VibeReserve Booking Light vs Store Vacation Lite for WooCommerce

VibeReserve Booking Light is a free, fully-functional appointment booking plugin built for beauty salons, spas, barbershops, wellness centres, clinics, and any service-based business. It ships with a clean admin dashboard and a multi-step booking form for your customers. Let customers book 24/7 from your website and manage everything from one modern dashboard. Everything included (free, unlimited) Multi-step booking form — embedded via shortcode or Gutenberg block Admin dashboard — real-time stats, booking charts and upcoming appointments Unlimited services — add as many services as you need with images, descriptions, pricing, duration and sale prices Unlimited staff — add team members with profiles and weekly schedules Unlimited categories — organise services with custom colours Unlimited locations — manage multiple business locations/branches Booking calendar — interactive calendar view of all appointments Email notifications — automated confirmation emails to customer and admin on every booking Booking management — view, confirm, complete, or cancel bookings Staff roles & access control — assign Admin, Manager, or Staff roles Gutenberg blocks — booking form, services grid, and staff grid blocks Fully responsive — looks great on desktop, tablet and mobile Translation ready — compatible with WPML and Loco Translate Optional premium add-on An optional, separately-distributed premium add-on is available from the author’s website at luminaith.com/vibereserve-booking. The premium add-on adds features that this free plugin does not include (such as online payment gateways, WhatsApp notifications, Google Calendar sync, automated email reminders, blocked dates, customer self-service portal, reviews, revenue reports, iCal export and REST API access). The premium add-on is not required. The free plugin is complete and has no time limits, usage limits, or feature locks. Shortcodes [vibereserve_booking] — full multi-step booking form [vibereserve_services] — services showcase grid (supports category, limit, featured attributes) [vibereserve_staff] — team grid External services This plugin does not connect to any external service by default. All bookings, services, staff and schedules are stored locally in your WordPress database. Emails are sent through your own WordPress site using wp_mail(). The plugin also does not load any JavaScript or CSS from remote CDNs — Chart.js, FullCalendar and Cropper.js are bundled with the plugin and served from your own site.

Store Vacation Lite for WooCommerce, formerly known as Woo Store Vacation, helps WooCommerce store owners temporarily pause new orders during vacations, holidays, maintenance periods, fulfilment delays, or short business breaks. Instead of taking your website offline, the plugin keeps your shop visible while giving you control over whether customers can place new orders. You can schedule a vacation period, disable purchases, display a clear notice, and automatically reopen your store when the vacation period 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 can remain 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 helps maintain your storefront and product visibility 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. Built for WooCommerce store owners Store Vacation Lite for WooCommerce is designed for real store management situations, including personal vacations, holidays, fulfilment delays, temporary stock reviews, maintenance windows, or short business breaks. The plugin is also translation-ready and includes support for multilingual stores using WPML and Polylang. Lite features Schedule a temporary vacation period. Pause purchases during vacation mode. Keep your shop and products visible. Display a vacation notice on WooCommerce pages. Add the notice with a block, shortcode, or Elementor widget. Add a CTA button to your notice. Use start and end date smart tags. Customize notice colors. Keep selected products available. Allow shop managers to manage vacation settings. HPOS compatible. Need more control? Upgrade to Store Vacation Pro Store Vacation Pro adds advanced scheduling, notices, conditions, and storefront behavior controls for stores that need more than one basic vacation period. Upgrade to Store Vacation Pro to unlock more powerful store closure workflows. With Store Vacation Pro, you can: Schedule multiple vacations — Plan unlimited vacation periods in advance and manage upcoming, active, disabled, and running schedules. Set recurring weekday closures — Close your shop on specific weekdays and times every week. Configure opening hours — Display business hours and automatically close the shop outside your configured hours. Create advanced vacation notices — Build reusable notices with rich text, smart tags, templates, CTA buttons, custom styles, and announcement bar display options. Show vacation content with a block — Display custom page content only while the store is in vacation mode. Use smart product availability rules — Control availability by products, categories, tags, product types, shipping classes, WooCommerce brands, and user roles. Control storefront behavior — Keep the default closed-store behavior, replace shop pages with custom content, password-protect shop pages, or allow access through a private link. Hide store elements while closed — Hide prices, add-to-cart buttons, mini cart widgets, or mini cart blocks during vacation mode. Send admin reminder emails — Get notified before the store enters vacation mode. Track vacation orders — Mark and filter orders placed while vacation mode is active. Force close the store instantly — Pause purchases immediately without creating a future schedule. Import and export settings — Move Store Vacation settings between sites more easily. Use the REST API — Access vacation schedule data programmatically. If your store needs recurring closures, multiple schedules, advanced notices, opening hours, or more control over what customers see while the shop is closed, Store Vacation Pro is the best upgrade path.