Hotel Booking WordPress Plugin – MotoPress Hotel Booking

MotoPress Hotel Booking is a full-fledged hotel and vacation rental booking system for WordPress. It allows you to place real-time availability calendars, a property search form, a directory of accommodations, and the booking engine on your website to drive direct rental property bookings.

The MotoPress WP hotel booking plugin is completely optimized to suit the needs of different short-term rental types. You can rent out unlimited vacation rentals or hotel rooms, accommodations or beds, trailers or boats, pet boarding rooms or campsites, bed and breakfasts or guest houses with this plugin. The plugin makes it a breeze to automate bookings, schedule arrivals, and get paid in advance by your guests.

This WordPress booking plugin comes with all the needed functionality to run a fully functional hospitality business website, enable payments and manage reservations in a centralized dashboard.

Meet all the awesome features of this WordPress hotel booking plugin:

• create a beautiful listing of all your properties.
• Add unlimited accommodations, accepts unlimited bookings without you or your guest paying any extra commissions.
• Control seasonal pricing and rates based on different parameters.
• Synchronize direct site reservations with popular travel channels (e.g. Airbnb or Booking.com) via iCal through the admin channel manager.
• Customize the property search form and display availability calendars.
• Allow guests to book properties and schedule arrivals online with or without instant payments via multiple integrated payment gateways.
• Add compulsory taxes and fees to the base property cost.
• Add numerous booking rules, e.g. the time for arrival/departure, the min/max days to stay and more; take properties out of booking when needed.
• Configure different ways to confirm bookings (by hand or automatically).
• Create custom discount coupons and provide loyal guests with them or use coupons in marketing campaigns.
• Sell extras and services in addition to your rentals.
• Edit current bookings or record them manually.
• Send out automated branded emails.
• View business performance stats in the sales dashboard.
• Download bookings data in CSV.
• Work with the plugin in the block editor, Divi & Elementor.
• Docs, tutorials and support are packed as well.
• Fully extendible with dedicated add-ons.
• REST API to integrate the WordPress hotel booking plugin experiences into different platforms.

Hotel Booking Highlights

Mobile-friendly Property Search Form

Travelers can find accommodation for the needed dates and the number of people in a matter of clicks. Fine-tune the form in different ways: optionally add labels to the “Children” field, leave the “Adults” field only, add custom fields and filters (e.g. location) and more.

Availability Calendars in Real-Time

Guests can see the available and booked dates of individual properties in real time. This timecalendar plugin retrieves availability data for the common search form as well as for the individual accommodation calendars. You can also place these calendars on any page.

iCal Support to Sync Bookings Across OTAs Automatically

Automatic synchronization of bookings submitted through your WordPress property rental website with those from online travel agents like Airbnb or Booking.com. Avoid overbooking!

Unlimited Number of Accommodations

Add and display unlimited number of rentals. For hotels with lots of rooms of the same type, you can generate accommodations automatically. You can add and display a property rental description, an image gallery, unlimited in-room amenities, rates, extra services and more for all individual accommodations.

Seasonal Pricing

Set any prices depending on a season or specific days / dates. “Season” is a general term and you can label it anyhow to reflect your pricing changes.

Amenity-based Rates

Set different rates based on the accommodation benefits (e.g. breakfast included / no breakfast). Your guests will choose the most suitable one while placing a booking.

Rates Based on the Length of Stay

Make the property prices change dynamically depending on the number of guests specified in the property search form. Add price variables based on the number of travelers easily through the timecalendar plugin.

PayPal, Stripe, Wire Transfer, and More Gateways

This scheduling WordPress booking system accepts payments through PayPal, 2Checkout, Stripe and Beanstream/Bambora (these are built-in payment gateways you can use for free). Stripe also works with Bancontact, iDEAL, Giropay, SEPA Direct Debit and SOFORT.

Charge the full fee or deposit to confirm the booking, allow guests to send you a payment via a bank transfer or let them pay after arrival.

WooCommerce Payments Addon

If you need more payment gateways to handle online reservations, you can get a premium WooCommerce Payments add-on that we created specifically for MotoPress WordPress Booking plugin.

Taxes and Fees

Complete and correct pricing information on all accommodation charges: add mandatory fees, accommodation taxes, service taxes and fee taxes. The guests will be able to see the summary of charges before making a booking. All this info on each booking is stored in the admin dashboard as well.

Confirmation Modes

Confirm bookings automatically or manually, with or without a payment.

• by guest via email
• by admin manually
• by payment

Pending bookings that were not confirmed are getting updated with the “Abandoned” status, therefore, the accommodation becomes available for reservation. The website administrator can view the Abandoned bookings and get in touch with the prospective tenants via email.

Record Reservations by Hand & Edit Bookings

If you use several methods for accepting bookings on your site, including traditional ones like phone calls or emails, you can still record all of them through the MotoPress calendar system, keeping your business paperless.

It’s also a breeze to switch a property, update arrival/departure dates, or change other information in already recorded bookings with our WordPress booking plugin.

Hotel Bookings Calendar

All received bookings and booking requests are stored in one place in a color-coded calendar view. You can sort all of them by statuses in a few clicks, view details of individual customer bookings of the past and future bookings, and manage all reservations in a centralized dashboard.

Attributes – Advanced Form Filters

In addition to the default arrival/departure and the number of guests form fields, you can also add your own ones that relate to your business or property type. For example, add location, accommodation types, bed size, price range and other possible filters that will help travelers to narrow down their search in clicks.

Flexible Booking Rules

Set min / max days to stay and available check-in and check-out dates for the entire hotel establishment, accommodations individually or seasons. You may also disable booking option for all accommodations or any one individually for a certain period of time.

Booking Buffer Rules

You can customize the minimum number of days allowed before booking and the maximum number of days available for future bookings by setting booking buffer times. This will help you get the needed amount of time to prepare the property for the next guest.

Weekly and Monthly Rates

You can set any property rate depending on a season (any term). To create different price points based on the length of stay, you can add weekly, monthly or other customizable rates. The system will automatically discount the accommodations according to your rate rules.

Packages and Services

Offer bookable extra services or packages (free or paid) along with the accommodation reservation. Charge per room or per person.

Discount Coupons

You’ll be able to set a discount amount, an expiration date, select accommodation types, set check-in and check-out dates, minimum and maximum days to stay and apply other settings to customize your coupons.

Branded Email Notifications

Receive and send automatic notifications on each booking request with all the necessary details, including bookings details, booking status, cost, cancellation notifications, and more.

The scheduling calendar plugin gives you many tools to change the colors of your email, upload your logo, change tags, and apply even more branding tweaks.

Generate Booking Reports

Easily generate a list of all the bookings made at your venue within a custom date range. The obtained reports are saved as CSV files that can be further opened and edited in Excel, Google Sheets and other spreadsheet software or text editor, printed out or sent via email.

To get the most precise reports, choose among 4 exporting criteria and extract bookings filtered by check-in date, check-out date, date of reservation or total stay dates.

Sales Dashboard & Stats

A dedicated built-in sales dashboard also helps you visualize your business performance. It’s easy to analyze your revenue (with/without taxes) from reservations and services, the number of bookings, and more data within a certain period of time.

Get useful insights from the graphically represented data.

Restrict or Grant Access to the Plugin

Thanks to the extensive Hotel Booking user roles, you can give someone permission to manage your hotel site or view/edit bookings without a need to grant your staff members the website admin privileges.

The key Hotel Manager and Hotel Worker user roles will help you do just that in a few clicks.

Internal Booking Notes & Logs

To take your collaborative work further, the plugin allows you to leave informative internal booking notes for individual reservations so that other team members can be up to date on every customer.

Booking Multiple Accommodations

One guest can reserve multiple accommodations for many people during one booking process. You may optionally turn on the plugin to recommend the best set of accommodations based on a number of guests.

The search algorithm is very smart, so your guests will get the most suitable results in seconds. However, the guest can skip the recommendation and make their own choice.

Blocks & Widgets for the Block Editor, Elementor & Divi

We created free tools to help you smoothly integrate Hotel Booking with popular page builders. They will aid you in adding booking forms, accommodation types and other data in visual editor interfaces:

• Out-of-the-box support for the WordPress block editor.
• Hotel Booking + Elementor Integration free addon.
• Hotel Booking + Divi Integration free addon.

Multilingual Support

The frontend and backend of the plugin are professionally translated into 14 languages: Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Swedish, Italian, Hungarian, Czech, Chinese, Dutch, French, Arabic and German (more on the way). Hotel booking WordPress plugin is officially compatible with WPML.

WordPress Hotel Booking plugin is GDPR compliant

WordPress Reservation plugin is GDPR compliant. Your guests will find the checkbox for opt-in consent below each booking form to accept your website terms and conditions before reservation.

Works with any WordPress Theme

Although we offer a great range of custom-crafted WordPress hotel and vacation rental themes that are styled specifically for the WordPress Hotel Booking plugin, any other WordPress theme of your choice will work too.

Hotel Booking System REST API

Use the MotoPress WordPress hotel booking plugin with no limits! We provide the REST API tools for developers who want to use the MotoPress Hotel Booking scheduling plugin in environments other than WordPress easily.

It’s robust, secure and flexible since it’s developed on top of the WordPress REST API.

Hotel Booking Mobile Application

We provide a free mobile application 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.

Shortcodes and Widgets

You have a list of shortcodes to use: availability search form, availability search results, room types listing, services listing, etc. Each shortcode comes with a detailed explanation and flexible parameters.

Actions and Filters

Developers can change the behavior and look of the WP hotel booking plugin with a pretty rich list of hooks, actions and templates listed in the documentation.

Advanced Hotel Booking Plugin Extensions

Hotel Booking WooCommerce Payments: integrate any local payment gateway without coding via the WooCommerce ecommerce plugin.

Hotel Booking & Mailchimp Integration: email marketing automation through Mailchimp.

Hotel Booking Reviews: implement a five-star property rating system for user-added reviews that smoothly integrates with your already added properties.

Hotel Booking Payment Request: request and collect payments from renters with automatic emails.

Hotel Booking Notifier Addon: create automated event-driven emails/notifications, such as key pick-up instructions or house rules etc.

Changelog

= 4.7.4, Aug 3 2023 =
* Enhanced code and WPML compatibility.
* Changed 'adults' to 'guests' for services in email notifications when the children field is disabled in the plugin settings.
* Fixed an issue with changing capacity on the checkout page when the Stripe gateway encountered errors.
* Fixed an issue with deleting imported bookings with a past check-in date.
* Fixed an issue of applying the current rates to the old booking to ensure the accurate pricing in exported reports.
* Added the possibility to set the booking status to 'Confirmed' or 'Pending admin' when creating a new booking in the admin area.

= 4.7.3, Jun 2 2023 =
* Updated translation files (Danish, Lithuanian, Norwegian).

= 4.7.2, May 17 2023 =
* Bug fix: Fixed an issue that could cause error messages to appear in the direct booking form on certain websites.

= 4.7.1, May 15 2023 =
* Improvement: The plugin now retains past bookings imported from external sources instead of deleting them.
* Bug fix: Fixed an issue that could cause warning messages to appear in .ics files on certain websites.
* Bug fix: The plugin now takes the property capacity into account when guests choose the number of adults and children while making bookings directly from the accommodation page. This fix applies only if the property capacity is set in the settings.

= 4.7.0, Mar 13 2023 =
* Significant revamp of the Direct Bank Transfer method has been made. Bookings made using this method now have a default status of "Pending Payment". You can set a time frame for customers to pay their bookings, and if payment is not received within that timeframe, the booking will automatically become "Abandoned". You can create an email template with instructions for this payment method; please do so in the payment method settings.
* Added the ability to change a default display range on the admin bookings calendar.
* Added year information to the check-in and check-out dates in the Bookings table.
* Added customer name information to the booking details in the admin bookings calendar.
* Fixed an error with displaying a user account when switched to a non-default website language.
* Minor interface improvements.

= 4.6.0, Feb 6 2023 =
* Added the possibility for clients to select the check-in and check-out date directly in the availability calendar.
* Added an error message to the booking form to notify clients when an accommodation ID is not found.
* Removed the maximum limit for the adults and children capacity in the variable pricing rate settings.
* Added the possibility to view the information about imported bookings in the admin calendar after clicking on a particular booking.
* Limited the number of adults and children selectable in the form to match an accommodation’s capacity for bookings directly from the accommodation page.
* Added coupon settings for early bird and last minute discounts.
* Added the price display in the availability calendar for non check-in dates.
* Fixed a database bug related to customer and user data selection.
* Fixed an issue with assigning an accommodation type upon the accommodation creation.
* Improved the plugin compatibility with PHP 8.2

See the previous changelogs here https://motopress.com/products/hotel-booking/#release-notes