vachr

The Vachr Short-Term Rental Reservations is the ultimate, all-in-one booking and management solution for WordPress, designed specifically for property owners and managers who need full control without complexity. It transforms your WordPress site into a professional rental platform for apartments, vacation homes, or rooms, offering everything you need for effortless property management in one place.
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Video tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss2JD-JexpM 
Watch this video to see how to manage and use the system.
This plugin is a complete powerhouse that handles everything from initial booking to guest registration. It features a highly flexible pricing engine for creating complex discounts and seasonal rates, fully customizable registration forms with custom fields, and the ability to offer additional services with their own pricing. The entire system is translatable and allows you to tailor the visual appearance of your forms to perfectly match your website’s brand.
This plugin is completely free to use. However, if you find it helpful and would like to support its further development, any small donation (even just a few Euros) is greatly appreciated. Your support will help me implement upcoming features like automated arrival reminders and many others. You can manage an unlimited number of apartments, everything is fully translatable, and it offers all the essential tools without limitations. I use it myself and can personally vouch for its reliability and effectiveness.
Need help with setup? I offer one-time WordPress setup for short-term rentals, including connection to Booking.com, Airbnb, and more for 100 EUR, plus optional yearly light support for 20 EUR.
<h4>Key Advantages</h4>
<ul>
<li>Ultimate All-in-One Tool: Manage everything from bookings and pricing to guest registration and custom services in one intuitive interface.</li>
<li>Flexible Discounts & Pricing: Create advanced seasonal pricing, weekend rates, and dynamic discounts based on stay duration or specific conditions.</li>
<li>Stripe Payments & Flexible Checkout: Accept online card payments via Stripe, and optionally enable bank transfer or cash payment methods.</li>
<li>Custom Registration Forms: Build your own registration forms with custom fields to collect exactly the guest data you need.</li>
<li>Custom Services with Pricing: Offer and manage additional services (like cleaning, breakfast, or bike rentals) with their own configurable prices.</li>
<li>Total Visual Control: Easily customize the look and feel of your booking calendars and forms to match your site’s design.</li>
<li>Two-Way iCal Integration: Automatic synchronization with major travel agencies (Airbnb, Booking.com, VRBO) to eliminate the risk of overbooking.</li>
<li>Fully Translatable: Ready for international guests with multi-language support and easy translation management.</li>
<li>Lightweight & Fast: Optimized for performance to ensure your site remains quick for visitors.</li>
</ul>

Vachr Short-Term Rental Reservations

A professional short-term rental booking engine for WordPress with two-way iCal synchronization.

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CalDav Calendar Viewer fetches and displays events from any standard iCal (.ics) feed directly on your site using a simple shortcode. It supports multiple calendar feeds, each with its own URL and optional username/password for authenticated endpoints.
Key Features:
<ul>
<li>Multiple Calendar Feeds – Configure as many feeds as you need, each with a unique ID.</li>
<li>iCal / RFC 5545 Support – Parses standard <code>.ics</code> calendar feeds including all-day events, times, locations, and descriptions.</li>
<li>Recurring Events – Expands RRULE recurrences (DAILY, WEEKLY, MONTHLY, YEARLY) including BYDAY, BYMONTHDAY, INTERVAL, COUNT, UNTIL, and EXDATE.</li>
<li>DURATION Support – Derives the end time from a <code>DURATION</code> property when <code>DTEND</code> is absent.</li>
<li>Basic Authentication – Supply a username and password per feed for protected calendars.</li>
<li>Encrypted Credentials – Passwords are stored using AES-256-CBC encryption in the database.</li>
<li>Caching – Configurable cache lifetime reduces external HTTP requests (defaults to 1 hour).</li>
<li>Cache Management – View the number of currently cached feed entries and clear them with one click from the admin settings page.</li>
<li>Async Loading – Calendar events are fetched via AJAX so the containing page renders immediately.</li>
<li>Label / Category Filtering – Filter events by iCal <code>CATEGORIES</code> labels using the <code>label</code> shortcode attribute. 
Accepts a comma-separated list; all plain labels must be present on an event for it to be shown. 
Prefix a label with <code>!</code> to exclude events that carry that category. Matching is case-insensitive.</li>
<li>Clickable Events – Events that carry a <code>URL</code> property in the iCal feed are rendered as clickable links.</li>
<li>7-Day Rolling Window – Automatically fetches and displays only the next 7 days of events.</li>
<li>Responsive Event List – Clean event list layout that adapts to all screen sizes.</li>
<li>Event Tooltips – Hover over an event to see its description.</li>
<li>Description Prefix Filtering – Remove lines from event descriptions that start with configurable prefixes. Useful for hiding internal metadata added by calendar applications.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Configuration</h3>
Navigate to Settings → CalDav Calendar Viewer in the WordPress admin panel.
<h4>Adding a Feed</h4>
Click + Add Feed and fill in:
<ul>
<li>Feed ID – A unique lowercase identifier (letters, numbers, hyphens, underscores) used in the shortcode.</li>
<li>iCal Feed URL – The full URL to the <code>.ics</code> calendar feed.</li>
<li>Username – Username for Basic Authentication. Leave blank for public feeds.</li>
<li>Password – Password for Basic Authentication. Stored encrypted. Leave blank to keep the current value.</li>
</ul>
You can configure multiple feeds — each gets its own ID.
<h4>General Settings</h4>
<ul>
<li>Cache Lifetime (seconds) – How long fetched calendar data is cached. Set to <code>0</code> to disable caching. Default: <code>3600</code> (1 hour).</li>
<li>Description Line Prefixes to Remove – Newline-separated list of prefixes. Any line in an event’s description that starts with one of these prefixes is removed from the tooltip. Useful for hiding internal metadata added by calendar apps (e.g. <code>X-APPLE-</code>, <code>Reminder:</code>).</li>
</ul>
<h4>Cache Management</h4>
The settings page shows how many calendar feeds are currently cached. Use the Clear Cache button to delete all cached responses and force fresh fetches on the next page load.
<h3>Usage</h3>
<h4>Basic Shortcode</h4>
<pre><code>[caldcavi_calendar id="my-feed"]
</code></pre>
<h4>Shortcode Attributes</h4>
<ul>
<li><code>id</code> (required) – The feed ID configured in Settings → CalDav Calendar Viewer.</li>
<li><code>label</code> (optional) – A comma-separated list of iCal <code>CATEGORIES</code> values to filter events by. All plain labels 
must be present on an event for it to be shown. Prefix a label with <code>!</code> to exclude events that carry that category. 
Matching is case-insensitive. Omit to show all events.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Examples</h4>
<pre><code>[caldcavi_calendar id="team-calendar"]

[caldcavi_calendar id="hr-events"]

[caldcavi_calendar id="team-calendar" label="Work"]

[caldcavi_calendar id="team-calendar" label="Work,Important"]

[caldcavi_calendar id="team-calendar" label="Work,!Cancelled"]

[caldcavi_calendar id="team-calendar" label="!Private"]
</code></pre>

CalDav Calendar Viewer

Displays events from iCal (.ics) feeds in a responsive list. Supports recurring events, multiple feeds with Basic Auth and encrypted credentials.

Vachr Short-Term Rental Reservations vs CalDav Calendar Viewer