Hotel Booking Calendar Sync

You either integrate with their booking system via an API or there is no way you can be sure a room is available. The easiest way is to go the AirBnB route and keep a booking request as pending until the hotel confirms it. I would create a custom post type per hotel, per room and per booking.

Create listing templates for al hotels and rooms and create a filter search page for users.

Then on a single page template for a room create a form that creates a booking custom post with the needed metadata for the hotel and give it the default “pending” status. This should result in a confirmation email to the booker and a booking request email to the hotel. You can create WordPress user accounts for each hotel. I would create a custom user role for hotel managers.

Based on this role you can show the hotel managers a custom template (only accessible with this role) that shows them their booking requests. You can give them the option to see the requests and manually check it on their end for availability. If they accept the request they can click a button that would change the booking status to confirmed. This action should email the booker.

From that point on I would let the hotel take over communications with the customer. And to finish it all off I would create a page in the CMS for yourself, the admin, that shows the confirmed booking per hotel for each month. This way it’s easy to invoice for commission/referral fees.

All in all, totally doable in WordPress. However it would require knowledge of custom coding this sort of thing. And personally I would rather build a system like this in Laravel. But again; no reason you couldn’t do it in WP

2 Comments

50dollarpretzel says:
October 11, 2022 at 8:22 pm
Are you setting up partnerships with hotels? Or are you just trying to do exactly what [booking.com]) does, but with your own system?
jwktje says:
October 11, 2022 at 9:21 pm
You either integrate with their booking system via an API or there is no way you can be sure a room is available. The easiest way is to go the AirBnB route and keep a booking request as pending until the hotel confirms it. I would create a custom post type per hotel, per room and per booking.
Create listing templates for al hotels and rooms and create a filter search page for users.
Then on a single page template for a room create a form that creates a booking custom post with the needed metadata for the hotel and give it the default “pending” status. This should result in a confirmation email to the booker and a booking request email to the hotel. You can create WordPress user accounts for each hotel. I would create a custom user role for hotel managers.
Based on this role you can show the hotel managers a custom template (only accessible with this role) that shows them their booking requests. You can give them the option to see the requests and manually check it on their end for availability. If they accept the request they can click a button that would change the booking status to confirmed. This action should email the booker.
From that point on I would let the hotel take over communications with the customer. And to finish it all off I would create a page in the CMS for yourself, the admin, that shows the confirmed booking per hotel for each month. This way it’s easy to invoice for commission/referral fees.
All in all, totally doable in WordPress. However it would require knowledge of custom coding this sort of thing. And personally I would rather build a system like this in Laravel. But again; no reason you couldn’t do it in WP

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