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Pass Payment Processing Fees to Guests: New in MotoPress Hotel Booking (​​5.4.0)

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Tired of losing money on payment processing and want your account to receive the full booking amount?

On most direct booking sites, owners usually cover payment processing fees – mainly because big OTAs do the same, and guests have grown to expect it. But if local regulations allow, you can pass those fees on to the guest, as long as the extra cost is clearly communicated.

With the new option in the MotoPress Hotel Booking plugin’s payment gateway settings, you can easily pass processing fees to guests and keep the total booking revenue!
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WordPress Restaurant Plugins: Best Choices for Menu, Ordering & Booking

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Looking for the best WordPress restaurant plugins? With WordPress plugins being quite varied in functionality, restaurant management solutions are probably one of the few that provide industry-specific tools. They deliver a full-blown or bespoke WordPress food menu plugin variety for small-to-medium-sized businesses like restaurants or hotels.

In today’s post, we’ve tried to pick some of the most popular and reliable solutions for restaurants, bars, and cafes to help you find what fits your catering business the most. From WordPress menu plugins to table reservation systems, and more, these plugins are guaranteed to perform simple and more complex tasks correctly.

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9 Best WordPress Booking Plugins for Hotels: Free & Premium

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If you are a solo vacation rental owner, a real estate agency or a developer building a WordPress website for a client, this carefully researched roundup of free WordPress hotel booking plugins is for you! We’ve chosen the most successful and powerful booking calendar plugins for various property rental needs.

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Using Google Meet WordPress Plugin for Bookings with Auto-Generated Meeting Links

Viktoriia Volkova in WordPress tutorials Leave a comment on Using Google Meet WordPress Plugin for Bookings with Auto-Generated Meeting Links

Are you struggling to connect Google Meet video meetings directly to the booking process on your WordPress website? Even when clients can choose a time slot, someone still has to create the video call, send the link, and make sure it ends up in the right calendar. In this article, we’ll look at how to integrate the Google Meet WordPress plugin with an appointment system!

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Top Table Booking WordPress Plugins with Real-Time Availability

Yegor Yevsyukov in WordPress plugins Leave a comment on Top Table Booking WordPress Plugins with Real-Time Availability

Looking for the best WordPress table booking plugin for a cafe or restaurant? With modern solutions for this CMS being quite varied in purposes and features, selecting something fitting right away usually takes time. Luckily, in this article, we’ve prepared a selection of restaurant table booking system plugins aimed at helping you manage your reservations, create booking forms, and provide your customers with a smooth self-reservation experience. Whether you’re running a small café or a busy restaurant, these plugins are built to assist you with any scheduling task.
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Boat Rental Booking Software: Top Tools for Small Business

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Are you still managing boat rental bookings through direct messages, spreadsheets, and phone calls? While people ask the same questions, such as “What’s available on Saturday? Can we pay a deposit?”, your team is trying to check available time slots, handle payments, and collect customer info. In this article, we’ll explore boat rental booking software that can bring order to that complexity!

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Divi 5 Is Genuinely Wild: Let’s Take a Look at It

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Divi 5 by Elegant Themes is built with a Gutenberg-like, more WordPress-native modular approach.

The official release of Divi 5 is scheduled for February 26th, which is coming up fast, so today we’re eager to take a look at the public beta version and test the waters.
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23+ Best WordPress Block Themes for Full Site Editing

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WordPress block themes have recently become a hot topic for almost every web development enthusiast. Many popular & mainstream themes nowadays require an external visual builder plugin such as Elementor for easier customization. However, block themes that support the new full-site editing feature don’t need any paid third-party plugins to function properly. That’s why they are gaining popularity. In today’s post, we’ll take a look at how to choose a proper WordPress FSE theme and list some of these themes for you to get started with.

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Multi-Property Availability View: New in MotoPress Hotel Booking Plugin!

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Since MotoPress Hotel Booking plugin version 5.3.0, we’ve brought one of our most requested features to life: the Multi-Property Availability Calendar.

Many of you asked for a simple way to see availability across multiple properties at once, and we’re happy to say this feature is now available in the core plugin for free!

With this new multi-property view, you can display a single, shared availability calendar for selected accommodation types.

It’s not a calendar in a traditional sense but it looks pretty much close to it: dates appear across the top, properties are listed down the left, and voila – per-property availability status is shown in the grid.

Overall, the new feature gives your guests the simplest way to compare availability at a glance.
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How to Translate MotoPress Hotel Booking with the WPML Plugin

Ann Taylor in WordPress tutorials 26 Comments on How to Translate MotoPress Hotel Booking with the WPML Plugin

The MotoPress Hotel Booking plugin has been officially tested for compatibility with the WPML plugin for multilingual sites. They work well together.

A cool thing is that you can kill two birds with one stone: do the translation of the entire site + Hotel Booking texts with a single solution from WPML, no need for extra tools or integrations.

First up, why WPML?

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