WordPress plugin
Nidora Nightly Stays Pro
Direct bookings for one holiday rental inside WordPress: seasons, calendar sync and Stripe, with no commission
Take your own bookings, in your own WordPress, in an afternoonYou already have a website, and the plugin that would let it take bookings is built for a hotel, so setting it up costs you an afternoon you do not have and every booking you do not take on your own site pays a commission.
For the owner of one cottage, one flat or a handful of rooms. Not for hotels.
What you get
What is in it
$199 once- A unit for each room, flat or cottage. Up to ten of them.
- A price per night, a different weekend price, a cleaning fee, a minimum stay and a maximum party size, per unit.
- An availability calendar on your page that renders on the server: it works with JavaScript switched off and a search engine can read it.
- A booking form that prices the stay before the guest commits.
- A guard against double bookings that is not a hopeful comment in the code: the dates are checked again when the booking is sent, the unit is locked while it is written, and the range is read once more afterwards. If two people press the button in the same second, the second one is told.
- Confirm each request yourself, or let it confirm the ones that fit.
- Plain text emails to the guest and to you, with your own payment instructions in them.
- An iCal feed for each unit, at an address only you know, so Airbnb and Booking.com can see the nights you have let directly.
- Dates you can close by hand, for a repair or for your own family.
- Two blocks, two shortcodes. No page builder needed.
- Seasons. A rate table with a name, a date range, a price per night, a minimum stay and a priority. Overlapping seasons resolve by priority, so fair week inside high summer is one row, not a rebuild. Paste your rate card in as six columns and the prices are done.
- Two way calendar sync. The free plugin tells the channels what you have let. Pro reads their calendars back, every fifteen minutes, so a booking made on Airbnb closes those nights on your own site too. When a feed cannot be read, the nights it closed stay closed and you get an email: a channel being down must never open a night that is let.
- Stripe. Card payment through Stripe Checkout, so the card number never touches your website. The whole stay, or a deposit of whatever percentage you choose.
Pro, which is what this page is selling:
Reasons to buy it
- The calendar sync is the hard part and it is done properly. Reading somebody else's iCalendar feed is where these plugins quietly fail: folded lines, a missing end date, an event with a time instead of a date, an event marked cancelled, a 404 page returned instead of a calendar. All of those are handled, every one of them is in the test suite, and the test suite writes a feed and reads it back to prove the two halves agree.
- The seasons table is a table. Six columns, paste from a spreadsheet, copy back out as text. Not a wizard, not a modal, not a tab inside a tab.
- No account, no lock in, and the code is readable. No composer, no build step, no external service except Stripe and the channel addresses you type in yourself. GPL, like WordPress: if you stop paying, nothing switches off.
Reasons not to
- It does not bring you a single guest. It takes bookings from people who are already on your website. If nobody visits your website, this will not change your year, and no plugin will.
- It is not a channel manager. It stops a channel from selling a night you have already let, which is the part that costs money. It does not push your prices or your descriptions out to them, and it cannot sync a channel listing that covers two of your units, because the feed does not say which one was booked.
- It is for one property with up to ten units. If you have a hotel, with a front desk, housekeeping, per person pricing or rooms by the hour, buy something built for a hotel. The plugin will say so too if you add an eleventh unit.
What it costs you, and what a commission costs you
A commission is a percentage of every booking, for as long as you let the place. This is a fixed price.
Booking.com's standard commission is around 15 per cent, and higher on their visibility programmes. On a booking of 1,000 of your own currency, 15 per cent is 150. That is the arithmetic; what it is worth to you depends entirely on how many bookings you can get people to make on your own site, and this plugin cannot do that part for you.
199, once, and it is yours. No yearly renewal.
For comparison, and these are the published prices of the two plugins most people land on: MotoPress Hotel Booking is 139 a year or 499 for life, and HBook is 99.
What it does not promise
No figures about what you will earn. No timeline. Nobody can honestly tell you how many direct bookings your website will get, and anyone who does is guessing with your money.
Needs
WordPress 6.5 or newer, PHP 8.1 or newer, and the free Nidora Nightly Stays plugin, which is included with your purchase. It is not in the WordPress plugin directory yet: we will send it there, and the volunteers who review it set the date, not us. You download both zips together, so you can install the whole thing the day you buy without waiting for anybody. For card payments, a Stripe account. For the calendar sync, the export address your channel gives you.
Not for you if
- Hotels and anything with a reception desk.
- Anyone who needs rooms by the hour, or appointments. This plugin counts nights.
- Anyone who wants the plugin to find them guests.
- Anyone who needs to sync one channel listing to several units at once.
- Anyone who wants to take cards without a Stripe account, which this needs.
The details
- In the download
- nidora-nightly-stays-pro.zipZIP, 32 KB
- nidora-nightly-stays.zipZIP, 64 KB
- Requirements
- WordPress 6.5 or newer, PHP 8.1 or newer. The free Nidora Nightly Stays plugin is in the download, so there is nothing else to find.
- Licence
- GPL
- Refunds
- Within 14 days, no reason needed. Refund policy
- Payment
- By Paddle, our merchant of record. Terms and privacy
$199, paid once.
Guarantee
Fourteen days. Email and you get your money back, with no questions and no form to fill in. It is software: if it does not fit your property, keeping your money would only buy a bad review.