Description
Do you need a booking calendar to show the availability of your holiday home? If you are renting your holiday home to tourists from around the world, you should use this Free plugin on your website! This booking calendar comes in handy any time you want to display the availability of a holiday home, room, bed & breakfast, office or even a piece of equipment.
Installing and embedding the booking calendar on your page only takes a couple of minutes
Thanks to the latest updates, this availability calendar is now easier to use than ever. What WP Simple Booking Calendar does is allow your website visitors to check the availability of your holiday home with just a few clicks. Plus, it gives you complete editing freedom!
The Free version gives you access to all the basic features you might need to keep track of your bookings. For advanced features such as custom legend items and advanced editing and publishing options, you can always upgrade to the Premium version. By ordering the calendar’s Premium version, you’ll gain access to a wide range of customization options and editing features.
How does WP Simple Booking Calendar come in handy?
- Displaying the availability dates of your holiday home
- Showing people when your new holiday home is available for rent, thus reducing the time spent communicating with them via phone, chat or email.
- Can also be used as a shift calendar or for displaying the availability for a room, office or piece of equipment
Features of the Free version
- Create one calendar
- Simple user-friendly interface
- Displays availability
- Language translation options using PO files
Features of the Premium version
- Create an unlimited number of booking calendars
- Display multiple months
- Edit multiple dates with one click
- Display a legend near the calendar
- Create your own legend (apply your own colors and languages)
- Change the first day of the week
- Change the start month/year
- Add and save booking information for each day on each of your booking calendars
- User management: assign specific users to specific calendars
- Display a tooltip with info (you can enter info for each day)
- Show the week’s number (from 1 to 52)
- Hide booking history from your visitors
- Enjoy a variety of language preferences that are simple to use and display
- Generate a shortcode to display the booking calendar on a page or post
- WP Simple Booking Calendar Widget (booking calendar as a widget)
- Sync (export) your calendars to Airbnb, FlipKey and other VR sites (using iCal feeds)
- Responsive calendar themes
- Multiple calendar overview
- Backup/restore calendars and data
- Highlight the current day
- WordPress multisite (network) support
- Professional support
Exporting to Booking.com, Airbnb, FlipKey
Do you feature your holiday home on multiple websites and need to sync availability data from one website to the other? With WP Simple Booking Calendar you can easily export the data from your calendars to Airbnb, FlipKey, Google Calendar and other websites.
Download
Download the Premium version at wpsimplebookingcalendar.com to discover its unlimited advantages.
Screenshots
The booking calendar in a sidebar as a widget 
Different styling 
Editing the booking calendar
Installation
- Upload
wp-simple-booking-calendardirectory to the/wp-content/plugins/directory - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
- Click on the menu entry ‘WP Simple Booking Calendar’
- Click on ‘Add New’ at the top of the page to create a calendar
- Click ‘Save Changes’ to save the calendar
- Embed the calendar on any page or post using the shortcode [sbc title=”yes”] or [sbc title=”no”]
A widget of the booking calendar is also available
FAQ
- Installation Instructions
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- Upload
wp-simple-booking-calendardirectory to the/wp-content/plugins/directory - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
- Click on the menu entry ‘WP Simple Booking Calendar’
- Click on ‘Add New’ at the top of the page to create a calendar
- Click ‘Save Changes’ to save the calendar
- Embed the calendar on any page or post using the shortcode [sbc title=”yes”] or [sbc title=”no”]
A widget of the booking calendar is also available
- Upload
- How can I embed the booking calendar on a page or post?
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Use the ‘Generate token’ field below your editor. An example of a token: [sbc title=”yes”]. If you paste this token in a page it will show your booking calendar with the title.
- How can I remove the booking calendar title from displaying?
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Edit the shortcode: title=”no”.
- I have another question
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Please check wpsimplebookingcalendar.com for more information.
Reviews
Best support ever!!!
I had handpicked the plugin because of good reviews – thay are true… This is not only a very easy to setup and use – this is also managed by great people!
With Divi theme installed the CSS from theme and plugin conflicted and i could not figureout what to do. Roland from WP Simple Booking Calender helped me out very fast and effective. Besides that the plugin is truely simple and comes with 3 nice layouts.
all my best to the team and everybody who uses this plugin 🙂
Great Support and Plugin
I received an excellent and quick support for the free version of WP simple booking calendar. Everything works great, thank you again and really recommend this plugin! 🙂
Great Support
Quick reply with solution to solve my issue.
Simple, but great plugin!
Simple, but great plugin! It does exactly what it needs to do. Great support as well.
Excellent
Excellent plugin,great support..keep it up
Fantastic Calendar
This is a super calendar plug-in. Easy to update, great presentation. Highly recommended.
The premium plug-in is very reasonably priced and also recommended, especially to allow editor level users to update calendars.
Contributors & Developers
“WP Simple Booking Calendar” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
“WP Simple Booking Calendar” has been translated into 1 locale. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
Translate “WP Simple Booking Calendar” into your language.
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Changelog
1.5.3
- Misc: Small interface change.
1.5.2
- Misc: Modified the way the WP Simple Booking Calendar post/page meta-box works, to be more clear to the user.
1.5.1
- Fixed lowercase day abbreviations and month names
1.5
- The admin panel is now fully responsive
- Updated the Premium features list
1.4.1
- Small hash tweak
1.4
- Security hardening (added a unique identifier to all urls in a form of a hash)
1.3
- Small CSS tweaks for WordPress 3.8
1.2
- Changed .live() to .on() for better compatibility with jQuery
1.1
- Fixed Warning: array_key_exists() error some users experienced
- Fixed enqueue_scripts
1.0
- First release