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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It seems that when I block date on airbnb/booking then sync in motopress it import and blocks that date. But if I then open in OTAs and sync again in motopress stays blocked. If I then put cancel for that booking in motopress and blok again that same date in OTAs it wont block again (Skipped. Event with such UID already exists in booking) even if I put it in trash. it blocks again only if I delete it from trash.
I hope I tested OK and I am not sure am I doing something wrong but this could be a problem if there is canceled booking and then booking again for the same date. Can you check this please?
Also, it would be great that you could block dates directly in booking calendar section rather than in booking rules section. I know it is complicated but it is only a suggestion.
Hi Ante,
Thank you for describing your situation. We have submitted a request for you to check synchronization. Please check you email and reply us back. Thank you also for your feedback and suggestions.
Hi,
My client is migrating from an old custom booking system to WordPress. Is there a way to move the reservations from one system to the other since I can’t create a new reservation in the WordPress control panel?
Hi Liudas,
If your old system supports export option in iCal format you can export bookings and import it to our plugin. Also it is possible to block accommodations for certain dates if your old system does not support iCal import/export.
Hi there,
I have some questions..
Our client supposed to crate Word press website based on avaibook service, using this theme:
http://preview.themeforest.net/item/casamia-property-rental-wordpress-theme/full_screen_preview/20992167?_ga=2.126053640.420783988.1524764900-410087755.1523714448
He needs to sync it with airbnb and booking.com
When we looked closely at the theme and avaibook, we figure out, that theme doesn’t manage booking flow and avaibook doesn’t work well for his needs. So we need to find other solution.
We have found your plugin, and it looks like exactly what we want. But we still have doubts.
Looks like we need to change the theme to be able to manage booking ( for example this one can work: https://listify-demos.astoundify.com/rentals/ ) or we can still use your plugin on the CasaMia (the theme we have) and with your plugin, there is a possibility to manage booking? If we will use CasaMia, is it possible to create other user/admin, who will manage his properties (This option is provided by Listify but not in CasaMia)..
If we will use CasaMia, how we will implement calendars, and will it looks nice, like a theme?
Do you provide your theme in the pack with the plugin? Can we check these themes?
Thank you
Nat
Hi Nat,
Hotel Booking plugin is compatible with all WordPress themes as it inherits theme design. You can try using Hotel Booking plugin with current theme you have in order to check how it will look like. As for the user so you will be able to create a new user role and set up its permissions using third party plugin (our support team will assist you with this).
Hotel Booking plugin is used at 2 themes at them moment: Oceanica and Villagio. You can test both templates at our Live Demo.
Hi, thank you for the reply. There is one more question, that i have =)
Is it possible to manage prices for channels differently? I mean, if the price shown on the website is 40€, on the booking.com it will be 45€ (because of there fee from the booking.com). So, the property will have a different price because of that. Is it possible to manage? or maybe saving all prices equal, booking.com can add their fee to the price of the appartment… Did you meet this kind of issue?
thank you
Nat
Hi Nat,
We sync with external booking platform through the ical system. This system only synchronizes the availability of properties. It does not transfer any rates or payment data. So there won’t be a problem if the prices on booking com differ from the ones on your website.
Hi
Few queries before consider buying it
1. Can it be used for multiple hotels under the same website?
2. How many number of rooms can be added and iCal synchronized?
3. Is SMS possible similar to email notification?
4. Is it possible to change the word Category , Tag, etc.
5. What is the difference between Accommodation Types and Accommodations from a hotel website perspective.
Thanks and Regards
1. It is possible just to use Categories as different Hotels to filter the accommodation types. But category is not available as search parameter yet so all accommodation types will be shown in search results page.
2. There is no limit for accommodations to be synchronized.
3. You can send notifications by email only.
4. Plugin translations are editable.
5. Accommodation type is a type of room like ‘Double Room’ and accommodations are real number of room of this type. Accommodations defines availability of accommodation type.
Thank you for responding;
3. Can we use any third party plugin for SMS notification? or do you undertake any custom development/features
4. We fear you have misunderstood our query. Please refer answer of question No. 1. Our query was can we change the word Category to Hotel?
and another question is;
6. Is report generation available? On your website, we didn’t find any.
– Unfortunately we did not have a chance to test it with plugin that allows to send SMS instead of email. However the plugin is ready for development and for integration with other services so feel free to extend its functionality. Thank you.
– If you simply need to change ‘Category’ into ‘Hotel’ then it is possible by editing plugin translation. We’ll assist you with it if you need our help.
– There is not option for reports yet. However we collect feedback on this so you can share your thoughts with us – what information you need in report. Maybe you have some example.
Hi
Apologies for the delay as we were working with some other plugin and now almost decided to go with Motopress. Please answer the following;
1. Reporting means provision to export booking details (booking orders) in excel format or so (Guest details, from and to dates, other booking details, etc.)
2. From a single room page, is it possible to book/reserve/check availability by using the search form (check availability form on right side)? While we were checking the demo frontend, it displays the whole search results.
3. We found that on email, Price Breakdown option is unavailable and hope it can be incorporated by some means.
4. Is it possible to print the bill/receipt of booking from the dashboard so that the hotel management need not to depend on another billing software?
5. We wish to have a custom WordPress dashboard for our client and came across few plugins to change the look and feel of admin dashboard, what’s your opinion about this?
Thanks and Regards
Comtech
Hi,
1. At the moment there is no option to import Bookings within Hotel Booking plugin. We’ve added your request to our features list.
2. You can enable ‘Skip Search Results’ option in plugin settings to check availability of current room without living its page.
3. We have this feature in our to-do list so I guess it will be available in one of the next updates.
4. Currently you can print the booking while editing it on the back-end only. We have added your request to our list of features. Thank you.
5. It is up to you to modify dashboard styles for website owner. We followed WordPress standards while developing Hotel Booking plugin so I guess its back-end sections will work properly with third party plugin that modifies the look of WordPress dashboard.
6. Please tell us if we purchase Single Site license, is it required to pay $49 every year for updates or it is a onetime payment?
7. Where we can find the difference between Single Site and Unlimited Site differences?
6. The license of Hotel Booking plugin is annual for plugin updates and technical support.
7. The only difference between Single and Unlimited licenses is the amount of sites where this license can be used. If you select Unlimited license you can use plugin on unlimited amount of sites and Single – 1 website only.
Hi,
We are glad to inform you that now it is possible to export all the booking info in the CSV format for reporting. Make sure to update the MotoPress Hotel Booking plugin to its latest version (3.5.0) to use this and other new features.
We are happy to announce about release of new Hotel Booking 3.6.1 version where we have added new tags for email templates: Price Breakdown, Country, State, City, Postcode, Address, Full Guest Name. We notify you as you requested this feature.
Thank you for collaboration. Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any further question
hi, is it possible to see a summary of guests arriving today, tommorow etc? and to search for availability on any given date or dates in the future?
many thanks
Hi,
It is possible to filter bookings per month and count guests on your own. However there is no tool yet to count all visitors for certain date.
As for search availability so you can check it at single page of accommodation type using it form.
This plugin appreas to be well designed and programmed.
Can you tell me whether it is possible to check in a guest on the same day that the previous guest checks out? Example guest 1 arrives may 12 departs may 13, guest 2 checks in may 13th. this is critical.
Thanks for for your assitance.
Hi Lizzy,
Thank you for your question. If guest #2 checks availability of accommodation that is booked till May 13 he will see this room in search results page. So he can book this room from May 13.
Hi there, I am considering getting this plugin for a client. It´ s a tourist center with camping site, cabins/lodges, and a hotel. Besides the booking calendar view I don´ t see much in the way of administrative functionality, like lists of rooms checking in, checking out, rooms with staying guests, etc. And what about maintenance administration? A system to register missing/broken items pr room, etc. Please tell me these things are in place already….
Hi,
Thank you for your question. The booking can be made by searching for available accommodation by filling parameters like amount of guests, check-in and check-out dates. Could you specify what you mean under Booking Calendar view and how it works for multiple accommodation types you named?
As for administration so there is single booking calendar that shows all available bookings/reservations in a calendar view. Could you specify the tool you need to register missing/broken items pr room, etc. Can you provide some example of solution for this?
I’d recommend to view live demo and register the type that meets your requirements.
Hello!
Hi, before buying, I want to know if I can achieve this configuration
Room X:
Capacity:
Minimum: 1
Maximum 4
Prices:
1 Guest = 80
2 Guests = 100
3-4 Guests = 45 each guest
Monday to Thursday: 30% discount
I appreciate your feedback
Hi Ed,
The first option you described is not available at the moment. However we have it in our to-do list and we’ll notify you here once it is available. Thank you for your suggestion.
The second option with 30% discount is possible by creating special Season with dates from Monday to Thursday. Then go to edit the rate and add new season price applying your special season with different price (-30%). Don’t forget to drag it above your main season price and save the changes. Thus special season price 2ith 30% discount will be applied on days from Monday to Thursday and your basic rate will be applied on other days.
Hi Ed,
We are happy to announce about 2.6.1 version release where it is possible to indicate price per guests amount. Thank you for your feedback.
can this be used for like a vrbo type site? I nsee you add accomadation types so not sure. can you add actual listings that are all different?
Hi Todd,
Thank you for the question.
You can create an unlimited number of accommodation types and sync them with VRBO and other booking platforms that use iCal. Note that this plugin may not fit your needs if you want to let multiple rental owners manage their own accommodations, bookings and payments, because the payment and booking systems of the plugin are shared.
Sorry for maybe asking stupid question, but where does the money the guest pay go ? If they choose to pay , for example, by credit card ?
I didn’t find any information where is my bank account settings available ?
Thank you for the answer, and sorry for lack of knowledge .
Hi Matija,
Thank you for the question. WordPress plugins do not process payments, we only offer payment gateways that can process payments online safely. Our plugin has the following in-built payment gateways: PayPal, 2Checkout, Braintree, Stripe, Beanstream/Bambora. You enable them in the plugin settings (Accommodation > Settings > Payment Gateways) and fill in your seller account details there. These payment gateways appear on the checkout page and when a customer chooses one of them, they are redirected to a safe payment page of the chosen gateway. Upon payment the customer returns to your website and the money go to your seller account on PayPal, 2Checkout, Braintree, Stripe or Beanstream/Bambora.
Some of these payment gateways allow buyers pay with a credit card without registering an account on the platform. You can connect more payment gateways with this addon.
Understood, thank you for the answer 🙂