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 the 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 quarter 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, sleep, 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 are 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 & Per Extra Guest Fees
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. Charges per extra adult and child can also be added!
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. You can even create separate discounts on services and fees!
You can also create early-bird and last-minute discounts for your rooms or vacation rentals! Create a hotel booking website pricing that works for you.
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.
User Dashboards
Allow customers to create personal accounts to easier view current bookings and speed up the process with all future ones.
You are free to enable automatic account creation at checkout for everyone or let guests choose whether they want to have an account on your website.
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? Want selected listings to become automatically unavailable when a related one gets booked? Easy!
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 and create linked accommodations (when a guest books one property, any linked units will automatically become unavailable).
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.
Visualize Your Sales
The built-in stats chart allows you to see all your sales and bookings within a chosen period of time in an easily comprehensible graphical representation.
It’ll help you see how much you generate from bookings and extra services as well as how much you earn after taxes and lose on canceled bookings.
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.
Code Reference / Style Kit / Documentation
Hotel Booking REST API
Get all the tools and controls to access and manage the Hotel Booking plugin data from anywhere.
The Hotel Booking REST API is built on top of the WordPress REST API, ensuring a robust and secure code, thus helping you use our product in any application and create new experiences.
Hotel Booking REST API playground.
Hotel Booking Mobile App
Add and manage your bookings on the phone or any other device with the dedicated Hotel Booking mobile app!
We provide a free app for both Android and Apple operating systems that will allow you to check the real-time availability of your accommodations, add bookings, and view guest and payment information on the go.
Booking Calendar
Make it easy for your guest to select arrival and departure dates right in the room calendar.
Your guests can reserve their favorite accommodation from the hotel booking calendar just by clicking on the available dates. You can also opt for displaying per-day pricing in the calendar and enable clients to choose suitable ones with a date picker.
Smooth Integration with Popular Services
We created extra add-ons for smooth integration with top services that help you in property and business management.
- PriceLabs: create a dynamic system that syncs prices automatically with the PriceLabs service (requires the PriceLabs addon).
- Mailchimp: automate your hotel email marketing without effort (requires the Mailchimp addon).
The list is always growing!
Stress-Free Hotel Booking Plugin Setup by Our Team
You can skip the process of configuring the plugin yourself! Our expert team is here to help you get your hotel booking system up and running quickly and smoothly via the configuration service (requires a separate purchase).
We’ll install and configure the Hotel Booking plugin according to your specific needs – just provide your instructions, and we’ll handle the rest – seasons, rates, and all the essentials!
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 real estate or 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 (Booklium, Villagio, Luviana, AlpenHouse, etc.) 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.
Developer Resources
Code Reference
Code reference for the Hotel Booking plugin. It includes information about packages, classes, actions, filters and REST API.
Style Kit
Style Kit provides smartly organized starter SCSS files to create your own Hotel Booking-powered themes for yourself or your customers.
Documentation
It’s easy to start working with the plugin with detailed documentation provided for all configuration settings.
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.
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Good day,
If I am managing booking for multiple locations that operate independently is there any sort of ‘vendor’ login that they could log in to and block out any bookings that they may have booked outside of our platform?
Hi Nick,
By default, there is no functionality for multiple vendors in the Hotel Booking plugin. At the moment it can be used for a single owners of different properties at different locations.
Hello,
How could I setup these different locations?
Thanks.
Hi Fran, you may watch this video to learn how to add locations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1vKA5gqhAQ
There is no fr translation for :
#: includes/utils/taxes-and-fees-utils.php:53
msgctxt “Text about taxes and fees below the price.”
msgid ” (+%s taxes and fees)”
And it is not available to translate in the project.
Hi Stéphane,
Thanks for your question. You need to Sync your translation file with an updated POT file to get this string in your project. We recommend you to backup the translation files before syncing them with the POT file.
Hi
I’ve purchased HB plugin and it’s working very well. I opened a second branch to my motel .I managed to add it to the website after watching one of your tutorials on how to add different locations using the same plugin.
The issue is that there’s no filtering on locations as there is for rooms. In other words, when the receptions at both branches log into the dashborad, both will see all bookings for both branches, where there should be filtering of bookings; i.e reception at branch #1 should see only bookings made for branch #1, and so on.
Is there a way to do that now or may be in the coming updates? Thanks again for the amazing work.
Hi Salah,
Thanks for your question. Could you please contact us and describe how you divided the hotels into branches using the Hotel Booking plugin so we could see how it is arranged there?
Hi J. Davis,
Thanks for your kind response. I watched the following tutorial from motopress youtube channel and applied the exact same thing and it’s working just fine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1vKA5gqhAQ&list=PLbDImkyrISyKQccIsVDp98UXLIc1Yc3mn&index=15
Thanks again.
Warning: To integrate this into an existing site, this plugin ONLY offers shortcodes which will need to be customized via classes in order to achieve the same level of product design that appears on their sales pages.
The Elementor addon just turns the shortcodes into a widget but offers ZERO design customization. It’s pretty much useless.
If you already have a beautiful site and just wanted the functionality of this plugin, you’ll only get some backend beauty and helpful features. The front end experience looks like Internet Explorer circa 2004.
I suspect you need to purchase one of their existing themes in order for this product to perform at it’s best. Otherwise, be prepared for low quality design that will add friction. The best feature is their tiered pricing options to create multi-night discounts.
Hi Claire,
Thanks for your feedback. Indeed the plugin inherits the design and styles of the active theme. When the theme does not provide basic styles for buttons, forms, titles they will use the browser styles and so it may look like “Internet Explorer circa 2004”. However, most theme authors add proper styles of the forms, buttons, lists, etc. to make third-party plugins look correctly with their themes. If you use Elementor builder on your site you may also try to style those elements via Elementor Style Kit (Global Styles)
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.
Hi,
Is it even possible to book daily services? we’re willing to offer not only rural hotel bookings, but forest activities. Can we have both in the same system?
Thanks.
Hi Fran, we have another booking plugin that allows making hourly bookings – an appointment plugin. It works independently from the Hotel Booking plugin.
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.
Hello I am using this but I am trying to get the form to be horizontal. Also is it possible to have the guests selector with this option?
Hi, You may follow one of the articles on our support help desk to learn how to make the form horizontal using the proper page builder. It is also possible to enable guests selector using the option under the Skip Search results option at Accommodation > Settings.
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.
the separate season solve nothing also, because it block only 1 week before new season but if people book 2 weeks or 3 before new season the problem still here.
I think there is no way without the script verify check-out season rules.
That’s for me the main problem of your plugin which is very good for all others things but this problem kill it.
Hi Stéphane, Make sure you have added a separate season to the same rate as other seasons are added (not to a new Rate). Also, this season price should be placed at the top of other season prices within the rate.
Hi,
Well this is not very useful if you use this block tips because it don’t show in date picker : days are on but it will return a “nothing found”.
I have 6 seasons + normal time, so that’s a lot to configure ! You plugin need to consider season on check out too.
Hi, Thanks for your feedback. We’ll keep this in mind for further plugin development.
Yes please because it’s a huge problem for me and your idea of separate season is not efficient.
– Let’s say high season start on 1st July which is a saturday, during high season yours rules are : check-in/out only on saturday (which by itself means a 7-night stay or 14 or 21…)
– Rest of the year rules are 3 nights stay, any day check-in/out
– On june 30th someone book 3 nights and because your plugin doesn’t check if check-out is ok, he will check-out on monday 3rd and kill your high season first week !
So you said “add a separate season for the last week”
Ok so you create for june 24th-30th a 7 nights stay, first you could loose customer for 3 nights on this week, second it change nothing if someone book 10 nights on june 23th, he will check-out monday 3rd and kill your high season first week same way.
And don’t say create a separate for june 17th-23th because problem still the same with someone booking 17 nights etc… 😉
But i’m sure that’s a big work to repair this because that’s all the way the plugin check availability that you have to review.
Hi Stephane, Thanks for the clarification. You may try to disable check-out for certain dates (first days of the high season) by placing a Block Accommodation rule with the Not Check-Out option. Thus you will need to disable check-out for July 2, July 3, July 4, July 5, July 6, July 7. These are the days when checkout is not available for the high season too. You might need to disable check-out for further midweek dates if the max stay is 21 nights or so.