Simply Schedule Appointments Plus

Simply Schedule Appointments Plus costs $299 once for 1 site. The annual plan costs $129 a year, so the lifetime license pays for itself after 28 months. Over five years you save $346 compared with renewing every year.

Yes, if you book calls, consultations or sessions on your own site and plan to keep doing so for a few years. The Plus edition covers what most solo businesses need: unlimited appointment types, two way Google Calendar sync and meeting links. If your calendar is the main way clients reach you, a booking tool without renewals is one less recurring cost to track.

It is less of a fit if you need to take payment at booking, because that sits in the Business edition. Also note that the lifetime page does not state how long updates and support run. If you manage many client sites, the larger tiers cost only a little more than the single site license and change the math a lot.

The free core plugin on wordpress.org gives you a booking calendar on your own site. For a single kind of call that can be enough, and it lets you test the booking flow before you pay.

The Plus edition adds what makes scheduling reliable in daily work: a booking form as block or shortcode, unlimited appointment types, buffers, notice periods and booking limits, two way Google Calendar sync so private events block slots, Zoom and Google Meet links and the integrations with Gravity Forms and Formidable.

Appointment scheduling plugins tend to stay on a site for years, and yearly renewals add up quietly. The vendor runs a separate lifetime pricing page, so you can replace the subscription with one payment for the same Plus edition.

The tiers are unusual: moving from one site to 25 or even 1,000 sites costs only a little extra. For freelancers that is a detail, for agencies that set up booking pages for clients it is the main reason to look at this deal.

You keep the free core plugin installed, add the Plus plugin from your account and activate it with your license key. Then you connect Google Calendar, create appointment types and place the booking form. Appointments stay in your WordPress database. The refund window is 30 days.

Sites

1 site

Updates

Not stated

Support

Not stated

Money back guarantee

30 days

Taken from the vendor’s pricing page, like the price above.

On the market since

2018

Active installs

50,000+ free version on wordpress.org

Rating

5.0 out of 5 on wordpress.org

Current version

1.6.12.33

Last update

Sep 23, 2026

Figures from the public plugin directory, checked on Oct 4, 2026. wordpress.org listing(opens in a new tab)