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Booking Calendar
A seasoned booking veteran that still lacks some modern essentials.
HealthyGrowing
81/100
Users appreciate the responsive support and basic functionality despite missing essential features in the paid tiers.
Active installs
~90,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 50k+
Rating
4.7★
652 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+8%
Growing
533 → 575 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORreview volume down 54% vs prior 6mo
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing · +8% in the last year
533/day a year ago→575/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayBooking Calendar is generally well-regarded as a functional and user-friendly booking plugin with responsive support, but at least one detailed critical review raises serious concerns about missing features and an outdated feature set even in its paid tiers.
What people like
- +Responsive and capable support team×2
- +Works reliably without issues for basic booking use cases×3
- +Considered user-friendly×2
Common complaints
- −Lacks many features even in the most extensive paid version (e.g., no invoices, no client page, no price-date board, no statistics beyond booking counts)
- −No synchronization between search and booking components, forcing users to re-enter date selections
- −Timeline view is limited — only full-month display, single scroll bar at the bottom, and poor visibility of adjacent month dates
- −Support communicates in somewhat limited English
- −Frequently requested features are often not implemented
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.72★Verified rating — drops from 4.70★ once one-shot reviewers are removed
- 37%One-shot reviewers — single-review accounts (common for popular plugins, but worth noting)
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2024-06-142025-06-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 652 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-05-27★★★★★Outstanding plug-in now!chrisfitzhugh
- 2026-04-21★★★★★Very Good pluginamantas67
- 2026-04-16★★★★★Perfectjgab077
- 2026-04-13★★★★★Topmouezal1-shot
- 2026-04-12★★★★★Great support at any time.turistopoznan1-shot
- 2026-04-02★★★★★Awesome Support!!pcwb91-shot
- 2026-03-30★★★★★Working but outdated and missing many essential featuresavd123
- 2026-02-07★★★★★Very good technical support!webdevwaw
- 2026-02-04★★★★★Great helpporfirio910550
- 2026-01-03★★★★★Powerful and customisableGraeme Elliott
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
520
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
709
Prior 7-day baseline
466
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
16,964
Mean release-day peak (30d)
520
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-26.7%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
8%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
0.52
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
94%
5★ share in analyzed sample
37%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-54%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.82 → 4.72★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered