LatePoint

LatePoint is an appointment scheduling and booking plugin for WordPress, self-hosted on your own site rather than delivered as a cloud service, with over 100,000 active installations. A free core version is available on WordPress.org covering unlimited appointments, a multi-step booking wizard, Stripe payments, email notifications, and a customer dashboard where clients log in to view, reschedule, and cancel bookings.

Paid licenses add staff and agent management, multiple locations, recurring and group bookings, SMS and WhatsApp reminders, two-way sync with Google, Outlook, and Apple Calendar, Zoom and Google Meet links, custom fields, coupons, invoices, automation workflows, and additional payment gateways including PayPal, Square, Mollie, and WooCommerce checkout.

Against Calendly, the distinctions are architectural and commercial rather than functional. Booking data stays in your own WordPress database instead of a third-party platform, licensing is priced per site rather than per user — so a salon with a dozen practitioners pays the same as a solo consultant — and a one-time lifetime license removes recurring cost entirely. Every paid tier unlocks every feature; tiers differ only by site count. The trade-off is operational: you need a WordPress site and you own the hosting, updates, and uptime.