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How to Add a Hotel Room Booking System in WordPress

Last updated on October 16th, 2013 by Editorial Staff
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How to Add a Hotel Room Booking System in WordPress

Recently we compiled a list of best WordPress hotel themes. We picked themes that came with built-in features needed to run a hotel website in WordPress. Based on user response, we learned that some users just want those features and implement them in their own themes which may not be specifically designed to create hotel websites. For example adding an events calendar or adding separate page for blog posts. One such feature is adding a room booking system in WordPress for your hotel website. In this article we will show you how to add a hotel room booking system in WordPress.

Hotel rooms booking calendar

First thing you need to do is install and activate Booking System (Booking Calander) plugin. Upon activation, the plugin adds a new Booking System menu item in your WordPress admin sidebar. Clicking on it will take you to the booking calendar configuration page.

Booking System Settings

Click on the pencil icon to edit booking system settings. On this page you can configure various options for your hotel room booking system. You can choose currency, guest related settings, set check-in and check-out timings, etc. Next, provide the email address where you want to receive notifications. If you are having trouble sending emails from WordPress, then you can also provide SMTP server details which will be then used by the plugin to send emails.

Booking system general settings

Booking System also allows you to receive payments via PayPal or Credit Card. To enable PayPal payments you will need PayPal Business Account, and PayPal API credentials which are very easy to set up. Go to PayPal and sign up for a business account. Once you have created your account you will reach your account dashboard. Click on My Selling Tools under Profile sub menu on My Account tab.

Obtaining PayPal API Credentials for your Booking System

Click on Update link next to API Access on this page. On the next page click on Request API credentials link. Check Request API Signature radio button and hit Agree and Submit button. On the next page, PayPal will show your API credentials which you can then use in your Booking System plugin’s settings page. You will need PayPal API user name, password, and signature.

Adding Room Booking Calendar in WordPress Post or Page

Once you are satisfied with your booking system settings, it is time to add the booking forms on your website. Create a new post or page, or edit an existing one. Click on Visual to switch to WordPress visual post editor. You will notice a new Add Calendar drop down menu in the TinyMCE editor. Click on it to choose your calendar and add it to the post or page.

Adding booking calendar to a WordPress post or page

This will add a shortcode to your post, save your changes and preview your post or page. You will see a booking calendar with available dates. Your users can book a hotel room right from the front-end of your website and pay online using PayPal. You can further configure the calendar by entering available rooms for each date from Booking System plugin page.

We hope that this article helped you add a hotel room booking system in WordPress. For questions and feedback please leave a comment below.

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  1. sreekanth says:
    Feb 11, 2016 at 6:56 am

    hi how can i create the hotel website in which the users can search their desired hotel and flight and here the question is how can i get the data of flights and hotels data into my database

    Reply
  2. Ray Gulick says:
    Sep 9, 2014 at 10:41 am

    No Stripe integration?

    Reply
  3. ken says:
    Jun 16, 2014 at 10:42 pm

    only one room type allow which i think no hotel can use this system…

    Reply
  4. Ramesh says:
    Jun 9, 2014 at 6:01 am

    interesting article… very informative & thoughtful message on Booking engine how to setup wordpress calender plugins.

    Reply
  5. 見嘉 洪 says:
    May 6, 2014 at 9:39 pm

    I can’t see the “add calendar” drop down menu in the visual post editor.
    What should i do now?
    After the newest version updated, this problem is solved. Thanks~

    Reply
  6. Stephan Paul says:
    Feb 25, 2014 at 6:36 pm

    Seems Wicked but I have multiple rooms available with different prices This seems to just do one price for the one room for one night and i cant seem to find how to add more rooms or different prices

    Reply
  7. jaimin says:
    Jan 23, 2014 at 5:47 am

    how to display all room post list in single page ????

    Reply
  8. Bongo says:
    Oct 21, 2013 at 2:32 am

    Very Nice. Looks simple. Well done guys

    Reply
  9. John says:
    Oct 16, 2013 at 7:14 pm

    This plugin looks inviting.

    However, if you want to book something without using PayPal you need to pay US$49 for the Pro version.

    I wouldn’t mind paying for the pro version, but because I don’t want to use PayPal, I’ve no way of knowing if it will work.

    Reply
  10. Mark says:
    Oct 16, 2013 at 2:06 pm

    Hi, great writeup and exactly what I’m in the process of looking for. My problem has been that there are so many options out there. Did you review any other paid/free plugins before writing this article? I’m curious as to what led you to choosing this as Your ‘plugin of choice’ for booking systems.

    Thanks,

    Mark

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    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Oct 21, 2013 at 8:39 pm

      There are other plugins with similar functionality. Among the free plugins we found this one. Let us know if you find something better.

      Reply

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