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WordPress appointment booking and scheduling plugin for service businesses.

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Amelia keeps widening from appointments into events, ticketing and payments.

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◆Current state
Amelia is a WordPress booking plugin that announces each release as a blog post, roughly monthly. Across 8.5 through 9.7 the shape is consistent: appointments remain the core, but events take an increasing share — QR-code ticketing, invoicing, waiting lists, front-end display controls, and now public event pages in 9.7. Calendar integration and payment flexibility are the other steady threads, and 9.1 introduced Angie AI as an admin-side assistant alongside Outlook sync and Divi 5 support.
◆Where it's heading
The product is growing into a light events-and-payments layer inside WordPress rather than a scheduling widget. The IvyForms integration is the tell on strategy: instead of building a form builder, Amelia delegates pre-booking data collection to a sibling product, which points at a suite rather than one plugin. Full data export and import arriving in 9.7 is the housekeeping a product needs once customers have years of bookings inside it — and once moving between installations becomes a support question.
◆Prediction
Public event pages give Amelia a front end it did not previously own, so making those pages promotable or discoverable is the natural next step. These posts are summaries rather than changelogs, so specifics are hard to read ahead of time.

◆Recent moves

  1. 19d ago

    Amelia 9.7: Public Event Pages, Full Data Export & Import, and More

    Version 9.7 adds public event pages and full data export and import. The first gives events a front end of their own rather than a booking form embedded elsewhere; the second is the portability work a plugin needs once customers have years of bookings stored in it.

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  2. 2mo ago

    Introducing Amelia and IvyForms: A New Way to Collect Details Before Booking

    An IvyForms integration lets bookings collect arbitrary details — goals, meal choices, background questions — before the appointment or event is confirmed. Amelia is buying the capability from a sibling product rather than building a form builder, which says something about how the suite is being assembled.

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  3. 3mo ago

    Amelia 9.4 Update Brings More Flexibility to Booking and Calendar Management

    Version 9.4 targets the friction points in scheduling: holding a time slot while switching employee, and handling multiple Google and Outlook calendars per staff member. Incremental, and aimed squarely at multi-staff businesses.

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  4. 4mo ago

    Amelia 9.3 Update Brings More Control to Scheduling and Events

    Version 9.3 adds calendar block time, easier handling of event data and more control over front-end event display. Staff availability and events again, the two threads that run through this whole release series.

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  5. 6mo ago

    Amelia 9.1 Is Here – Outlook Sync, Angie AI, Divi 5 Support, and More

    Version 9.1 simplified Outlook calendar connection, added Divi 5 compatibility, and introduced Angie AI as an admin-side assistant. The AI addition is announced thinly here and has not been built on in the releases since, which is worth noting when reading it as direction.

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  6. 7mo ago

    Amelia 9.0 Is Live: From Idea to Reality

    The 9.0 announcement marks the major version but describes it in terms of intent rather than change, so what actually shipped has to be inferred from the 9.x releases that follow. The concrete work shows up in 9.1 through 9.7.

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