Appointly is a WordPress booking plugin that centers on a quote-based workflow, allowing service providers to review booking requests and send personalized offers before confirming appointments. Unlike systems that automatically accept bookings, Appointly gives users control over each request, enabling them to craft tailored quotes with custom pricing and personal notes, all delivered through branded email templates. The plugin is designed to facilitate a more personal and flexible booking process for both businesses and their clients.
The platform supports a four-step workflow: customers select an available date from a responsive, accessible calendar and submit a booking request; the provider reviews the request in their dashboard; a personalized offer is sent to the client; and, upon acceptance, the booking is confirmed and payment is arranged. Appointly offers ten customizable HTML email templates covering every stage of the booking journey, including inquiries, offers, confirmations, declines, cancellations, and admin notifications. The calendar adapts to light and dark themes, allows providers to set available dates, block holidays, and define booking windows, and is designed to be mobile-first and WCAG AA accessible.
Appointly is suitable for a variety of professionals such as photographers, consultants, event planners, freelancers, salons, fitness studios, tattoo artists, and tutors, supporting use cases that require custom quotes and flexible scheduling. 4+, and integrates with the Gutenberg editor via block and shortcode. The free version includes support for one service, up to ten bookings per month, a day-based calendar, offer workflow, and email notifications. 99 per month, adds features such as custom service fields, service upsells and addons, recurring bookings, direct booking for fixed-price services, advanced branding options, a custom email template editor, blocked dates per service or globally, and customer self-cancellation via secure email link.
Appointly is open source under the GPL v2 license. Payment integration via Stripe is on the Pro roadmap, allowing deposits or full payments to be processed directly to the provider's account using their own Stripe keys. The plugin is available for free installation, with the option to upgrade to Pro as business needs grow.
In the Forms, surveys & polls space, Appointly takes a focused approach. Service businesses need a way to handle bookings that require custom quotes instead of fixed prices. It is built as a consumer product for service business owners using WordPress. Appointly follows a freemium model. Appointly is available on the web.
It is developed by tscholene, and the product first shipped in 2026. Key capabilities include custom quotes, booking requests, and manual approval.
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