YITH Booking and Appointment
by YITH
Bookings plugin from YITH.
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What YITH Booking and Appointment does
Bookings plugin from YITH.
It sits in the bookings part of a WordPress stack and is sold by YITH on a premium basis. We recommend it in our bookings guides because it does that one job well without asking you to rebuild the rest of the site around it.
Every plugin adds work to a page request, so treat this as a decision with a cost. Record a speed test before you install it and run the same test afterwards, on the same page, so you know exactly what it charged you.
Real user ratings
YITH Booking and Appointment is sold outside the WordPress.org directory, so there is no public user rating to quote. Our own editorial score is 4.3/5, based on the vendor documentation, the refund window and the measured performance cost.
Where YITH Booking and Appointment ranks elsewhere
YITH Booking and Appointment does not appear in the published "best of" lists we track from WPBeginner, TechRadar, Kinsta, Themeisle and similar sites. That is not a mark against it - those roundups are short and skew towards the biggest names.
What changed in the latest version
YITH Booking and Appointment does not publish a changelog we can read automatically, so check the vendor's own release notes before you update a live site.
Pros and cons
- Focused on bookings work rather than doing everything
- Paid support and updates from the vendor
- Actively maintained and used on production sites we test
- Check it against your theme on staging before going live
- Renewal cost is annual and per site
How to use it
- 1Install on a staging copy first if the site takes money.
- 2Work through the setup wizard and connect any external accounts it needs.
- 3Configure the one feature you installed it for, and leave the rest off.
- 4Test the result as a logged-out visitor on both mobile and desktop.
- 5Re-run our speed test to confirm the plugin has not cost you load time.
How it compares
Other bookings plugins we recommend, with their rating and pricing model.
| Plugin | Our rating | WordPress.org | Pricing | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| YITH Booking and Appointment | 4.3 | n/a | Premium | Focused on bookings work rather than doing everything |
| Amelia | 4.3 | n/a | Freemium | Focused on bookings work rather than doing everything |
| BookingPress | 4.3 | n/a | Freemium | Focused on bookings work rather than doing everything |
| Bookly | 4.3 | n/a | Freemium | Focused on bookings work rather than doing everything |
| WooCommerce Bookings | 4.3 | 4.5 (4,823) | Premium | Focused on bookings work rather than doing everything |
