BMA Lite – Appointment Booking and Scheduling

Install BMA Lite, add a service and a specialist who offers it, then put [BookMyAppointmentForm] on a page. It is a shortcode, so it goes in a Shortcode block or any page-builder element that runs shortcodes; there is no dedicated block or Elementor widget.

It is free, with no trial, no booking fees and no outside account: it runs on your own WordPress site. Categories, services, specialists, locations, customers and appointments have no limit.

Not with Lite. Bookings are recorded with “Pay Locally”, and you note the payment status and amount on the appointment. BMA Pro adds PayPal and Stripe.

No. The only emails are WordPress’s own: when a booking, or an employee or customer you add, creates an account, WordPress emails that person a password link and notifies the administrator.

Yes. Lite checks that a time is one the form offers but does not compare it with bookings already made. New bookings arrive as pending, so check the calendar before you approve them.

Not in Lite. BMA Pro sends bookings to a calendar you connect.

Yes, for booking visits. It has no patient records, telehealth or reminders, and it makes no HIPAA or other compliance claim. Client details are stored in your WordPress database, so check what your rules require.

On the account page, clients can cancel appointments on a later day; you are not notified, so check the list. Only you can reschedule, by editing the appointment.

A specialist appears when they offer the chosen service and are marked “Visible to Public”. A time appears when the day is not closed or a holiday, the specialist works that weekday, and the whole appointment fits their hours and breaks. Employees added in 1.4.4 were saved without hours: open each on the Employees screen and save it.

Deleting an appointment also deletes its customer link and payment record; nothing is refunded. Deleting an employee, service, category or customer also deletes their bookings; a customer’s WordPress account stays. Deleting a location keeps its bookings.

Dashboard statistics, the Template, Appearance, Forms, Coupons and notification screens, and the Notifications, Payment Gateways and Google Calendar settings are previews of BMA Pro. They have no effect in Lite.

Keep BMA Lite active, then install and activate Pro and enter your purchase code. Both use the same tables, so your data stays. While Pro is active, Lite does not run its own screens or form.

Name, email, phone number and message, the appointment and its payment record, in the plugin’s own tables, plus a WordPress account for new clients. Lite does not add them to WordPress’s personal-data export and erase tools. Deleting the plugin keeps the tables.

Ask in the support forum .