Booking appointments through phone calls or emails is an outdated method. However, WooCommerce offers automated booking system plugins that can be easily integrated into your website.

In this blog post, we will discuss the top 5 methods to transform your WooCommerce platform into a central hub for planning and bookings. Let’s get started right away.

The WooCommerce Bookings plugin is a powerful extension for WooCommerce that allows businesses to offer appointment bookings, rentals, reservations, and time-based services directly through your WooCommerce store.

With this plugin, you can define availability rules, set custom pricing options, and manage the entire booking process efficiently.

Yes, you do get some degree of flexibility like you can set specific dates, time slots, or range for availability. You can also offer flexible pricing, including discounts for certain bookings or periods. And can even send custom emails to customers reminding them about their bookings.

The features of WooCommerce Bookings are:

• One-on-one or multiple group appointments– This plugin allows you to set the maximum and minimum number of participants to book an appointment. It can be either a one at a time booking, or multiple people can book the same appointment. It could be a class with similar interests.
• Never get double booked– you can choose to set the appointment such that only one person can book. An example could be a doctor’s appointment.
• Send reminders– You can send email reminders of appointments to your customers.
• Customization– This plugin lets you customize the calendar, time slot widget, and even customize the emails you’ll be sending to your customers. But in case you need a custom template for your Emails or your calendar page, I recommend you to get assistance from WooCommerce developers.

Pricing– The WooCommerce Bookings is priced at $249.

Let me introduce you to another WooCommerce appointments booking plugin that converts your time, services, and products into a booking resource – WooCommerce Bookings and Appointment.

With this plugin, your customers can book a single day, which could be a hall booking, or a playground booking. And also offers multiple-day bookings. Here, it could be an online course or a multi-day event.

You do get the flexibility of choosing the start and end date of the booking. The best example could be for a hotel room booking, or renting a car for a tour.

The cost calculation for selecting multiple options like tour guide, breakfast, and lunch in a booking of a zoo visit could be easily done with the Dynamic booking cost calculation.

Features of Booking and Appointments are:

• Email notification– You can send email notifications to confirm their booking or cancellations.
• Payment & Deposits– You can accept partial payments or deposits for a booking using the woocommerce deposit plugin.
• Dynamic cost calculator– With this calculator, you can easily calculate the cost of a booking with multiple aspects. For example- A museum visit, plus breakfast and lunch, plus the guide, all these costs would be calculated immediately.
• Single and Multi-day bookings– This plugin lets you book for a single day or multiple days. It also allows you to select recurring or adjacent timing of an appointment.

Pricing– The pricing starts from $99.

If you are looking to add a booking plugin to your site that offers a user-friendly interface, books appointments automatically, offers customizable forms, and importantly offers an intuitive dashboard, then the Amelia WordPress Booking plugin would be an excellent choice.

Whether you’re managing a private clinic, a gym, or a beauty salon, Amelia can help you provide a professional and trustworthy booking experience for your clients.

You get a seamless user-friendly interface that makes it easy for both business owners and customers to use. This plugin lets you integrate Google Calendar to create and edit the events easily.

You can also create custom forms to get the details of the appointments. Utilizing shortcodes you can add these forms on your front-end page.

It’s a popular choice for businesses and individuals who require a reliable and efficient online booking system.

The features of the Amelia Booking plugin are:

• Automated notifications– You can send emails and SMS texts to your customers reminding them about the booked appointment.
• Google Calendar synchronization– You can integrate Google Calendar where users can create and edit the events they create.
• Online Payment integrations– This plugin also integrates with multiple payment gateways like PayPal, Mollie, RazorPay, and Stripe.
• Recurring Appointments– You can choose to set your appointments on the basis of daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly. This also helps in retaining loyal customers.

Pricing– Amelia starts its pricing from $49.98.

Bookly is perfectly suitable for local businesses or individual providers.

You get to completely customize your booking form. This plugin also integrates with Google Calendar, Mailchimp, payment gateways. And for booking online meetings, it integrates with Zoom and Google Meet.

You do get a limited number of email templates to customize your reminder emails. But, if you do not like any of these templates and want a unique email template developed for your site, you should opt for custom WooCommerce development services.

Bookly is suitable for shop owners and WooCommerce developers, who are looking for ways to enhance the booking appointment process.

The features of the Bookly plugin are:

• Comprehensive Admin Area– You get an intuitive backend interface to manage bookings seamlessly.
• Multilingual integration– This plugin seamlessly integrates with WPML. This is crucial to help you reach a greater audience.
• Notifications– With this plugin, you can send Emails and SMS notifications to users who have booked an appointment.
• Filters– Filtering makes it easy to search for the booking list of your customers.

Pricing– Bookly is available for free. Its premium version is priced at $89.

If you are looking to add an accommodation booking plugin to your hotels, motels, and other types of lodgings business, the WooCommerce accommodation bookings plugins is the best for you.

WooCommerce accommodation bookings allow you to configure room rates for specific nights, and handle reservations that span nights instead of days.

This plugin also lists check-in/check-out information directly on the product page, cart, and order pages.

It’s fully compatible with WooPayments, ensuring a smooth transaction process for both the business owner and the customers.

The features of WooCommerce Accommodation Bookings are:

• Accommodation Booking– Installing this plugin adds a new “Accommodation” option to the WooCommerce Bookings plugin. After which you can use this plugin through WooCommerce Bookings.
• Check-In/Check-Out Times– This plugin allows you to set specific check-in and check-out times for guests.
• Night-Based Booking– You can enable booking duration to be specified as a number of nights which is perfect for accommodation businesses.
• Override Price Feature– Offers an override price feature for special rates, like weekend or holiday rates.

Pricing– WooCommodation Accommodation Bookings is available for free.

WooCommerce’s versatility extends far beyond traditional e-commerce. As we explored in this blog, it can be adapted for planning and booking, opening up possibilities for businesses and entrepreneurs.

Whether it’s for event management, appointment scheduling, or unique reservation systems, the creative applications of WooCommerce are limited only by your imagination.

By implementing these 5 creative strategies, you can enhance user experience and boost your business’s efficiency.