Totally useless in its free version and 356 $ if you want basic booking features

  • Nova

    (@big-dreams-theory)


    7 years, 8 months ago

    Don’t bother donwloading and trying the plugin if you don’t plan to spend hundreds of dollars in additional (and separate) plugins in order to do what other booking plugins can do for a fraction of bookly + it’s addons’ price.

    Be aware that bookly scam will sell you each and every little feature, even the most basic, in a separate 20 to 30$ dollars addons. And each time you’ll suggest a new feature or they’ll think about one, they won’t include it in the already expensive 59$ pro version, they’ll sell it to you in another separate 30$ plugin.
    Pro version is 59 $ (!!) and offer only very basic features. If you want all other features that should be included in the pro version (and that any honest developer will do) you’ll have to buy – as for now – 12 (yes 12!!) separate addons for a total price of … 297 $ ?? Yes you read it right…297 $ of addons … + the pro version … so 356 $ if you want to have the booking feature that other plugins offer on envato for 39 to 59$ maximum.

    Check on envato, there are alternatives that offers for less than 60$ what bookly and its millions of addons does for 356$. There are even free alternatives that give much of what bookly can do in its paid version + few addons…
    Keep in mind ladela (the company) main objective : to take you the maximum of money they can by releasing every single little feature they can find and sale it to you. Fortunately there are only few companies like this on envato (another one i can think of is AIT which sale “directory wordpress theme” which use the exact same scam sales practices.

    • This topic was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by Nova.
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  • Plugin Author Bookly

    (@ladela)

    Greetings from Bookly development team. Thank you for sending us your honest feedback – it always helps us make our product better. We would like to answer to your concerns.
    Bookly Lite that you downloaded from WordPress uses freemium model which is a very common business models on the market. Lite version showcases our solution and if a businessman likes it we offer to buy to the full version.
    And yes, you get the business right – our job is to create useful add-ons to our clients and that is exactly how we make our living. And do you or anyone else here does their job for free?
    Our greatest goal is to create quality product, that fulfills people’s needs and we are sure that people would love to pay for a good solution. And it’s misleading that a business will need all 12 add-ons.
    Our typical client usually uses 2-3 addons that are purchased once, lets your enjoy constant updates and betterments without limitations.
    But what is more important, even the payment of $120 is a question of a couple of hours of work for a successful businessperson. Use of Bookly on the other hand lets business owners save countless numbers of man-hours and stress.
    Any wise businessperson would agree that the solution that Bookly offers is a good deal.
    Finally, what concerns other solution on the market, if you’ll carefully look on what they offer you’ll see that less than 20% of WP plugins offer half as much as Bookly does.
    If you want to check how the pro version would work, please follow the link https://demo3.booking-wp-plugin.com/demo/ and decide for yourself if Bookly worth it.
    If you have any technical requests that needs our attentions, please contact support at [support@]. We update Bookly on the basis customers feedback, so if you have suggestions on what we can do better make sure to create a request on our zendesk.

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    Plugin Author Bookly

    (@ladela)

    Hello. Bookly Lite can be used by individual service providers. The functionality included in the Lite version is usually enough for private entrepreneurs, who don’t run large business and have no employees. It is also intended to give an overview for those who is looking for the right online scheduling system for their website. You can try our demos (both frontend and backend versions) to discover all features and capabilities of Bookly standard version.
    If you experience any issues with uploading the calendar on the frontend please send us an inquiry to [email protected] and we’ll be glad to assist.

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