There are several reasons PHP calendar, booking and events scripts might be a great addition to your website. If you’re a service provider, then it makes sense to have an appointment booking system on your site that allows potential customers to see your availability and select an appointment time and date that is best for them. This could cut down on needless calls to your business to make appointments and free up your time or your staff’s time.

Online calendars are also handy for organisations of any size to help team members share events and tasks and keep each other abreast of what other members are working on.

Their usefulness isn’t just limited to companies, however. Artists, writers, performers, bloggers and any other individual with an active public life could make good use of online calendars to let followers and fans know the whens and wheres of public appearances.

With all this in mind, we’ve compiled 15 of our best PHP calendar, booking and events scripts available for download today at CodeCanyon. This post will help you choose the one that’s right for you.

1. Cleanto

Cleanto is ideal for many different types of service companies looking for a reliable way to provide clients with full-featured online booking.

Standout features:

• PayPal, Authorize.Net, and Stripe payment methods
• email reminders
• auto confirm booking
• ability to add breaks in schedule
• and more

User Crossera says:

“Amazing customer support. These guys came back to me within a day with a fix for all the problems I faced. The plugin can be customized to whatever your needs are.”

2. Employee Work Schedule

The Employee Work Schedule script is packed with features that companies will find useful for managing team productivity. The calendar can be set up to provide access to selected team members and allows the designated admin to assign tasks, or conversely team members can record their own self-assigned tasks or appointments.

Standout features:

• public, private or group calendars
• popup dialog for adding, editing and deleting items
• ability for both admins and users to create calendars
• supports recurring events
• and more

User lara_c_2 says:

“One of the best scripts and support I have ever had. The author, Paul, was more than helpful and available. Great script, super flexible and offers many many more features than other similar software out there.”

3. Vacation Rentals Booking Calendar

The Vacation Rentals Booking Calendar is an online vacation rental booking calendar script that allows property owners or management agencies to create and manage rental availability calendars for their vacation rental properties.

Standout features:

• highly customizable
• emails notifications to owner or administrator
• XML and JSON availability feeds
• export calendars to iCalendar format
• and more

User Craignic says”

“Great product and quick support given when I had a query.”

4. Events Calendar

The Events Calendar allows you to create several calendars dedicated to different locations or categories. Each event in the calendar comes with its own popup feature that allows you to add important details like starting and ending time for each event, textual description, photos, videos, location map, etc.

Standout features:

• create an unlimited number of calendars
• view event details via rollover popup
• add videos and a photo gallery for each event
• add the event website link
• and more

User Jackaubert says:

“This is just a really nice clean calendar presentation. It is relatively easy to manage, once it is installed, and you can customize pretty much anything with enough digging into the code. Nothing is concealed or locked down.”

5. NodAPS Online Booking System

The NodAPS Online Booking System promises to help you manage your appointments more easily. You can create unlimited accounts with administrative, assistant and staff permission, and add unlimited languages to the system. You can also change the booking time and date with a drag-and-drop feature.

Standout features:

• multi-provider system
• seven different booking type forms
• multilingual
• easy to install
• and more

User Jam79 says:

“Very simple to use. Fast and effective support!”

6. Tiva Events Calendar

With Tiva Events Calendar, users can add and view all events in calendar or events list style, but also can view details of each event via a pop-up display when they hover over the event. The app also offers full and compact layouts.

Standout features:

• view events via calendar or list style
• quick view event’s info with tooltip
• user-friendly interface
• full layout or compact layout
• and more

User georgeszy says:

“It's a simple straightforward calendar plug-in. But, the after sales support is fabulous. They helped me several times with issues I ran into and were very generous with their time and expertise.”

7. Bookify

Bookify is one of the newest apps at CodeCanyon but is already proving to be quite popular with its offering of features such as an installation wizard that doesn't require any knowledge of code to use. Bookify also has Google Calendar sync, live chat, and detailed documentation.

Standout features:

• Stripe and PayPal are supported
• live chat
• multi-language support
• Google Calendar sync
• and more

User Teatone says:

“Great customer support. Great code quality! If you are looking for something that works with great support, Bookify is the one.”

8. Laravel Booking System

The Laravel Booking System with live chat offers a great online system for booking and making appointments. Users can buy credits as a payment option, and view available services, total transactions, their total credits as well as administrator contact information via their dashboard.  

From the administrative side, the system administrator can manage all things system related: general settings, payment settings, and user management. Admins can also manage bookings and respond to inquiries from their dashboard.  

Standout features:

• live chat
• multi-language support
• booking and transaction history
• PayPal integration
• and more

User brentxscholl says:

“This plugin works great. Great code. Customer service is fantastic. We asked for extended features and they were delivered for a reasonable price.”

9. Tiva Timetable

Fully responsive, easy to set up, and very customizable, the Tiva Timetable is a good choice for those who are looking for a calendar with a clean and simple modern design.

Standout features:

• responsive
• customisable
• well documented
• three layouts available
• and more

User mandrake62 says:

Very good script, easy to install. Customer support at the top!

10. Ajax Calendar 2

Ajax Calendar 2 is a highly customisable personal calendar designed to help you keep organised. This is a bestselling update of another popular script, the Ajax Full Featured Calendar.

Standout features:

• PHP and JS versions with PHP class
• ability to auto-embed YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, or SoundCloud, media
• ability to export calendar or events to iCal format
• supports recurring events
• and more

User sv_fr says:

“Great script. Practical uses. Helpful support.” 

11. Event Calendar

Built with jQuery FullCalendar and integrated into Bootstrap’s grid layout, the Event Calendar allows users to organise and plan their events.

Standout features:

• create new types of events
• ability to add fields like title, colour, description, link, and photo
• Google Fonts and Font Awesome Icons
• and more

User teddyedward  says:

“Really enjoy using your script—it's perfect for my needs. It's also well documented and easy to use.”

12. eCalendar

Quite simply, the eCalendar script is designed to keep individual users or companies organised with a calendar that allows users to add as many events as needed, as well as details like the event title, location, time, etc.

Standout features:

• choice of two designs
• cross-browser compatibility (IE8+, Safari, Opera, Chrome, Firefox)
• events are saved in your MySQL database
• fully responsive design
• and more

User levitschi says:

“Everything works perfectly! Support was better than I ever expected!”

13. Event Manager

Event Manager is an online booking system that has the advantage of displaying your events in three forms—calendar view, list view, and map location view—using Google Maps.

Conceived for PHP/MySQL, built with the very popular jQuery Full Calendar plugin, and integrated into the Bootstrap grid layout, Event Manager is easy to add to your existing site.

Standout features:

• fully responsive
• highly customisable
• three views available
• well documented 
• and more

14. LaraBooking

Built with Laravel 5.5 and VueJS, LaraBooking is another great online booking app with a clean and intuitive interface that allows users to book their appointments directly on the calendar. The calendar shows the times available, and users will receive email notifications and updates about their appointments.

Standout features:

• responsive
• user-friendly interface
• email notification
• admin has the ability to review and edit all appointments and services
• and more

User spham says:

“Perfect support and good design.”

15. Gcal

Gcal is one of the more straightforward of the booking systems featured here. It is specifically designed for users of Google Calendar. Users fill in a form which, once submitted, automatically adds an event to the Google Calendar of the owner of the email address submitted in the form. 

Standout features:

• simple functionality
• view event details in popup
• three-step installation
• well documented
• and more

Conclusion

These PHP event calendar and booking scripts just scratch the surface of products available at Envato Market. So if none of them catch your fancy, there are plenty of other great options to hold your interest!

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