Booktics – Appointment Booking Calendar for Service Businesses

Booktics is a powerful booking calendar and appointment scheduling plugin for service-based businesses. It helps you manage appointments, accept online bookings, and automate your scheduling—all from one simple dashboard.

Designed for salons, spas, clinics, wellness centers, fitness trainers, tutors, and home service providers, Booktics replaces manual scheduling with a fast, reliable online booking system. Your customers can book appointments 24/7, while you stay in control of availability, services, and payments.

Whether you run a small local business or manage multiple services, Booktics keeps your booking calendar organized, automated, and easy to manage.

With Booktics, you can : – Create and manage unlimited services and appointments – Offer group booking options – Add extra services and add-ons – Accept payments via Stripe, PayPal, and more – Automate workflows with email notifications and reminders – Use a responsive booking calendar that works on any device

Smart Calendar & Scheduling Integration Booktics connects with Google Calendar and Outlook, so every booking updates automatically across your calendars. This helps prevent double bookings, missed appointments, and scheduling conflicts.

Online Meetings & Customer Management Host virtual appointments using Google Meet, and manage customer relationships with tools like FluentCRM for follow-ups and communication.

Online Payments Made Easy Allow customers to pay while booking using secure payment gateways. This reduces no-shows and improves your cash flow.

Built for Service Businesses From beauty and wellness to healthcare and home services, Booktics is built to handle real-world scheduling needs. It simplifies bookings for your customers while giving you full control over your business operations.

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Who Can Benefit from Booktics? (8 Business Types)

Booktics is the ideal appointment booking plugin for WordPress service businesses of every size — from solo freelancers to multi-staff studios. If your business runs on appointments, Booktics was built for you.

💇 Salons & Barbershops

Hair salons, nail studios, barbershops, cosmetology centers, and beauty professionals can manage daily bookings through a clean, mobile-friendly booking calendar. Clients pick their service, choose a time slot, and confirm — all without a phone call. Staff can track their own appointments and avoid overlapping schedules.

📚 Tutors, Coaches, LMS Sites & eLearning Platforms

Online course creators, LMS site owners, tutors, coaches, language teachers, driving instructors, and education centers often don’t need a full learning management system just to let students book a lesson, consultation, or coaching session. Booktics gives WordPress-powered eLearning sites the scheduling layer your LMS is missing or replaces the need for one entirely when all you really need is simple, professional booking. Let students book 1-on-1 lessons, group study sessions, or live coaching calls directly from your WordPress site. Set your available hours, assign sessions to specific instructors or tutors, and automate appointment reminders to eliminate no-shows no complex LMS build required.

Perfect for: – TutorLMS, LearnPress and LifterLMS site owners who need bookable office hours or live tutoring sessions alongside their online courses – Independent tutors and online coaches who don’t need a full LMS just a clean booking calendar that works – Language schools, driving instructors, and test-prep centers managing recurring student appointments and eLearning session scheduling – Corporate trainers and workshop hosts offering bookable seminars, team coaching, and instructor-led training (ILT) sessions

🦷 Dental Clinics & Healthcare

Reduce missed calls and front-desk workload by letting patients book dentist visits, checkups, therapy sessions, and consultations online. The appointment scheduler keeps time slots clearly visible, prevents double bookings, and gives your clinic a full daily view of upcoming appointments.

🌿 Health & Wellness Centers

Therapists, physiotherapists, massage therapists, and wellness studios can manage sessions smoothly with Booktics. Set service duration, add buffer time between bookings, define daily limits, and organize one-on-one or group sessions — all from one booking calendar.

🏋️ Fitness Trainers & Yoga Studios

Personal trainers, yoga instructors, Zumba coaches, and fitness centers can accept bookings for individual sessions and group classes online. Control your schedule, set class capacity limits, and let clients choose time slots that work for them — no back-and-forth needed.

🧹 Cleaning Services

Home cleaning, office cleaning, and specialist cleaning businesses can show real-time availability and let customers book a service, date, and time in seconds. Your booking calendar updates instantly, helping your team plan jobs without scheduling conflicts.

🔧 Repair, Maintenance & Home Services

Plumbers, electricians, HVAC technicians, and home service providers can manage job bookings easily. Customers select a service and time online; your team sees everything in the booking calendar and eliminates double-scheduling.

💄 Beauty & Personal Care Professionals

Makeup artists, nail technicians, skincare specialists, estheticians, and grooming experts can handle full appointment schedules without confusion. Clients book multiple services, reschedule if needed, and always see live availability.

✨ Booktics is a complete online booking system for WordPress that supports appointments, classes, sessions, group bookings, and service reservations in one place. No coding required. No complex setup. Just install, configure, and start accepting bookings.

Booktics Free Features — More Than Most Plugins Charge For

The free version of Booktics includes features that competing plugins lock behind premium plans. You get a fully functional service booking system — with Stripe payments, Google Calendar sync, and full team management — at zero cost.

🗓️ Appointment Booking & Scheduling

• 24/7 Online Booking — Customers book directly from your website at any time. They see only available time slots, eliminating phone calls and preventing double bookings automatically.
• Multi-Step Booking Form — A guided step-by-step flow: choose a service → pick a date and time → confirm. Designed to reduce drop-offs and works flawlessly on mobile and desktop.
• Custom Time Slots — Set the exact duration for every service. A 30-minute haircut and a 90-minute massage each get their own accurate slot length.
• Buffer Time Between Appointments — Add prep or cleanup time before or after any service. Protects your team from back-to-back burnout and keeps your schedule realistic.
• Booking Limits — Cap the number of appointments per time slot or per day to prevent overbooking and protect your team’s capacity.
• Client Self-Service Cancellation & Rescheduling — Customers manage their own bookings via a direct link. Reduces admin workload and keeps your calendar accurate without manual updates.
• Booking Approval System — Choose between auto-confirmation and manual review for new bookings. Ideal for premium services, consultations, and intake-required appointments.

🛠️ Service Management

• Unlimited Services — Add as many services as your business needs, each with its own name, duration, price, and description.
• Service Categories — Group services into categories (e.g., Hair, Skin, Wellness) so customers find what they need faster and your booking form stays organized.
• Service-Level Scheduling Rules — Configure unique availability, duration, and pricing per service for maximum scheduling flexibility.

👥 Staff & Team Management

• Team Member Management — Assign specific services to each staff member, set individual working hours, and keep everyone’s calendar organized from one admin panel.
• Individual Staff Panels — Each team member gets their own secure login to view and manage their personal appointment schedule. Admins maintain full oversight from the central dashboard.
• Automatic Conflict Prevention — Booktics blocks already-booked time slots in real time. Two clients can never be assigned to the same staff member at the same time.

💳 Payments & Checkout — Stripe Is Free

This is where Booktics stands apart from every competitor.

• Stripe Integration — 100% Free — Accept credit cards, debit cards, Apple Pay, and Google Pay at checkout. No commission taken by Booktics. No upgrade required. Full Stripe is available in the free version — unlike Bookly, Salon Booking System, and LatePoint which charge for this.
• Local & Offline Payment — Offer in-person or cash-on-arrival payment for clients who prefer not to pay online.
• WooCommerce Integration — Connect Booktics with WooCommerce to access additional payment gateways, tax management, invoicing, and advanced order tracking synced with your booking calendar.

📅 Calendar Integrations & Sync

• Two-Way Google Calendar Sync — Every new booking appears on your Google Calendar instantly. Changes made in Google Calendar sync back to Booktics automatically. Prevents double bookings and keeps your schedule accurate across every device. Available free — no upgrade required.
• Drag-and-Drop Calendar View — An interactive backend calendar lets admins and staff move, edit, and review appointments visually with a single drag.

📊 Reporting & Dashboard

• Business Dashboard — See all upcoming bookings, total revenue, and customer stats at a glance from one clean admin screen.
• Booking Status Tracking — Monitor confirmed, pending, and cancelled appointments from one organized panel.
• Upcoming Bookings View — Always know what is scheduled next so your team is never caught off guard.

📨 Notifications & Communication

• Automated Email Notifications — Automatically send booking confirmations, reminders, rescheduling alerts, and cancellation notices to both clients and staff. Reduces no-shows and builds trust.
• Google Meet Integration — Offer virtual appointments and automatically generate Google Meet links when a booking is

Automatic Installation (Recommended)

1. 01Log in to your WordPress admin dashboard.
2. 02Go to Plugins → Add New .
3. 03Search for “Booktics” .
4. 04Click Install Now , then click Activate .
5. 05A new Booktics menu will appear in your left sidebar. Click it to begin setup.

Manual Installation via FTP

1. 06Download the Booktics plugin zip file.
2. 07Unzip the file on your computer.
3. 08Using an FTP client, upload the booktics folder to /wp-content/plugins/ on your server.
4. 09In your WordPress admin, go to Plugins and activate Booktics .

Quick Setup — Go Live in 4 Steps

After activation, follow these four steps to start accepting bookings:

1. 10Add your services — Go to Booktics → Services. Create each service with a name, duration, and price.
2. 11Add your team — Go to Booktics → Team Members. Add staff and assign them to services with their working hours.
3. 12Configure payments — Go to Booktics → Settings → Payments. Enable Stripe (free) for online payments.
4. 13Publish your booking form — Add the [booktics] shortcode or the Booktics Gutenberg block to any page or post.

Your appointment booking system is now live. Customers can book online, 24/7.

Need help? Visit our documentation or contact support .