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 morning,
I would like to ask you the following questions:
1 – The hotel channel manager (iCal) has the function of being able to edit a reservation from booking.com, Trip Advisor, etc. and then that reservation is reflected in the Trip Advisor platform, etc?
Example: enter a reservation to my hotel through my website, and I go to the channel manager, enter the reservation in the Trip Advisor calendar and then it is automatically reflected in the Trip Advisor platform. That’s possible?
2 – The reservations of the Otas that appear in the channel manager, are the days marked only or is there information from the people who booked?
3 – On a single website, can I use this plugin several times in different accounts for different users? it’s possible?
4 – The payment of $ 199.- is a single or annual payment?
I am interested in buying your plugin, but I depend on getting out of these doubts.
Thank you very much for your time
Atte
Marcelo Juarez
Hi Marcelo,
Thank you for the questions.
1. Bookings can be edited only on the platform where they were placed.
2. Ical is not safe enough to send customer or payment info, so OTAs share limited to no info. All the info that our plugin receives is stored in the Logs section of each booking. Our plugin sends only guest name, booking id, property title and dates to external platforms.
3. Our plugin can be used by multiple users. They will see each other’s properties, bookings and payments. There are no separate accounts for different owners.
4. The license is annual. If you skip a renewal, you will stop getting updated versions and technical assistance after the license expiration.
Hi Stacy
Thank you very much for your reply.
I wanted to ask you a question:
The topic is about the automatic synchronization that the channel manager does with the platforms like Trip Advisor, Airbnb, etc,
For example:
* If you enter a reservation from Airbnb, the manager channel synchronizes so that it is automatically booked on Trip Advisor and prevents overlocking?
This is possible?
Thank you
Hello
Accommodation Type Category: %room_type_categories% in email does not work. It always show “Array”. The same error whey I call categories in template.
Hi Ken,
Thank you for your report. We have managed to replicate the issue. We will do our best to fix it in the nearest update.
Hi Ken,
The bug has been fixed in a recent update of our plugin. Make sure to update it to the latest version (3.5.0) to use this and other new features.
I want to know the process of cancellation booking that is provided by this plugin.
After canceling booking user can get him booked money return to this account using it’s payment method?
Does admin take extra charge for that cancel booking using that credit or debit card that booking user is used?
Who can cancel the booking? Admin or booking user?
Also, I have one other question related booking 50% payment ratio.
Can Client make half payment of that property?
After the booking, Do will remain 50% charge to that credit or debit card when admin want get remain 50% payment?
Please tell me that do your booking plugin provide above all facility?
If yes then inform me how can i do this?
No that means do we need to do by customisation?
Hello Cherri,
As for cancellation so you may refer to my reply on question below. In regards to the deposit payment so the guest may pay 50% online and the rest 50% on arrival. Or you can use our premium addon that helps to request to pay the rest of a deposit in certain days before check in or sending payment link it manually
In plugin, cancel booking means that means booking user can get the money of booking re back using it’s payment method. Are there extra charge to booking user for that cancellation booking?
This above two things are added to your plugin or not?
Do we need to customise ?
Hello Bhavin,
You may allow guests to cancel the reservation. It means that customer is able to cancel the reservation – to make the property available. But this option does not let to get a refund (money back) automatically if you have set up online payments to confirm reservations. Actually the refund can be provided via payment gateway(s) you enabled on your site.
Hi.
I’m using motor press hotel booking plugin with the hoteller theme.
I have almost translated everything with polylang and just something with poedit. The problem is about the “booking confirmation” page(checkout page). From the plugin settings i can set just one page. In this case, the default language one.
When I book an accomodation from the italian version, he just switch to the english checkout page. I have already created a traslation for that page with the same shortcode. Could u please help me?
Sorry for my English
Hi Vittorio,
Unfortunately Hotel Booking plugin has not been tested with Polylang yet. You may try contacting Polylang for a solution as type of page configuration is quite common in WordPress so translation plugin should dynamically direct you to proper page translation. Actually Hotel Booking plugin has been tested with WPML plugins only and we recommend it for translation the content. WPML developers confirmed its 100% compatibility.
Hi.
I use your advanced search with attributes for to show the relative rooms for the exact number of people.
I have create 2 attributes with ADULTS & CHILDREN
But i have some rooms with children also.
so if i ask for 2 (adults) i see also the rooms with the children.
Lets say The DOUBLE ROOM but also the QUAD ROOM with 2+2 children.
Exist a way to ask in search with attributes to show the rooms with both parameter check?
Now i use
[mphb_availability_search attributes=”people,children-room”]
Is there any way to check for both attributes for to show the specifique rooms and hide the room with 2,2 when is only 2 adults?
Thank you
Hi George,
Unfortunately we do not provide technical assistance in the comments. Could you submit a request to our support team to help you sort this out.
Hi,
I am using the free plugin and got some major issues. Either I don’t know how to use them, or the functions are limited because the plugin is free. Hope to have this resolved so I consider paying for the premium version.
1. the calendar is buggy; cannot even select the dates.
2. all the shortcodes dont work for me.
3. can’t adjust the availability of the room into Free/Pending/Booked.
Hi Ann,
Thank you for your questions.
1. Make sure you have created season and rates for your accommodation types. Could you provide site example?
2. All the shortodes of Hotel Booking plugin should be rendered properly of Hotel Booking plugin is installed and activated.
3. Could you clarify the question more detailed. Do you mean general back-end calendar?
You may also submit a request to our support team to let our agents check all the described issues.
Did you know that if you try to leave a bad review they won’t publish it? …unbelievable
Hi Simone,
We are sorry for a delay – our manager who reviews rates was on the week-end. Your review has been published though.
After the purchase and after having tried their demo site, I realized the plugin was not showing up content as nice and beautifull as in the demo site, also classes and Html DOM was different, so no easy way to try to personalize the plugin as showed in the demo, believe me I found out the product page all confused and messed up.
Plus I noticed the avaiblity calendar was buggy (kept moving forward and backward along with the mouse scroll) and what I tought is that I would have to spend much more time than expected to create my web site with this plugin.
No way to be refunded… that’s not the right way to work, and shows the kind of persons behind this company. If a customer the day after purchase is not happy with your product definitly deserve a refund.
Ps. As main theme I use Avada, one of the most know and stable theme on the market on my believe.
Hello Simone,
Thank you for your time and feedback.
As we mentioned in your support ticket, headings, input types, lists use the styles of the theme active at your WordPress website. It lets our plugin parts/layouts inherit the styles of any WordPress theme and look naturally. The design of elements in accordance with your theme is not a reason for a refund.
Moreover, Avada is popular among our users and we have tested our plugin with this theme. It has no major style defects or incompatibility. Do not hesitate to email us back to kindly resolve the questions you described.
Hello,
In case I am not interested in online payments but instead, I want the customer to send me his credit card details in order for me to charge him manually via my own payment system, can I customize the checkout form in order to include credit card fields? And if yes, how can I do it?
Hi Michael,
Thank you for your question. There are available other confirmation modes like verification by email or by admin manually. So you may send an email notification requesting the needed details.
Or if there is such payment method you described for WooCommerce you may integrate it to Hotel Booking plugin by means of HB WooCommerce payments addon