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
Display a legend near the calendar
Simple user-friendly interface
Displays availability
Responsive calendar layout
Add and save booking information for each day on each of your booking calendars
Legend items and month names translated in over 30 languages
Language translation options using PO files
Backup/restore calendars and data

Features of the Premium version

Create an unlimited number of booking calendars
Sync your calendars with Airbnb, Booking.com, HomeAway and other sites that support iCal
Display multiple months
Bulk editor: Edit multiple dates with one click
Create your own legend (apply your own colors and languages)
Export dates as CSV file
User management: assign specific users to specific calendars
Change the first day of the week
Change the start month/year
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
Multiple calendar overview
Highlight the current day
WordPress multisite (network) support
Professional support

Download the Premium version

Syncing with Booking.com, Airbnb, FlipKey, HomeAway

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 embedded in the website
Calendar Editor
Available Languages

Blocks

This plugin provides 2 blocks.

WP Simple Booking Calendar
WP Simple Booking Calendar

Installation

Upload wp-simple-booking-calendar directory 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.

A widget of the booking calendar is also available

FAQ

How can I embed the booking calendar on a page or post?: Use the ‘Add Calendar’ button above the editor, the Gutenberg block, the Widget or the shortcode. An example of a shortcode: [wpsbc id=”1″ title=”yes/no” legend=”yes/no” legend_position=”side/top/bottom” language=”auto/language-code”]. If you paste this shortcode in a page it will show your calendar.
I have another question: Please check wpsimplebookingcalendar.com for more information.

Reviews

epidem1 May 5, 2021

This calendar is clear and easy to navigate and the link with external websites (VRBO, AirBnB etc) works perfectly. But like the last reviewer, over and above that Roland's support is exceptional. We wanted a small tweak so we could see the changeover days on our website and he immediately did an update of the plugin and wrote some bespoke code for us. I couldn't recommend the plugin more highly!

monatech May 5, 2021

I am delighted with this calendar plugin, for 2 reasons... 1. It has every feature I need and many more I didn't even realise I needed 2. The support is, without doubt, the best I have ever received. Roland doesn't seem to sleep and often replies to my queries in minutes. Not only do my queries get resolved very quickly, but he has also even modified the code based on some of my feature requests. Absolutely first rate!

Kitty March 30, 2021

I have been using this plugin for many years on several sites and am very satisfied with it. It is lightweight and especially for websites with only a few accommodations or campsites to show the availability. Support on an issue that was caused by the theme (not the plugin) was analyzed and corrected within 30 minutes. Great work!

rodgers2 March 15, 2021

Thrilled to discover this gem. I wanted to be able to show my bookings, having full control, without the need for an elaborate booking system. Simple and easy to use.

karinavomsee February 2, 2021

Love this plugin, because it is so easy to use and has everything you need for a simple booking calendar, that displays free and booked dates. Especially like the possibility to display all calendars in comparison. It is not overloaded. Support ist great and fast. So I highly recommend it.

paulbwp January 20, 2021

Excellent support from Roland who helped me out very promptly with some coding as had a theme compatibility issue. The plugin is very user friendly and works a treat for what was required.

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Contributors & Developers

“WP Simple Booking Calendar” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Roland Murg

“WP Simple Booking Calendar” has been translated into 4 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

Translate “WP Simple Booking Calendar” into your language.

Interested in development?

Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.

Changelog

2.0.6

New: Added Latvian Language
New: Added Portugese Language
Improved: Compatibility with WP 5.6 and TwentyTwentyone theme

2.0.5

New: Added an option in the Settings page to change the starting day of the week.
Improved: Updated dutch translation.

2.0.4

Fixed: Backend calendar is now displayed in the correct language set in WordPress.

2.0.3

Improved: Compatibility changes for the new WordPress 5.4

2.0.2

Fixed: Language codes for Slovenian and Swedish
Fixed: Warning message on some servers when creating a calendar
Improved: Elementor Widget

2.0.1

Fixed: Legend no longer appears next to the calendar by default

2.0.0

Major Rebuild
New: Added translations in over 30 languages
New: Calendar dates description field
Improved: Calendar editor
Improved: Calendar front-end display

1.5.5

New: Added Gutenberg calendar block

1.5.4

Fixed: Removed PHP create_function deprecated function.

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