July 23, 2024

VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS Plugin

Famous Booking Engine, PMS and Hotel Reservations plugin for single properties. The best solution for accommodations to drive more direct bookings.

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 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

Is upgrading to Pro mandatory?

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.

Why some functions are not available in the free version?

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.

Is it worth upgrading to Pro?

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.

Can I build a portal of multiple properties/apartments?

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.

Can I use Vik Booking with my preferred Theme?

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.

What about Vik Channel Manager or E4JConnect?

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.

Changelog

1.6.9

Release date – 11 June 2024

New operator-tool permissions framework.
New finance operators tool.
Refactoring of the operators dashboard and tools.
Fixed month-day rows in Availability Overview.
New layout for CC/VCC details for OTA reservations.
New “Takings” tab for the payment events of a reservation.
Improved “Guest Messages” admin-widget.
Improved OTA guest messaging functions through Cron Jobs.

1.6.8

Release date – 2 April 2024

Introducing the Notifications Center.
Admin-widget framework refactoring.
Improved ACL controls.

1.6.7

Release date – 7 February 2024

Added support to new Gutenberg blocks for the widgets.
All widgets have been converted into native Gutenberg blocks.
Introduced live preview for the Shortcode block.
New admin widget “Bulk Messaging”.
Added support to pin/recent widgets in Quick Actions menus.
Refactoring of the e-invoicing framework to support new local requirements.
Various framework improvements.

1.6.6

Release date – 13 December 2023

Added support for the E4jConnect Trial activation system.
Added search facility to translations.
New actions and filters introduced.

Earlier versions

For further details about older versions, please refer to the changelog.md file of the plugin.