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Video overviews of features in premium versions

Create unlimited number of calendars (booking resources) - your services or properties (like houses, cars, tables or services, like consultation etc...), that can be booked by visitors of your website.

Check more here.

Available in all paid versions of Booking Calendar.

Hourly Bookings in your WordPress website.

Add ability to make bookings for specific timeslots or any start and end time during a day(s).

Configure selections or entering times interval (several hours or few minutes) at the Booking \ Settings \ Form page:

- Start time and end time entering in "time text fields"
- Selections specific time in timeslot list
- Selections start time and end time
- Selections start time and duration of time

Available in Booking Calendar Business Small or higher versions.

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Activate and configure online payments for your bookings at your WordPress website.

Support Payment Gateways:

- Direct/wire bank transfer
- Cash payments
- Stripe
- PayPal Standard
- PayPal Pro Hosted Solution (note, its doesn't PayPal Pro)
- Authorize.Net (Server Integration Method (SIM))
- Sage Pay ( "Form Integration" method )
- iDEAL via Sisow
- iPay88
- more will come...

You can activate and configure these gateways at Booking \ Settings \ Payment page.

Available in Booking Calendar Business Small or higher versions.

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You can use the same date as "check in/out" for different bookings.
It's means that your visitors can start new booking on the same date, where some old bookings was ending.

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Available in Booking Calendar Business Small or higher versions.

Set several days selection with 1 or 2 mouse clicks (by selecting check in and check out dates - all middle days will be selected automatically).

Its means that you can set only week(s) selections or any other number of days selections.

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Available in Booking Calendar Business Small or higher versions.

You can set as unavailable days in calendar during different seasons or any weekdays.

Its useful, when you need to block days for holidays or any other seasons during a year.

You can set days as conditional seasons filters (for example, only weekends during summer) or simply select range of days for specific seasons.

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Available in Booking Calendar Business Medium or higher versions.

Set different daily cost (rates) for different seasons during a year or different weekdays.

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Available in Booking Calendar Business Medium or higher versions.

You can configure different cost for different number of selected days in calendar. For example, cost of second selected week, can be lower then cost of first week, etc...

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Available in Booking Calendar Business Medium or higher versions.

Important! This "Valuation days" can apply for any days. Or in case if you need apply it to specific season then it can depend only from the belonging "check in day" (first selected day) to specific season.
Its means that, if you select 2 weeks, the "Valuation days" can apply costs only depending from the check in day belonging to specific season, even if some other days belonging to other season. In other words, if you will have the days selection with season intersections, then you can have an issue.
Basically the "Valuation days" is useful, in case, if you need to set some discount or higher cost depend from the number of selected days. For example if visitor select 7 or more days so then booking will have 10% discount, etc...

Set discounts , if difference between "today" and "check in" day LESS or MORE than N days.

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Available in Booking Calendar Business Medium or higher versions since update 8.3

Set additional costs, like tax or some other additional charges (cleaning, breakfast, etc...) or just increase the cost of booking depends from the visitor number selection in your booking form. Its means that you can set additional cost for any selected option(s) in select-boxes or check-boxes at your booking form.

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Available in Booking Calendar Business Medium or higher versions.

Activate ability to pay deposit (part of the booking cost), after visitor made the booking in your Booking Calendar.
Send payment request afterwards.

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Available in Booking Calendar Business Medium or higher versions.

Provide discounts for bookings to your visitors.
Your visitors can enter coupon codes in booking form to get discount for booking(s).
You can define discount as fixed cost or as percentage from the total booking cost.

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Available in Booking Calendar Business Large or higher version.

Creation of several custom forms configurations. Its means that you can have the different booking forms (which have the different form fields) for different booking resources (calendars).

Check more here.

Available in Booking Calendar Business Medium or higher versions.

Receive several specific number of bookings per same days.

Define capacity for your calendar and dates in calendar will be available until number of bookings less than capacity of the calendar.
Note, its possible to make such several bookings only for entire date(s), and not a time slots

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Available in Booking Calendar Business Large or higher version.

Search availability for specific check in / out dates in your resources (properties or services).

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Available in Booking Calendar Business Large or higher version.

Activate independent booking admin panels for different WP users. And start using your own multi-user portal, like Airbnb.

Such users (owners) can see and manage only own bookings and calendars (booking resources). Other active users (owners) will not see the bookings from this owner, they can see only own bookings.
Each owner can configure own booking form, own email templates, activate and configure payment gateway to own payment account.

Such users will receive notifications about new bookings to own emails and can approve or decline such bookings.

Check more here.

Available in Booking Calendar MultiUser version.

 

Video Tutorials of usage Booking Calendar

Inserting Booking Calendar shortcodes into pages or posts of your WordPress website.

Step by step tutorial how to insert the "booking form", "availability calendar", "timeline", "resources selection", "search form", "editing booking", and other items into pages of WordPress website.

Overview of booking admin Menu and setting pages.

Overview of booking admin panel - Booking Listing page. View and manage bookings.

Overview of booking admin panel - Calendar Overview page. View and manage bookings.

Overview of booking admin panel - Add New booking page.
Create new booking(s) in admin panel (in addition of ability to create new booking at front-end side). Its useful, when administrator need to create booking for walk in customer, or when need to set as unavailable days by creating fast "blank" booking.

Booking Form Settings page - tutorial of booking fields configuration.
Configure any structure of your booking form (horizontal/vertical/2 columns or wizard), add new form fields or alter exist fields.
This is tutorial about configuration of main (standard) form fields and altering structure of booking form.
Available in the Booking Calendar Personal or higher versions.

Please read more about shortcodes in the booking form fields configuration here.

Tutorial of configuration booking form and some other text in several languages. Configure your multilingual booking form.

Please read more about translations here.

Tutorial of configuration import bookings or events from other services via .ics feeds (ical links), like from Google Calendar or Airbnb, Booking.com, HomeAway, TripAdvisor, VRBO, FlipKey and any other calendar that uses .ics format.

Please read more about this feature here.

Import process is working in that case, when some visitor is open your website page with booking import shortcode. So you can configure CRON at your server, for periodically access this page with booking import shortcode to start import process. Or you can insert the import shortcode before booking form shortcode, so firstly system will start import process and only then show booking form, when someone visit your page.

Tutorial of configuration export bookings from Booking Calendar into other services, like Google Calendar or Airbnb, Booking.com, HomeAway, TripAdvisor, VRBO, FlipKey and any other calendar that uses .ics format.

Please read more about this feature here.

Please note. Booking Calendar is generate .ics feed with bookings in real time. But how often some service (like airbnb, or booking.com ) access this .ics feed to import the bookings from Booking Calendar into own system, does not depend from Booking Calendar. So in other words, Booking Calendar does not force to generate import process by third party service, when some booking is created. You need to check with support of this service (like airbnb or booking.com), about how often they can access .ics feed tor making import.

Tutorial of configuration of ability to view and manage all previous bookings of user, at front-end side of your website. Visitors of your website, can view previous (own) bookings, by clicking on secret link in email, which is sending after booking created.

Available in Booking Calendar Business Small or higher versions since update 8.2