Top 7: Find the Best WordPress Booking Plugin For You!
If your business is in the hospitality industry, chances are you’ll need a way for your online following to make reservations. Worry not, as there’s plenty of choice when it comes to finding a WordPress booking plugin! Here’s a blogpost from us at WP Carers on the topic: “Top 7: Find the Best WordPress Booking Plugin For You!”.
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1. WP Booking System – WordPress Reservation Plugin
This is a WordPress booking plugin which is especially great for hotels. WP Booking System allows customers to make reservations on a per-day basis and features user-friendly colour coding on the calendar. On this WordPress hotel booking plugin, once a user has completed their reservation request, a booking notice will appear on your WordPress dashboard.
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2. Booking Engine – WordPress Calendar Plugin
Booking Engine is a WordPress booking plugin that has everything you need to make an attractive and efficient booking calendar. Once reservations are complete you can manage them from your WordPress panel when payment is received you can set it so that the customer is emailed an invoice receipt. There are added widgets and shortcodes so that it’s easy to add your booking calendar to any sidebar or page you wish.
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3. WP Simple Booking Calendar – WordPress Booking Plugin
This plugin has incredibly easy WordPress installation for a pain-free WordPress calendar. You can create as many reservation calendars as you need to manage room rentals and reservations. WP Simple Booking Calendar also allows you to assign specific users (staff members) access to each calendar.
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4. WP Booking – WordPress Calendar
This WordPress hotel booking calendar is unique in that it displays the number of open rooms or time slots available for each day so you can easily browse your availability. There are options for unlimited calendars, unlimited time slots, unlimited reservations and even a booking for CAPTCHA to keep your website safe.
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5. Booking Calendar – WordPress Hotel Booking Plugin
Booking Calendar is the most popular free booking form plugin on WordPress. A unique feature it has is the custom booking form fields you can include on your calendars. After submitting a form, both your guest and website admin will receive an email. The admin can then accept or decline the reservation from the easy to use admin booking panel included with this WordPress booking plugin.
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6. Booki – WordPress Reservation Plugin
This WordPress calendar plugin brands itself as “an advanced reservations system” and it certainly lives up to the term! Booki adapts to users’ timezone, so they can see what’s available in real time. It is easy for users to select a travel date, view available listings and make payments via PayPal. If that wasn’t enough, this WordPress booking plugin also features 24 colour themes and advanced admin statistics (including total bookings, amount earned, discounts given). International clients will be pleased to note that Booki is translation ready.
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7. Booking System – WordPress Calendar Plugin
This free WordPress booking plugin has the useful option for you to add a coupon code or discount for your customers. For sites that require more advanced settings, there is also a premium version of Booking System.