Simple Bike Rental vs Store Vacation Lite for WooCommerce

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/

Formerly known as Woo Store Vacation — trusted by WooCommerce stores since 2017. Going on vacation, closing for a holiday, or pausing for a fulfilment break? Store Vacation Lite for WooCommerce lets you temporarily stop taking new orders while keeping your store visible to customers. Instead of taking your website offline, the plugin keeps your shop browsable and your products indexed while giving you control over whether visitors can place new orders. Schedule a vacation period, disable purchases, display a clear notice, and automatically reopen your store when the vacation ends. This is useful when you want to: Take time off without receiving new orders. Pause checkout while still letting customers browse products. Show a clear vacation or holiday notice on your store. Let customers know when your shop will reopen. Keep selected products available during vacation mode. Avoid confusion, missed expectations, or unnecessary support messages. Pause WooCommerce orders while keeping your store visible When vacation mode is active, your shop remains online and accessible to visitors. Customers can still browse your products, but purchases can be paused by disabling the cart, checkout, and add-to-cart buttons. This preserves your storefront and product visibility — and your SEO ranking — while preventing new orders during periods when you are unavailable. Schedule your vacation dates Set a start date and end date for your vacation period based on your site’s local timezone. Store Vacation Lite for WooCommerce automatically applies the vacation settings during the scheduled period and restores normal store behavior when the vacation ends. You can also deactivate vacation mode manually at any time if you return earlier than planned. Display a custom vacation notice Create a clear vacation message to explain why the store is temporarily closed and when customers should return. The vacation notice can include: Custom message text. Start and end date smart tags. Custom text and background colors. A call-to-action button. A custom button URL, such as a contact page. The notice appears on WooCommerce shop and product pages. You can also place it on other pages using the Store Vacation Notice block, Elementor widget, or [woo_store_vacation] shortcode. Control product availability during vacation mode Sometimes you may want to pause most of your store while keeping selected products available. Store Vacation Lite for WooCommerce includes condition settings that let you keep specific items purchasable while vacation mode is active. You can exclude selected: Products. Product categories. Product tags. Product types. Shipping classes. This gives you more flexibility than fully closing the entire store — perfect for keeping digital downloads, gift cards, or pre-orders available while pausing physical fulfilment. Built for real store situations Store Vacation Lite for WooCommerce is designed for the closure situations WooCommerce merchants actually run into: personal vacations, holidays, illness, family emergencies, fulfilment delays, stock reviews, maintenance windows, or short business breaks. The plugin is translation-ready and includes configuration support for multilingual stores using WPML and Polylang. Lite features Schedule a temporary vacation period. Pause purchases automatically during vacation mode. Keep your shop and products visible while paused. Display a vacation notice on WooCommerce shop and product pages. Add the notice anywhere with a block, shortcode, or Elementor widget. Add a call-to-action button to the notice. Use {{start_date}} and {{end_date}} smart tags in your message. Customize notice text and background colors. Keep selected products, categories, tags, product types, or shipping classes available. Allow shop managers to manage vacation settings. HPOS compatible. Translation-ready with WPML and Polylang support. Need more control? Upgrade to Store Vacation Pro Store Vacation Pro adds advanced scheduling, saved-cart tools, storefront controls, and vacation reporting for stores that need to do more than pause purchases. Upgrade to Store Vacation Pro to unlock the full workflow. With Store Vacation Pro, you can: Plan closures for real business rhythms Schedule unlimited vacation periods — plan holidays and seasonal breaks months in advance. Set recurring weekday closures — close every Sunday, every Monday morning, or any custom pattern. Configure opening hours — publish your business hours and auto-close the shop outside them. View a calendar of every upcoming, active, and past closure at a glance. Turn closures into conversions, not lost customers Save Cart for Later — customers can save their cart before you close, then restore it in one click when you reopen. Shareable saved cart link — customers copy, bookmark, or share their cart across devices. Email the saved cart — send the restore link straight to the customer’s inbox from the storefront. Allow cart building while checkout is closed — shoppers keep adding items during vacation and check out the moment you reopen. Countdown timer — show a live counter to your reopening date directly in the notice. Announcement bar — display a site-wide vacation banner across every page. Advance notice before closure — warn customers days ahead so they can order early. Measure what happens while you’re away Vacation reports dashboard — see cart interactions, checkouts, revenue, and unique customers during each closure. Recent activity table — every add-to-cart, cart update, saved cart, and checkout that happened while paused, with product and customer resolution. Filters and CSV export — narrow by date range and vacation period, export the raw event log. Configurable data retention — auto-prune old event logs after your chosen number of days, weeks, months, or years. Track vacation orders — flag and filter orders placed while vacation mode was active, right from the WooCommerce Orders screen. Control exactly what customers see Replace shop pages with custom content — serve your own vacation landing page instead of the default product grid. Password-protect shop access — gate the store behind a shared password. Private access links — send unique URLs that unlock the store for approved customers. Bypass restrictions for unlocked visitors — approved shoppers check out normally while the rest of the store is paused. Hide prices, add-to-cart, and mini cart — strip commerce UI entirely during vacation, converting the store into a browsable catalog. Advanced vacation notices — reusable templates with smart tags, rich text, CTAs, and custom styling. Vacation Content block — build custom pages that only appear while the store is in vacation mode. Fine-tune product availability Exclude by product, category, tag, product type, shipping class, WooCommerce brand, or user role. Copy conditions between schedules so you don’t rebuild the same exceptions for every closure. Ship it with confidence Admin reminder emails — get an email before each vacation starts. Dashboard widget — see upcoming closures at a glance on your WP admin dashboard. Force close the store instantly — pause purchases immediately without setting up a schedule. Import and export settings — move Store Vacation configuration between sites. REST API — access vacation schedule data programmatically. If your store needs recurring closures, multiple schedules, opening hours, saved carts, vacation reporting, or more control over what customers see while the shop is closed, Store Vacation Pro is the best upgrade path.