Booking Activities vs Event Post

Booking Activities is a complete booking tool designed for activities. It is very easy to use: Drag and drop your activities onto your schedule. Copy / Paste a shortcode to display a booking form. Or integrate it with WooCommerce products. Pick an event on this calendar and book it. Try this reservation tool live on the demo website, or generate a temporary site to test the backend! Video made with v1.1.1. Booking Activities is constantly evolving. Main features ★ = Unique feature only Booking Activities has. Editor ★ WYSIWYG: Visually build your plannings ★ Drag and drop events directly on the calendar ★ Group your events to easily sell bundles, subscriptions, seminars, or events spreading on several days Create repeated events (with desired frequency and exceptions dates) Unlimited calendars, activities, events and bookings. Permission management system: your managers manage only their own calendars and reservations. E.g.: You can set up Booking Activities for a marketplace (Booking Activities can only be managed from the backend). Booking forms Fully customizable forms in a WYSIWYG editor Shortcodes to display reservation forms or simple calendars ★ Display events from multiple schedules and activities at once ★ One-click booking: just pick the desired event(s) on the calendar and click on “Book”! Custom action when you submit the form or when you click an event: make a reservation, ★ add a product to cart, redirect to a URL Pick multiple events and book them all at once / ★ add them all to cart at once ★ Seamless login / registration: embedded in the form and processed with the reservation. You can also book without account, or display a login form only with a shortcode. 100% responsive: looks great on mobiles, tablets and computers. ★ Set any custom fields and any booking metadata thanks to Advanced Forms add-on Online payments with WooCommerce Calendars are automatically integrated to WooCommerce product pages ★ Attach multiple calendars and activities to one WC product ★ Cart expiration system: bookings in the shopping cart are temporary Auto-validation when payment is completed ★ WooCommerce order status and its bookings status are smartly bound ★ Automatic refunds by WC coupon or via the gateway (if allowed) Manage reservations Find all your bookings at a glance on a calendar and in a list. Use dynamic filters, sorting, and custom columns Booking actions: validate, cancel, reschedule, ★ refund… ★ Display your customer’s bookings calendar and their booking list with a shortcode ★ Your customers can cancel or reschedule their bookings and ask a refund by themselves Export your bookings as CSV and iCal feeds and sync them on spreadsheet and calendar apps (e.g.: Google Sheet, Google Calendar) Availability options Set the booking period: customers can’t book too early or too late Make your events private or bookable by multiple users ★ Set the min and max bookings allowed per user per event Offer some activities to certain user roles only Notifications Automatic emails are sent to both administrator and customer when a booking is made, when its state changes, and when it is rescheduled Fully customize and configure all your email notifications In multilangual sites, emails are sent to your customers in their own language Send activity-specific notifications and reminders via email, SMS and ★ Push thanks to Notification Pack add-on Translation ready Multilingual support with WPML and ★ qTranslate-XT (free plugin) ★ Auto-detect and switch languages, date/time format, first day of the week… Customize most frontend messages directly in the settings Fully translated in English and French. You can also help us translating Booking Activities in your language. The best inside API for developers (PHP actions and filters, JS actions). Use the beautiful and handy FullCalendar Support WP Multisite Support WP privacy tools for exporting and erasing your customers personal data See the whole features list here. Extend these features with add-ons: Resource Availability: Manage your resource availability and assignment Advanced Forms: Add any (paid) custom fields to your booking forms Display Pack: Customize your calendars or set alternative display (datepicker) Prices and Credits: Set per event prices, decreasing prices, price categories (adults, children, etc.), pay with credits Notification Pack: Send activity-specific notifications and booking reminders by email, SMS and Push Order for Customers: You can book / place an order in the name of your customers Waiting List: Join the waiting list for sold-out events (automatic notification / booking) See the whole add-ons list here This plugin is great for… You? To know if Booking Activities is made for you, you just need to understand how it works: You place events on a calendar Customers pick them and book them If this fits your business then give it a try! This booking system has been specially designed to fulfill the needs of most activity providers: For tourism, sport and leisure (nautical, aerial, land, mountain, foot or wheels, outdoor or indoor…) For courses, trainings, exhibitions (education, music, drawing, seminar…) For cultural activities (museum, theatre / cinema, booking events…) For you too, but you are not in this list? Tell us 🙂 We are listening You are the developers. You have always been. Booking Activities has been designed and developed in collaboration with activity providers. Now it is getting better thanks to you. Then feel free to tell us if you miss a feature, if you find a bug or anything to make your booking system better! Documentation Report a bug / Request a feature Contact us at [email protected] (French and English) Requirements WordPress: 3.6 or later PHP: 5.6 or later MySQL: 5.7.22 or later (or MariaDB 10.5.4 or later) WooCommerce: 3.x or later Booking Activities can be used without WooCommerce

Adds some meta-data to posts to convert them into full calendar events. Each event can be exported into ical(.ics), outlook(vcs), or Google Calendar. Geolocation works thanks to openstreetmap. It can also fetch the weather, but doesn’t bring the sun 🙂 Follow @wpeventpost on Twitter for latest news. Examples on event-post.com Post metas Date attributes Begin Date End Date Color Event Status Event Attendance Mode Location attributes Address GPS coordinates Event Virtual Location WooCommerce compliant You can enable event features on Woocommerce products. The event will be displayed on the product page. Moreover, the product price will be displayed in event list, calendar, map and timeline. This, way, you can sell tickets for your events, effortlessly and without any additional plugin. Weather attribute (for a given location and date if possible) Weather Temperature Weather Usage Plugins/themes developpers documentation Blocks & Shortcodes The plugin comes with several blocks/shortcodes which allows to: [events_list]: display a list of events [events_map]: display a map of events [events_cal]: display a calendar of events [event_details]: display a detail of the current event [event_term]: display the date range of a given term based on all events it contains [events_list] Query parameters nb=5 (number of post, -1 is all, default: 5) future=1 (boolean, retrieve, or not, events in the future, default = 1) past=0 (boolean, retrieve, or not, events in the past, default = 0) cat=” (string, select posts only from the selected category, default=null, for all categories) tag=” (string, select posts only from the selected tag, default=null, for all tags) tax_name=” (string, custom taxonomy name) tax_term=” (string, the term for above taxonomy) geo=0 (boolean, retreives or not, only events which have geolocation informations, default=0) order=”ASC” (string (can be “ASC” or “DESC”) orderby=”meta_value” (string (if set to “meta_value” events are sorted by event date, possible values are native posts fields : “post_title”,”post_date” etc…) Display parameters thumbnail=” (Bool, default:false, used to display posts thumbnails) thumbnail_size=” (String, default:”thmbnail”, can be set to any existing size : “medium”,”large”,”full” etc…) excerpt=” (Bool, default:false, used to display posts excerpts) style=” (String, add some inline CSS to the list wrapper) type=”div” (string, possible values are : div, ul, ol default=div) title=” (string, hidden if no events is found) before_title=' ’ (string (default ) after_title=' ’ (string (default ) container_schema=” (string html schema to display list) item_schema=” (string html schema to display item) example: [events_list future=1 past=1 cat="actuality" nb=10] container_schema default value: %list% item_schema default value: %event_thumbnail% %event_title% %event_date% %event_cat% %event_location% %event_excerpt% [events_map] nb=5 (number of post, -1 is all, default: 5) future=1 (boolean, retreive, or not, events in the future, default = 1) past=0 (boolean, retreive, or not, events in the past, default = 0) cat=” (string, select posts only from the selected category, default=null, for all categories) tag=” (string, select posts only from the selected tag, default=null, for all tags) tax_name=” (string, custom taxonomy name) tax_term=” (string, the term for above taxonomy) tile=” (string ([email protected], OpenCycleMap, mapquest, osmfr, 2u, satelite, toner), sets the map background, [email protected]) title=” (string (default) zoom=” (number or empty (default, means fit to points) before_title=' ’; (string (default ) after_title=' ’ *(string (default )** thumbnail=” * (Bool, default:false, used to display posts thumbnails)* excerpt=” (Bool, default:false, used to display posts excerpts) list=” (String (“false”, “above”, “below”, “right”, “left”) default: “false”, Display a list of posts) example: [events_map future=1 past=1 cat="actuality" nb="-1"] [events_cal] cat=” (string, select posts only from the selected category, default=null, for all categories) date=” (string, date for a month. Absolutly : 2013-9 or relatively : -1 month, default is empty, current month datepicker=1 (boolean, displays or not a date picker) mondayfirst=0 (boolean, weeks start on monday, default is 0 (sunday) display_title=0 (boolean, displays or not events title under the day number) tax_name=” (string, custom taxonomy name) tax_term=” (string, the term for above taxonomy) example: [events_cal cat="actuality" date="-2 months" mondayfirst=1 display_title=1] [event_details] attribute string (date, start, end, address, location). The default value is NULL and displays the full event bar [event_details attribute=”address”] Hooks Filters eventpost_add_custom_box_position event_post_class_calendar_link eventpost_columns_head eventpost_contentbar eventpost_default_list_shema eventpost_get eventpost_get_items eventpost_get_post_types eventpost_get_single eventpost_getsettings eventpost_item_scheme_entities eventpost_item_scheme_values eventpost_list_shema eventpost_listevents eventpost_maps eventpost_multisite_get eventpost_multisite_blogids eventpost_params eventpost_printdate eventpost_printlocation eventpost_bulk_edit_fields eventpost_quick_edit_fields eventpost_retreive event-post-rich-result eventpost_shortcode_slug Actions evenpost_init eventpost_add_custom_box eventpost_custom_box_date eventpost_custom_box_loc after_eventpost_generator eventpost_getsettings eventpost_settings_form eventpost_after_settings_form