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Beds24 Online Booking

by markkinchin

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52 Quality Score
Active Installs
15/30

With about 2,000 active installs and a narrow hospitality focus, the plugin has a modest but real audience that pushes its popularity score above baseline.

Update Freshness
10/25

Last updated on 2 May 2025 and confirmed against WordPress 6.7.5, the plugin is recently maintained, though the very low WordPress 2.0.2 requirement suggests a long-lived, simple codebase rather than active modernization.

User Rating
13/15

A rating of 86 out of 100 is strong on paper, but it is based on only 6 ratings, which is too small a sample to draw confident conclusions about long-term user satisfaction.

Support Health
8/15

With 0 support threads opened and 0 resolved on the WordPress.org forum, there is essentially no public community support track record, and users should expect to rely on Beds24's own support channels.

WP Compatibility
8/15

Compatibility earns a middle-of-the-road score: it is tested with the latest WordPress release, but no PHP version is declared and there is no public evidence of testing across major hosting environments.

Scores higher than 4% of indexed plugins

About

Accept commission free online bookings from your Wordpress website. Suitable for hotels, B&B's, holiday rentals, vacation rentals, apartments …

Active Installs 2k+
Rating ★★★★ 4.3/5
Last Updated 2025-05-02 6:14am GMT
Requires WordPress 2.0.2+
Tested Up To 6.7.9

Security History

7 known vulnerabilities, all patched
1 High 6 Medium

Most recent: May 7, 2025

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What It Does

Beds24 Online Booking embeds the Beds24 commission-free Internet Booking Engine into a WordPress site, letting visitors check availability and reserve rooms or properties directly from your pages. It pulls inventory and pricing from a connected Beds24 account, so all property, rate, and reservation data is managed inside the Beds24 platform rather than WordPress. The plugin itself is essentially a display and shortcode layer that connects your site to that external PMS.

Who It's For

This plugin is best for independent hotels, B&Bs, holiday rental owners, and small property managers who already use (or plan to use) Beds24 as their property management system and want a WordPress front end for direct bookings. It suits operators who want to avoid OTA commissions and are comfortable managing rates, availability, and reservations inside Beds24 rather than WordPress. Sites with only one or a handful of properties will get the most straightforward value out of it.

Who Should Skip It

Anyone who does not already use or intend to sign up for Beds24 should skip this plugin, since the WordPress side is mostly a connector to the Beds24 service. Users wanting a fully self-contained WordPress booking system with built-in payments, invoicing, or scheduling features should look at the alternatives below instead.

The Bottom Line

Beds24 Online Booking is a functional bridge to a capable, commission-free PMS, but it is only as useful as your commitment to the Beds24 ecosystem. The overall quality score of 55.92 out of 100 reflects weak public support data and limited install base, not a broken plugin. If Beds24 is already your booking backbone, this is a reasonable choice; otherwise, the alternatives above offer stronger WordPress-native feature sets.

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