Many of us these days are using WordPress to make build different kinds of websites rather than using it as a blogging platform, many of us are building websites that are in need of a booking based functionality so for this weeks WordPress Wednesday we will be taking a quick look at only 8 of the best booking based WordPress plugins that you can use, in this weeks post feature I tried and split up and have 4 free plugins and 4 plugins that you will need to spend some cash on to use them.
1. Booking Calendar – Free
The Booking Calendar is a plugin that provides an ultimate booking system for your WordPress site, visitors to your site will be able to check availability and make reservations for specific day(s) or time slots. Your customers can even search available properties or services for the specific dates and pay online for their own bookings. You will receive email notifications and can manage the reservations in the intuitive and powerful booking admin panel. Booking Calendar is built to work out of the box, but you can still freely configure different settings for the best fit to your business workflow processes and customize the form and calendar for a natural fit to your site design.
2. WP Simple Booking Calendar – Free
With this plugin you can create a booking calendar as you can create, edit and publish a booking calendar with just a few clicks with the WP Simple Booking Calendar. Inside this plugin you can manage the bookings (availability) on a daily basis and embedding the booking calendar on a page takes only one mouse click.
3. Checkfront
Checkfront is an Online Booking System that allows businesses to manage their rental inventories, centralize reservations, and process online payments. This plugin connects your WordPress site to your Checkfront account, and provides a powerful real-time booking interface right within your existing WordPress site.
4. WP Booking System
WP Booking System is a simple booking system for WordPress as you will be up and running in just a few minutes and you then can start receiving bookings from your visitors. You can create booking calendars and forms, and you can manage your bookings also you can easily customise the booking system to fit your needs.
5. Booking System Pro – $44
The Booking System Pro WordPress plugin will help you to easily create a booking/reservation system into your WordPress website or blog. The Booking System will display calendars for users to see availability and book dates and hours, the
Booking System Pro plugin is great for near any type of booking site that needs to make appointments or schedule, sites like Bars, Cinemas, Clubs, Dentists, Doctors, Hairdresser, Health Clubs, Hotels etc.
6. Bookly – $35
The Bookly plugin is a great easy-to-use and easy-to-manage booking tool for Service providers who think about their customers. Plugin supports wide range of services, provided by business and individuals service providers offering reservations through websites. Setup any reservations quickly, pleasantly and easy .
7. Online Hotel Booking System – $28
The Online Hotel Booking System WordPress plugin is powerful booking engine for single hotel. As this plugin is a powerful hotel reservation system that comes with a real time availability and room booking functionality. You can easily integrate with your website or new template. You can manage room, room types, capacity, hotel rates with different date range and month wise advance payment feature. Online reservation manager at the back-end with invoices.
8. WP Seat Booking – $20
The WordPress Seat Booking plugin will allows you to create a seat booking system, that can be applied to anything where you need seats i.e cinema halls, buses, trains, shows, etc. It allows admin to design the interface as per the need. The customers can see that interface to select seats and process them. Here are some of the features
