Quotel Hotel Booking – Hotel Booking, Reservation & Room Management for WordPress

Smart pricing

• Base and weekend rates per room.
• Optional date-range pricing rules .
• Tax and long-stay discounts (weekly / monthly) via Settings.
• Server-side pricing endpoint so the booking summary always matches what is actually charged.

WooCommerce integration

• Each room syncs to a catalog-hidden variable WooCommerce product with Standard / Weekend rate variations.
• Bookings are linked to WooCommerce order IDs .
• Order status drives booking lifecycle (pending payment → confirmed; cancelled/refunded → released).
• Optional “Pay now” link in the pending-payment email using the WooCommerce order pay URL.

Admin experience

• Top-level Hotel Booking menu: Welcome, Dashboard, Bookings, Calendar, Settings.
• Setup wizard on first activation: hotel basics, booking rules, notifications, optional WooCommerce auto-install.
• Booking calendar – month and timeline-style views, room filter, booking density indicator and per-day management.
• Reports REST endpoints: dashboard stats, revenue, bookings, occupancy, room performance, guest analytics, CSV export .

Guest experience

• Shortcode-driven React apps for the entire reservation journey.
• Compact booking bar for hero sections and home pages with Flatpickr date picker.
• Deep-link friendly URLs with qhb_room , check_in , check_out , adults , children and room_type query args.

Security & roles

• Custom capability manage_hotel_bookings (granted to administrators on activation).
• REST routes use nonces and dedicated permission callbacks for public vs. admin operations.
• All input is sanitized; output is escaped; SQL is built with $wpdb->prepare() .

Available shortcodes

Drop any of these shortcodes on a page or post. Default pages are auto-created on first activation if they do not already exist.

[qhb_booking_form]

Renders the multi-step React booking wizard (search → pick a room → guest details → summary → checkout). Mounts to #qhb-booking-root . Best placed on the Book a Room page.

[qhb_room_search]

Renders the filterable room search and results grid. Mounts to #qhb-search-root . Best placed on a Search Rooms page.

[qhb_my_bookings]

Lists the current user’s bookings (logged-in only). Mounts to #qhb-mybookings-root . Best placed on a My Account / My Bookings page.

[qhb_booking_bar]

A compact horizontal booking strip with check-in / check-out date pickers, rooms / adults / children counters, room category dropdown and a “Book now” button. Use it inside hero sections, sidebars or the home page. Submitting it deep-links into the page that hosts [qhb_booking_form] .

Available [qhb_booking_bar] attributes:

• redirect – override the booking page URL. Defaults to the auto-created Book a Room page or /book/ . Example: [qhb_booking_bar redirect="https://example.com/reservations/"]

button – override the submit button label. Defaults to “Book now”.

• Example: [qhb_booking_bar button="Check availability"]

Backwards compatibility

The legacy [hbm_booking_form] , [hbm_room_search] , [hbm_my_bookings] and [hbm_booking_bar] shortcodes from version 1.0.0 are still registered as transparent aliases, so any pages you saved earlier keep working unchanged. The previous REST namespace hbm/v1 is also still served alongside the new qhb/v1 .

Technical snapshot

• Text domain: quotel-hotel-booking (translation-ready; works with Loco Translate, WPML, Polylang and standard .po / .mo files).
• REST namespace: qhb/v1 – e.g. /wp-json/qhb/v1/rooms , /bookings , /settings , /pricing , /availability , /calendar/... , /reports/... .
• Custom post type: qhb_room (rewrite slug rooms ).
• Taxonomies: qhb_room_type , qhb_amenity .
• Database tables (using your $wpdb->prefix ): qhb_bookings , qhb_pricing_rules , qhb_availability , qhb_extra_services , qhb_booking_services .
• Capability: manage_hotel_bookings (assigned to administrators on activation).

Requirements

• WordPress 5.9 or higher.
• PHP 7.4 or higher.
• WooCommerce is recommended for online payments – the booking → checkout flow is built around it.

Use cases

• Single hotel or boutique hotel booking system.
• Resort with several room categories.
• B&B / guest house reservation form.
• Vacation rental landing page with check-in / check-out widget.
• Inn or homestay running on WordPress + WooCommerce.

Privacy

The plugin stores booking data you collect from guests (name, email, phone, dates, party size, optional notes) in the WordPress database and may associate each record with a WooCommerce order ID for payment tracking. Treat this data according to your privacy policy and applicable law (GDPR, CCPA, etc.). Email delivery uses WordPress’ wp_mail() facilities. No data is sent to third parties by the plugin itself.