Amelia vs LatePoint: Tiered Booking Suite vs All-Features Licensing (2026)

Amelia and LatePoint both target WordPress businesses that need customer-facing bookings, staff schedules, payments and automation. The major buying difference is packaging: Amelia unlocks advanced functions by plan tier, while LatePoint’s current paid plans advertise access to the same feature set and mainly scale by site count.

Compare	AmeliaFree; paid annual plans from $49 Remove	LatePointFree; paid from $79 first year ($99/year regular) Remove
Pricing model	Freemium	Freemium
Starting price	Free; paid annual plans from $49	Free; paid from $79 first year ($99/year regular)
Free version	Yes	Yes
Sites included	1 site on Starter/Standard; 5 on Pro; 20 or unlimited on Elite options	1, 5 or 100 sites depending on license
Lifetime option	Yes	Yes
Refund policy	15-day money-back guarantee	14-day money-back guarantee
Setup level	Intermediate	Beginner-friendly
WordPress.org rating	4.6/5 (790)	4.9/5 (101)
Active installs	90K+	100K+
Best for	Service businesses, salons, consultants, healthcare providers, educators, fitness businesses and event organizers that want appointments and events in one WordPress system	Service businesses with agents, services, locations, payments, and repeat appointment workflows.
Not ideal for	Very simple one-person calendars that only need basic appointment slots and would not use Amelia’s broader employee, payment or event tooling	Very simple one-person scheduling or reservation models based primarily on rooms, rental inventory, or seating.
Tested version	2.4.10	5.7.0
Last reviewed	2026-09-10	2026-09-18
Features
Frontend booking form	Yes	Yes
Multiple staff / hosts	Yes	Yes
Google Calendar sync	Paid plan	Yes
Zoom / Google Meet	Paid plan	Yes
Online payments	Paid plan	Yes
Group bookings	Yes	Yes
Recurring bookings / events	Paid plan	Yes
Customer self-service portal	Yes	Yes
Staff / host dashboard	Yes	Yes
Webhooks / automation	Paid plan	Yes
SMS notifications	Limited	Yes
Resource scheduling	Paid plan	Limited

Booking operations

Both products support multiple staff members, customer-facing booking forms, locations and group appointments. Amelia also has employee and customer panels, service packages, recurring appointments, event booking and resource management. LatePoint includes agent dashboards and a customer cabinet, letting staff manage appointments and customers while customers review or cancel their bookings.

LatePoint’s official feature list also includes multiple locations, group bookings, custom fields, service extras, multiple service durations, coupons and activity logs.

Automation and external workflows

LatePoint includes workflows that can trigger emails, SMS messages and webhooks when booking events occur. Its paid feature list explicitly includes webhook payloads for external services such as Zapier.

Amelia also supports automated notifications and webhooks in its paid feature set, alongside REST API access in higher tiers. The key difference is plan gating: on Amelia, check the exact tier for the automation capability you need; on LatePoint, current paid plans advertise the same feature access.

Payments and service complexity

Amelia is especially strong when bookings involve a detailed service catalog, deposits, taxes, invoices, packages, shared resources or events. LatePoint covers standard paid appointment workflows and also supports modern service options such as extras and multi-duration pricing.

If the business depends on rooms, equipment or other capacity-constrained assets, compare Amelia’s explicit resource-management model against LatePoint’s current scheduling model before migrating.

Pricing and refunds

Pricing checked September 25, 2026. LatePoint lists Starter at $99/year regular price for one site, Scale at $249/year for five sites and Agency at $499/year for 100 sites, with lower introductory pricing shown. Lifetime options are also listed. LatePoint provides a 14-day money-back guarantee.

Amelia offers annual and lifetime plans with feature and site-count differences, plus a 15-day money-back guarantee.

How to choose between the models

Consider Amelia when you need its service catalog depth, package/resource workflows or event features and are comfortable choosing a feature tier. Consider LatePoint when you want the same paid feature catalog regardless of whether you license one, five or many sites.

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Practical decision notes

Amelia is positioned around service businesses, salons, consultants, healthcare providers, educators, fitness businesses and event organizers that want appointments and events in one WordPress system, while LatePoint is positioned around service businesses with agents, services, locations, payments, and repeat appointment workflows. That difference is more useful than counting features: map the product to the workflow your site actually needs to run every week.

Watch the fit: Amelia is less suitable when very simple one-person calendars that only need basic appointment slots and would not use Amelia’s broader employee, payment or event tooling. LatePoint is less suitable when very simple one-person scheduling or reservation models based primarily on rooms, rental inventory, or seating. Treat those limits as implementation checks rather than absolute drawbacks.

Before switching or buying: Amelia currently lists Free; paid annual plans from $49; LatePoint currently lists Free; paid from $79 first year ($99/year regular); the setup profiles are Amelia: intermediate and LatePoint: beginner-friendly. Recheck the vendor pricing page, then test the actual payment, email, permissions, automation, and data-migration path your production site depends on.

Validation checklist

For Amelia and LatePoint, test the complete booking path with the same service durations, staff calendars, payment method, notification rules, time-zone settings, and cancellation policy you expect to use in production. If resources, packages, deposits, or group capacity matter, confirm those exact scenarios before migrating historical appointment data.