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I’ve tried a bunch of plugins and think this is the best for my needs, but it lacks some polish.
The good part is that it is easy to use, easy to install, easy to customize. It syncs with AirBnB, VRBO – basically anyone with an iCal feed – both import and export (some plugins are export only, which is useless). Much good to say here.
The parts that are in the free version are quite good. The best free calendar I’ve found (though there is a competitor who recently added two-way sync, but that plugin is $39 for the equivalent of what you get here for free).
On the other hand, there are some not so good things. There are a lot of typos and minor things like this. With the pro version there are things like if you don’t have a “per child” charge, the logic is there to remove the child field from the entry form, but not the child line item from the price quote.
So I ended up writing some patches to handle things like that, which worries me, because increasingly I am ending up with a forked version and that can become hard to maintain.
Also, it is using a very old version of the Stripe javascript. Given that Stripe a credit card processor and this code will be taking payments, it is essential to upgrade to the most recent version of Stripe, which I also did.
I mentioned this to the developer and offered to submit patches, but all I have gotten is silence. Given how rough the code looks, I’m really, really hesitant to turn on the booking part and actually use this plugin to accept payments.
That’s a shame, because really it works better than Woo Commerce for a vacation rental. With a bit more polish, this would be a hands down, no question 5-star plugin. Hopefully we’ll see a version 2.1 that will correct some of these concerns.
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