Our Best Picks for Hotel Booking on WordPress Websites.
Boost your profits with these powerful booking plugins for WordPress-based hotel sites.
At Crown ADAM AG, we regard WordPress as one of the most cost-effective content management systems (CMS) for website development. An essential factor for us is its widespread use, as WordPress is open-source and free, granting users complete control and ownership of their websites. Moreover, its user-friendly interface and intuitive dashboard enable non-technical users to create and manage content effortlessly.
WordPress is a platform that offers unparalleled flexibility and customization, with many free premium themes and plugins to enhance its functionality. Notably, its built-in SEO features streamline website optimization for search engines, ensuring maximum visibility and boosting profitability. Additionally, the extensive and active WordPress community, comprising developers, designers, and users, fosters its growth and provides resources and support, making it a dependable choice for hotels and restaurants.
On-Site Bookings: Boosting Your Profits.
For hotels, especially those with restaurants, the visibility of their website is paramount in attracting and retaining customers and boosting profitability. It's crucial to steer customers towards making direct bookings through your booking engine, bypassing third-party services like booking.com, ebooking.com, hotels.com, or similar platforms. This strategic shift could increase profit margins by 20 to 30% per room booking, allowing directors more flexibility in directly providing incentives and discounts to their customers.
Hosting Considerations
It is essential to remember that online bookings require more resources than other forms of e-commerce. Each bookable item has multiple parameters that the booking engine must consider. Therefore, when your website receives significant traffic, your hosting must be capable of handling numerous database calls simultaneously without slowing down or throwing errors, particularly when a potential guest is trying to make a booking. In our experience, ensuring you have adequately resourced hosting before launching your website is paramount.
Our Choices for On-Site Hotel Bookings Using WordPress
MotoPress Hotel Booking Plugin
The MotoPress Hotel Booking Plugin is a tool for building a website for hotels, hostels, apartments, or vacation rentals. The plugin lets you add property listings and services and allows people to make online bookings with or without payment. You can synchronize bookings made through your website with other travel platforms like Airbnb, Booking, TripAdvisor, HomeAway, or any other iCal platform. The plugin offers many features such as detailed accommodation types and photo galleries, automatic booking confirmation, payment authorization via PayPal, 2Checkout, Braintree, Stripe, Beanstream/Bambora, custom booking rules, seasonal pricing and rates, discount coupons, and the ability to add multiple rooms to one reservation. The plugin is available in 14 languages.
View the MotoPress Hotel Booking Demo
Costs: A one-time single site price of $139.00
WP Booking System
The WP Booking System is a user-friendly and powerful booking calendar plugin for WordPress websites. It enables users to create customizable booking calendars and forms to accept online reservations for their rental business. The plugin boasts over 10,000 active installations and high user satisfaction rates. It offers a range of features, including online booking forms, customizable booking calendars, an admin dashboard for booking management, email notifications, mobile-friendly design, and multi-language support. The WP Booking System has three pricing tiers with a $59/year starting price. It provides a comprehensive solution for WordPress users to simplify their rental booking process and increase direct bookings on their website.
View the WP Booking System Demo
Costs: An annual cost of $59.00 for a single site
Jomres for WordPress
Jomres is a highly versatile system for online booking and property management. It is available as a cloud service, can be installed and run on your server, and is compatible with WordPress and Joomla. Since 2005, Jomres has been serving as a Mambo-based solution for hotel management needs. It has evolved to become one of the longest-running and most comprehensive online booking plugins for any PHP CMS. It has a proven track record supporting WordPress versions 4, 5, and 6.
Jomres offers extensive features, including a highly flexible booking system, property management capabilities, REST API, webhooks, and more. Jomres is often called the "BMW and Mercedes-Benz of the villas and hotel booking system." With over 10,000 active installations, a large and active user base, frequent updates, and excellent customer support, Jomres is a powerful, feature-rich, and mature booking system. It is well-suited for WordPress-based rental and hospitality businesses that require a highly customizable solution despite its steeper learning curve than other WordPress booking plugins.
View the Jomres Booking System Demo
Costs: An annual cost of 288.00 Euros for a single site
Curious? Contact us or give us a call to schedule a free consultation on site designs and booking services. We are dedicated to making your business a success.