WordPress Hotel Booking Plugin: The Best-in-Class Solution for Hotels & Vacation Rentals
MotoPress Hotel Booking at a Glance
A property management system, a booking engine, a channel manager, online payments, finance, and more. All in one plugin for your independent property booking WordPress website.
- Several years of progress, thousands of hours of development and design.
- Supported by industry experts in short-term rental business.
- Used and loved by property owners.
iCal Channel Management to Sync with OTAs
Grow your hotel or vacation rental business with more channels yet avoid overbooking! The plugin can synchronize the availability and bookings submitted through your website with those from online travel platforms like Airbnb, Booking, TripAdvisor, HomeAway or any other that supports iCal.
The plugin generates unique calendars to export to external online channels and provides a way to import them from OTAs. Enjoy an automatic, near real-time synchronization (sync it as frequently as every half hour).
Streamlined Guest Experience
Property Presentation: Amenities, Image Gallery, Rates
Rent out unlimited categorized properties (holiday homes, hotel rooms) or just a single accommodation (a villa, a cabin, etc.) – the plugin works for both scenarios! Each accommodation type is fully customizable: add its description, sleeps, amenities, bed size, comments, price, the booking system straight on the property page, and more.
You may also display extra services and packages available for a specific accommodation type.
Mobile-friendly Property Search Form
Simplify the search for your guests through all accommodations with a dedicated search form. The arrival/departure dates are compulsory fields, but the number of adults and children are optional so feel free to adjust and customize the default form (e.g. use the uniformed “Guests” field instead).
Guests will find a property that meets their needs and place a reservation using the booking widget regardless of the device they use.
Custom Fields for Advanced Property Search
Manage multiple properties and want to give guests better sorting options to find the most appropriate offers on the spot?
Just add any number of custom search fields (filters) to the search availability form (location, accommodation types, price range, etc.) in the booking widget and make the search a lot more convenient to the guest.
Real-time Availability Calendars
Enable guests to check the availability of individual properties right on the website. The Hotel Booking plugin retrieves availability data in real time for the common search form as well as for the individual property availability calendars.
The status colors will show available and unavailable days.
Multiple Properties Bookable at One Go
One guest can reserve multiple accommodations during one booking placement. You may also turn on the WP hotel booking plugin to recommend the best set of accommodations according to the number of guests.
This quick and smart automation will help you serve your guests faster in their dynamic journey!
Flexible Rate & Inventory Management
Dynamic Seasonal Pricing
Regulate your property rates within any custom period: low and high seasons, holiday periods, etc. Set any prices in the preferable currency depending on a season or specific days/dates. “Season” is a general term and you can label it anyhow to reflect your pricing changes, for example, increase the pricing during any busy period.
The difference in price can be applied for both long and short periods (e.g. 2 days).
Compex Rates Based on Property Facilities
Properties of the same type equipped differently? Maintain fenced rates for the same accommodation types with different options: nonrefundable and non-cancelable reservations, advanced amenities, breakfast, private bathroom and more.
Your guests will choose the preferable one on the checkout page.
Per-person Property Rates
The accommodation rate can be changed automatically depending on the number of guests. You simply need to add the needed number of per-guest price variables that will be different from the base accommodation price.
The price rate will change dynamically based on the search parameters of your guests. You can choose to prioritize the maximum capacity number so that the number of adults and children will become flexible for each property.
Property Rates Based on the Length of Stay
Discounts for a longer stay? No problem! Create different price points based on the length of stay – add weekly, monthly or other rates for any custom duration.
The system will automatically discount the properties according to your rate rules. The longer the stay, the better per-night rate!
Discount Coupons in WordPress Hotel Booking Plugin
Easily create percentage, per-stay, or per-day personalized discount coupons via the admin dashboard. You’ll be able to set a discount amount, an expiration date, set check-in and check-out dates, min/max days to stay and more to customize your coupons for individual accommodations.
Sell the dreams cheaper and make each guest a loyal client!
Compulsory Taxes & Fees
Complete and correct tax, fee and pricing information of all accommodation charges. Add mandatory fees, accommodation taxes, service taxes and fee taxes – customize their types and charges to fit your needs.
Keep track on pricing information of all bookings in the admin dashboard and provide your guests with the pricing details.
Bookable Extras or Free Services
Offer additional guest services such as spa, airport-to-hotel delivery, a swimming pool, childcare, etc. that guests can add to their reservation on the checkout page.
Set the service price to be charged per stay, daily or let the guest choose. Per-accommodation and per-guest prices can also be configured.
Handling Bookings & Payment Gateways
Accept Payments Online or After Arrival
Confirm booking requests in the dashboard or instantly via email / upon payment. Charge a full price or deposit (fixed/percentage). Accept booking payments via built-in PayPal, 2Checkout, Braintree, Stripe, or Beanstream/Bambora gateways. Stripe additionally allows you to receive payments through Bancontact, iDEAL, Giropay, SEPA Direct Debit and SOFORT. Let guests pay after arrival or via a direct bank transfer.
Local Payment Gateways with WooCommerce
Need to integrate more region-specific payment gateways on your website? We have a dedicated WooCommerce Payment extension that allows you to do that in clicks. Extend the number of payment gateways needed to handle online reservation of accommodations, without tech experts.
Note: Hotel Booking WooCommerce Payments is a premium extension that is not included in the price of the Hotel Booking plugin.
Instant or Manual Booking Confirmation
Confirm booking requests in a preferable way – give control over booking approval to either your guest (by clicking on a confirmation link in the email), to yourself (you approve it manually via the admin panel) or a booking will be confirmed automatically upon payment.
For the payments, you can set the system to charge a full price or deposit (a fixed price or percentage).
Record Reservations Manually & Edit Original Bookings
Accepting booking by phone? Using other traditional methods? Let your staff add bookings manually via the backend dashboard to keep the processes paperless. The guest can pay later after arrival or using a direct bank transfer.
You can also edit original booking details, e.g. switch a room or change arrival/departure dates for guests.
Efficient Rental Operations
The Centralized Admin Bookings Calendar
With this WordPress Rental plugin, all received booking requests and their current statuses are stored in one place, easily sorted and displayed in a color-coded calendar view.
Search for the needed bookings by a room type, period of booking and room status (booked, pending, available, etc.).
Customizable Min/Max Stay Requirements
The plugin comes with a flexible system of reservation restrictions and rules. Adjust your min/max stay requirement to reflect the type of guest you would prefer to host. Comply with the legal aspects of your country as for tenants and short-term guests.
Set min/max days to stay and available check-in and check-out dates for the entire hotel establishment, accommodations individually or seasons.
Take Properties out of Booking
Need to take some of your properties out of booking for renovation?
This WordPress booking system allows you to block booking options for all accommodations or individual ones for a chosen period of time (set not check-in, not check-out or not stay-in rules). The changes will be displayed in the availability calendars of each property.
Branded Admin & Client Email Notifications
The website administrator and guests will receive the appropriate emails with the booking details, booking status, cancellation notifications, etc.
Edit the content of confirmation, cancellation and other email templates easily with the help of various macros that automatically get replaced with the client’s data. Choose colors, upload a logo, customize text, etc.
Generate CSV Booking Reports
Generate booking reports in a single click of a button! Get a CSV file containing detailed information on all bookings made over a specified period of time filtering the bookings to be exported by 4 custom criteria: check-in date, check-out date, date of reservation or total period of stay.
The obtained reports can be opened and edited in Excel, Google Sheets or any other spreadsheet program and further printed out, locally saved or shared via email.
Customization & Translation
Available in Multiple Languages & Translation Ready
Run a non-English website? No problem. Switch to one of the professional translations or translate it yourself with any translation program. The plugin is officially compatible with WPML – one of the most popular WordPress multilingual plugins.
The frontend and backend of the plugin are translated into 18 languages: Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Swedish, Italian, Hungarian, Czech, Chinese, Dutch, French, Arabic, German, Finnish, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Croatian (more on the way).
Customizable with Top WordPress Editors
Add and edit Hotel Booking content and styles visually in real time in Gutenberg and time-tested builders, Elementor and Divi:
- Hotel Booking Gutenberg blocks are available by default for WordPress 5.0 or greater (10 custom blocks!). WordPress Classic Editor is also supported.
- We created the Elementor Hotel Booking and Divi Hotel Booking Integration extensions to help you edit content via these most-used builders.
Shortcodes & Widgets for WordPress Hotel Booking Plugin
You may edit the content visually in the Gutenberg WordPress editor or stick to traditional WordPress shortcodes. You have a list of available shortcodes to output on the needed pages: availability search form, availability search results, room types listing, services listing, etc.
Each shortcode comes with a detailed explanation, parameters, and notes.
In Harmony with Your Theme
You may not worry that your content will look different from your original website appearance – we’ve made sure that everything will work in harmony.
The booking system pro plugin will inherit styles (the visual part) from your active WordPress theme to look like a natural part of your design! It’s also possible to take advantage of WordPress Slider and enrich the theme with dynamic content in order to engage your guests.
More WordPress Hotel Booking Plugin Tools For Developers
Developers get a pretty good list of actions, filters, instructions on how to override templates, and other useful tutorials.
Setting up and customizing the plugin for your clients should be a smooth process.
Hotel Booking Addons
Enable guests to add star ratings to your properties, provide more payment gateways, configure automatic payment request notifications via email and subscribe users to your MailChimp list by using the MotoPress Hotel Booking Addons. If you are building your hotel booking website on Divi or Elementor, free corresponding extensions are available to ensure flawless UX and the perfect interplay between the Hotel Booking plugin and page builders. The online hotel booking system (wordpress plugin) free download for some addons is possible.
Hotel Booking WooCommerce Payments
Integrate WooCommerce payment gateways with Hotel Booking plugin.
Hotel Booking Notifier – Event-Driven Emails
Automated emails triggered by the arrival/departure dates.
Hotel Booking Themes
Starting from scratch? Our beautiful collection of dedicated WordPress vacation rental themes covers solutions for different businesses: hotels, villas, apartments and more hoteller booking theme ideas! Each theme comes with the MotoPress Hotel Booking plugin integrated, which means visual theme styles are perfectly adjusted to the booking plugin’s functionality. The WordPress themes are optimized for seamless visual customization with Elementor and Getwid Gutenberg Blocks builders.
Detailed Video Tutorials
Not a fan of reading the MotoPress Hotel Booking documentation? We have a MotoPress Hotel Booking tutorial video base to help you better understand how to configure the plugin and reach your business’ full potential with Hotel Booking Pro and its add-ons.
I am a fan of the DIVI theme.
And I was looking for a plugin for a conference room reservation system. I’m wondering if this could be used to reserve multiple rooms by the hour?
Is it better to use it with BuddyPress?
Hi Tatsuya,
Thanks for your question. The Hotel Booking plugin is used for per-night reservations. Thus I recommend you to take a closer look at our Appointment Booking plugin to book the services per hour.
Hey guys, I’m a little overwhelmed by the configuration options.
My needs are super-simple. The property is a single house, rented as a whole unit. I don’t need to know how many adults or kids. I don’t need to search for “accommodations”. I just need to input dates. I’m not sure how to skip the superfluous options though?
Thanks
Hi Darran,
Thanks for your question. You may follow the steps described in the article to learn how to set up our booking plugin for single property rental.
You may also disable the Children parameter at Accommodation > Settings > Guests Management
Hi John.
I’m just at the end step in your instructions. I’m trying to use the [mphb_availability id=myID] shortcode but I’m not sure which widget that I’m supposed to use. I’ve tried the default WordPress shortcode widget but it doesn’t seem to be working.
Hi Darran,
Thanks for your question. Could you specify what editor you use on your site? Make sure you have added a season and rate for this accommodation type in order to make it available and let the form to be rendered.
Thanks John. I’m all sorted. I was rushing ahead on the front end and I hadn’t configured the season/rate.
Thanks for the speedy response.
Hi Darran, You are welcome. I’m happy to know you have managed to sort this out.
Is there anyway of adding a ‘Security Bond’ into this plugin at all?
Ideally, some places like to take a bond as well as / or instead of a deposit?
It’d be a really useful feature
Hello!
I am configuring the Calendar synchronization on Booking.com, but when I validate the URL that this plugin provides, it throws errors, so it’s not valid.
Could you please get in touch with me so I can give more info?
Waiting for your reply,
Roland
Hi Roland,
First of all, make sure that your site is public and there is not enabled any Coming Soon/Maintenance mode. Also, check if you have copied the URL without any empty spaces before or after the link. You may also copy the ical URL and try to open it in the browser. If it offers to save the ICS file then the link is valid indeed.
I have some issue with the reservation form.
If I type in 3 adults then with the price drop down you see the maximum guest for that room, but its needs to be 3 guest.
Hi Duncan, I’m sorry but I’m not sure I get the issue correctly. Could you please submit a request describing the steps to replicate the issue? Thanks.
Is there an issue with seasons?
If we have a min 3 night from 1st march to 15th July. Then a min 7 night stay from 16th July to end of September – Saturday to Saturday check in/out
If someone tries to book 7 nights in the 13th July to check out on the 20th, at the moment they can.
This overlaps the 7 night season meaning there’s a period of a few days were people can’t book, because check in/out can only be a saturday.
There needs to be something in place to block this? So if someone tries booking and it cuts into the peak season then the system won’t let them.
Hi James,
The booking rule depends on the seasons of the check-in date that’s why the checkout was possible on the other days of the week. As an option, you may disable Check-out from July 16 to July 23 or from July 18 to July 23 via Bookings > Booking Rules > Block accommodation
This make sense. However, they’d still have the ability to check out on the 24th onwards?
Yes, it is so. As an option, you may add a separate season for the last week of the e.g from July 7 to July 15, add it to the rate as the top season price and add a booking rule for a maximum stay to restrict late checkout on a new 7-night stay season.