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<p>If you have a service (accommodation, event or anything else) or product that has to be booked in advance, the Pinpoint Booking System is the best way to help your clients make a reservation – directly from your WordPress website. The booking calendar can be customized in any way you like, from the design to its functionalities, with add-ons.</p>
<p>It’s never been easier to schedule a service – with this booking system, your clients can book an appointment directly from your website, with the help of an AJAX powered, clean and intuitive calendar, with a responsive interface. This booking system makes renting a product a matter or a couple of clicks – all in one page.</p>
<p>If you’re in the accommodations business, this booking system is perfect for you. Reservations can be customized by days or by nights – with morning check-outs. You can add extra amenities or services to your client’s bookings, or offer them discounts and vouchers.</p>
<p>Being an administrator of this booking calendar is just as easy. Pinpoint Booking System is a match for both big and small companies, due to its easily manageable, flexible and intuitive administration area.</p>
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<p><strong>FREE vs PRO</strong></p>
<p>The FREE version is limited to 1 calendar. Some functionality is limited by this restriction, but almost all features are available.</p>
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<h3>Responsive Booking Calendar</h3>
<p>With this WordPress booking calendar plugin, your clients will be able to book your services and check for their availability directly from your WordPress website. This AJAX simple calendar makes it easier for your clients to make appointments because there is no need to refresh the page to make any updates.</p>
<p>This user friendly WordPress booking calendar is perfect for any of your clients – it’s responsive, so it can be viewed on any device and it adapts to your customer’s time zones.</p>
<p>The Pinpoint booking calendar can be customized to a great extent: the client can select how many months to view in the calendar and there is a sidebar, where your customers can search for availability, select the number of rooms or items that they need, use coupons or select extras.</p>
<p>Your client is able to see a summary of their reservation and, if necessary, you can add a custom form that they can fill in – directly in the booking calendar.</p>
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<h4>Book Days</h4>
<p>In your booking calendar, days are displayed with one out of 5 types of availability: none, available, booked, special or unavailable. You can set a special price for groups of days, or select the minimum or the maximum number of days that can be booked.</p>
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<h4>Book Nights</h4>
<p>This feature is perfect for you if you’re in the accommodation business. The booking calendar offers support for morning check-outs. Your clients will have the option of checking-in in the afternoons and checking-out in the mornings – and the prices and availability will be displayed accordingly.</p>
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<h4>Book Hours</h4>
<p>With Pinpoint, you can control your reservations by hours. Hours are treated exactly the same as days, with 5 types of availability, special prices for groups of hours or a minimum or a maximum number of bookable hours.</p>
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<h4>Book Hours Intervals</h4>
<p>Pinpoint booking calendar lets you adjust the reservation time interval even more – with the help of the time slot. You can set hour intervals for your bookings, down to the minute. This gives you increased precision and control over your client’s reservations.</p>
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<h3>Reservations management</h3>
<p>Booking management has never been easier. Booking calendar administrators can add, cancel, edit, reject or delete reservation requests. Bookings can be instantly approved or rejected, but can never overlap – and the booking calendar will update accordingly.</p>
<p>You can choose between a list view or a calendar view to display your clients’ reservations, and they can be printed or exported in 4 types of formats – CSV, XLS, JSON, and ICS.</p>
<h3>BOOKING CALENDAR EXTENSIONS</h3>
<h4>Extras</h4>
<p>With Pinpoint, you can add extra amenities, services or others to your client’s bookings, either with a price or for free. You can set default values for the extras, and whether they are mandatory or not. Also, multiple extras groups can be made to be used with your booking calendar.</p>
<h4>Forms</h4>
<p>In case you need more information from your clients, you can create a custom form that your customers can fill in directly in the booking calendar. You can have text fields, text areas, checkboxes, dropdowns and even custom fields in your form. It’s worth knowing that you can create an unlimited number of custom forms for your calendar.</p>
<h4>Discounts</h4>
<p>In this booking calendar, you can create discounts according to the time interval the reservation is made for. You can decide how the discounts will be calculated – once by day or hour, fixed or a percent – and their default amount.</p>
<h4>Taxes and fees</h4>
<p>If reserving your product or service comes with extra taxes or fees – you can add them to your booking calendar. You can decide their value, and if they will be included or not in the overall reservation price.</p>
<h4>Coupons</h4>
<p>Another useful feature Pinpoint has is the creating of vouchers or coupons for your customers. You can set their default value, the terms and conditions of how they can be used and add them directly into the booking calendar.</p>
<h3>WooCommerce Bookings</h3>
<p>This booking calendar can be greatly extended with the WooCommerce plug-in. With this, you can make the most of the shopping cart, the specific payment gateways and all the other extra features that come with the WooCommerce WordPress plug-in. Additionally, all your reservations data is saved both in Pinpoint and WooCommerce orders.</p>
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<h3>Other WordPress Booking System Features</h3>
<h4>Synchronization via iCal files</h4>
<p>For better reservation management, the Pinpoint Booking Calendar can be synchronized with other calendars – Mac Calendar, Outlook, Google Calendar, iCalendar or Airbnb, via iCal format data.</p>
<h4>Notifications for Booking Requests</h4>
<p>You can send your clients’ reminders and notifications form your booking calendar, either by email or SMS.  You can set up text messages to be sent, either to you or your customers – with Clickatell SMS gateway. For an email notification, you can create custom templates for any type of notice or language, and they will be sent with STMP, PHPMailer class or PHP mail function.</p>
<h4>Support for multiple languages</h4>
<p>If your local language is different from English, or you need to offer your services in multiple languages, the Pinpoint booking system offers support for a couple of languages already. However, if you find that yours is not, you can modify or translate your own texts with a simple “to-do” tool.</p>
<h4>Support for multiple currencies</h4>
<p>You can use any currency with our Pinpoint booking system. However, if you need to, you can customize your own currency to fit your needs, using hooks.</p>
<h4>Online Payment Getaways</h4>
<p>Even though payment cannot be mandatory when a client makes a reservation, it can be an option. With this booking calendar, PayPal is the default payment method, but if you have another preference, you can change that with add-ons. There are 6 payment gateways to choose from  – Stripe, WePay, 2Checkout, Authorize.Net, Braintree, ICEPAY and Mollie.</p>
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Pinpoint Booking System – Version 2

The plugin has major problems with multilingual sites.
I bought the PRO version and technical support never responds.
The worst technical support!

Customer support non-existent


I think the only thing still functioning with this organization is their ability to take your money. While the plugin works fairly well if you don't want to accept payments on its own, its paid Authorize.net plugin is broken, as is its included PayPal functionality. The changelog for the plugin was last updated in 2018 and it relies on an obsolete version of omnipay.



Multiple support requests to try to get it working went unanswered.



Plugins die, I get that, but if the thing doesn't work, don't accept money for it. That's why I consider Pinpoint, "The #1 WordPress Booking Plugin," fradulent. If you find yourself in our position its worth it to call your bank and try to claw your money back.



It's a shame too, because there's a lot to be said for the UX of this plugin. The UI is out-dated and not super accessible, but you can tell that at some point a talented team cared about this plugin.






Inoperable payments and no support

IAI S.A.

<p><a href="https://idobooking.com/booking/" rel="nofollow ugc">IdoBooking</a> is an online booking plugin for your WordPress website. It’s an all-in-one reservation management system with a <a href="https://idobooking.com/booking/functions/reservations/" rel="nofollow ugc">web-based admin panel</a> to update your availability & rates, <a href="https://idobooking.com/booking/functions/channel-manager/" rel="nofollow ugc">synchronize with multiple sales channels</a>, handle <a href="https://www.idobooking.com/booking/integrations/payments/" rel="nofollow ugc">online payments</a>, send automatic booking confirmations and much more.</p>
<h4>Who can use IdoBooking?</h4>
<p>The system is an excellent choice for vacation rentals, apartments, flats, hotels,  B&Bs , camping sites and other accommodation facilities. With IdoBooking plugin, your clients can make overnight, weekly or even monthly reservations. You can sell single rooms or whole villas and even special packages. Your inventory updates automatically after each new reservation is made.</p>
<h4>How does it work?</h4>
<p>Using this plugin, you can connect your IdoBooking account to any WordPress-based website.</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://client4835.idosell.com/en" rel="nofollow ugc">Live demo</a></strong> – check out our test website to see the Booking Engine in action.</p>
<h4>Key features:</h4>
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<li><strong>Booking Management System</strong> – get a professional admin tool, allowing to manage your inventory and rates.</li>
<li><strong>Online Booking Engine</strong> – give clients an easy booking experience directly via your website.</li>
<li><strong>Clear and attractive offer display</strong> – show the world what you’ve got by adding beautiful pictures and engaging descriptions.</li>
<li><strong>Intuitive availability search</strong> – suggest first available dates, limiting frustrating search for the right offer.</li>
<li><strong>Current availability and rates</strong> – synchronize your website with the admin panel and update all information in real-time.</li>
<li><strong>Multiple rates</strong> – create different rates for adults, children, weekends and various seasons.</li>
<li><strong>Customer engagement tools</strong> – fuel your sales and convert more clients with attractive extras, promotions and discounts available to book exclusively via your online calendar.</li>
<li><strong>Multiple colour themes</strong> – match your brand’s look-and-feel by choosing one of available themes.</li>
<li><strong>Online payment system</strong> – minimize administrative work and take secure deposit right at the time of booking.</li>
<li><strong>Mobile friendly interface</strong> – tap into the mobile booking trend and provide tools which adjust easily to any device.</li>
<li><strong>Automatic booking confirmations</strong> – forget the mundane task of sending each booking confirmation manually, let us do it for you.</li>
<li><strong>Reports and analysis</strong> – learn booking habits of your clients and plan your next big move.</li>
<li><strong>Seamless integration with WordPress</strong> – use the plugin or generate ready-to-use codes to customize your booking options.</li>
<li><strong>Channel Manager</strong> –boost your revenue by updating availability in real-time across multiple sales channels and OTA such as Booking.com, Airbnb, Expedia and more.</li>
<li><strong>Unlimited technical support</strong> – our Support Team is always ready to help you get the best value from the IdoBooking system.</li>
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<h4>Powerful booking technology at low cost:</h4>
<p>We offer convenient subscription models for using IdoBooking. You can decide which is more preferable for your business-type.</p>
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<li><strong>Flat fee model</strong> – from <strong>40 USD/EUR/GBP</strong> per month and no commission charged for online reservations</li>
<li><strong>Commission model – 25 USD/EUR/GDB</strong> per year + only 2% commission charged for online reservations</li>
<li><strong>Individual fee</strong> – tailor-made offer with a dedicated infrastructure for big properties</li>
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<p>Find out more details at https://www.idobooking.com/booking/pricelist/.</p>
<h4>How to get it started?</h4>
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<li>Try out a <a href="https://www.idobooking.com/en/booking/demo/" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>DEMO</strong></a> <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> available for <strong>FREE</strong> for 7 days.</li>
<li>Order <a href="https://www.idobooking.com/en/booking/order/" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>the full version</strong> with a <strong>30-DAY TRAIL PERIOD</strong></a> <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> there’s no commission taken during the first 30 days. To start, you only need to pay the installation fee – <strong>25 USD/EUR/GBP</strong>. If in any way you are not satisfied with IdoBooking, we’re going to return the fee back to your account.</li>
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<p>Don’t hesitate to give us a call <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> +48 91 443 66 30 – or drop a message at sales@idobooking.com.</p>


IdoBooking

Add a calendar to a reservation of: a room, suite, night or an attraction. The system sends emails, calculates payments and updates availability.

Pinpoint Booking System – Version 2 vs IdoBooking