Need a Basic Booking Plugin

  • Hi everyone –

    I’m looking for a very basic appointment/calendar/booking plugin that can do the following things:

    1. Use the member data of logged in site members, rather than requiring separate membership to the calendar system.
    2. Include a full calendar interface for users to see only their own booked appointments/events/whatever.
    3. Allow users to book one or more days at a time, hotel-style, for a resource that is unlimited.
    4. Allow users to create and edit their own appointments/events within a set window of time (at least 6 weeks in advance, no more than 2 years out).

    I have some other features that would be very nice to have, but these four are the musts. The rest I can code around.

    Any suggestions? I appreciate the input! I’ve spent days so far researching different plugins and systems, installing at least a dozen of them, only to find out that none of them have the features I need.

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  • Casey Driscoll

    (@caseypatrickdriscoll)

    Hey cobiati,

    This is very interesting. There are some very high quality plugins that do very close to what you are looking for. Off the top of my head I would say Events Calendar, Easy Digital Downloads or WooCommerce, or some combination.

    Would you mind sharing what is the end result/application you are looking for?
    Also would you mind sharing, what plugins you have looked into already?

    This one seems to have what you want, or most of it. Would it work?

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/booking/

    Cheers!

    I’m just in the process of finishing up making Jomres work in WordPress as well as Joolma and it may be pretty much what you need.

    If you’re interested, the core system’s free, we only charge for plugins and support. Let us know how you get on, we haven’t had any WordPress users actually play with it yet (that we know of), it’s all been in-house testing atm.

    Jomres itself is 9 years old, for that time it’s been built to integrate into Joomla but as it’s designed to be CMS agnostic I decided it’s time we branched out.

    Thread Starter cobiati

    (@cobiati)

    Thanks for your responses. I appreciate the feedback.

    I love the Booking Calendar interface, but the plugin does not allow for unlimited resources. All of the other plugins I’ve tried have some combination of the following limitations:

    1. Requires separate membership to the plugin, rather than allowing users of my site to automatically be users of the booking system.
    2. Requires members to access an external page.
    3. Requires members to choose a ‘resource.’
    4. Requires members to book by using an inflexible form, one or more parts of which cannot be customized or removed.
    5. Always shows a price for each booking segment, even when set to $0.

    Jomres – I would definitely be interested in taking a look if your plugin can do the things that I need. Do you have the availability of embedding a full page calendar as opposed to two date fields?

    1. If a registered user creates a property (e.g. like a hotel) then they’re automatically made managers within Jomres.
    2. To manage a property they do it from the WP page, the system’s integrated into your WP installation, it’s not on another host (a la SAAS. SAAS is fine if you don’t want to spend time setting up or customising, but Jomres isn’t targetted to those users, it’s targetted at developers who want to invest a little time and get a good reward back).
    3. Everybody has to choose a resource, unless you’re renting out villas or apartments, the rooms are hidden resources and choosing them aren’t options in that scenario.
    4. Plenty of options in the property configuration allow you to configure the booking form, but if that’s not enough, then you can get your paws mucky editing the template files themselves.
    5. Zero price isn’t an option in Jomres, not for rooms/(or pitches or whatever you’ve worded those resources to).

    There’s a whole bundle of ways you can embed stuff, I suspect what you mean and what I mean might be rather different, but for example you can see something like

    https://www.jomres-demo.net/quickstart/index.php?option=com_jomres&task=remoteavailability&id=1&lang=en

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