Booking Calendar vs Contact Form 7
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| Feature | Booking Calendar v11.9.1 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.8/5 Visit Details | Contact Form 7 v6.2.3 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 4.0/5 Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 40,000+ | 10M+ |
| Last updated | October 11, 2026 | October 21, 2026 |
| Editions | Booking Calendar · Booking Calendar Pro ($) | Contact Form 7 |
| Pros | Full-day, time-slot and appointment bookings in one plugin; Booking and inquiry forms with email notices; Elementor widget and WooCommerce compatibility | Completely free, with no upsells in the code; Several spam options: Akismet, reCAPTCHA, Turnstile, quiz, disallowed list; Stripe payment field and Brevo contact sync built in |
| Cons | Large plugin with many admin screens to learn; Newer resource and service catalog needs the Pro edition; Payment gateways are not in the free code | No visual drag-and-drop builder; forms are markup; No conditional logic or multi-step forms without add-ons; Does not store submissions without Flamingo |
| Mentioned in our posts | 1 | 1 |
| Features (Form plugins checklist) | ||
| Drag-and-drop builder | — | No |
| Conditional logic | — | No |
| Multi-step forms | — | No |
| Payments | — | Yes |
| File upload | — | Yes |
| Calculations | — | No |
| Entries in admin | — | No |
| Spam protection | — | Yes |
| Free version | — | Yes |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Calendar and booking form shortcodes, Import of Google Calendar feeds into availability, Elementor booking form widget controls, Services and providers catalog (Pro-compatible resources) ($), Dashboard What's New page after activation | Form-tag markup editor for fields and mail templates, Block editor contact form selector, REST API for forms and submission feedback, Quiz and Really Simple CAPTCHA tags, Spam check against the WordPress disallowed comment keys, Saves submissions to Flamingo when that plugin is active |
| Integrations | ||
| Payment | — | Stripe |
| — | Brevo (Sendinblue) | |
| E-commerce | WooCommerce | — |
| Plugins | Elementor, Polylang, WPML | Akismet, Flamingo |
| Other | Google Calendar (iCal feed import) | Google reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare Turnstile |
| Requires WordPress | 5.3 | 7.1 |
| Requires PHP | 5.6 | 8.3 |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | 7.1 |
| Phones home | Only if you agree | No |
| External services | wpbookingcalendar.com | api.stripe.com, www.google.com, www.recaptcha.net, challenges.cloudflare.com, api.sendinblue.com |
| Blocks | 1 | 1 |
| Shortcodes | 10 | 2 |
| Custom tables | 3 | — |