=== Advanced Booking Calendar ===
Contributors: BookingCalendar
Tags: Booking Calendar, Booking System, Reservation System, Belegungsplan, Hotel Reservation, Hotel Booking, Booking Engine, Booking, Reservation, Hotel, Reservation Plugin, Accomodation, rooms, responsive, Buchungskalendar, Availability Calendar
Requires at least: 4.2.0
Tested up to: 4.5.2
Stable tag: 1.1.8
License: GPLv2
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

The Booking System that makes managing your online reservations easy. A great Booking Calendar plugin for Accommodations.

== Description ==
The easy way to manage your bookings and raise your occupancy rate. This plugin is made for modern Hoteliers who want to get hold of their online reservations.

= Booking System =
* Fully **responsive**, backend and frontend. Check your availabilities on your phone.
* Bookings stored in **your WordPress database**
* Booking will **generate an email** where you can accept or reject bookings
* Guests will receive emails when their **reservation** is generated, confirmed or rejected
* **Easy to manage prices** by seasons and room types
* All reservations are **easy to access and manage** in the backend.

= Booking Calendar =
* Calendar **overview** for all your active rooms in your Hotel
* Single **calendar for each room type**
* Create calendars for up to 15 rooms
* Every calendar is responsive and **works great on mobile**

= Booking Form =
* Responsive form that **searches for matching rooms** by date and guest count
* Inputs can be stored in **Cookies**
* Generates one reservation per booking

= Analytics =
* Analytic function helps you to identify high seasons
* Find the best pricings for your Hotel
* See how many requests fail and what the average person count is

= Google Universal Analytics =
* Integrates with your own **Google Universal Analytics** account
* User steps in the booking form are tracked and can be used to define a target 
* Every action by the user on the **booking calendar is tracked** and helps you to identify new potentials

= Even more features = 
* Availability check **widget** 
* **Email templates** for each email
* **Cookies** can be enabled to store user inputs
* Select email address to receive booking notifications
* Switch between showing the currency sign before or after the price.
* Ready for **translation**
* Comes with a **German** and **Portuguese** translation

Any questions? Contact us at info@booking-calendar-plugin.com or https://twitter.com/BookingCal
Or visit us at https://www.booking-calendar-plugin.com

== Installation ==

For a complete setup guide take a look at: https://booking-calendar-plugin.com/setup-guide/

1. Install and activate the plugin through your WordPress admin.
2. Check the settings on the "Advanced Booking Calendar" settings page.
3. Create calendars, rooms and seasons
4. Add shortcodes

= Shortcodes =
This plugin uses four different shortcodes you can put on your pages. We recommend to use one page for each shortcode.

* Calendar Overview / **[abc-overview]**
The shortcode [abc-overview] shows all calendars and there availabilities by month.
* Single Calendar / **[abc-single calendar=X]**
The shortcode [abc-single calendar=X] needs a calendar id instead of X. You can find the ids on your calendar settings page. Example [abc-single calendar=1]
* Booking form / **[abc-bookingform]**
The booking form fulfils two tasks: finding the right room for users and generating booking requests. Every user action happens onpage via AJAX, so the page does not reload during interactions. We recommend to enter the shortcode [abc-bookingform] on a single page.

= Widget =
You can also use an availability check widget. Just go to “Appearance / Widgets” and add the widget.

== Screenshots ==

1. **Frontend overview** for all room types
2. **Single calendar** with date selection and "Book Now"-button
3. Booking form **without page reloads** and easy booking
4. **Backend overview** of all confirmed reservations
5. Managing bookings in the backend
6. Easiest way to **manage prices** and calendars
7. **Analytic features** help you to find high request times
8. Various settings to localize this plugin
9. Placeholdes and **email templates**

== Changelog ==

= 1.1.8 =
* Now able to configure the minimum stay. Enter the number of nights for each calendar or season.
* Rejected and canceled bookings can now get deleted.
* Fixed minor CSS issues.

= 1.1.7 =
* The drop down with the number of persons in the booking form now shows the highest number of guests for a single room.
* Error messages in the booking form are now smaller and the empty form fields now have a red border.
* Calendars with only one room are now a single row in the availability overview in the backend.
* Updated Portuguese language pack.

= 1.1.6 =
* Added translations for jQuery Datepicker
* Fixed 'Change room' function

= 1.1.5 =
* Added translations for jQuery Validition
* Some minor bug fixes.

= 1.1.4 =
* Added a widget for an availability check. Users can select dates and quickly start the booking form. 
* Added a Portuguese language pack (thanks to Miguel!)
* After selecting a date on the single calendar and clicking on "book now", the booking form loads automatically now. 
* Fixed missing translations in single calendar.
* Fixed a bug in the price calculation for seasons (thanks to Michael and Leslie).
* Changed notices when adding a calendar in the backend.
* Calendars with existing bookings can't be deleted anymore. 

= 1.1.3 =
* Changed query for table creation.
* Fixed a bug for using cookies.
* Old cookie values do not get deleted, but ignored.

= 1.1.2 =
* Fixed a bug when editing the rooms of a calendar.
* Fixed a bug for certain MySQL versions.

= 1.1.1 =
* Added a setup checklist.
* Added notices when changes happen on Season & Calendar setting page.
* Old cookie values are now getting deleted.
* Fixed a backend problem with the date format 'd/m/Y'.
* Fixed a bug where the confirmation email did not work.
* Fixed a bug on the analytics page when there were no calendars yet.

= 1.1 =
* New setting to change the position of the currency sign (before or after the amount).
* New setting to add tiny powered-by-link below the Calendar Overview.
* New backend module to collect feedback by user.
* Storing plugin version number from now on.
* Fixed an error for date format 'd/m/Y' in the booking form.
* Added CSS to make Calendar Overview and Booking Form look better in some themes.
* Changed ID to shortcode in the WP-admin calendar table.
* Changed button in Booking Form from "Book now" to "Select room".

= 1.0.2 =
* Fixed error that made bookings in the past possible.
* Checkout was called checkin on the single calendar when cookies were disabled.

= 1.0.1 =
* Fixed translations

= 1.0 =
* Initial release