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Transform your WordPress website into a powerful direct booking channel with calendar synchronization for Airbnb, Booking.com and other OTAs!
Host Domination Booking Engine is a WordPress booking engine, reservation request system and iCal calendar synchronization plugin designed for vacation rentals, holiday homes, apartments, villas, bed and breakfasts, guest houses, small hotels and other accommodation businesses.
Take a look at the live demo website and see for yourself what you can build and manage with Host Domination Booking Engine, including the option to show or hide prices in the calendar.
Booking Engine Free Demo
The plugin is open source, self-hosted and compatible with any WordPress theme. It works directly inside your WordPress website without requiring a mandatory Host Domination cloud account or a subscription to a proprietary booking platform. The Free version does not expire.
Hosts and property managers can display an availability calendar, receive direct booking requests, review guest details in WordPress and synchronize unavailable dates through standard iCal and ICS calendar feeds.
The Free version can automatically check one connected external iCal feed approximately every 30 minutes and also provides a manual Refresh Calendars option.
Host Domination Booking Engine can be used alongside Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo and other OTA or reservation platforms that provide a compatible iCal or ICS URL. You can continue using the booking channels you already work with while adding a direct booking form to your own website.
Direct booking requests from your WordPress website
Turn your WordPress website into an additional direct booking channel.
Guests can select and submit:
Check-in and check-out dates
Number of guests
Full name
Email address
Contact phone number
Additional notes
Mandatory Privacy Policy consent before submission
New requests appear in the WordPress administration area. Administrators can review, confirm, reject or delete them.
Pending requests do not become confirmed reservations automatically. Once a request is confirmed, its dates are included in the internal availability calendar and in the website iCal export feed.
The booking engine can be added to Gutenberg, Elementor or another WordPress page builder that supports shortcodes.
Each calendar generates its own shortcode. For example:
[hdbe_booking_calendar id=”123″]
Replace 123 with the ID shown in the Created Calendars table after saving your calendar.
Front-end availability calendar
Display a responsive booking calendar that allows guests to select arrival and departure dates directly from your website.
The calendar shows:
Available dates
Unavailable dates
Confirmed website reservations
Reservations imported from external iCal feeds
Selectable check-in and check-out boundaries
The minimum stay required
An optional base price per night
Today can be selected when it is available. Guests can select dates up to 13 months in advance.
The calendar is suitable for:
Vacation rentals
Holiday apartments
Villas
Guest houses
Bed and breakfasts
Small hotels
Rooms
Campsites
Short-term rentals
Property rental businesses
Calendar and accommodation settings
Create a calendar for your room, apartment or accommodation and configure:
Calendar or accommodation name
Maximum number of guests
Minimum number of nights
Optional base price per night
EUR or USD currency
Whether the nightly price is displayed in the public calendar
External iCal or ICS calendar URL
Required Privacy Policy URL for GDPR and personal-data information
Website iCal export URL
The Free version supports one main accommodation calendar.
Host Domination Booking Engine PRO enables multiple calendars for different rooms, units or properties.
Minimum stay validation
Set the minimum number of nights required for the accommodation.
If a guest selects a shorter stay, the booking form displays a validation message and prevents the request from being submitted until a valid date range is selected.
Optional nightly price display
The Free version allows you to configure a base price per night and display it on available dates in the public calendar.
Host Domination Booking Engine PRO adds advanced pricing tools for day, month and yearly pricing rules, including different prices for selected dates and periods.
iCal and ICS calendar synchronization
Host Domination Booking Engine supports standard iCal and ICS calendar feeds.
You can:
Import unavailable dates from an external calendar
Import reservations from a compatible OTA calendar
Check the connected external calendar automatically approximately every 30 minutes
Run an immediate manual import through Refresh Calendars
Generate a website iCal export URL
Export confirmed website reservations
Export imported and blocked periods through the website calendar feed
Connect the website calendar to other compatible reservation systems
Compatible sources may include:
Airbnb
Booking.com
Vrbo
Google Calendar
Apple Calendar
Tripadvisor
Other vacation rental platforms
Property management systems that provide an iCal or ICS URL
Agoda or Expedia-connected properties when the platform, account or connected property management system provides a compatible iCal feed
Compatibility depends on the availability and format of the calendar feed supplied by each external service.
Automatic calendar synchronization in the Free version
The Free version supports:
One external iCal or ICS URL
An immediate calendar import when the external URL is saved
Automatic checks approximately every 30 minutes through WordPress scheduled tasks
Manual updates at any time through the Refresh Calendars button
One website iCal export URL for the accommodation calendar
The automatic interval is approximate. WordPress scheduled tasks are normally triggered when the website receives traffic, and their execution may also depend on the hosting environment and server configuration.
The external OTA or booking platform independently controls how frequently it publishes calendar changes and how often it reads the Website iCal Feed URL generated by the plugin. Some platforms refresh imported calendars automatically at their own intervals, while others may provide or require a manual refresh option.
For this reason, iCal synchronization is not guaranteed to be instantaneous or real time. You can force an immediate import from the connected external feed at any time by clicking the Refresh Calendars button.
Host Domination Booking Engine PRO applies automatic synchronization to up to three external iCal or ICS feeds for each accommodation calendar.
Two-way iCal calendar workflow
A typical synchronization workflow is:
Export the iCal or ICS URL from Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo or another compatible platform.
Paste the external URL into Host Domination Booking Engine.
Save the calendar. The plugin performs the initial import immediately.
Copy the Website iCal Feed URL generated by the plugin.
Import the generated URL into the external booking platform.
Confirm direct booking requests received from your website so that their dates are included in the exported feed.
The plugin checks the connected external calendar approximately every 30 minutes. You can also use Refresh Calendars at any time to run an immediate manual import.
The plugin imports and exports availability through standard calendar feeds. It does not use the private APIs of the listed booking platforms.
Reduce the risk of double bookings
Calendar synchronization helps keep availability consistent between your WordPress website and compatible external booking channels.
Imported reservations are displayed as unavailable dates in the booking calendar. Confirmed direct reservations are included in the website iCal feed and can be imported by compatible OTA platforms.
Because iCal updates are periodic rather than instantaneous, no iCal-based system can guarantee real-time synchronization or completely eliminate the possibility of overlapping reservations.
Always verify the calendar refresh settings used by every connected OTA or reservation platform.
Reservation management in WordPress
Manage direct requests from the WordPress dashboard.
The booking area displays information such as:
Guest name
Guest email
Contact phone number
Check-in date
Check-out date
Number of guests
Selected calendar or accommodation
Guest notes
Request status
Administrators can:
Confirm a request
Reject a request
Delete a booking or request
Review synchronized external reservations
View a monthly availability overview
Responsive and mobile-friendly booking form
The front-end booking calendar is designed for desktop computers, tablets and smartphones.
Guests can browse availability, choose their dates and submit the direct booking request without leaving the accommodation website.
Built for hosts and property managers
Host Domination Booking Engine can be used by:
Individual hosts
Vacation rental owners
Airbnb hosts
Property managers
Bed and breakfast owners
Apartment managers
Villa rental businesses
Small hotels
Guest houses
Short-term rental agencies
WordPress developers
Web agencies creating accommodation websites
The plugin is not limited to Host Domination customers and can be installed on any compatible WordPress website.
Free version features
The Free version includes:
One accommodation calendar
Direct booking request form
Responsive front-end availability calendar
Check-in and check-out selection
Guest number selection
Guest contact details and notes
Request confirmation, rejection and deletion
Minimum-stay validation
Optional base nightly price displayed in the calendar
One external iCal or ICS URL
Immediate import when the external calendar is saved
Automatic iCal checks approximately every 30 minutes through WordPress scheduled tasks
Manual iCal updates at any time through Refresh Calendars
One website iCal export URL
Import of external reservations and unavailable dates
Export of confirmed website reservations
WordPress administration dashboard
Monthly availability overview
Gutenberg and Elementor shortcode compatibility
No time-limited trial
No mandatory Host Domination cloud subscription
Interested in Host Domination Booking Engine PRO?
Curious about the PRO version?
Take a look at the live demo website and see for yourself what you can build and manage with Host Domination Booking Engine PRO.
Front-end Demo Website
Host Domination Booking Engine PRO
Host Domination Booking Engine PRO extends the booking system with advanced tools for hosts and property managers who need multiple accommodations, multiple calendar sources, flexible prices and online payments.
PRO features include:
Multiple accommodation, room or property calendars
Multiple-room or property selector on the front end
Up to three external iCal or ICS URLs for each calendar
Automatic synchronization of up to three external iCal or ICS feeds for each accommodation calendar
Unified iCal calendar generation
iCal calendar merger and calendar unifier
One consolidated website iCal URL generated from multiple connected feeds for the same accommodation calendar
Advanced day, month and yearly pricing
Different prices for specific dates and periods
Advanced date availability controls
Blocking of selected dates or entire months
Stripe online payments
Payment status management
Expanded reservation management
Technical support
Multiple external calendars with PRO
The PRO version allows up to three external iCal or ICS feeds to be connected to each accommodation calendar.
For example, the same property calendar can import unavailable dates from:
Airbnb
Booking.com
Vrbo
The plugin combines the imported events in the WordPress availability calendar so that dates already occupied through one connected channel are unavailable on the direct booking website.
Unified iCal calendar and calendar merger
Host Domination Booking Engine PRO can work as an iCal calendar unifier for each accommodation calendar.
Multiple connected iCal or ICS feeds are imported into one property calendar. The plugin then generates one Website iCal Feed URL containing the combined confirmed and unavailable periods.
This unified URL can be imported into another compatible:
OTA or booking platform
Property management system
Calendar application
Reservation tool
WordPress website
Availability system that accepts only one iCal URL
This feature is useful for:
Combining several booking-channel calendars
Creating one master availability feed for an accommodation
Merging unavailable dates from different sources
Generating one iCal link from multiple connected feeds
Sharing consolidated availability with another system
Simplifying multi-channel calendar management
Each accommodation calendar has its own website iCal feed. The unified feed consolidates the sources connected to that specific calendar.
Multiple accommodation calendars
PRO enables multiple calendars for different rooms, apartments, units or properties.
The following shortcode displays all active calendars and allows the guest to switch between them:
[hdbe_booking_calendars]
A specific calendar can still be displayed with its generated shortcode:
[hdbe_booking_calendar id=”123″]
Advanced pricing
Host Domination Booking Engine PRO provides additional pricing controls, including:
Standard nightly price
Prices for individual dates
Daily pricing rules
Monthly pricing rules
Yearly or seasonal pricing rules
Different prices for selected periods
Block dates and months
PRO availability controls can be used to block selected dates or entire months for:
Maintenance periods
Owner stays
Seasonal closures
Private events
Temporary unavailability
Dates managed outside the website
Stripe online payments
Host Domination Booking Engine PRO supports online payments through Stripe.
A Stripe account is required. Stripe may apply its own transaction fees, account requirements and service terms independently of Host Domination Booking Engine.
Why use Host Domination Booking Engine?
Host Domination Booking Engine combines essential accommodation-management tools in one WordPress plugin:
Direct booking request system
WordPress reservation dashboard
Availability calendar
iCal and ICS calendar synchronization
External calendar import
Website calendar export
Minimum-stay controls
Optional base nightly price
Multiple calendars with PRO
Automatic iCal synchronization approximately every 30 minutes
Unified iCal feed with PRO
Advanced pricing with PRO
Stripe payments with PRO
It is suitable for hosts who want to add direct booking requests to their own website while continuing to use external OTA platforms.
Important information about iCal synchronization
Host Domination Booking Engine connects to external platforms through standard iCal and ICS calendar URLs.
It is not a direct API integration and it is not a complete channel manager.
iCal synchronization normally transfers:
Reservation dates
Unavailable periods
Blocked dates
Calendar availability
It does not normally synchronize:
Listing descriptions
Property images
Guest conversations
Platform messages
OTA prices
Reviews
Platform commissions
Cancellation policies
Complete guest profiles
Platform-specific listing settings
The information included in an iCal feed is determined by the service that generates it.
Platform compatibility notice
Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo, Agoda, Expedia, Tripadvisor, Stripe, Google and Apple are trademarks of their respective owners.
Host Domination Booking Engine is an independent WordPress plugin and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by these companies.
Compatibility depends on the availability and format of the iCal or ICS feed supplied by each external service.
