January 23, 2024

Beds24 Online Booking Plugin

Accept commission free online bookings from your Wordpress website. Suitable for hotels, B&B's, holiday rentals, vacation rentals, apartments …

Powerful and Customisable Online Booking System

Beds24.com is a full featured online booking engine. The system is very flexible with many options for customization.

The Beds24.com online booking system and channel manager is suitable for any type of accommodation such as hotels, motels, B&B’s, hostels, vacation rentals, holiday homes and campgrounds as well as selling extras like tickets or tours.

The plugin is free to use but you do need an account with Beds24.com. A free trial account is available at http://www.beds24.com/join.html

Features

Real-time availability and commission free online bookings
Customisable booking widgets
Multiple rates and discounts
Multi language booking page (30+languages)
Online payments
Optional channel manager
Multi-language support

Features for Property Managers, Hotel Groups and Agencies

Agency seach box
Subaccounts with access control

Installation

Installation through WordPress control panel:

Login to your WordPress account using the administrators username and password.
Click the plugins icon on the left menu.
Click the “Add New” button at the top of the Plugins menu.
Search for “Beds24 Online Booking”
Click on “Install”
When the “Plugin installed successfully” message appears, click the “Activate Plugin” link.
Click on “Settings” in the left menu then on “Beds24”.
Enter your Beds24 ID
Choose from our selection of widgets and paste the shortcode into a post, page or sidebar.

Installtion via ftp:

Download the plugin
Upload the unzippd plugin folder to your WordPress plugin folder (wp-content/plugins)
Go to WordPress and click the Plugins icon on the left menu.
Activate the plugin
In WordPress go click on “Settings” in the left menu then on “Beds24”.
Enter your Beds24 ID
Choose from our selection of widgets and paste the shortcode into a post, page or sidebar.

FAQ

Do I need a Beds24 account?

Yes. A free trial account is available at http://www.beds24.com/join.html

Will I be on a contract?

No. There is no minimum payment or sign-up period. Beds24 is a pre-pay, pay as you go service. You may cancel your account at any time.

Can I customise the booking widgets and booking calendar?

Yes, you can fully customise the look to seamlessly fit into your site.

Which booking sites (OTA´s) do you connect to?

Beds24 has two-way connections with 60+ leading booking portal. For a complete list please see http://www.beds24.com/channel-manager.html

How do bookers pay?

All payments go directly to the host. You can either collect payments after arrival or use one of the payment options integrated in the system to collect payments via credit card or Paypal. Alternatively you can securely collect card details and process them later through your bank or merchant account.

Can I sell multiple properties?

Yes. You may define multiple properties in Beds24.com and implement a search form that shows the guest a list of those available for their search criteria.

Changelog

2.0.25

fixed unescaped hrefs

2.0.24

fixed unescaped settings

2.0.23

added noExternalFonts parameter for widget shortcode plus bug fix

2.0.22

fix php warning

2.0.21

fix php warning

2.0.20

default domain changed from www.beds24.com to beds24.com

2.0.19

wordpress 5.4.2 support

2.0.18

wordpress 5.1 support

2.0.17

bug fixes

2.0.16

added missing widget parameters

2.0.15

improved theme support

2.0.14

support for new booking widget.
widget shortcodes can be generated in Beds24 control panel

2.0.13

datepicker falls back to just display dates if day of week not available

2.0.12

fixed datepicker bug for special chars and broken links for i18n files
added support for number of children

2.0.11

support for responsive booking page
removed depreciated code
added dutch and chinese translations

2.0.10

added shortcode beds24-searchresult
booking box date default days in advance selectable
added booking strip
added Greek translation

2.0.9

date picker translations added

2.0.8

domain setting added for private domain booking pages

2.0.7

tested for wordpress 4.0
booking box default values now adjustable in file

2.0.6

bug fix, js script remove comma
replace all php short tags

2.0.5

bug fix, default number of guests value was not showing

2.0.4

multi-language functionality added
php session deactivated if headers already sent

2.0.3

added shortcode [beds24-landing] which creates an embedded iframe without fixed date or guest information so this information can be passed from a form on another page via a redirect

2.0.2

supports opening embedded booking page at first available date

2.0.1

fancybox 2 removed due to licence issues

2.0

multiple property and agency search box added
additional shortcodes for widgets added
shortcodes can be customised with parameters
fancy box support added

1.3

numnight and numadult have “not specified” option to allow incoming redirects to set these via the php session

1.2

custom URL parameter option added

1.1

iframe now has inline style max-width=100% to make responsive
added number of dates displayed selector
added default days in advance selector
added default number of nights selector
added default number of guests selector

1.0

Initial release