Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more! vs Simple Bike Rental

Events Manager is a full-featured event calendar, bookings, appointments, scheduling, and registration management plugin for WordPress ideal for everything from simple meetups to full-scale event planning. Built with flexibility, reliability and powerful features in mind. Demo Documentation Tutorials Main Features NEW Integrate easily with your favourite AI via MCP, unlock the power of AI-powered Events! NEW API Rest Integration NEW EU Compliance Tools for “Right of withdrawal” (EU ‘Widerrufsbutton’) Beautiful calendars, search pages, lists, grids and booking forms to enhance your site events. Easy event registration (single day with start/end times) Recurring and long (multi-day) event registration Build complex recurrence patterns with exclusion/blackout dates NEW Multiple timeslots within the day for events with advanced creation options Overlapping timeslots Buffer between timeslots Bookings Management (including approval/rejections, export CVS, and more!) Multiple Tickets Fully-featured graph and statistics including bar/line/pie with comparison and stacking MultiSite Event Support Cross-Network Event Sharing – show your events and booking fromss on other subsites or main site Network-wide Global Booking Management BuddyPress and BuddyBoss Support Create modular (independent) event subsites or inter-networked events Multiple custom event types (Archetypes), such as Workshops, Events, Webinars, Appointments etc. Customize your labels, slugs and CPT names Enable or disable specific features for specific event archetypes. Multiple Location Types Physical Locations Online Events (URLs) Zoom Webinars/Meetings Integration BuddyPress & BuddyBoss Support Submit Events Group Events Personal Events Activity Stream more on the way Guest/Member Event submissions Assign event locations and view events by location Event categories Easily create custom event attributes (e.g. dress code) Google Maps (see our API usage recommendations) Advanced permissions – restrict user management of events and locations. Widgets for Events, Locations and Calendars Fine grained control of how every aspect of your events are shown on your site, easily modify templates from the settings pages and template files iCal Feed (single and all events) Add to Google Calendar buttons RSS Feeds Compatible with SEO plugins Timezone Support – create events in different timezones Plenty of template tags and shortcodes for use in your posts and pages Gutenberg block editor support, with native blocks for the Events Calendar, Events List, and Locations List — usable in posts, pages, the site editor and the widget editor Actively maintained and supported Lots of documentation and tutorials NEW Gutenberg Supported And much more! AI Integration AI is here, and we’re on board! Check out what’s possible with our new and evolving AI integration possibilities: Data Privacy and GDPR Compliance We provide the tools to help you be GDPR compliant, including: export/erasure of data via the WordPress Privacy Tools, including booking, event and location data consent checkboxes on our booking, event and location forms on the frontend settings to control what can be exported/erased as well as where/when to place consent requests sample text for your site privacy policy describing what Events Manager does with personal data Premium Features We have a premium Pro add-on for Events Manager which not only demonstrates the flexibility of Events Manager, but also adds some important features including but not limited to: WooCommerce integration (sold separately) PayPal, Stripe, Authorize.net, Square, Xero and Offline Payments Custom booking forms Individual Attendee custom forms Upload fields for bookings, attendees and users Printable Invoices and Tickets Send PDF tickets/invoices by email automatically Check In/Out Move bookings to other dates/times QR Scanning Manage bookings on your phone Check In/Out users Waitlists Automation – ultimate flexibility in automation! Triggers: X time before/after events start When a booking status changes When a booking was booked x time ago Actions Send Webhook (Zapier, MS Automation and many other services) Send Email Send WhatsApp, SMS, Telegram notifications WhatsApp, SMS, Telegram integration and interactive flows Coupon Codes Custom booking email per event and gateway Faster support via private Pro forums For more information or to go pro, visit our plugin website. Additional Plugin Integrations Whilst there’s many third party integrations with our own plugin, here’s some we’ve integrated ourselves! Included in Events Manager (automatic integration) BuddyPress WP FullCalendar Thrive Automator Additional Add-Ons Zoom WPML Multilingual Sites

Simple Bike Rental is a lightweight and user-friendly plugin designed to help you manage bicycle rentals directly from your WordPress site. It’s perfect for small businesses, bike shops, and tour operators who need a simple booking system without complex setup. Main features: Add and manage bikes from the backend Daily and hourly booking modes Availability calendar in the admin panel Frontend booking form with AJAX validation Email notifications for admin and customers No third-party dependencies Just install, configure, and start receiving bookings in minutes. Read the documentation to get started quickly. Visit the official website to learn more about the plugin and Pro version. You can also explore a live demo of the booking flow. Usage To display the booking form on the frontend, you can use one of the following shortcodes: [simpbire_bike_rental_split] Modern two-column layout with instant catalog view. Recommended for most use cases. [simpbire_bike_rental] Standard single-column layout. [simpbire_bike_rental layout=”centered”] Centered single-column layout optimized for full-width pages and modern landing pages. The split layout displays the booking form on the left and the list of bicycles on the right. Without selecting dates, it works as a catalog: clicking a bike opens its detail page (if a details URL is set). After selecting dates, it switches to booking mode and allows selecting a bike for reservation directly from the grid. The centered layout provides: – improved spacing and alignment – better distribution of bicycle cards – improved tablet and mobile responsiveness – a cleaner frontend appearance for modern themes You can add these shortcodes to any post or page. The form will automatically load available bikes and booking options based on your settings. Tip: Create a dedicated page (for example, “Book a Bike”) and place the shortcode there for easy access. Bike grid (catalog view) You can display a grid of available bikes using this shortcode: [simpbire_bike_grid columns=”4″ type=”e-bike”] Available attributes: – columns: number of columns in the grid – type: filter bikes by type (optional) Each bike in the grid includes a “Check availability” button that links to the bike detail page (if configured). Single bike page To display the booking flow for a specific bike, use the single bike shortcode: [simpbire_bike id=”4″ show_calendars=”true” months=”3″] This shortcode is typically used together with the bike grid on a dedicated bike detail page to create a complete booking flow. Available attributes: – id: the bike ID (required) – show_calendars: show availability calendars (true or false) – months: number of months to display in the calendar Mini availability calendars You can display compact availability calendars for a specific bike using this shortcode: [simpbire_mini_calendar bike_id=”1″ months=”3″ legend=”1″] Available attributes: – bike_id: the bike ID (required) – months: number of months to display – legend: show the availability legend (1 to enable, 0 to disable) Linking the bike details page To use the booking flow “bike grid → single bike page”, each bike must be linked to its detail page using the “Bike details URL” field. How it works: – The [simpbire_bike_grid] shortcode displays a list of bikes with a “Check availability” button. – If a details URL is set for a bike, the button and the bike image link to that page. – The destination page must contain the shortcode [simpbire_bike id=”X”], where X is the bike ID. Required setup: – Create a dedicated page for the bike (or for each bike type). – Add the shortcode [simpbire_bike id=”X”] to that page. – Open the bike settings in the admin panel. – Set the “Bike details URL” field to the page URL. Note: If the details URL is not set, the “Check availability” button will be disabled and the bike will not be clickable. For detailed documentation, please refer to the online docs Links Learn more about simple bike rental (advanced features): https://www.simplebikerental.com Learn how to enable online payments (Pro version): https://www.simplebikerental.com/documentation/payments/