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.

Single Calendar
Sbc

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

Nobb June 25, 2025

And great support from the staff.I’ve been using it for many years, and will continue to do so in the future.

coverberg June 11, 2025

Have been using the plugin for many years and recently had an issue with a ics feed not importing. Their support was prompt and noticed Cloudflare was blocking the connection. I was able to resolve the issue with some custom code after their help identifying the problem

condraw March 25, 2025

If you have one item to rent, the free version is sufficient as you can keep things up to date manually. We need it for several calendars and decided for the pro version, also to synch with other calendars. Synching works very well. With the great help of support/developer and their additional code we were able to use ACF fields to dynamically retrieve the respective booking calendars inside the Elementor single post templates. One template to rule all the properties. So that “simple” does not mean limited. True Wordpress spirit!

Denny Müller August 5, 2024

The name says it all: a simple booking calendar. Very clear, it’s not bloated and easy to set up. Worth paying for pro version.

zufonja May 24, 2024

An excellent tool for reservations. And excellent support. Roland implemented an update with the new calendar functionality at our request in less than 12 hours. Thanks to him.

tubbytulip November 17, 2023

Installed the free version to setup a demo for a car rental site. Looks good and the pro functionality looks to be the most feature rich out of all (at least every one I could find) booking system plugins. Dev team seems to be solid as well. You’d think there would be a wide range of choice in this space but nope – this seems to be the only one that I would choose – at least for equipment rentals anyway.

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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 7 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

2.0.15

Fixed: Security improvements (XSS issue in the backend, thanks to Ayato Shitomi for reporting)

2.0.14

Fixed: Other user roles cannot view calendar

2.0.13

Improved: Security improvements

2.0.12

Improved: Security improvements

2.0.11

Improved: Security improvements

2.0.10

Fixed: PHP Warning

2.0.9

New: Added Elementor Widget

2.0.8.5

Improved: Security improvements

2.0.8.3

Improved: Bumped “tested up to” version number

2.0.8.2

Fixed: Updated block_categories depcrecated hook

2.0.8.1

Improved: Updated Catalan Language

2.0.8

Fixed: Security Fix

2.0.7

Fixed: Security Fix

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