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CP Appointment Calendar
CP Appointment Calendar allows you to define "available" time slots that can be booked by the website visitors.
The facts
- Rating
- 2.7★ from 7
- Active installs
- 100+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 2 Jun 2026
- Added
- Jun 2012
- Requires WP
- 3.0.5
- Tested up to
- WP 7.0.4
- Downloads
- 31,049
Our analysis
AI-assistedCP Appointment Calendar is a WordPress plugin that allows you to set available time slots for bookings by website visitors. It integrates with PayPal for payment processing, making it suitable for professionals such as lawyers, teachers, doctors, and beauticians who need to manage appointments efficiently.
The plugin enables you to customize booking options, including defining working days, time slots, and payment details. Users can select a time slot, make a payment, and receive confirmation emails, while you are notified of each confirmed booking.
Best for: This plugin is best suited for service-based businesses needing to manage appointments online.
What it does well
- ✓Integrates with PayPal for payment processing
- ✓Customizable notification and confirmation emails
- ✓Allows defining working days and available time slots
- ✓Prevents double bookings by removing booked slots
- ✓Supports various date formats and time settings
Where it falls short
- •Limited to PayPal payments; other payment options require the Pro version
- •Low rating based on user feedback
- •Information on features is minimal
Verdict
CP Appointment Calendar provides essential booking functionalities integrated with PayPal, but its low rating and limited payment options may be a concern for some users.
From the developer
codepeople's own description of CP Appointment Calendar, lightly tidied.
CP Appointment Calendar is a WordPress plugin which allows you to define “available” time slots that can be booked by the website visitors. It’s integrated with Paypal for receiving the booking payments.
It’s pretty useful for booking/management of meetings/appointments for lawyers firms, teachers, doctors, veterinaries, beauticians, etc… and for any kind of activity which is developed with specific schedule during the day.
Features:
- The website visitors can select an available time slot for the appointment and pay for it through Paypal / credit cards.
- Once a time slot has been booked and paid it’s doesn’t appear as available in order to prevent duplicated bookings.
- You receive an email after each confirmed (paid) booking.
- The user receives a thank you/confirmation email after completing the payment.
- Allows customizing the contents of the notification/confirmation emails.
- Allows defining the product name at Paypal, the currency, the Paypal language and amount to pay for a booking (you can set zero to let the user pay/donate the desired amount).
- Allows defining the working days and the exact time slots available.
- Allows defining the number of months (calendar pages) to show at the same time for the booking calendar.
- Supports date format as mm/dd/yyyy and dd/mm/yyyy
- Supports both am/pm and military time.
- You can define the start day of the week.
- You can define the minimum available date and the maximum available date for the bookings.
- You can restrict specific dates.
- Easy Ajax administration for the calendar.
Please note that this is a plugin originally designed to accept bookings linked to PayPal payments. The feature for working without PayPal is implemented/available in the Pro version: https://wordpress.dwbooster.com/calendars/cp-appointment-calendar#download
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