=== BookiFlex Hotel Booking ===
Contributors: bookiflex, freemius, menshakov
Tags: hotel booking, vacation rental, booking engine, accommodation, availability calendar
Requires at least: 6.6
Tested up to: 7.1
Requires PHP: 8.1
Stable tag: 1.11.0
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
Donate link: https://donate.stripe.com/3cI3cv1QE8rqfu8dou7kc00

Hotel booking plugin for vacation rentals, apartments, B&Bs & small hotels. Direct bookings, availability calendar & online payments. No code.

== Description ==

[Live Demo](https://demo.bookiflex.com) | [How It Works](https://bookiflex.com/how-it-works/?utm_source=wporg&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=plugin_listing&utm_content=top) | [Docs](https://bookiflex.com/support/?utm_source=wporg&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=plugin_listing) | [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bookiflex/)

## 🏨 Hotel Booking & Vacation Rental Plugin for Small Properties

BookiFlex is a **hotel booking plugin** and **booking engine** for WordPress. It takes real bookings for **vacation rentals**, apartments, guesthouses, B&Bs, glamping sites and small hotels.

**Not a contact form with a "Reserve" button**: guests check free dates, choose a rate, pay and get a confirmation — on your website, not on Airbnb or Booking.com. You pay no commission on bookings.

**Doubts, questions or a special case?** Don't guess — [ask in the support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bookiflex/). We reply to every topic.

## 📅 From Availability Calendar to Full Hotel Booking System

Start with an availability calendar today, run a full hotel booking system later — on the same site. **Nothing to rebuild, nothing to migrate.**

* **Show free dates with an availability calendar** — put a calendar on any page. Guests see free nights and prices, then call or message you to book.
* **Book vacation rentals right on the page** — on a property page, guests pick dates in its calendar and book right below it. With several places, a search form finds what is free for their dates and party — guests compare and book without leaving the page.
* **Sell different rates** — sell the same place on different terms: a refundable rate, a non-refundable rate at a discount or a rate with breakfast. Guests see only the rates that fit their dates and party.
* **Add extras, extra beds and children's prices (Pro)** — sell a transfer, breakfast or late checkout with the stay. Add extra beds. Price children by age, or let them stay free with their parents.
* **Hotel booking payments: on arrival, deposit or online** — guests pay on arrival, pay a deposit or the full amount online, or send a bank transfer.
* **Sync vacation rental calendars with Airbnb & other platforms (Pro)** — bring bookings from Airbnb, Booking.com and other platforms into your availability calendar via iCal.

## 🎨 Booking Engine for Any WordPress Theme

**BookiFlex doesn't touch your theme**: your pages sell the stay, the booking engine takes it from there. Add it to a new site or a finished one.

* **Booking blocks for any booking flow** — build the flow your property needs from four blocks: Search Form, Booking Calendar, Booking Button and Booking Cart, with Gutenberg, Elementor or a shortcode. And the Booking Widget runs the full booking in a modal window: a floating button or any link on your site opens it.
* **Hotel booking in three screens** — dates, choice, guest details, never more than three screens. Booking opens over the page or under the calendar, with no new pages to load.
* **A booking engine that matches any theme** — blocks are isolated from your theme's styles: your theme can't break them, and they can't break your theme. Match colors, fonts, corners and shadows with a short block of CSS variables.
* **Made for phones** — every block works on a phone out of the box: the calendar drops to one month, and the date picker slides up from the bottom.

[See every block and seven ready booking flows](https://bookiflex.com/how-it-works/?utm_source=wporg&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=plugin_listing&utm_content=blocks)

## 📋 Hotel Booking Management for Owners

* **No double bookings in your availability calendar** — the moment a guest books, the dates close, even before you confirm. Two guests can't book the same nights. With Pro, iCal brings in bookings from other platforms, and you can close dates yourself. iCal keeps availability in step; it is not a channel manager.
* **See what needs your action** — every hotel booking and payment has a status. The ones waiting for you — a booking to confirm, an online payment to capture, an offline payment to mark as paid — stand out on the dashboard.
* **Booking emails for you and the guest** — you both get an email about each booking, in the language the guest booked in.
* **Set up hotel booking without code** — a setup wizard walks you through your properties, prices and booking terms, or loads demo data to try first. No WooCommerce needed, and no paid add-ons with Pro. Questions? Ask in the support forum.

## 🏡 Vacation Rental, Apartment & Guesthouse Booking

A hotel booking plugin for any accommodation where each place is booked as a whole:

* **Vacation rentals and short-term rentals** — a house, a cottage, a short let.
* **Apartments** — one or many, each with its own calendar and prices.
* **Guesthouses and B&Bs** — every room is its own bookable place.
* **Glamping sites and cabins** — each unit has its own dates and rates.
* **Small hotels** — family-run, each room booked on its own.

= Not the Right Fit =
* Hostels, shared rooms and bed-by-bed booking
* Large hotels that pool room types or move guests between rooms
* A full channel manager or a PMS with housekeeping and staff scheduling

Not sure about your case? [Ask in the support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bookiflex/).

## ⭐ BookiFlex Pro

Marked (Pro) above: extras, extra beds, children's prices, iCal sync and closing dates. Pro also adds:

* **Fees & charges** — cleaning, a deposit or city tax per stay, night, person or as a percentage. Guests see each line before they pay.
* **Special offers** — early bird, last minute, long stay and free-night rates that switch on and off by themselves.
* **Promo codes** — a discount or a hidden rate for guests with a code or a link.
* **Booking rules** — minimum and maximum stay, check-in and check-out days, how far ahead guests can book.
* **Date picking** — calendars let guests pick only stays that fit your rules.

[Compare Free and Pro side by side](https://bookiflex.com/pricing/?utm_source=wporg&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=plugin_listing&utm_content=pricing)

== Screenshots ==

1. Search form for the hero or sidebar of your vacation rental site: guests pick their dates and the booking opens right away. Place it with Gutenberg, Elementor or a shortcode.
2. Booking calendar for a property page — an availability calendar with a price on every free night. Guests pick their dates and book, or just check free dates.
3. Booking Calendar and Booking Cart together: guests pick dates and check out right beside the calendar, without leaving the page.
4. The booking widget opens over any page of your site: the rental, its rates, cancellation policy, payment options and the price for the stay.
5. Checkout in the same window: guest details, the stay and the total in one form — then guests pay at the property or online.
6. Rate plans: sell one rental on several terms, each with its own prices, payment and cancellation rules — a price for every night and party size.
7. Every reservation in one list, sorted by status. The ones waiting for your action stand out, with prepayments and what has already been paid.
8. Open a reservation to see the guest, dates, rate and payments, confirm or cancel it, and get a night-by-night breakdown of the total.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= Will BookiFlex prevent double bookings with Airbnb and Booking.com? =
Yes. On your site, dates close the moment a guest books, even before you confirm. With Pro, connect calendars from Airbnb, Booking.com and other platforms via iCal to bring their bookings in, and those dates close too.

= Is iCal sync the same as a channel manager? =
No. A channel manager is a two-way connection with each platform. iCal is a calendar file the platforms share, and BookiFlex uses it to keep availability in step. If you need a full channel manager, BookiFlex is not the right fit.

= Is this a real hotel booking system or a contact form? =
A real booking system. Guests pick dates, see what is free, choose a rate, pay and get a confirmation by email — on your website.

= Which payment options can guests use? =
Payment on arrival, a deposit online, the full amount online or a bank transfer. Online payments go through Stripe.

= Do I need WooCommerce or other plugins? =
No WooCommerce needed. Everything for hotel booking is built in — properties, prices, availability, Stripe payments and guest emails — and Pro includes every add-on — nothing else to buy.

= Will the booking blocks look right in my theme? =
Yes. The blocks are isolated from your theme's styles, so neither can break the other. Match colors, fonts and corners with a short block of CSS variables. Place blocks with Gutenberg, Elementor or a shortcode.

= Can I start simple and add features later? =
Yes. Start with a calendar that shows free dates and prices, then switch on booking, rates, extras and calendar sync when you need them. Same plugin, same pages — nothing to rebuild.

= Is the availability calendar free? =
Yes. The Booking Calendar and Booking Cart are part of the free version, with no add-on to install.

= Does BookiFlex support multilingual sites (WPML, Polylang)? =
Not yet. The booking widget, search form and guest emails are translated into English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Russian and Polish.

= Is BookiFlex a hotel booking plugin for B&Bs, guesthouses and small hotels? =
Yes, if each room is booked on its own. It doesn't sell beds in shared rooms, and it doesn't suit large hotels that pool room types.

= Not sure it fits your property? =
Open a topic in the [support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bookiflex/) and describe your setup. We'll tell you honestly whether BookiFlex fits.

== Changelog ==

= 1.11.0 - 16 October 2026 =
* New: Currency settings under Settings → General → Currency: symbol position, number of decimals, thousand and decimal separators, and an option to hide ".00" on whole amounts. Prices in the booking widget, the calendar, emails and the admin all follow them.
* New: The first day of the week for the date pickers, under Settings → Appearance → Date picking. Weeks can now start on Sunday, in the free version too.
* Improved: [Pro] Fees are now chosen on the rental unit: a "Fees & Charges" box on its edit screen lists the fees charged for it, and the fee itself is just a catalogue entry. Fees you had already assigned are moved over when you update.
* Improved: With WPML or Polylang, rental units, rate plans and other booking settings are shared across languages instead of being copied for each language.
* Fixed: For currencies without cents (JPY) or with three decimals (KWD), fixed fees and promo code discounts were off by 100× or 10×.
* Fixed: In the admin rate calendar, opening a price like 1,200.00 and clicking away saved it as 1.00.
* Fixed: The cancellation policy showed a fixed fee as a bare number, with no currency.
* Fixed: Other plugins could add their boxes and columns to BookiFlex's settings screens (rental units, rate plans and so on), which have no public pages.

[See changelog for all versions](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/bookiflex/trunk/CHANGELOG.txt).


== Installation ==

1. In your WordPress admin panel, go to **Plugins → Add New Plugin**, search for **BookiFlex**, and click **Install Now**, then **Activate**.
2. An **onboarding wizard** launches automatically — walk through the basic setup (company info, rental units, pricing, and booking terms) or load demo data to explore the plugin before configuring anything.
3. You’ll be asked whether you’d like to share your basic profile info with BookiFlex — your WordPress user’s first and last name and email address. Opting in gives you access to BookiFlex add-ons.
4. After activation, the **Book Now** button is visible to administrators only. Once you’re ready, enable it for all visitors in **BookiFlex → Settings → Appearance**.

That’s it — guests can now book directly from your website.

== Upgrade Notice ==

= 1.8.3 =
Strongly recommended. Fixes timezone handling across the plugin: where the property's timezone differs from the server's, dates could shift by a day, which affected availability and the dates shown to guests.

= 1.0.0 =
Initial public release.


== Third-Party Libraries ==

This plugin bundles several third-party libraries distributed under GPL-compatible licenses (such as MIT, BSD, ISC and GPL).

Some JavaScript files are minified for performance reasons. The original source code and project libraries are available in the BookiFlex repositories: [github.com/BookiFlex](https://github.com/BookiFlex)

A complete list of third-party licenses is available in the NOTICE file.


== External services ==

When Stripe payment gateway is enabled, payment and transaction data is sent to [Stripe](https://stripe.com) for processing. No data is sent until a user initiates a payment.

* Stripe Privacy Policy: https://stripe.com/privacy
* Stripe Terms of Service: https://stripe.com/legal