Amelia
A WordPress booking plugin for appointments and events, sold as annual or lifetime licences.
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About Amelia
Amelia is a commercial WordPress plugin that turns a WordPress site into a booking system for appointments and events. Customers book services or buy event tickets through forms embedded in your pages, while staff manage schedules, working hours and bookings from the WordPress admin dashboard. It covers multiple employees and locations, deposits and online payments through WooCommerce and common gateways, customer packages, waiting lists, Google and Outlook calendar sync, Zoom links, notifications by email, SMS and WhatsApp, and a REST API on higher tiers. Licences are sold per number of domains, either as yearly subscriptions or one-time lifetime purchases, with a 15-day money-back guarantee. Because it runs inside WordPress, you control hosting and data, but performance, updates and conflicts with other plugins are your responsibility. It is a good fit for businesses whose website already runs on WordPress and who prefer a one-off licence over a monthly SaaS fee.
Best for: Businesses with WordPress sites that want booking for appointments and events on their own site.
Pros and cons
What works
- Runs inside your own WordPress site
- Handles both appointments and ticketed events
- Lifetime licence option instead of a subscription
Why people leave
- Requires WordPress and your own hosting
- Plugin conflicts and updates are your job
- REST API and some features only on higher tiers
Top Amelia alternatives
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Bookly66.5Another long-running WordPress booking plugin with a free Lite version.
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Trafft62.6The same company's hosted service if you'd rather not run WordPress.
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Easy!Appointments59.6Free and open source, with an official WordPress plugin.
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SimplyBook.me57.2Hosted booking with a WordPress widget and a free plan.
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Acuity Scheduling55.3Hosted booking that embeds on any site, WordPress included.
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Amelia: common questions
Is Amelia free?
No, Amelia is a paid product.
Is Amelia open source?
No, Amelia is not open source. Open-source alternatives include Easy!Appointments.
What platforms does Amelia run on?
Amelia is available for Web and Self-hosted.
What are the best alternatives to Amelia?
The highest-ranked Amelia alternatives right now are Bookly, Trafft and Easy!Appointments. See the full ranked list for pricing, platforms and verified facts.