Hotel Booking Calendar – Optimand vs UP Globe

The Optimand plugin is a dedicated booking interface designed specifically for the hospitality industry. It provides a powerful, local tool to streamline the room reservation process directly from your WordPress site. The core feature is the Smart Calendar: a high-performance availability and rate search tool. This plugin is fully functional and includes all layout templates, custom translations, and granular design options. It allows guests to select dates and room requirements on your site before being redirected to your Booking Engine (BE) URL to complete the reservation. The plugin supports automatic configuration for 16 major booking engines (Bedzzle, Blastness, Bookassist, Bookingexpert, D-Edge, Ennismore, Ericsoft, Ermes, Guestline, Little Hotelier, Mirai, Sabre Synxis, Simple Booking, Travelclick, Verticalbooking, Web Hotelier) and allows manual configuration for any custom booking URL. Key Features: * Fully Local & Functional: All styling, templates, and settings work directly within WordPress. * Smart Redirect: Acts as a bridge, sending guests to your Booking Engine with pre-selected dates and guest information. * Visual Configurator: Match the calendar design to your theme by adjusting colors and layouts without touching any code. * Multi-language & Currency: Built-in management for international guests with customizable text strings. * Dual Integration: Use the provided shortcode or trigger the calendar from any existing button via CSS selectors. * Multiple Presets: Create and manage up to 2 different calendar configurations for your site.

UP Globe is a WordPress plugin that allows you to test your website’s speed and availability from real devices across the world (200 countries / territories) using residential IP addresses. It measures Time to First Byte (TTFB) per country, helping you identify regions where your website is slow, blocked, or degraded. Key Features: * Visualize global performance via dynamic charts. * Test site access from behind firewalls, bans, or CDN blocks. * Each country performs its own DNS lookup, so CDN-based sites are tested against the actual edge node used in that region. Who Is It For? If you serve an international audience or want to verify if your content is truly available globally, UP Globe gives you insights from real users in real places — not just data center probes. Third-Party Libraries: UP Globe uses the following open source libraries: * Select2 — Licensed under the MIT License. License file: /licenses/select2/LICENSE.md * Apache ECharts — Licensed under the Apache License 2.0. License file: /licenses/echarts/LICENSE Freemium Model UP Globe is free to use with no signup required. Each WordPress installation receives 250 free monitoring credits every week. These credits are automatically refreshed and can be used to run global availability and performance checks from real devices in over 200 countries. If you require more checks than the free weekly quota allows, you can optionally purchase additional credits through our platform. There are no subscriptions — you only pay for what you need. The core plugin remains fully functional with the free tier. Once the quota is exhausted, checks will pause until the next weekly reset or until additional credits are added. No features are hidden behind a paywall, and no data is locked or lost due to quota limits. Contact & Support If you have questions or need support, please email [email protected]. Refund Policy UP Globe is fully functional as a free plugin. Every installation receives free weekly credits to monitor your website from real devices in 200+ countries. You only need to pay if you want to run more checks than the free credits allow. Paid credits are non-refundable once used. If a technical issue prevents you from using purchased credits, contact us within 7 days of purchase — we’ll review your case individually. Terms of Service Please visit https://up-globe.com/terms for the full Terms of Service. Privacy Policy Please visit https://up-globe.com/privacy for the Privacy Policy details.