Booking Works

Booking Works turns your WordPress site into a booking platform. Visitors pick a date or time on a clean calendar, see the price immediately and book in seconds. You get a dashboard, a booking calendar, e-mail notifications, tickets with QR codes and a customer area without installing anything else.

Built for non-technical site owners. A short setup wizard asks what you offer (rooms, rentals, tours, appointments, real estate…) and configures everything for you. Every option can be changed later under Settings > Booking Works.

What you can sell

• Date ranges – hotel rooms, vacation rentals, car and equipment rental, real estate stays (per night / per day / per person).
• Time slots – appointments, services, classes, property viewings, hourly rental.
• Fixed events and tours – a limited number of seats per date.

Main features

• Built-in booking engine – WooCommerce is optional. Existing WooCommerce based sites keep working (classic mode).
• Live availability calendar and instant price quote on the booking form.
• Opening days and hours, slot length, buffer time, minimum and maximum stay, lead time, advance booking window and closed dates – globally and per item.
• Manual approval toggle (global, overridable per item).
• Customer cancellation and rescheduling toggles with time windows.
• E-mails to customers and the owner with editable templates and reminders.
• Tickets with QR code, print / save as PDF, and a check-in screen with camera scanning.
• Customer area (My Bookings) with tickets, cancel, reschedule and “add to calendar”.
• Admin dashboard with statistics, bookings list with filters, bulk actions and CSV export.
• Admin calendar with month, week and day views, color coded statuses and drag and drop rescheduling.
• iCal export of bookings and availability feeds for other platforms.
• Gutenberg blocks and shortcodes.
• Basic front-end form where approved users can add and edit their own items.
• REST API, webhook and developer hooks (Settings > Booking Works > Developers).
• GDPR tools: personal data export and erase, suggested privacy policy text.
• Multisite ready, WooCommerce HPOS and block checkout compatible, uninstall cleanup is opt-in.

Shortcodes

• [BW-BOOKING-FORM id="123"] – booking form of one item (it is also added automatically to item pages)
• [BW-ITEMS type="range" category="rooms" limit="12" columns="3"] – grid of items
• [BW-MY-BOOKINGS] – customer area (also available as the WP-BOOKING-TRACKING shortcode)
• [ns-add-product], [WP-CA-PRODUCTS-BY-USERS], [WP-CA-SALES-BY-USERS], [BECOME-A-VENDOR] – front-end item management

Classic WooCommerce mode

Sites that sold bookable WooCommerce products with earlier versions are upgraded automatically and keep the classic behaviour. Third-party plugins used by classic mode (WC Vendors, YITH Wishlist, NS Add Product Frontend, Security Deposits, Inbox…) remain supported but are no longer required for the built-in engine.

Third-party libraries

• QRCode.js generator (qrcode-generator) – MIT License, bundled in js/qrcode.js.
• Bootstrap 3, Font Awesome, moment.js, html2canvas and jsPDF – MIT / OFL licensed, bundled and used only by the classic WooCommerce screens.

1. Upload the plugin to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory or install it from the Plugins screen.
2. Activate it. The setup wizard opens automatically.
3. Answer the questions, then add your first item under Booking Works > Bookable Items.
4. Visit the item page: the booking form is already there. Use [BW-MY-BOOKINGS] on a page for the customer area (the wizard creates it).

1. 

   Settings › General – booking types, engine, currency and front-end options.

2. 

   Settings › Booking rules – manual approval, cancellation and rescheduling windows.

3. 

   Settings › Availability – default hours, stay limits, capacity and closed dates.

4. 

   Settings › Notifications – owner/customer e-mails, reminders and editable templates.

5. 

   Settings › Tickets – logo, terms, QR codes and iCal calendar feeds.

6. 

   Settings › Pro – weekend rates, seasonal rules, fees, tax, deposits and coupons.

7. 

   Settings › WooCommerce – classic mode roles, product type and legacy pages.

8. 

   Settings › Developers – REST API, webhook, shortcodes and developer hooks.

9. 

   Settings › About – plugin info, support links and setup wizard.

2.0.0

• New: built-in booking engine – WooCommerce is now optional.
• New: date range, time slot and event/tour booking types, selectable in settings.
• New: setup wizard, dashboard, bookings list with filters, bulk actions and CSV export.
• New: admin calendar with month / week / day views and drag and drop rescheduling.
• New: availability rules (weekdays, hours, buffer, min/max stay, lead time, closed dates, capacity).
• New: manual approval, customer cancellation and rescheduling toggles (global and per item).
• New: e-mail notifications with editable templates and reminders.
• New: tickets with QR codes, check-in screen, customer area (My Bookings).
• New: iCal export, REST API, webhook, Gutenberg blocks, GDPR exporter and eraser.
• New: front-end item form for approved vendors.
• Improved: classic WooCommerce mode hardened – prepared SQL statements, nonces on every AJAX action, HPOS compatible order queries, no deprecated PHP / WordPress functions.
• Improved: database upgraded to utf8mb4 with indexes (existing data is kept).
• Improved: Bootstrap and Font Awesome are loaded only on classic WooCommerce screens.
• Improved: settings no longer overwrite each other when saved.
• Requires WordPress 5.8+ and PHP 7.4+.

1.0.4

• Previous release.