Booking Activities vs WP SMTP Mailer – SMTP7

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

WP SMTP Mailer – SMTP7 allows you to configure and send all outgoing emails via a SMTP server (It works like the postman). This will prevent your emails from going into the junk/spam folder of the recipients. Go to Settings > SMTP7 and configure SMTP then post SMTP credentials. You can set the following options: Specify the from name and email address for outgoing email. Choose to send mail by SMTP or PHP’s mail() function. Specify an SMTP host (defaults to localhost). Specify an SMTP port (defaults to 25). Choose SSL / TLS encryption (not the same as STARTTLS). Choose to use SMTP authentication or not (defaults to not). Specify an SMTP username and password. SMTP Testing server : MailMug.net SMTP Testing : https://youtu.be/fAXevTJ0r8I Support : http://www.ciphercoin.com/contact/ Contact Form 7 Not Sending Emails WordPress SMTP Mailer Features Send email using a SMTP sever. You can use Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail’s SMTP server if you have an account with them. Securely deliver emails to your recipients. Username and password encryption List of SMTP Servers (Outgoing) Gmail :- Host: smtp.gmail.com – Secure(SSL) – Port(465) Gmail :- Host: smtp.gmail.com – Secure(TLS) – Port(587) Outlook.com :- Host: smtp-mail.outlook.com – Secure(TLS) – Port(587) Office365.com :- Host: smtp.office365.com – Secure(TLS) – Port(587) Hotmail.com :- Host: smtp.live.com – Secure(TLS) – Port(587) Yahoo Mail :- Host: smtp.mail.yahoo.com – Secure(TLS) – Port(587) Yahoo Mail :- Host: smtp.mail.yahoo.com – Secure(SSL) – Port(465) Yahoo Mail Deutschland :- Host: smtp.mail.yahoo.com – Secure(SSL) – Port(465) Yahoo Mail Plus :- Host: plus.smtp.mail.yahoo.com – Secure(SSL) – Port(465) AOL.com :- Host: smtp.aol.com – Secure(TLS) – Port(587) AT&T :- Host: smtp.att.yahoo.com – Secure(SSL) – Port(465) NTL @ntlworld.com :- Host: smtp.ntlworld.com – Secure(SSL) – Port(465) BT Connect :- Host: smtp.btconnect.com – No-Encryption – Port(25) BT Openworld :- Host: mail.btopenworld.com – No-Encryption – Port(25) BT Internet :- Host: mail.btinternet.com – No-Encryption – Port(25) Orange :- Host: smtp.orange.net – No-Encryption – Port(25) Orange UK :- Host: smtp.orange.co.uk – No-Encryption – Port(25) Wanadoo UK :- Host: smtp.wanadoo.co.uk – No-Encryption – Port(25) Comcast :- Host: smtp.comcast.net – No-Encryption – Port(587) Yahoo Mail AU/NZ :- Host: smtp.mail.yahoo.com.au – Secure(SSL) – Port(465) O2 Deutschland :- Host: mail.o2online.de – No-Encryption – Port(25) zoho Mail :- Host: smtp.zoho.com – Secure(SSL) – Port(465) T-Online Deutschland :- Host: securesmtp.t-online.de – Secure(TLS) – Port(587) 1&1 (1and1) :- Host: smtp.1and1.com – Secure(TLS) – Port(587) 1&1 Deutschland :- Host: smtp.1und1.de – Secure(TLS) – Port(587) Verizon :- Host: outgoing.verizon.net – Secure (SSL) – Port(465) Verizon (Yahoo hosted) :- Host: outgoing.yahoo.verizon.net – No-Encryption – Port(587) Mail.com :- Host: smtp.mail.com – Secure(SSL) – Port(465) GMX.com :- Host: smtp.gmx.com – Secure(SSL) – Port(465) Yahoo Mail UK :- Host: smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk – Secure(SSL) – Port(465) Airmail :- Host: smtp.airmail.net – Secure(SSL) – Port(465) Bluewin.ch :- Host: smtpauth.bluewin.ch – Secure(SSL) – Port(465) Eartlink.net :- Host: smtpauth.earthlink.net – Secure(SSL) – Port(587) iCloud Mail :- Host: smtp.mail.me.com – Secure(SSL) – Port(587) Rocketmail :- Host: smtp.mail.yahoo.com – Secure(SSL) – Port(465) Rogers :- Host: smtp.broadband.rogers.com – Secure(SSL) – Port(465) Ameritech.net :- Host: smtp.mail.att.net – Secure(SSL) – Port(465) Pacbell :- Host: smtp.mail.att.net – Secure(SSL) – Port(465) Swbell :- Host: smtp.mail.att.net – Secure(SSL) – Port(465) Bellsouth :- Host: smtp.mail.att.net – Secure(SSL) – Port(465) Flash :- Host:- smtp.mail.att.net – Secure(SSL) – Port(465) Note: These SMTP Ports and Settings may be different depending upon your Host Provider. Please contact your Web Server Host for correct details.