Hotel Booking Calendar – Optimand vs VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS

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.

Vik Booking for WordPress The famous Booking Engine and PMS online software for accommodations is now available also for WordPress as a native Plugin! If you are looking for a reliable reservation system for a Hotel, B&B, Villa, Apartments, Hostel or any similar accommodation, then you have found the right plugin. In fact, Vik Booking is a PCI-DSS and OpenTravel compliant hotel & vacation rental Booking Engine used by thousands of properties every day. This is the free version of the plugin, but you can upgrade to the Pro version at any time from your wp-admin section. Experience the power of a true and internal Booking Engine that competes with the best ones of the world! The Pro version is compatible with Vik Channel Manager, the first and only native Channel Manager for WordPress, listed as a Premier Partner of Booking.com since 2018 among the top 20 systems worldwide. Full API connections available with the most famous OTAs such as Airbnb, Expedia and Google Hotel for their new Free Booking Links! Beware of “fake” Channel Manager plugins that only offer unreliable iCal synchronizations with no private access to the OTA’s APIs. Vik Booking was born in 2010 for a different web-software (CMS) than WordPress, and that’s how it became famous. The same powerful framework is now (since 2018) at the service of all webmasters, designers and web-agencies that work with WordPress. It’s definitely the hotel reservation plugin that you, or your client, were looking for. Visit VikWP.com for more details. Interested in our full solution inclusive of the Channel Manager? Visit also E4jConnect. Some of the unique features Custom Rate Plans (Refundable, Flexible, Non Refundable rates). Rooms, Room Types, Listings and Sub-Units management functions. Availability & Pricing Calendars + Occupancy Overview. Bookings Management made right. Feature-rich back-end section for your PMS. Front-end customizable and self-hosted booking process. 12 different Views for the front-end (12 types of Shortcode for your pages) Compliant with any Pricing Model: Occupancy, Nightly, LOS, OBP etc.. Housekeeping features with Tableaux, festivities and room-day notes. Permissions/ACL Management functions for the various WP Users Roles. Multi-language support with built-in translation functions. Channel Manager compatible. We are a certified Channel Manager provider (E4jConnect). Google Hotel Ads certified for Free Booking Links. Driver-based pre-check-in system for guests data collection. Some of Pro version features Seasonal Rates and Rates Calendar with 1-click modification. Booking Restrictions: Min, Max LOS, CTA/CTD, forced Arrival/Departure week days. Custom Payment Gateways (over 60 available on VikWP.com). SMS Gateways for automated notifications. Custom Cron Jobs scheduling for automated tasks (reminders, invoices). Customers Management functions, sales channels and commissions. Graphs and Statistics. Custom Options, Extra Services, Extra Fees. Add, Remove or Switch rooms from existing bookings. PMS Reports with extendable framework (built-in services for various countries). Electronic invoices extendable framework compliant with Italy (Agenzia delle Entrate), Greece (myDATA ΑΑΔΕ) etc.. Guest registration functions and reporting: check-in, check-out, no-show. WhatsApp Business messaging integration with AI support (Channel Manager required). Our award winning solution of Booking Engine + PMS and Channel Manager is all you need on your WordPress website. Interested in, curious about the Pro version? You should take a look with your own eyes at the demo website to see what you can do with Vik Booking. Do not stop at the front-end though, make sure to visit the wp-admin section too. Front-end Demo Website Admin Demo Website