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
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 [sbc title=”yes”] or [sbc title=”no”]
A widget of the booking calendar is also available
FAQ
- 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
Excellent plugin and support
Recommended Calendar Plugin
Speed and efficiency for support
Clean plugin but no booking options at all
Best support ever!!!
Great Support and Plugin
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 2 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
Translate “WP Simple Booking Calendar” into your language.
Interested in development?
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Changelog
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