Booking Activities vs Simply Buy

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

SimplyBuy is a lightweight WordPress plugin that lets you create simple online shop-style requests or price calculations — completely without WooCommerce, without a shopping cart, and without payment processing. Originally developed as a bulky-waste calculator for clearance companies, SimplyBuy works for any service provider who needs a simple eCommerce-like solution without the complexity of a traditional WordPress online shop plugin. Because SimplyBuy avoids unnecessary features found in typical WordPress shop plugins, it is: Easy to set up Lean in code Ready to use immediately Does not store customer data Does not require shipping rules Free of inventory management SimplyBuy can be used as a WordPress plugin shop-free alternative for services — perfect for anyone needing shop-style functionality without WooCommerce and without a shopping cart. Who is SimplyBuy made for? SimplyBuy is for doers. It is ideal for clearance companies, moving companies, agencies, and service providers who want fast customer inquiries — not a full WordPress shopping plugin. Ideal for: Service providers needing simple online requests Local businesses looking for a WordPress shop plugin free alternative Companies needing a WordPress product plugin without a shopping cart Users who want a simple eCommerce plugin for WordPress Anyone wanting a mini “shop” experience without payment and without WooCommerce Although designed for clearance services, SimplyBuy is flexible and can be used in many industries. What makes SimplyBuy special Works like a simple WordPress online shop plugin, without the complexity of a real shop No WooCommerce, no checkout flow, no payment forms Ideal if you want a WordPress shop without WooCommerce Display simple service “products” or price options Perfect for websites offering quotes, requests, or simple services 100% compatible with any theme Shortcode-based and fully responsive A great alternative to free WordPress shop plugins that are too complex What SimplyBuy is NOT Not a full eCommerce system Not a shopping cart plugin Not for selling products with stock Not for tickets, events, or limited inventory Not a traditional WordPress shop setup Not a WooCommerce replacement for online payments SimplyBuy is a request-first tool, not a payment or checkout plugin. Multilingual support SimplyBuy works on multilingual WordPress sites with the following caveats: Polylang (recommended): Fully supported. Product search and selection respect the current page language. The plugin’s automatic page creation (Cart, Checkout, Thank You) creates one page per active Polylang language and links them as translations. WPML: Not officially supported yet. Single-language sites work fine. On multilingual WPML setups, the product search may return results from all languages. Weglot: Not applicable — Weglot translates the page output, not the database. SimplyBuy’s product database remains in the source language; Weglot then translates the displayed text on the fly. No multilingual plugin: Works as a single-language site. All products in the database are shown, regardless of the WordPress site language. The “language” of the products is whatever the site owner typed when creating them. The plugin’s user interface ships with English (default) and German translations. Other site languages will fall back to English for the plugin’s own labels (product titles and descriptions are not affected — they come from the database as-is).