VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS
VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS
Description
Vik Booking for WordPress
The famous Booking Engine and PMS online software for accommodations is now available also for WordPress as a native Plugin!
If you are looking for a reliable reservation system for a Hotel, B&B, Villa, Apartments, Hostel or any similar accommodation, then you have found the right plugin. In fact, Vik Booking is a PCI-DSS and OpenTravel compliant hotel & vacation rental Booking Engine used by thousands of properties every day.
This is the free version of the plugin, but you can upgrade to the Pro version at any time from your wp-admin section. Experience the power of a true and internal Booking Engine that competes with the best ones of the world!
The Pro version is compatible with Vik Channel Manager, the first and only native Channel Manager for WordPress, listed as a Premier Partner of Booking.com since 2018 among the top 20 systems worldwide. Full API connections available with the most famous OTAs such as Airbnb, Expedia and Google Hotel for their new Free Booking Links! Beware of “fake” Channel Manager plugins that only offer unreliable iCal synchronizations with no private access to the OTA’s APIs.
Vik Booking was born in 2010 for a different web-software (CMS) than WordPress, and that’s how it became famous. The same powerful framework is now (since 2018) at the service of all webmasters, designers and web-agencies that work with WordPress. It’s definitely the hotel reservation plugin that you, or your client, were looking for.
Visit VikWP.com for more details. Interested in our full solution comprehensive of the Channel Manager? Visit also E4jConnect.
Some of the unique features
- Custom Rate Plans (Refundable, Flexible, Non Refundable rates)
- Rooms, Room Types and Sub-Units management functions
- Availability Calendars and Occupancy Overview
- Bookings Management made right
- Feature-rich Back-end section
- Front-end customizable booking process
- 8 different Views for the front-end (8 Types of Shortcode for your pages)
- Compliant with any Pricing Model: Occupancy, Nightly, LOS, OBP etc..
- Housekeeping features with Tableaux, festivities and room-day notes
- Permissions/ACL Management functions for the various WP Users Roles
- Multi-language support with built-in translation functions
- Channel Manager compatible. We are a certified Channel Manager provider (e4jConnect).
- Google Hotel Ads certified for Free Booking Links.
Some of Pro version features
- Seasonal Rates and Rates Calendar with 1-click modification
- Booking Restrictions: Min, Max LOS, CTA/CTD, Forced Arrival/Departure days
- Custom Payment Gateways (over 60 available on VikWP.com)
- SMS Gateways for automated notifications
- Custom Cron Jobs Scheduling for automated tasks (reminders, invoices)
- Customers Management functions, sales channels and commissions
- Graphs and Statistics
- Custom Options, Extra Services, Extra Fees
- Add, Remove or Switch rooms from existing bookings
- PMS Reports with extendable framework (built-in services for various countries)
- Electronic invoices extendable framework compliant with Italy (Agenzia delle Entrate) and Greece (myDATA ΑΑΔΕ).
- Registration functions: check-in, check-out, no-show
- Our award winning solution of Booking Engine + PMS and Channel Manager is all you need on your WordPress website.
Interested in, curious about the Pro version?
You should take a look with your own eyes at the demo website to see what you can do with Vik Booking. Do not stop at the front-end though, make sure to visit the wp-admin section too.
Installation
Installation through the WordPress Plugins Browser
- Search for “Vik Booking” in the Add Plugin section of your website back-end
- Install the Plugin by clicking on the apposite button
- Activate the Plugin by using the apposite activation button
- A link to access and configure Vik Booking will be visible in the left-menu
- Enjoy it
Alternative Installation Method
You can only install the free version of Vik Booking, not the Pro version. If for some reasons the WordPress Repository installation won’t work, you can contact us to receive the zip installer file and upload it via FTP onto your server.
- Download the installer zip file from VikWP.com
- Unzip the archive on your computer’s local drive
- Upload via FTP the unzipped folder vikbooking onto your /wp-content/plugins directory
- Log in to your wp-admin section and activate the plugin
Screenshots
Bookings List: reservations from your website and any other channel.
Booking Details: a neat, complete and user-friendly interface.
The elegant Dashboard: custom admin widgets with sections and containers.
Availability Overview: calendars showing the rooms allocated.
Rates Overview Pricing Calendar: set or change rates with one click.
Direct Reservations from your website: online payments via credit card.
Booking Suggestions: in case of no availability, the system will suggest the closest solutions.
PMS Reports: an extendable framework to export financial data.
A smart Widget only for those who also use the complementary plugin Vik Channel Manager.
Tableaux for housekeeping with festivities and room-day notes to highlight bookings and hot dates.
Support for Dark Mode appearance preferences to delight your eyes at night (and not only!).
Multitask panel: an incredibly fast way to query data for nerds.
Browser (web push) notifications will turn your device into a real-time updated system.
Faq
No, not at all. However, it took our company 8 years to build the Pro version and we are willing to spend a lot more years of work on this software. We encourage you to evaluate the free version first, and then upgrade to Pro to unlock its potential.
We are a software development company listed as a certified Channel Manager Provider by the major OTAs of the world. We work to deliver a full software solution for CMS and Web Software like WordPress as a valid alternative to the same proprietary and external systems. We make money by selling licenses of the Pro version.
Vik Booking is not a one-page plugin. You can build websites worth a lot of money with this plugin. You don’t need anything else to deliver a complete website, if not a Theme and some experience with WordPress.
No, you can’t! Vik Booking was designed specifically for single properties, or multiple properties managed by the same company. Basically, you cannot build a portal with multiple vendors where certain users should access and manage only their rooms and reservations. Vik Booking is a true booking engine for Hotels, B&Bs, Apartments, Villas and Hostels. It should be installed on the website of the accommodation. Even though permissions for receptionists and managers can be set up, the logic of the software remains single-vendor.
If you are looking for a solution for a real-estate agency (for example) that manages multiple properties on its own, then it’s still fine as long as you don’t need specific users/owners to see or manage their own data because this is not supported.
Yes, of course. You are free to install Vik Booking on your website with your own Theme. The plugin will adjust to it thanks to its own CSS framework. It is also possible to work on a custom CSS file to adjust some layouts.
Vik Booking is the Booking Engine and PMS plugin, it can work alone on any existing website. However, if you are looking to establish real-time API connections with OTAs like Booking.com, Airbnb, Expedia, Google Hotel Ads etc.. then you need to use our full solution, which is composed of a one-time fee to purchase the Pro version of Vik Booking as well as the plugin Vik Channel Manager. The only recurring cost, just like any existing (and real) Channel Manager software, is the one to keep the connection active with the various channels. This is the subscription for our certified and award-winning Channel Manager service called “e4jConnect”. Please notice that all these services are entirely provided by our company, it’s one single company with no third party connections. We are the software developer company as well as the Channel Manager provider. This makes a big difference.
Reviews
Outstanding Performance and Unbeatable End-User Support
By 
This WP Booking Engine & PMS is an absolute game-changer for any hotel. The latest enhancements have transformed it from a great tool into an essential one. Every updates, especially in the PMS field, task management, channel synchronization, or integration of automated booking processes, have drastically streamlined our revenue strategy and made entire resource management faster and more intuitive in our organization. Equally impressive is the outstanding end-user support over the last 3 years. Their team is the gold standard, responding quickly to each request professionally, and deep expertise on complex issues like two-way OTA sync, and further. They don't just fix problems; they provide invaluable best-practice solutions and develop software not for themselves, but for end-customers like you and me. In a nutshell: A powerful, reliable, and continuously improving Booking & PMS system backed by best-in-class support is a definite five-star investment. Thanks a lot for this amazing contribution to this community, great product & service!
The best booking plugin and integration
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The best booking plugin and integration. Thanks for support
Very good potential
By 
The plugin is one step away from 5 stars and being the best hotel booking plugin. However, it lacks one vital feature that makes it hard to choose. The feature is not available in the paid version either — the iCal sync for calendars. Without this feature, I cannot use the plugin and had to choose another one with much less quality in the interface. For hotel management, where nowadays we use many booking channels, we definitely need calendar sync. I would gladly buy this plugin if iCal sync appears and, of course, rate it 5 stars, as it has the potential to be the best WP hotel booking plugin (note: the Channels Management option is not something that I consider an alternative to iCal sync).
Best quality price ratio
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I compared ALL the plugins and channel managers there are on the market for booking accommodation and my main criteria was functionality and price as well as the channel manager with API connection. Yes, It took me weeks and I finally chose VikBooking. I used it for 2 months now during our busiest summer season and it didn't disappoint. The tech support is great, functionality is great and it works great, translations work great and you can translate your own thing. I'm happy with all the extras set-up, invoices, complex children pricing, coupons, cron jobs, task manager and many other things. The price is unbeatable(only one competitor comes close to it), and it pays off within a year or less compared to other competitors that have big monthly fees.
The only things to improve on are (for us personally as we are not a hotel but premium cabins): design - it's very hotel oriented, so we had to tweak the design/colours with CSS codes so it's more applicable for us. Shortcodes - there is still no sleek shortcode for availability calendar - the one they have is again very hotel-like and unusable. Their payment gateway selection didn't have any options for the Baltic region so we had to pay the developer to integrate it for us which cost quite a bit, but VikBooking recommended a good developer for integration so it worked out well.
Overall highly recommended!
VikBooking
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<font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">E' un buon plugin ma non esente da lacune anche gravi. Una delle cose principali per chi fa il mio mestiere sono i pagamenti ( senza di questi non esistere neanche wordpress ei plugin associati ). Ho acquistato stripe per associarlo a vikbooking. Stripe è completo solo se ha a disposizione un metodo di pagamento dell'ospite. Purtroppo vikbooking al momento della prenotazione anche se il pagamento va a buon fine e la prenotazione è confermata non permette la memorizzazione dei dati all'interno dell'account di stripe ( anche se lo stesso plugin prevede la memorizzazione attraverso varie spunte ) e questo è grave dal mio punto di vista. Penso che il plugin sia ancora abbasta giovane e deve crescere e sono sicuro che si migliorerà sempre. Ho fatto un abbonamento per un anno e spero di rinnovare ancora</font>. Spero che venga migliorato gli aspetti che sono GLI ADDEBITI SU CARTA E LE PRE-AUTORIZZAZIONI </font>
TOP!
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The support for the plugin is very, very good! All my questions about the migration were answered promptly. The functionality is also satisfactory.
In German: Die HIlfe zum Plugin ist sehr sehr gut! Alle meine Fragen zur Migration wurden umgehend beantwortet. Auch die Funktionen sind zufriedenstellend.
Amazing Plugin & Outstanding Support!
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Vik Booking is a well-designed and powerful plugin that has helped me perfectly set up reservations for my accommodation. It offers a wide range of settings, syncs availability seamlessly, and includes many useful features that save time and simplify booking management.
But what I appreciate the most is the customer support. The team is incredibly helpful, responds quickly to inquiries, and always finds a solution. I truly value their patience and professionalism. Thanks to them, everything was set up smoothly, and the system works flawlessly.
I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a reliable booking system with top-notch support!
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Superb Hotel Engine
By 
The hotel management system was perfect for my website.
Good support
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Nice Support!
Support team is exceptional
By 
VikBooking is a full-featured booking plugin, capable of handling fairly specific configurations and customer requirements. It's fully customisable and once you understand how it works, it's pretty simple to use.
Its administrator interface is intuitive. We were a bit lost at first, and called on the support team a lot to help us, especially as our client wasn't particularly easy to deal with!
VIK support is just exceptional: they respond to every request, do their best to help, and above all, respond within hours of the requests. We've opened dozens and dozens of tickets, and they've never let us down. They were patient and professional.
We'd like to take this opportunity to thank Giulia and Samuele in particular, who responded to our most specific requests.
We recommend this plugin with our eyes closed, and we are now going to use another of their plugins, Vik Rent Items, with complete confidence.
Changelog
1.8.5
Release date – 26 November 2025
- OTA onboarding improvements for new listings (E4jConnect channel manager required).
- OTA guest messages indexing and faster processing (E4jConnect channel manager required).
- Split stay bookings calculation improvements.
- New payment transaction hooks for custom metadata.
- Database optimization scheduling.
- Additional caching support to rates calculation.
- Minor framework improvements.
1.8.4
Release date – 13 November 2025
- Introducing the new Door Access Control framework (E4jConnect channel manager required).
- Native support for TTLock – Smart Locks added to Door Access Control framework.
- Task Manager: AI maintenance tasks from guest requests.
- OTA bookings expected payout amounts.
- Airbnb Hosting Quality metrics and dashboard (E4jConnect channel manager required).
- Minor framework improvements.
1.8.3
Release date – 13 October 2025
- Search results filtering options (categories, amenities, price range).
- Search results new interactive map with grid layout and advanced map markers.
- Custom check-in/out times can be defined and overwritten at listing-level.
- Minimum advance booking notice can be defined and overwritten at listing-level.
- Custom currency position (before or after price).
- Silent notifications within the Notification Center.
- Added support to new OTA payout notifications (E4jConnect channel manager required).
- Several new hooks added for the creation and modification of bookings.
- Various performance improvements with large data-sets.
- New PMS report “Guest Registration Data”.
- Different format for customers PIN code (8 alphanumeric random characters).
- Various improvements to the Electronic Invoicing framework and interface.
1.8.2
Release date – 28 July 2025
- Custom cancellation policies for custom rate plans.
- Multi-calendar improvements in Availability Overview.
- Availability Overview “Holding Area” row for hotel-inventory rooms.
- Availability Overview “Unassigned units” row for hotel-inventory rooms.
- Availability Overview drag & drop actions improved.
- Main framework updated.
- Introducing the Help Wizard to automatically configure country-related functions.
- Booking.com Payments API for VCC reservations (E4jConnect channel manager required).
- New Task Manager settings for sequential or balanced operators assignment strategy.
- Task Manager new tasks scheduling frequency for pre-arrival.
- Booking availability pre-flight during manual modifications.
- Improved query execution timing for rooms with hotel-inventory.
- New PMS reports (Trentino, Italy).
- Minor fixes.
1.8.1
Release date – 18 June 2025
- Minor fixes.
- Minor CSS improvements.
- Improved support for third-party page builder plugins with Operators Login shortcode.
1.8.0
Release date – 10 June 2025
- Major framework update.
- Various improvements to PMS reports.
- PMS report auto-export functions with support for multiple account profiles.
- Operators work days, exceptions and days off.
- New operators tool for managing the work days.
- Task Manager framework introduced.
- Housekeeping and Maintenance automated tasks scheduling.
- Task Manager projects for sprint board.
- Private tasks for administrators.
- New operator permissions for tasks management.
- New admin widget “Operators Chat”.
- Various task manager layouts: board, list, calendar and bookings overview.
- iCal calendar subscription for operator tasks with multiple formats.
- Various history framework improvements.
- New notifications center category for Operators.
- New WebPush Notifications for operator activities.
- Multi-calendar functionalities in availability overview for managing rates and restrictions.
- Matrix selection of multiple dates and listings to handle multiple rate update queues.
- Added support for off-session transactions through the Virtual Terminal (Stripe required).
- New Channel Manager capabilities for Virtual Credit Cards received from OTA reservations.
- Guest message reactions for OTA messaging (Channel Manager required).
- Generative AI improvements (Channel Manager required).
- Major improvements to electronic invoicing framework for an easier customization.
- Various improvements to pre-check-in framework.
- JS core major refactoring.
- Improved support up to PHP 8.4
- New back-end and front-end styling.
Earlier versions
For further details about older versions, please refer to the changelog.md file of the plugin.