Title: Calendarista Solo Lite Author: typps Published: November 12, 2026 Last modified: November 12, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/calendarista-solo-lite/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=3798647) ![](https://ps.w.org/calendarista-solo-lite/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=3798647) # Calendarista Solo Lite By [typps](https://profiles.wordpress.org/typps/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/calendarista-solo-lite.2.5.12.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/calendarista-solo-lite/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/calendarista-solo-lite/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/calendarista-solo-lite/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/calendarista-solo-lite/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/calendarista-solo-lite/) ## Description Calendarista Solo Lite takes appointment bookings on your own WordPress site. It is built for a one-person business: a coach, a therapist, a tutor, a photographer, a consultant, a hairdresser. Your clients pick a time that is genuinely free, fill in one short form, and get a confirmation with a calendar invite. You run your day from one calendar. There is no limit on forms, bookings or customers, nothing is charged per booking, and every booking stays in your own WordPress database. [Get Calendarista Solo](https://www.calendarista.com/calendarista-solo/) for online payments, reminders, customer self-service, calendar sync and the mobile app. **A booking form clients finish in a minute.** One step at a time: the date, the time, guests if you allow them, your own questions, then their details. Only times that are actually free are shown. The form takes your theme’s font, your colours and your corner style, so it looks like part of your site. Add it with a block or a shortcode. **Availability that matches how you work.** * Working hours per weekday, with more than one range a day. * Three ways to offer times: fixed start times, a regular interval, or appointment lengths the client chooses. * Breaks between appointments, and more than one client per time slot when you need it. * Days off, blocked date ranges, seasonal exceptions and one-off special hours. * A daily booking limit. * Two clients can never take the same last slot: bookings are reserved inside a database lock. **As many booking forms as you need.** One per service, each with its own hours, questions and look. A listing block shows several services as cards, so visitors pick one and book without leaving the page. **A calendar you run your day from.** Every booking on a scheduler view and in a searchable table. Approve, cancel, reschedule or delete; add private notes; approve or cancel many at once. Book clients yourself from the admin, including weekly repeating appointments. **Confirm instantly, or approve each request.** Bookings can confirm straight away or wait for you. The client is emailed either way. **Emails that look like yours.** Confirmations to the client and notices to you, with your logo, colour and signature. Every confirmation carries a calendar invite and “Add to Google Calendar” and Outlook links. **Your own questions on the form.** Short text, long text, drop-downs and checkboxes, required or optional. Mark an answer as sensitive and it stays in the booking record, left out of every email. **Where the appointment happens.** An address for in-person appointments, or a fixed meeting link for online ones, included in every confirmation. **Spam protection that never blocks real clients.** A rate limit, a hidden honeypot field and a form timer are on by default. **Privacy built in.** An optional consent checkbox with your own text, and support for WordPress’s personal data export and erasure tools. **Ready for your language.** Every string, the booking form’s included, can be translated on translate.wordpress.org, and WordPress installs the translations for your site’s language automatically. #### Calendarista Solo Lite is complete for taking bookings. [Calendarista Solo](https://www.calendarista.com/calendarista-solo/) adds what a busier practice needs: * Online payments through Stripe, PayPal or Square. * Paid add-ons clients pick while they book, and a price per extra guest. * Email reminders before each appointment, and SMS reminders through your own Twilio account. * Secure links that let clients reschedule or cancel by themselves. * Two-way Google Calendar sync, and a Google Meet or Zoom link created for every booking. * The Calendarista companion app for iOS and Android. * AI assistance: set up a form by describing it, search bookings in plain language, and booking summaries. * Email support. Moving up keeps everything: both plugins read the same forms, bookings and settings, and Lite steps aside when Calendarista Solo is activated. ### External services This plugin does not connect to any external service. Confirmation emails offer clients “Add to Google Calendar” and Outlook links. They are ordinary links: nothing is sent to Google or Microsoft unless the client clicks one. ## Screenshots [⌊The booking form: a date, then only the times that are actually free.⌉⌊The booking form: a date, then only the times that are actually free.⌉[ The booking form: a date, then only the times that are actually free. [⌊The scheduler: every appointment on a calendar.⌉⌊The scheduler: every appointment on a calendar.⌉[ The scheduler: every appointment on a calendar. [⌊The bookings table: search, filter, approve and cancel, one at a time or many at once.⌉⌊The bookings table: search, filter, approve and cancel, one at a time or many at once.⌉[ The bookings table: search, filter, approve and cancel, one at a time or many at once. [⌊A booking's details, with private notes and every action in one place.⌉⌊A booking's details, with private notes and every action in one place.⌉[ A booking’s details, with private notes and every action in one place. [⌊Availability: working days, days off, blocked ranges and seasonal exceptions.⌉⌊ Availability: working days, days off, blocked ranges and seasonal exceptions.⌉[ Availability: working days, days off, blocked ranges and seasonal exceptions. [⌊Time slots: fixed times, a regular interval, or lengths the client chooses.⌉⌊Time slots: fixed times, a regular interval, or lengths the client chooses.⌉[ Time slots: fixed times, a regular interval, or lengths the client chooses. [⌊Your own questions on the form.⌉⌊Your own questions on the form.⌉[ Your own questions on the form. [⌊Email branding: your logo, colour and signature.⌉⌊Email branding: your logo, colour and signature.⌉[ Email branding: your logo, colour and signature. ## Blocks This plugin provides 2 blocks. * Calendarista Solo Booking Form Embed a Calendarista Solo booking form. Select from your configured forms to insert visually. * Calendarista Solo Service List List several booking services as cards. Visitors book without leaving the page. ## Installation 1. Install the plugin from Plugins Add New, or upload the zip, and activate it. WordPress 6.4 or newer and PHP 8.1 or newer are required. 2. Open Calendarista Solo Lite in the admin menu and start the Setup Wizard. 3. Create a booking form, then set its availability and time slots. 4. Add the “Calendarista Solo Booking Form” block to a page, or the `[calendarista_solo]` shortcode with your form’s id, which the wizard shows you. 5. Make a test booking on that page and watch it arrive on the scheduler. ## FAQ ### Is there a limit on bookings or forms? No. Lite takes unlimited bookings on unlimited forms and never charges per booking. ### Can clients pay online? Not in Lite. Online payments through Stripe, PayPal and Square are part of Calendarista Solo. ### Do I need a third-party booking account? No. Everything runs on your own site, and bookings are stored in your WordPress database. ### Can I offer different services? Yes. Create one booking form per service, each with its own availability, time slots, questions and colours. The listing block shows them together as cards. ### Can I take bookings myself, by phone or in person? Yes. Use New booking in the admin. You can also repeat an appointment weekly. ### Can several clients book the same time? Yes, if you want them to. Set how many clients each time slot takes. By default it is one. ### Do clients get a calendar invite? Yes. Every confirmation email carries an .ics invite and links to add the appointment to Google Calendar or Outlook. ### What happens if my site does not send email? WordPress sends the emails, so a site that cannot send email will not deliver them. An SMTP plugin fixes this. ### Can staff manage bookings without being administrators? Yes. Choose which roles can use the plugin in Settings General. ### Can I undo a reset? Yes, for 14 days. Settings Delete & Reset keeps the removed data so you can restore it. ### How do I move up to Calendarista Solo? Install and activate Calendarista Solo. Your forms, bookings and settings carry over as they are, and Lite steps aside by itself. You can then delete Lite; deleting it never removes data. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “Calendarista Solo Lite” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ typps ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/typps/) [Translate “Calendarista Solo Lite” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/calendarista-solo-lite) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/calendarista-solo-lite/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/calendarista-solo-lite/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/calendarista-solo-lite/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/calendarista-solo-lite/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 2.5.12 * First release on WordPress.org. ## Meta * Version **2.5.12** * Last updated **2 days ago** * Active installations **Fewer than 10** * WordPress version ** 6.4 or higher ** * Tested up to **7.1.4** * PHP version ** 8.1 or higher ** * Tags * [appointment booking](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/appointment-booking/) [appointments](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/appointments/)[booking](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/booking/) [booking calendar](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/booking-calendar/)[scheduling](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/scheduling/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/calendarista-solo-lite/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. 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