Title: Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar – Amelia Author: ameliabooking Published: Muddee 11, 2018 Last modified: Ebla 14, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/ameliabooking/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=3429091) ![](https://ps.w.org/ameliabooking/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=3429091) # Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar – Amelia By [ameliabooking](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ameliabooking/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/ameliabooking.2.2.1.zip) * [Details](https://gax.wordpress.org/plugins/ameliabooking/#description) * [Reviews](https://gax.wordpress.org/plugins/ameliabooking/#reviews) * [Installation](https://gax.wordpress.org/plugins/ameliabooking/#installation) * [Development](https://gax.wordpress.org/plugins/ameliabooking/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/ameliabooking/) ## Description Experience the most powerful booking system for appointments and event booking on WordPress! [Amelia](https://wpamelia.com/?utm_source=wp_org&utm_medium=wp_org&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=wp_org)( wpamelia) is a reliable booking calendar that automates online appointment scheduling and event booking processes. Our easy-to-use scheduling and event booking WordPress plugin has an intuitive design and provides you and your clients with an unparalleled booking experience. Amelia’s booking calendar presents services and events in a perfectly organized and easy-to-navigate manner, enabling your clients to find the most convenient time slots for their appointments or to reserve their spots for upcoming events. **Amelia Lite WordPress Booking Plugin** is an excellent solution for appointment- based businesses, individuals, and event management agencies. Our booking system guarantees a comfortable and user-friendly experience. In addition, the whole booking calendar is designed with a mobile-first approach, and both the admin and customers will experience a booking system that works perfectly across various devices. A free appointment and event scheduling app gives your business the freedom to grow 📈 * **No more no-shows** with email and SMS reminders and follow-ups. * **Reach global customers** with automatically detected time/zones and online meetings and events. * **Developers and website admins** love Amelia’s WP admin panel easy to understand and uses clean, concise code with webhooks. Amelia’s booking plugin features a new modern, smooth & fast appointment booking form optimized for conversion and ready in a minute. ### Who is the Amelia WordPress Booking Plugin For? Many businesses and individuals who depend on stable appointment booking, service booking, or event booking and scheduling on their WordPress websites can entirely rely on Amelia’s appointment and event booking system. ### 󠀁[**Salon booking**](https://wpamelia.com/salon-booking-wordpress/?utm_source=wp_org&utm_medium=wp_org&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=wp_org)󠁿 Features of our booking system salons love are **automated reminders** because their clients show up on time; **payment integrations** because they get paid on time;** Google Calendar synchronization** because it prevents double bookings; and more because running your salon has never been easier than with powerful booking system. ### 󠀁[**Consultants**](https://wpamelia.com/wordpress-booking-coaching/?utm_source=wp_org&utm_medium=wp_org&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=wp_org)󠁿 Features of our appointment booking system consultants love are **recurring appointments** because they always have time for regulars and it offers them financial stability;** group appointments** because they can help more people at once; and **video conferencing tool integrations** because they cater to clients all over the world. ### 󠀁[**Healthcare booking**](https://wpamelia.com/wordpress-booking-medical/?utm_source=wp_org&utm_medium=wp_org&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=wp_org)󠁿 Healthcare service providers love using our WordPress booking plugin, especially features like **custom input fields**, **service packages and promotions**, and ** custom schedules for doctors and nurses** because they provide top-notch care to patients without worrying about management. ### 󠀁[**Education**](https://wpamelia.com/wordpress-booking-coaching/)󠁿 Education professionals especially love our scheduling features that allow them to show their **availability calendar** and book **one-on-one and group classes** without having to worry about administrative tasks. ### 󠀁[ **Fitness & Gyms** ](https://wpamelia.com/wordpress-booking-gyms/?utm_source=wp_org&utm_medium=wp_org&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=wp_org)󠁿 Fitness specialists and gym staff love our WordPress booking plugin because clients can **book 24/7**, they can offer **discount coupons** with Amelia, and **automate email and text notifications** so clients always show up and get amazing results. ### 󠀁[**Coaching sessions**](https://wpamelia.com/wordpress-booking-coaching/)󠁿 Coaches enjoy the power of an easy-to-navigate booking system with features like** virtual sessions, 24/7 booking, high-converting booking forms, secure online payments, and coupon codes** that boost loyalty. ### 󠀁[**Personal and Professional Services**](https://wpamelia.com/wordpress-booking-photography/)󠁿 Professional service providers especially love scheduling and availability calendars because clients can book appointments 24/7 and they can **focus on delivering high- quality services**. ### 󠀁[**Any Event type**](https://wpamelia.com/wordpress-event-plugin/?utm_source=wp_org&utm_medium=wp_org&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=wp_org)󠁿 Event booking has never been easier than with our Event booking WordPress plugin because it’s rich in features like **dynamic ticketing, deposit payments, and recurring events**. _**⚠️ Important note:** Certain integrations, unlimited number of employees, custom notifications, reminders, multilingual support, different ticket options for events, and other features are not available in Amelia Lite. If you want to know more about Amelia premium versions, please visit our official [Amelia Booking home page](https://wpamelia.com/?utm_source=wp_org&utm_medium=wp_org&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=wp_org)._ You can also try out Amelia before committing [Amelia Demo](https://wpamelia.com/demos/?utm_source=wp_org&utm_medium=wp_org&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=wp_org). ### USEFUL LINKS 🔗 **[Official Page](https://wpamelia.com/?utm_source=wp_org&utm_medium=wp_org&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=wp_org) || [Amelia Demos](https://wpamelia.com/demos/?utm_source=wp_org&utm_medium=wp_org&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=wp_org) || [Documentation](https://wpamelia.com/documentation/?utm_source=wp_org&utm_medium=wp_org&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=wp_org) || [Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/c/AmeliaWordPressBookingPlugin) || [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/wpamelia_plugin/) || [Twitter](https://twitter.com/wpameliabooking) || [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/AmeliaBooking) || [Discord Community](https://discord.com/invite/9xYWJqbXeM) || [Premium Versions](https://wpamelia.com/pricing/?utm_source=wp_org&utm_medium=wp_org&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=wp_org)** ### Amelia Lite Booking Plugin Features Amazing Deal Alert! We’ve partnered with SuperbThemes to bring you and your customers an unparalleled booking experience and **more appointments than ever**. As a result of this partnership, you get a **FREE WordPress theme** to use on your website ** integrated with Amelia’s booking system**. You will literally get more online bookings than ever before, without any hassle as you get both the theme and the wpamelia booking system in all-in-one. Booking forms for online scheduling appointments and events management with a great user interface and user experience your customers will love. You can easily embed appointment booking forms with two shortcodes: – **[ameliastepbooking]**–**[ ameliacatalogbooking]** By choosing one of them, you can choose whether you want to show the booking flow in a step-by-step view to your customers or you prefer the catalog view. With a catalog view, all services are presented in the form of cards. * **No coding or design skills** are required to embed Amelia booking shortcode into your website – [Amelia Booking shortcode](https://wpamelia.com/documentation/step-by-step-booking-form/?utm_source=wp_org&utm_medium=wp_org&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=wp_org) * Easily embeddable event-booking form with the **[ameliaeventslistbooking]** shortcode, which allows you to show your events in the form of a list where all the most important information will be shown: Event date and time, location, capacity, status, price, etc. * Accept online payments through Square. * A convenient **Calendar view** on the back-end, giving a complete overview of all scheduled appointments end events – [Calendar Admin View](https://wpamelia.com/documentation/general-settings/?utm_source=wp_org&utm_medium=wp_org&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=wp_org) * Configuration of your **provider’s details and working schedule** so you can choose in which time frames you want to be available for booking – [General Settings](https://wpamelia.com/general-settings/?utm_source=wp_org&utm_medium=wp_org&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=wp_org) * Creation of services and categories in which those services will be organised– [Services and Service Categories](https://wpamelia.com/documentation/service-categories/?utm_source=wp_org&utm_medium=wp_org&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=wp_org) * Creation of Events that can last one or multiple days – [Events](https://wpamelia.com/documentation/creating-events/?utm_source=wp_org&utm_medium=wp_org&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=wp_org) * Tracking your booking business’ **KPIs in the Dashboard** like revenue, percentage of load, number of approved appointments and daily ocuppancy. You can also take a look at your next upcoming appointments easily – [Dashboard page](https://wpamelia.com/documentation/dashboard/?utm_source=wp_org&utm_medium=wp_org&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=wp_org) * Customization of booking confirmation **Email and SMS notifications** for both customers and the provider – [Email](https://wpamelia.com/documentation/notifications-email/?utm_source=wp_org&utm_medium=wp_org&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=wp_org) and [SMS](https://wpamelia.com/documentation/sms-notifications/?utm_source=wp_org&utm_medium=wp_org&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=wp_org) notifications. * Automatic **prevention of double-booking**. * Picking a primary between **20+ languages**. * Setting the redirect URL on which the customers will be redirected after the booking. * You can build your website pages with booking forms using **Elementor, Divi, or Gutenberg blocks**, and you can now choose between an on-page or pop-up booking form. * **Importing customers** from a CSV file – [Import Customers](https://wpamelia.com/documentation/importing-customers/?utm_source=wp_org&utm_medium=wp_org&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=wp_org). * Showing booking slots on the Calendar in the **client’s time zone**. * **Easy customization** of the booking form to fit your branding – [How to Customize](https://wpamelia.com/documentation/customize/?utm_source=wp_org&utm_medium=wp_org&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=wp_org) ### ACCEPT ONLINE PAYMENTS FOR FREE We’re thrilled to announce an exciting new integration between Square and Amelia, that brings free payment processing to your fingertips! Now, even in the free version of Amelia, you can effortlessly accept payments for bookings and events using Square. Download Amelia Lite today, integrate it with Square, and forget about missed payments! What does Amelia Premium and Square integration mean for you? By integrating Amelia with Square, you can effortlessly accept online payments, providing clients with a secure and easy payment experience. Collect payments online, request deposit payments to reduce no-shows, offer refunds, and maintain full control over your bookings and payments at all times. This powerful integration improves your business operations, ensures smooth transactions, and improves client satisfaction. ### Premium Appointment and Event Booking Features * **Custom Service Duration** – Define a single Service with multiple durations your customers can choose from, define different prices for these durations, and define different prices for those durations per employee. * **Resources** – Ability to create shared or single resources that limit the bookings, available only in Pro and Elite licenses. * **Address Custom Fields** – Customers can enter their address which is linked to Google Maps, so it is easier to find the location where you will provide your service. * **Pay via a link** – A great option for your customers to be able to pay after booking through a link, from mail, or Customer Panel. * **Email and SMS scheduled notifications** – Different types of reminders and follow-ups with templates. * **Custom notifications** – Create new templates, multiple reminders or follow- ups for appointments, schedule them at different times, or create a specific message for each service. * **Recurring appointments** – Book multiple appointments for the same service that will repeat in a specific time increment. * **Custom Fields for the booking forms** – Create different types of custom fields for the customer to enter during the booking process (special requests, their address, file upload or any question relevant to your business) * **Integrations** – Zoom, Google Meet, Google Calendar, Outlook Calendar, Lesson Space, Facebook Pixel and Google Analytics. * Accept **online payments** through PayPal, Stripe, WooCommerce, Mollie, and Razorpay. Online payments through Square are part of the AMELIA LITE and are FREE. * Search the booking form for Appointments that give you the option to show the available appointments based on the **search criteria** 🔎 * **Event Calendar** – Booking form that gives you the option to show upcoming events in a monthly calendar view. * **Manage multiple employees** – Create the employees’ database, with specific working hours, service schedule, capacity, and price for each, as well as configure the days off and special days. * **Manage multiple locations** – Suitable for businesses that offer their services in multiple locations. * **Multilingual support** – Translate the names of services, categories, events, extras, notification templates, etc. into multiple languages that customers can choose on your website. * More **customization** options to fully adjust your booking experience. Choosing colors, the order of the fields, and which fields will be mandatory. * **Custom options** – Such as group booking, buffer times before and after the appointment, and extras. * **Customers panel** and **Employees panel** – For tracking and managing appointments and events. * **Discount coupons** – For bookings, creating and sending discount coupons to loyal customers. * **Packages of services** – Creating the packages (bundles) of one or multiple services with a discount available to customers on the booking form. * **Event tickets** – Create and offer different types of tickets for each event, with different prices. * Set up the **minimum** or **maximum** number of attendees for each event . * **WebHooks**– Connect Amelia with any other application using several different hooks and choosing which data you want to send. * **WhatsApp integration** – Remind your customers or event attendees with WhatsApp reminders and follow-up messages. * **Show busy time slots** – Display the availability of time slots, indicating how many slots are already booked. * **Refund option** – Initiate a refund that will be processed through the online payment provider used to pay for the appointment/event. * **REST APIs management** – Empowering developers to extend integrations and customize the booking process. * **Cart Feature** – Streamline your booking process with seamless multiple appointments in a single transaction. * **Multiple Selections in Shortcode**– Enhance flexibility by choosing from various options on a single webpage. * **No-show Customers Tag**– Efficiently manage no-show customers on the backend with this tagging feature. * **Employee Badges**– Elevate your booking experience by customizing badges for your employees. * **Hassle-Free Tax Management** – Effortlessly handle and automate tax management for all your bookings and events. ### **5 easy steps to set up Amelia Lite Booking System** 1. Go to your WordPress’ admin page, open Amelia -> Services, and add categories and services, as described [here](https://wpamelia.com/documentation/service-categories/?utm_source=wp_org&utm_medium=wp_org&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=wp_org). 2. If you already have a customers database you can easily [Import](https://wpamelia.com/documentation/importing-customers/?utm_source=wp_org&utm_medium=wp_org&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=wp_org) it on the Customers page. 3. Customize the colors for your booking form on our Customize page. 4. Add WPAmelia booking plugin shortcode for the desired booking form to one of your posts or pages. For appointments, add **[ameliastepbooking]** or **[ameliacatalogbooking]** shortcode, for events add **[ameliaeventslistbooking]** shortcode. 5. * If on your website, you have different pages for different categories of services or each of your service has a page and you want to show the booking form just for one certain service/category you can use our “Preselect Booking Parameters” option while adding the shortcode to the page or post and select one specific category or service that will be shown for the booking. 6. Save it and you are ready to receive your first bookings. _**Note:** You can customize provider details and schedule on the [General Settings](https://wpamelia.com/documentation/general-settings/?utm_source=wp_org&utm_medium=wp_org&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=wp_org) page._ ### What makes our booking form the best on the market Our appointment scheduling form is smoother, steps load faster and the **conversion rate is higher.** * **Modern design** – The design of the Amelia’s booking form will help you convert more website visitors into customers. * **Smooth and animated step-to-step transition** – A step-to-step transition process is accelerated with modern loaders working from behind. * **Contact us option** – If your clients have any questions or concerns, they can contact you using clickable email that is positioned at a visible place. * **Sidebar with the selected booking-related details** – Display of the booking process in real-time is presented via sidebar. This is how we differentiate finished and unfinished steps. * **Simple customization page** – You can effortlessly customize the form to extend where the look and feel match your brand needs. * **Improved conversion rate** – The intuitive, simple, informative, and fast-loading form impresses customers and has higher conversion rates. ## Screenshots * [[ * Calendar Page * [[ * Event List booking form * [[ * Step-by-step booking form ## Blocks This plugin provides 7 blocks. * Amelia Events Calendar Booking Gutenberg Block * Amelia Events Gutenberg Block * Amelia Events List Booking Gutenberg Block * Amelia Booking Gutenberg Block * Amelia Catalog Booking Gutenberg Block * Amelia Step Booking Gutenberg Block * Amelia Catalog Gutenberg Block ## Installation Installing Amelia Lite WordPress Booking Plugin is as easy as 1-2-3! * First, either locate the plugin through the WordPress’ built-in plugins browser, upload the ZIP file through WP Admin, or upload the Amelia Lite WordPress Plugin folder via FTP to your WordPress’ plugins folder on the server. * Activate the plugin in the “Plugins” page of your WordPress installation. * Enjoy! ## FAQ ### Do you have a list of all Amelia Booking System shortcodes? Yes, here is the list of available shortcodes to show your booking system: 1. [ameliastepbooking layout=1] – If you offer services and appointments booking and want to show them in a step-by-step booking process. 2. [ameliacatalogbooking] – If you offer a huge number of services and you want to show them in a Catalog booking view. 3. [ameliaeventslistbooking] – If you offer event booking, this shortcode will allow you to show events in a form of a list. ### Where can I set a schedule? To set your working hours and assign services to each working period, go to the Settings page, open Company settings and you will see the Working hours tab where you can create different working periods for each day and choose which services will be available for booking in each period. ### I have configured my working hours and services but all dates are unavailable on the booking calendar, what should I do? The reason for this can be if your services have a duration longer than your working periods are, if a service cannot fit in the working period that date will be shown as unavailable on the calendar. ### Do you have integrations with page builders? Yes, of course, besides the Classic Editor and Gutenberg blocks, you can also use Divi and Elementor page builders to set up your booking form. ### Can I use the Amelia booking system in other languages? At the moment, Amelia Booking System has German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, Belgian, Swedish, Norwegian, Catalonian, Ukrainian, Romanian, Hungarian, Greek, Arabic, Slovak, Finnish, Japanese, Polish, Czech, Hebrew, Russian and Chinese translations. ### Why doesn’t the color, configured in “Customize” apply to the front-end? When you apply a new style (change colors and font styles for the booking form) in the “Customize” section, you will need to delete the stored cache in your browser, for the changes to be visible on the front end. That is – the change is already there, and you can see it if you open an Incognito window, it’s just that the current browser session stored a cache with old style, and it needs to be clear for you to see it. ### I configured Notification settings, why aren’t the emails being sent? Some hosting providers don’t allow 3rd party SMTP settings (Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, etc.) to be saved, and are intentionally blocking them because they use their own. If you configured the Notification Settings, and your emails are not being sent, please contact your hosting provider, and ask them if they are blocking the SMTP. ### Where do I report security bugs found in this plugin? Please report security bugs found in the source code of the Amelia plugin through the [Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure Program](https://patchstack.com/database/vdp/911b6d06-79cf-4f64-9416-c38ebe2bf236). The Patchstack team will assist you with verification, CVE assignment, and notify the developers of this plugin. ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/8abcd1a8eede968eca27e61ff9765e9066adea4119d89f4b6f6147988b149837? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[massive limitations, stuck in most simple basics](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/massive-limitations-stuck-in-most-simple-basics/)󠁿 [thomas83at](https://profiles.wordpress.org/thomas83at/) Ebla 16, 2026 3 replies We have been using this free edition in several day spa and sports studio projects, and we have never seen such a limited booking plugin before. The website may look great, but once you start building a project with this plugin, you quickly realize how limited and frustrating it is to work with. It is also full of bugs that remain unfixed even weeks later. There is no option to patch the files either.We understand that no plugin is ever 100% perfect and that every line of code can contain bugs. However, that’s not what we’re talking about. What we don’t understand is how a booking plugin can be built without the ability to handle something as basic as asking for a customer’s birthday and sending a birthday email.Amelia can not ask about birthday date in booking form.You have to use a custom field. However, this date picker cannot be used to trigger birthday emails. Additionally, Amelia has no built-in option to properly collect and use birthday data during the booking process. You are forced to add this information manually for every client. Who would work like this in a real business? Nobody.Do you want to sell gift cards for your day spa, massage studio, or sports studio? That’s one of the most common products in these industries. But not with Amelia. You simply cannot sell gift cards. This is one of the top-voted feature requests on their board, and even after four years, it has still not been implemented.Do you want to see employee names in the calendar? Sounds reasonable. However, in the latest version, this feature was removed. Hundreds of users have voted to bring it back, and many have reverted to older versions. Removing such a feature overnight has frustrated more than 700 users who are now asking for its return.What about a general data protection and legal terms checkbox in the final booking step? Apparently, that’s too much to ask. Amelia cannot handle even basic requirements like this. There is no built-in option to require users to accept terms and GDPR conditions before confirming a booking. We’re not talking about advanced features here—these are fundamental requirements in any booking process. You wanna have a hero/featured/one service image in your service detail page in top section? You can upload one image, yes. And it will be shown in top section of your service detail page, yes. But: At the same time they will make the button“ show all images” – no matter if you upload one image or not. 😉 So you have to hide this “show gallery” element via custom css, because nobody from amelia think about it to give user the option to use only one image. Not a bit point,but why so frustrating and extra-work in basics like a beta solution?Need a custom sort order for your services?Amelia technically allows this—but with a catch. If you change even a small detail in one of your service, the order of all services gets randomized in sort order, and you have to manually reorder everything again. We reported this bug weeks ago, and it still hasn’t been fixed. How are users supposed to work efficiently if every small update forces them to reorganize their entire service list?Do you want to display only the first name of your employees in the booking form? That’s not possible either. The last name is always displayed, both in the backend and frontend.Do you want to display service names longer than four words? That’s also a problem. For example, a service name like “Botox Relax Day 24/7 (Night Edition)” gets cut off to “Botox Relax Day…”. Instead of implementing proper CSS for flexible layouts, they simply truncate longer titles. We fixed this ourselves with a single line of CSS and shared the before-and-after results with support. Their response?“ This is a great idea.” A great idea? This is basic UX design. We simply added a min-eight to the service box and set a min height for title element. Now all boxes have the same height and the text is not cutted off.And finally:These are just some of the basic issues we encountered. We have discovered many more deeper problems that are hard to believe until you experience them yourself. We decide to keep this plugin in the free version in very very very simple projects without basic requests and advanced requests. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/de37b48637fec4c0312df876c3037eeba027e7c23ce47856287febc4ecf84b2f? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Excellent customer support and product](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excellent-customer-support-and-product-2/)󠁿 [mattclasssorted](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mattclasssorted/) Ebla 3, 2026 1 reply I’ve just started a small business and we’re using Amelia for the booking elements it integrates very well with the site and has all of the features that we need. Most importantly, their customer support is very friendly, responsive and helpful. Big shout out to Uros in particular who has been a great help to me in getting started. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/bf7da4d7e54aaf901913739ad272a33ceea84da50d93dd1533ab8cdb7384a266? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Experience started off well then just got worse and worse](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/experience-started-off-well-then-just-got-worse-and-worse/)󠁿 [kimruddock](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kimruddock/) Bitootessa 30, 2026 1 reply I used this plugin as the booking system on a Woocommerce website whilst using Woocommerce for the checkout functionality. I needed to do this because I’m using GoCardless for direct debit customers. Initially the plugin looked good and the ui is slick but unless you stick rigidly to Amelia’s functionality and behaviour things start becoming difficult very quickly. A real issue for me was wanting to extract and output specifically selected events in my own ui, like a slider pattern for example. The plugin doesn’t use Wordpress custom post types and generates all it’s own database tables so you can’t leverage any Wordpress post query functions. This is a massive drawback as you are then let with conjuring complex SQL queries to consult the database directly in order to get anything out.Another major issue is the integration with Woocommerce. The plugin send booking notifications to customers regardless of the order status. I’ve read several Amelia support advisors saying this is just down to the status rules that can be set in Amelia – as of writing this review THIS IS NOT TRUE. Changing these rules does not affect when booking notifications are sent. The plugin sends booking notifications to customers even if you don’t enter any payment details because the notification is only tied to when someone clicks the‘ place order’ button NOT if payment is received. This has caused huge problems with customers receiving booking confirmations but the website then doesn’t receive payment. Reporting these issues to support has so far proved pointless. It takes support agents days to respond to messages and the responses are ‘minimal’ in nature to say the least.Then there are other features which seem quite basic but aren’t available: recurring event dates have to have an end date – you can’t just set them to recur continuously, custom fields can’t be set conditionally, multiple attendees can’t have their own set of custom fields so users have book multiple times for the same course for multiple people, attendance lists can’t be linked to recurring events. The more you use the plugin the more issues you find.I think the plugin is okay for basic use but if you’re looking to do anything vaguely custom I would strongly avoid this plugin. The poor rating is because I’m so frustrated that the support has been so unhelpful and this plugin has caused me hours of delay and cost. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/1a5af2f64095d01f46ee0fbee3d6a2960741af3d45aeeaf0142205d5b4457995? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Fabulous – once set up!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fabulous-once-set-up/)󠁿 [pandamontreal](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pandamontreal/) Bitootessa 22, 2026 1 reply ⭐️ If you are looking for an online booking system that provides you with innumerable and beautiful options for formatting, setup, communications and integrations – Amelia is the top choice (and I did a LOT of research!). They have a suggestion board and valuable regular updates. However the setup was challenging for me since I am a luddite AND I needed to set it up bilingually. The Tech support team is extremely knowledgeable but it is not 24 hour live help, only one issue can be addressed at a time, and issues are not prioritized so the whole setup took me 2 weeks of document- reading & trouble-shooting from after work to midnight. Their A.I. support is a great in-depth, helpful resource. Now that it is up and running, I am incredibly satisfied and happy with it. I would do it all again – it is saving me so much time, my clients love it – highly recommended! ⭐️ ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/f4cb5cb128b33bba1365c02bc8768bd80c9f91b2d9cf559b5c76d0b30eff62b1? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Awesome booking plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/awesome-booking-plugin-5/)󠁿 [lipsandskin](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lipsandskin/) Bitootessa 17, 2026 1 reply I have been using Amelia booking plugin on my Wordpress website for several years. I have always found it very reliable and the best value-for-money option on the market. The newest update is awesome, with lots of new features and a very intuitive interface at the back-end. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d0dd77924191fddbcdfb65b4b39cebec0c34da6489255bc7e24d3a0b649a3180? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Very Great Plugin and Perfect Support](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-great-plugin-and-perfect-support/)󠁿 [newpaperweb](https://profiles.wordpress.org/newpaperweb/) Bitootessa 10, 2026 2 replies Very Great Plugin and Perfect Support [ Read all 755 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/ameliabooking/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar – Amelia” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ ameliabooking ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ameliabooking/) * [ wpDataTables ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wpdatatables/) * [ isidoramarkovic ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/isidoramarkovic/) * [ Danijela Jelenic ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jelenicdanijela/) * [ Alexander Gilmanov ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/alexandergilmanov/) “Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar – Amelia” has been translated into 6 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/ameliabooking/contributors) for their contributions. [Translate “Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar – Amelia” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/ameliabooking) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ameliabooking/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/ameliabooking/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/ameliabooking/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/ameliabooking/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog v2.2.1 * BugFix: Resolved a security vulnerability. v2.2 * Feature: Calendar Block Time – Added the ability to quickly block one or more time slots directly from the calendar, preventing new bookings for the employee while keeping blocked periods distinct from regular appointments. * Feature: Event list date range filtering – Added an option to filter events by future, past, or custom date ranges per shortcode instance, allowing independent control for multiple lists. * Feature: Gutenberg Block API v3 support – Updated compatibility with version 3 of the Gutenberg Block API, ensuring blocks function correctly in the latest editor.* Improvement: Added a tooltip on calendar appointment cards to display key details at a glance without opening the item. * Improvement: Added handling for SMS messages with invalid phone numbers. * Improvement: Added a hook to allow whitelisting specific countries for SMS sending. * BugFix: Fixed an issue with slow loading when deleting customers. * BugFix: Fixed an issue with a disabled event start date field when using negative UTC time zones. * BugFix: Fixed an issue where the event image disappeared after updating an event in the Employee Panel. * BugFix: Fixed an issue where current- day time slots did not load initially when booking a package from the Customer Panel.* BugFix: Fixed an issue where time slots did not load after deleting a service when the “Preload entities when page loads” option is enabled. * BugFix: Fixed an issue where the date picker displayed available months and years as unavailable. * Additional minor bug fixes and overall stability improvements. v2.1.3 * Feature: RTL Support – implemented full RTL support across all plugin pages. * Improvement: Added a “Created on” column to the Appointments Bookings page.* Improvement: Added Amelia shortcut to the WordPress header for quicker access to everyday actions. * Improvement: Enabled drag & drop rescheduling for past appointments in the Calendar. * Improvement: Added search functionality to all select fields for faster and easier option selection. * Improvement: Resolved conflict with LiteSpeed Cache. * Improvement: Added sorting options to the Amount column on the Finance page for easier data management. * Improvement: Updated design on pages with a fixed footer to indicate that additional content is available below. * BugFix: Fixed issue with unassigned service availability on Special Days. * BugFix: Fixed critical error preventing specific users from opening the Appointment Sidebar and Edit Appointment on the Bookings page. * BugFix: Fixed conflict with BeTheme. * BugFix: Fixed issue with date format mismatch between WP General Settings and Amelia. * BugFix: Fixed issue with Alpha Sender ID allowing more than 11 characters. * BugFix: Fixed issue with unexpected error when deleting Event bookings from the Calendar. * BugFix: Fixed issue with mobile calendar navigation on the Employee page. * BugFix: Fixed issue with loading Events page when opening events with a large number of attendees.* BugFix: Fixed an IDOR vulnerability that could allow arbitrary user password changes and SQL injection issue. * Additional minor bug fixes and overall stability improvements. v2.1.2 * BugFix: Fixed an SQL injection issue. * Additional minor bug fixes and overall stability improvements. v2.1.1 * BugFix: Fixed issue with “Notify the attendees” checkbox not persisting after being unchecked. * BugFix: Fixed issue CVE-2026-2931 * Additional minor bug fixes and overall stability improvements. v2.1 * Feature: Welcome onboarding guide – smoother first-time setup experience to help users get started faster. * Feature: Elementor Angie AI – for quick actions such as listing services or events, and creating bookings or customers directly from Angie AI. * Feature: Divi 5 integration – The integration has been fully rewritten for compatibility with Divi 5, ensuring all features work correctly with the latest version. * Improvement: Added Appointment title preview on the calendar page, allowing titles to be displayed using the Service, Employee, and Customer names. * Improvement: Enhanced filter search functionality, removing the requirement to follow a specific name order and making filtering faster and more intuitive. * Improvement: Customer filter now includes email information for more precise searching. * Improvement: Enhanced validation when creating employees or customers by checking for existing email addresses. * Improvement: Optimized the Edit Appointment page for better performance and usability. * BugFix: Fixed issue that prevented rebooking the same Service, Employee, or Customer after an appointment was canceled. * BugFix: Fixed issue with displayed User ID instead of email address in WordPress user field. * BugFix: Fixed issue with slow loading of the edit appointment form on Bookings page. * Additional minor bug fixes and overall stability improvements. v2.0.2 * Improvement: Improved search functionality across all entities for faster and more accurate discovery * Improvement: Added the ability to create events in the past when needed * BugFix: Fixed issue where the Customers field appeared first in the Add Appointment popup on the Calendar page * BugFix: Fixed issue with missing countries in phone and country selectors * BugFix: Fixed issue with invalid date and time values displayed in columns on the Payment History and SMS Notification Settings pages * BugFix: Fixed issue with Elementor popups when the “Load entities on page load” option is enabled * BugFix: Fixed issue where “US” was displayed instead of “United States” on the SMS pricing page * BugFix: Fixed issue with incorrectly saved phone number edits on the Customers page * Other small bug fixes and stability improvements v2.0.1 * BugFix: Fixed issue where Working Hours showed “No Data” and the Dashboard and Calendar were not displayed for certain WordPress languages * BugFix: Fixed issue where the Customers tab was not visible when editing appointments * Other small bug fixes and stability improvements V2.0 * Feature: Light & Dark Mode – Switch between light and dark mode instantly with the moon/sun toggle for a workspace that’s always comfortable * Feature: One- Click Scheduling – Add appointments or events directly from the Calendar, with date and time pre-filled in just one tap * Feature: Event Dashboard – A new tab in the Dashboard providing analytics for events in addition to services, giving deeper insights at a glance * Feature: Features & Integrations Page – A single place where all features and integrations can be found and enabled; unused features can be disabled to remove clutter and keep the workspace streamlined * Feature: Built-in Guidance– Every management page now includes a Tips & Suggestions section with links to documentation and best practices, providing help in a single click * Improvement: Bookings Page– Appointments page is now expanded to include all services and events in one place for easier management * Improvement: Catalog Page – Services are now presented in a catalog view, providing a clear overview of the available service offerings * Improvement: Customize Page – Settings are now organized into Basic and Advanced sections, enabling faster form styling with adaptive color palettes, fonts, button styles, and sidebar visibility * Improvement: Smarter, Flexible Tables – Customize tables with infinite scroll, flexible columns, and smooth horizontal navigation; add details when needed and hide the rest for a cleaner view without losing visibility* Improvement: Streamlined Add & Edit Experience – No more cramped dialogs; full-screen creation and editing give users clarity, focus, and space for a smoother, distraction- free workflow * Improvement: Quick Detailed View & Edit – Click an item to open a sidebar with full details and make quick changes without leaving the page * Improvement: One-Click Notes – Add notes instantly from lists or detail views for faster updates* Improvement: Smart Shortcuts – Contextual links make navigation faster; jump directly to an employee’s schedule or other related data in one click * Improvement: More Filters & Sorting – Manage data without breaking front-end order, with filters and sorting options that can be shown or hidden anytime * Improvement: Simplified and improved transaction editing workflow * Improvement: Added bulk delete option to all pages with list views * Improvement: Updated default date ranges for all date filters * Improvement: Added automatic “Default” category for first-time service creation * BugFix: Fixed issue with date and time selection on SBS forms on iPhones* BugFix: Fixed issue with tab title not being translated * BugFix: Fixed issue with month and weekday names not translating across languages * BugFix: Fixed issue with event notifications showing incorrect time after daylight saving time * BugFix: Fixed issue with broken access control * Other small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.2.38 * Small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.2.37 * BugFix: Fixed issue CVE-2023-49282 * Other small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.2.36 * Feature: ApplePay via Square – Expanded payment options through Square integration for greater flexibility * Improvement: Updated ID generation method in frontend forms * BugFix: Fixed issue with additional white space on the Events form on smaller/mobile screen * BugFix: Fixed issues with time slot display and “ All slots are selected” message on Step-by-step booking form * BugFix: Fixed issue with updating email for existing customers with only a phone number * BugFix: Fixed issue CVE-2025-12482 * Other small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.2.35 * Small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.2.34 * Fixed issue with visible Employee Selection on Customize page, Step by step list layout * Small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.2.33 * Small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.2.32 * BugFix: Fixed issue with additional white space on the Events form on smaller/mobile screen * BugFix: Fixed issue with pagination on the Events list form* BugFix: Fixed issue with keyboard navigation on Step-by-step Booking form * Other small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.2.31 * Small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.2.30 * BugFix: Fixed issue with the drawer not opening when duplicating the event * Other small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.2.29 * Feature: GooglePay via Square – Expanded payment options through Square integration for greater flexibility * Improvement: Updated Square integration – now works directly within the booking form, without redirecting to the external Square checkout page * Improvement: Updated full-calendar library * BugFix: Fixed issue with preselecting an event via URL that includes a popup * BugFix: Fixed issue with event name translation on Congratulations step * BugFix: Fixed issue with left alignment when the alignment is changed in notifications * BugFix: Fixed issue with wrong Attachment upload path in General settings * Other small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.2.28 * Small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.2.27 * Improvement: Added Company VAT number as notification placeholder * BugFix: Fixed issue with customers booking the same appointment when rescheduling * BugFix: Fixed issue with dates for the Event closes on option * BugFix: Fixed issue with‘ Notify customers’ option when changing status in the edit appointment dialog * BugFix: Fixed issue with certain available slots being shown as “Booked” on the backend * Other small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.2.26 * Small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.2.25 * Feature: Implemented option “Allow admin to book over an existing appointment”* Improvement: WCAG compliance for frontend forms * BugFix: Fixed issue with Amelia Popup * Other small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.2.24 * BugFix: Fixed issue with date format in mySQL * Small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.2.23 * Updated French translation * BugFix: Fixed issue with time slots spanning two days, particularly around midnight * Other small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.2.22 * Updated Dutch, Italian and Turkish translations * BugFix: Fixed issue with daylight savings time change and rescheduling appointments * BugFix: Fixed issues with RTL on the Step by step form * Other small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.2.21 * Small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.2.20 * BugFix: Fixed issue CVE-2025-2578 * Other small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.2.19 * BugFix: Fixed issue with selection fields when booking on the back-end on iOS * BugFix: Fixed issue with appointment and payment dates on the Finance page* BugFix: Fixed issue with placeholder images on front-end * BugFix: Fixed issue with Status filter on the Appointments page * BugFix: Fixed issue with hidden buttons of SBS form on Iphone SE * BugFix: Fixed issue with preselected parameters in shortcode* Other small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.2.18 * Improvement: Added new ‘Reply to’ option for e-mail notifications * Improvement: Implemented a mechanism that allows custom validation checks before service booking* Updated Turkish, Czech and French translations * BugFix: Fixed issue with the ‘Default items per page’ option * BugFix: Fixed issue with 403 error while attempting to save a customization * Other small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.2.17 * Fixed IDOR vulnerability issue * Small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.2.16 * Small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.2.15 * Small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.2.14 * Improvement: Added class for every status option on Event Calendar form 2.0 * BugFix: Fixed error regarding translations caused by 6.7 WordPress update * BugFix: Fixed issue with categories sorting not working when ‘Load entities on page load’ is enabled * BugFix: Fixed issue with the calendar when a customer reschedules appointments on the back-end * BugFix: Fixed issue with notifications when the appointment status is changed to Approved * Other small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.2.13 * Small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.2.12 * Small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.2.11 * Improvement: Optimized Event Queries * BugFix: Fixed issue with the Back button when one category created on Catalog 2.0 Booking Form * BugFix: Fixed conflict with the Beaver builder theme * BugFix: Fixed issue with displaying the dropdown menu when selecting the header option * BugFix: Fixed issue with the date/time step when service is longer than the employees’ work hours * Other small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.2.10 * Small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.2.9 * Feature: Customer Activity – Now you can easily view all appointments and events booked by specific customers in one place * Improvement: Added possibility to show “All” services on the Catalog Booking form 2.0 * BugFix: Fixed issue with removing dates on the back-end Events page for Group view * BugFix: Fixed issue with saving notifications header without placeholders * Other small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.2.8 * Small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.2.7 * Improvement: Increased Event description length limit * Improvement: Improved SMS message handling for increased efficiency and optimized delivery * BugFix: Fixed issue with displaying time slots on iPhones * BugFix: Changed am-input class condition for Step-by-step and Catalog Booking forms * BugFix: Fixed issue with duplicating categories * BugFix: Fixed issue with event not blocking appointments time slots* BugFix: Fixed issue with displaying providers breaks on the calendar * BugFix: Fixed issue with “Queued” status for SMS notifications * Other small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.2.6 * Small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.2.5 * BugFix: Fixed vulnerability issue: CVE-2024-6332 V1.2.4 * Small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.2.3 * Small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.2.2 * Small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.2.1 * Updated Italian translation and Spanish translation for Chile and Mexico* BugFix: Fixed issue with showing events on the booking forms and the back-end * BugFix: Fixed issue with double booking when the appointment is canceled and rescheduled* BugFix: Fix full path disclosure vulnerability issue * Other small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.2 * Feature: Square Integration – Simplify your transaction management with our Square integration, offering a reliable and efficient payment method for your services and events * Updated Turkish translation * BugFix: Fixed issue with the Go back button on the Catalog form when one service is preselected * BugFix: Fixed issue with appointments that go over 24:00 (last two days) on the Calendar page * BugFix: Fixed issue with the Catalog booking form and Iphone 14/15 * BugFix: Fixed issue with displaying events in drop-downs on back-end pages * BugFix: Fixed issue with Divi shortcodes with preselected parameters * Other small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.1.9 * BugFix: Fixed issue with Events filter on the Finance page * BugFix: Fixed issue with notifications when a customer cancels an appointment * BugFix: Fixed issue with Customer filter on Appointment page * BugFix: Fixed issue with event periods editing and the event list form * BugFix: Fixed issue with loading the date and time when ‘Load entities’ is enabled * BugFix: Fixed vulnerability issue with Polyfill[.]io script * Other small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.1.8 * Improvement: Implemented logic so users first see services from the selected category on the back-end * Improvement: Added an option to remove Service and Categories pictures * Improvement: Added option to insert IPLocate API Key for 1000 API requests/ day in case of auto-locate phone country code * BugFix: Fixed issue with appointments when the customer logs in to WP-admin * BugFix: Fixed issue with attendees search when name has two words * Other small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.1.7 * Small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.1.6 * Small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.1.5 * Improvement: Added option on Customize page to remove scroll from Catalog 2.0 booking form * Updated Dutch and Hebrew languages * BugFix: Fixed issue with HTML notifications and ‘quill’ editor * Other small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.1.4 * BugFix: Fixed vulnerability issue * Other small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.1.3 * Improvement: Extended option “Check customer’s name for existing email/ phone when booking”, to check for existing users by phone number if email is not entered * Improvement: Added possibility to search users by their phone number * Updated German and added Turkish translation * BugFix: Fixed issue with “Go back” button and missing sidebar on the Catalog Booking form * Other small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.1.2 * Small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.1.1 * Small bug fixes and stability improvements V1.1 * Improvement: Added option to pre-select parameters for Amelia shortcodes from URL query parameters * Improvement: Added option to enable/disable field search on Step-by-step form info step * Added new translations: Vietnamese and Taiwanese* BugFix: Fixed issue with the Catalog form when there is one service in one category and an empty category * BugFix: Fixed issue with the Catalog form when category is preselected * BugFix: Fixed issue where notifications were sending placeholder information in UTC time zone instead of the time zone set up in WordPress * BugFix: Fixed issue with “Check customer’s name for existing email when booking” option * BugFix: Fixed issue with SBS form popup on Iphone 13 * BugFix: Fixed issue with Default time slot and Calendar * BugFix: Fixed issue with event times in customer notifications * BugFix: Fixed service sorting not working when ‘Load entities on page load’ is enabled * BugFix: Fixed issue with hidden service and booking forms when the user is not logged in * BugFix: Fixed issue with setting Days off for provider* Other small bug fixes and stability improvements v1.0 * Amelia Lite Launch! ## Commercial plugin This plugin is free but offers additional paid commercial upgrades or support. 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