Forms & CRM
HBook – Hotel booking system – WordPress Plugin
HBook is a WordPress booking plugin for hotels, bed-and-breakfasts, holiday apartments, campsites, and similar accommodation businesses. It combines front-end booking components with administration tools for rates, reservations, payments, email notifications, and calendar synchronization.
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Overview
HBook is designed for accommodation businesses that want to accept and manage reservations from a WordPress website rather than rely solely on external booking portals. Site owners configure accommodation types, seasons, rates, booking rules, fees, taxes, and optional extras, then place booking forms, availability calendars, rates tables, or accommodation lists on pages using HBook blocks or shortcodes. The system can support direct payment choices, including deposits or full payment, as well as offline methods, while its administration area provides reservation management and pricing controls. More advanced setups should be tested carefully: seasonal rules, minimum or maximum stays, discounts, coupons, linked accommodations, payment gateways, and iCal synchronization all require configuration beyond simply adding a form. Before launch, verify calculations, emails, payment behavior, external-calendar timing, theme styling, multilingual workflows, and the effect of updates on a staging copy.
Adds booking forms, availability calendars, rates tables, and accommodation lists through HBook blocks or shortcodes.
Supports accommodation types, seasons, rates, fees, taxes, extra services, and configurable booking rules.
Allows deposits or full-amount payment and can offer online or offline payment methods, subject to gateway configuration.
Provides reservation administration with calendar and list views, booking actions, comments, customer details, emails, and printable invoices.
Supports conditional pricing tools such as minimum and maximum stays, check-in and check-out restrictions, special rates, discounts, and coupons.
Offers iCal import, export, and synchronization for coordinating availability with supported external calendars and booking services.
Includes customizable booking and customer-detail forms, front-end text controls, appearance settings, and translation files.
Can be configured for booking requests that require administrator approval before dates are blocked.
Compatibility and setup context
- Requires a WordPress site where the plugin can be installed and activated; the official documentation describes installation through the WordPress Plugins area or manual upload.
- Front-end components can be inserted with HBook blocks or shortcodes, including [hb_booking_form], [hb_availability], [hb_rates], and [hb_accommodation_list].
- The vendor documents multilingual use with plugins such as WPML, Polylang, and qTranslateX; confirm the current language-plugin workflow on staging.
- Payment availability depends on the configured gateway and payment settings; test the complete checkout, confirmation, refund, and notification flow before production use.
- iCal synchronization should be tested against each external calendar or channel because imported availability and synchronization timing can affect booking operations.
- Back up the full WordPress installation before updates, and verify theme styling, page-builder behavior, and custom integrations after updating.
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- HBook provides booking forms, availability calendars, rates tables, accommodation lists, reservation management, payment options, pricing rules, invoices, emails, and iCal synchronization.
- The official documentation explains the setup sequence for accommodation types, seasons, rates, booking forms, payment settings, extras, fees, taxes, emails, documents, and iCal synchronization.
- HBook supports check-in and check-out restrictions, minimum and maximum stays, special rates, discounts, coupons, and conditional booking rules.
- Booking forms, availability calendars, rate tables, and accommodation lists can be added with HBook shortcodes or Gutenberg blocks.
- HBook can be configured as a booking-request system where reservations are approved or declined and dates may be blocked according to confirmation settings.
- The vendor documents multilingual plugin use, payment settings, iCal synchronization, and multiple accommodation booking as configuration areas requiring verification.
- The official update documentation recommends backing up the website before updating and describes automatic, upload, and FTP/File Manager update methods.
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Version 2.1.10
Product Details
Version
2.1.10
Last Updated
Aug 8, 2026
File Size
1.7 MB
License
GPL
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