BookingPress Turns 3!  Here’s to the Journey, Milestones & More

It’s August 2025, and yes, we are extremely happy to celebrate the 3rd Anniversary of BookingPress. What we started as a small idea in 2022 has turned into one of the most trusted and powerful WordPress booking and appointment plugins, all thanks to you! ☺️

So from all of us at Team BookingPress, we wanna say a big “THANK YOU” to each of you for being with us throughout this amazing journey. Let’s cheer for this year and many more to come!

A Look Back At Our Journey

But before we get on this train of our 3-year journey, let’s take a look back to appreciate the beginning. BookingPress is one of the most loved products, launched on August 15, 2022. The idea of BookingPress was simple: To simplify the process of appointment booking for all service-based businesses.

Since the first launch of our BookingPress, we’ve come a LOOONG way. Alongside over 50,000+ happy users, we are continuously growing, improving performance, adding more features and addons – all just to offer you the flexibility and scalability you deserve. 

Let’s take a look back at BookingPress’s journey highlights. 💎

2022 – Where It All Started: 

The year 2022 was the beginning of something extraordinary. We initially launched only the free version, which received a lot of love, and people were eagerly waiting for the premium version of the plugin. The premium version also became quite popular among users, and along with that, we unexpectedly won the TemplateMonster Award.

2023 – Rising Higher, Reaching Further: 

2023 was a year of growth and learning! While we achieved a major milestone with our second “TemplateMonster Award”, we worked day and night to evolve the product with all essential updates to match your expectations. Our efforts were worth it in the end as BookingPress got recognized by top platforms like Zapier, Kinsta, Hostinger, and Elementor.

2024 – Dominating with Innovation: 

The Year 2024 was the game-changer for us. Trusted by over 20,000+ businesses, we stole the spotlight with our 50+ exclusive add-ons and 20+ payment gateways, which other competitors can’t even dream of. Not to forget, our third consecutive TemplateMonster Award also followed.

2025 – The Journey Just Got Bigger: 

Now in the year 2025, we are a happy family with almost 50,000+ active installations and crossing almost 6,00,000 downloads in 3 years wouldn’t make us any happier. We also participated in several WordCamps, including WordCamp Asia Taiwan, WordCamp Europe Torino, WordCamp Asia Philippines, and WordCamp Europe Switzerland and became a sponsor at WordCamp 2025 Ahmedabad.

Yet this is also just the start of our journey, the future of BookingPress is packed with innovation, growth and a whole lot more.

A Streak of Recognition

Overall, these all streaks of years have been a game-changer for us. 🤗

Alongside growing and building new features, we never even imagined we’d hit a three-year winning streak. Still, BookingPress managed to come on top in this flooded market of WordPress plugins and has been recognized as a TemplateMonster Award Winner for 2022, 2023, and 2024! 🎉

That’s right! Three years in a row for outstanding functionality, performance, and user experience.

BookingPress was featured by the top platforms like Zapier, Kinsta, Hostinger, and Elementor and even some of our competitors gave us a shoutout! 

That’s just not the end here. For us, one of the most special moments is our podcast with Michelle Frechette, “The busiest woman in WordPress”. That was a proud moment for our entire BookingPress team as our story reached the global WordPress community. It was like a dream come true when we got a chance to connect with such a person with our story at such a global level. 😎

It’s a mind-blowing streak of recognition, so let us give a huge shoutout to the person behind all these awards…..YOU! 🥳 Yes, our users who always supported and believed in what we’re building. 

For Our Community

When it comes to our community, we’ve always been there! 😉

From WordCamp Ahmedabad 2023 and 2025 to Taiwan, Europe, and Bangalore, BookingPress has been there, connecting with a large number of WordPress enthusiasts around the world.

WordCamp Asia 2024 in Taiwan:

WordCamp Europe 2024 in Torino:

WordCamp India 2024 in Kerala:

WordCamp India 2024 in Delhi:

WordCamp Asia 2025 in Manila, Philippines:

WordCamp India 2025 in Ahmedabad:

WordCamp Europe 2025 in Basel, Switzerland:

WordCamp Brisbane 2025

The BookingPress team always believed in giving back to the community and our involvement in WordCamps is one way we connect, share, and learn with the WordPress family. 😃

2024-2025: New Powerful Features, Addons & Integrations

Here are the special and worth remembering features we launched this year that we are super excited to highlight.

Game Changer Updates of BookingPress 4.0:

BookingPress has always been the most loved WordPress appointment plugin. But now it has some amazing mind-blowing features. BookingPress 4.0 comes with the latest modern interface for a smooth and friendly user experience. BookingPress also launched many new options with this version, such as:

• Overnight Booking, that allows businesses to offer services or facilities that extend across two calendar days while following the 24-hour format.
• Tax Addon enhancement for automatically collecting tax based on country or region.
• Easily set up the minimum and maximum number of service extras.
• Search bar function for staff and services while booking.
• New stylish front-end booking calendar for your clients and customers. 

New Integrations:

Since the very beginning of our journey, we’ve been constantly expanding and launching new integrations to help your business grow at lightning speed with full flexibility. That’s why, this time, we are super excited to launch 4 more powerful integrations to enhance your booking process. 

• Airwallex Payment Integration: Now it’s time to simplify your global payment with Airwallex Payment Integration. Now, Airwallex can easily connect with BookingPress just like all other popular payment integrations. 

• PayMongo Payment Integration: With this, now you can easily accept payments through credit cards, e-wallets, and over-the-counter transactions, especially in the Philippines.

• ARMember Integration: Of course! How can we forget our most powerful membership plugin. Now you can integrate ARMember with BookingPress and manage both membership and bookings side by side.

• AffiliatePress Integration: AffiliatePress is also now going to seamlessly integrate with BookingPress. So now you can assign commissions or manage affiliates so easily.

New Add-Ons:

Looking for something extraordinary? Well, you think, we do! This year, we released new additional addons to power up your workflow.

• Gift Card Addon: Create and sell personalized gift cards for your services with easy setup and smooth customer redemption.

• Multi-staff Addon: Let customers book multiple staff members for one appointment, which is ideal for premium or multi-step services.

• POS Addon (Stripe): Enable tap-and-pay checkout with Stripe POS Addon. No manual tracking or calculation needed.

• Apple Calendar Addon: Allow staff to sync their appointments in real-time with Apple Calendar (iCal) for better schedule management.

But wait! There’s more we got for you! 

New Payment Options:

More flexibility with more options to pay with BookingPress. To simplify your bookings, we’ve gone lengths and finally managed to add some of the most well-known and popular payment options. Now make all your payments ultra secure with: 

• Apple Pay 
• Google Pay

We are sure these both payment integrations need no introduction. Apple pay and Google Pay are accepted and trusted by millions of websites and apps for making smooth, fast and quick transactions. 

Notable Newly Added Features:

Here are some of the extra notable under-the-hood features our power users will love:

• User-wise coupon codes
• Staff can set their own prices
• Import/export customers via CSV
• Periodic booking stats
• Multi-select staff filters in calendar
• “Mark as Pending” payment option
• Show service duration while adding new appointments
• Re-book past appointments
• Approve/reject from email, SMS, WhatsApp
• Shortcode parameter to preselect staff
• Edit past appointments
• CC field for customer email notifications
• Staff name support in multiple languages

These new features and updates aren’t just an upgrade. It shows how BookingPress goes the extra mile beyond your imagination! 🏄‍♂️

A Spotlight Moment In The Industry

In these 3rd years of our journey, we’ve seen BookingPress grow beyond just feature updates. It has grown beyond WordPress users’ expectations and earned the trust of multiple top leading businesses.

With exclusive collaborations like our IONOS Hosting Partnership Deal and some others, BookingPress has earned exposure among some of the leading industry names to continue providing value to its users. 

And the result speaks for itself! 😄

Today, BookingPress is among the top 3 booking plugins in the WordPress industry! 

Furthermore, it is one of the most downloaded and installed plugins in India. A trusted solution across salons, clinics, coaching centers, gyms, and professional service providers for managing their appointments and bookings. 

With over 600,000+ downloads, it’s clear that a powerful product with reliable support and community growth can truly deliver the most long-lasting impact and success.

What’s Next? Roadmap For The Future

After these amazing 3 years, no way we are stopping here. We have planned a lot more advanced and powerful features for you.

For upcoming, more amazing years, we’ve planned to come up with more: 

• Powerful integrations
• Advanced smart reporting
• Automation enhancements
• And community-exclusive features too! 

And guess what? That’s just the beginning. We’re dreaming bigger, building smarter, and pushing every limit to bring you features that aren’t just helpful but a game changer! 

BookingPress 3rd Anniversary Special Offer – Just for You!

Now here’s the most awaited and exciting part of this whole blog! The birthday is ours, yet gifts are for you! Thus, we are offering up to 60% OFF on BookingPress with all 50+ premium Add-ons for absolutely FREE! 

And also don’t miss the return of our Lifetime Deal for just $159. Take all these exciting offers as our way of saying “Thank You” for staying with us in this incredible journey of 3 years.

Thank You For 3 Incredible Years

Thank you for being a part of the BookingPress family! These past 3 years have been nothing short of amazing. What we started as a simple idea of making appointment bookings easier turned out into one of the most loved and trusted appointment booking systems for the WordPress market. 

We can wholeheartedly say that we owe every bit of our success to YOU! Yes, to our amazing users, resellers, WordCamp organizers, community members, and the entire WordPress ecosystem. Thank you for making BookingPress what it is today!

That’s all for today, guys! Yet the future of BookingPress still has a long way to go! With this milestone, now we’re more excited to add on more features, integrations, and improvements to make your appointment scheduling experience faster, smarter, and more powerful. If you haven’t tried BookingPress yet, now is the right time. With a 14-day Back Guarantee, it is 100% risk-free! Choose your plan and see why 50,000+ businesses trust BookingPress to power their online bookings.