Easyappointments

Judgement

What it is

Complete system

What it does

A self-hosted appointment booking app where customers book services with staff, with Google Calendar sync, notifications and a REST API.

Adopt it when

A small service business wants online booking on its own PHP hosting without subscription fees.

Watch out

Mostly one maintainer, and payment collection is not built in.

Ready for

Production-ready

Runs as

Self-hosted server

Built with

PHP, CodeIgniter and MySQL

How established

Established: started 12 years ago, latest release 1.6.1.

What the license allows

Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.

Judged on 2026-11-03 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

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Built from

Follow it down: Easyappointments → Php-src → GCC → LLVM project → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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