Plugin / Amelia – Events & Appointments Booking Calendar

Description

Amelia Lite is a free appointment booking WordPress plugin that allows to set up a fully-featured automated booking system on your WordPress website and is a handy tool for small businesses and individuals that depend on stable appointment booking processes.

Amelia Lite was built with newest Enterprise-level of technology both on front-end and back-end, ensuring smooth and slick user experience. Amelia elements are applying single-page-app approach, work without page reloading, and all elements were designed with the mobile first concept in mind – so all the admin and customer interfaces are perfectly responsive.

Amelia Lite supports:

• Configuring the general settings for the company – General Settings
• A convenient Calendar view on the back-end, giving a full overview on all the appointments and the statuses – Calendar Admin View
• Flexible Appointment Management page, with an option to add appointments by your staff from the WordPress admin dashboard – Appointments Admin Page
• Configuring provider’s details and working schedule – General Settings
• Key numbers in the Dashboard – Dashboard page
• Email notifications to the customer and provider when the appointment status changes.

Configuring Amelia Lite to book your first appointment through WordPress is literally a 5-minute job.

• First, you would need to go to your WordPress’ admin page, open Amelia -> Services and add categories and services, as described here.
• On the next step, you would need to add a step-by-step booking wizard to one of your posts or pages. To do that, just create a new post or page, or edit an exiting one, and add [ameliabooking] shortcode where you want to add the booking wizard. Save it – and that’s it – now customers can book appointments from your site’s front-end using Amelia Lite!
• You can customize provider details and schedule in the General Settings page.

Please note some limitations of the Lite version:

• You can only use a part of the Dashboard page to keep tracks of your business.
• Export option is not supported.
• Filters on the pages are not supported.
• Coupons are not included.
• Group services are not supported.
• Adding the Locations is not included.
• Customization options are not included.
• You can only use Approved and Pending notifications, other types of email notifications are not supported.
• Only basic plugin settings are supported.
• Google Calendar synchronization is not supported.
• PayPal and Stripe payment types are not supported but you can use On-site payment type.
• Booking search view and catalog view are not included, only the Step-by-step booking wizard view.
• Access to our premium support system is not included.
  To use these and other options, please upgrade to the Full version!