPress offers the same range of appointment settings as Amelia except for booking Wizard and timezone conversion. To get it, you'll have to pay $99–$249 depending on the number of projects you need it for.

BookingWP is the least functional solution; it provides no booking Wizard, no multi-step forms, no backend appointment booking, no support for multiple providers or locations, and no custom calendar labels (only color can be changed). The price for this package varies from $89 to $299.

All five appointment booking solutions can be integrated with WooCommerce and PayPal.

As to synchronizing bookings with third-party services, Crocoblock supports four – Google Calendar, Integromat, Zapier, and iCal. WooCommerce Appointments and Bookly PRO can be synced to Google Calendar only. Amelia supports Google Calendar and Zapier (via a webhook). The BirchPress's solution can be synced to iCal and Google Calendar.

Dynamic website structure

An appointment booking website is impossible without service and providers pages, as well as dynamic content blocks. Crocoblock Appointment Solution embraces the key dynamic features one needs when building an appointment scheduling site. These are meta fields,custom post types,listings,taxonomies, flexible grid layouts like slider, masonry grid, and even alternative templates for listing items. It also supports custom template creation, which can be applied to providers and services pages.

WooCommerce Appointments by BookingWP offers the same basic dynamic features such as taxonomies, CPTs, meta fields, listings, and alternative templates for listing items. However, it suggests neither listing layouts nor custom page templates.

As to Amelia's appointment booking solution, it embraces basic dynamic elements including configured CPTs but that's it.

Bookly PRO offers as much functionality as Amelia except for taxonomies and listings.

Of all the previously mentioned dynamic components, BirchPress offers just ready-made custom post types.

Multi-step appointment forms

All the enlisted appointment booking solutions support the setup of availability search (advanced filters) and creation of appointment booking forms, although only Crocoblock and Bookly PRO allow building multi-step forms.

The functionality described here lets you create full-fledged appointment scheduling websites be it a doctor appointment site, virtual barbershop, spa salon, etc.