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AlpenHouse is a vacation rental WordPress theme crafted to help you build a profitable vacation rental business. If you rent out a chalet, cabin, inn, resort residence, hotel, B&B, guest house or the like, the theme is going to fully suit your needs!
AlpenHouse is built by WordPress experts in the rental property business – MotoPress. That’s why the heme sets itself out of the pack thanks to the integrated off-the-shelf property management and WordPress booking software.
The theme sets you up with a feature-rich PMS and an accommodation reservation toolkit: booking forms, real-time search availability form, a directory of rooms with photo galleries and amenities, flexible booking rules, seasonal pricing and rates, a great discount system, built-in international payment gateways, optional synchronization with OTAs, taxes and fees charges for proper accountability and more tools for managing your lodging.
AlpenHouse is built with Elementor WordPress page builder that will help you customize your vacation rental website on the frontend, without any tech skills. You can visually customize the theme header (set up a slider, image, video or custom block), edit content of call-to-action blocks, counters, update your image and video portfolio and more.
This property rental WordPress theme comes equipped with the WooCommerce design to help you build a shop, Contact Form 7 plugin to set up a contact form for general enquiries, Google Maps integration to show your location and more custom widgets to add extra content modules like activities and services.
Vacation Rental WordPress Theme Highlights:
Accommodation Reservation System
Create a directory of your accommodations and enable direct reservations with our premium WordPress booking plugin (included for free!). Rent out a guest house bookable by the room or multiple houses. Feature all details about a property and its rooms: amenities, photos, descriptions, size, bed types, sleeps, availability, extra services, etc.
Channel Manager for Bookings
Synchronize all bookings submitted directly on your site with those from OTAs like Airbnb. The system supports iCal sync enabling you to exchange booking data with the rental property directories where your accommodation is listed (make sure it supports iCal). Avoid overbooking without extra commissions and channel managers!
Online and Offline Payments
Accept online payments via many payment methods and increase your international travelers audience: PayPal, 2Checkout, Stripe, Braintree, Beanstream/Bambora, etc. If you need more gateways, you can easily add them with our custom WooCommerce Payments addon.
Guest can pay a full / deposit price or can be charged only after arrival. Optionally disable a booking functionality and simply display your rentals.
Flexible Booking Rules
The PMS allows you to set min / max days to stay and available check-in and check-out dates for all rentals, accommodations individually or seasons.
You may also make certain accommodations unavailable for a chosen period of time (set not check-in, not check-out or not stay-in rules). Optionally customize accommodation rates by setting price variables based on a number of guests. One traveller can reserve multiple accommodations for many people during one booking process.
Booking Confirmation Modes
Confirm bookings automatically or manually, with or without a payment:
- by guest via email
- by admin manually
- by payment
Not confirmed bookings become “Abandoned” making the accommodation available for further reservation. The website administrator can view the “Abandoned” bookings and get in touch with the prospective tenants via email.
Weekly and Monthly Rates
You can set any room rate depending on a season (any term). To create different price points based on the length of stay, you can add weekly, monthly or other customizable rates. The system will automatically discount the rooms according to your rate rules. A better per-night rate for a longer state will help you stay competitive in the industry!
Extra Services
Offer bookable extra services or packages (free or paid) along with the accommodation reservation. Charge per room or per person. Guests can add any service to the cart when reserving your accommodation. You may also feature all available services on the website with all details.
Taxes and Fees
Complete and correct pricing information on all accommodation charges: add mandatory fees, accommodation taxes, service taxes and fee taxes. The guests will be able to see the summary of charges before making a booking. All this info on each booking is stored in the admin dashboard for easier accounting.
Discount Coupons
Manually create discount coupons for loyal guests or to use in promo campaigns! You’ll be able to set a discount amount, an expiration date, select accommodation types, set check-in and check-out dates, minimum and maximum days to stay and apply other settings to customize your coupons.
Functional Headers
Create an eye-catching website header to give your website a unique look and feel: accompany your texts with a header image, slider, video or other content modules.
Customize any section easily with its own set of tools. Set up different header types for different website pages.
Pre-built Modules for any Purpose
We’ve packed the theme with custom pre-designed content modules for all occasions: activities, trendy portfolio to present your lodging, extra services and packages, guest reviews, a contact form, accommodations and search availability related blocks and more.
Custom settings are provided for each module to give you more customization flexibility. You can easily customize their layout on the frontend with Elementor.
Built with Elementor
The theme is constructed with one of the most reliable WordPress Page Builder and different custom widgets.
Move, edit and design the theme content with an absolutely user-friendly toolset. Use a library of ready-made Elementor templates on any page.
Though AlpenHouse is made with Elementor, we didn’t lock the theme with it. You can edit it with MotoPress and other builders.
WooCommerce Ready
Build a stunning, well-categorized shop with the leading industry eCommerce plugin – WooCommerce. Sell ski equipment, food baskets or any other products.
Stylish grid or list pre-designed shop templates are at your disposal.
Blog Templates
You’ll love the eye-catching and functional blog templates: a traditional blog layout with a sidebar, without sidebar and a Pinterest style layout with up to 3 columns.
Your lodging news and articles will help you establish your brand and industry expertise extending your audience reach through social sharing.
1-Click Demo Data Import
Import sample data to the theme in one click and get your vacation rental website just like on the demo!
The data importer is packed with the theme, so you’ll be able to replace sample data with your custom content without any hassle.
- Modern Retina ready design
- MotoPress Hotel Booking plugin for WordPress included for free (save $49) to manage properties and bookings
- Different layouts for real-time search availability form
- Daily and weekly rates, seasonal pricing
- Full or deposit payments (percent or flat) via PayPal, 2Checkout, Stripe, Braintree, Beanstream/Bambora or payment after arrival
- Sell or offer for free extra services and packages
- User-friendly admin calendar of bookings
- Add and manage bookings at one place
- Flexible booking rules (disable booking for specific dates)
- Discount coupons
- Accommodation taxes, service taxes and fee taxes
- 4 header and theme front page alternatives
- Full-width and grid layouts
- Elementor page builder for theme edits and properties layout customization
- Image and video portfolio
- Guest reviews
- Google Maps integration
- Stylish blog layouts (Masonry and traditional)
- WPML support for multilingual websites
- Contact form integrated
- The property booking plugin is translated into 14 languages
- Priority support: a ticket system, live chat and email
- Fully documented.
Changelog
= 1.6.0, Jun 18 2024 =
- Hotel Booking plugin updated to version 4.11.2.
= 1.5.4, Feb 15 2024 =
- Hotel Booking plugin updated to version 4.8.8.
= 1.5.3, May 29 2023 =
- Improved compatibility with PHP 8.
= 1.5.2, Feb 10 2023 =
- Hotel Booking plugin updated to version 4.6.0.
- Added the possibility for clients to select the check-in and check-out date directly in the availability calendar.
- Added an error message to the booking form to notify clients when an accommodation ID is not found.
- Added coupon settings for early bird and last minute discounts.
- Added the possibility to view the information about imported bookings in the admin calendar after clicking on a particular booking.
- Added the price display in the availability calendar for non check-in dates.
- Limited the number of adults and children selectable in the form to match an accommodation’s capacity for bookings directly from the accommodation page.
- Removed the maximum limit for the adults and children capacity in the variable pricing rate settings.
- Fixed a database bug related to customer and user data selection.
- Fixed an issue with assigning an accommodation type upon the accommodation creation.
- Fixed an issue with calculating prices in the availability calendars for overlapping seasons.
- Improved the plugin compatibility with PHP 8.2.
- Minor style improvements.
= 1.5.0, Dec 5 2022 =
- Hotel Booking plugin updated to version 4.5.0.
- Added support for displaying prices in the availability calendars of individual accommodations.
- Added the ability to create a percentage fee, which applies to the accommodation cost.
- Improved the color-coding for dates in the availability calendar to better show days unavailable for check-in or check-out. Note for developers: This update might affect styles of the availability calendar in your themes or projects. Please update your code.
- Improved the color-coding for dates in the admin calendar to better show booked and blocked days.
- Fixed an issue with selecting a check-out day on a day that is not allowed to stay.
- Fixed an issue with the session data security.
- Optimized the asset loading in the admin panel for REST API.
- Fixed an error of creating coupon codes in REST API.
- Fixed an error with the availability search when one of the accommodations was blocked. Applies for REST API and the mobile app.
- Minor style improvements.
= 1.4.0, Sep 13 2022 =
- Hotel Booking plugin updated to version 4.4.1.
- Implemented REST API. This will give developers more extensive control over the plugin data, help integrate third-party services, and build new frontend experiences for Hotel Booking in WordPress.
- Added the new Hotel Manager and Hotel Worker user roles that define access to the Hotel Booking plugin settings and menus. Note: you might need to change user roles you used before this update.
- Added the user area for customers that allows them to log in, view bookings and speed up reservations with pre-populated info at checkout. Website admins can set the plugin to create user accounts automatically or let customers create ones manually.
- Improved booking export report.
- Improved backend booking calendar.
- Improved support for several Hotel Booking addons.
- Fixed several translation related issues.
- Fixed an issue with dates being available for selection while direct booking despite not check-in or not check-out booking rules are applied to certain accommodation types.
- Fixed an issue with defining the number of blocked accommodation types within certain booking rules.
- Fixed an issue with the maximum stay rule of specific accommodation type that was also applied to other accommodation types.
- Minor bugfixes and improvements.
- Minor style improvements.
= 1.3.4, Sep 24 2021 =
- Added the Stratum – Elementor Widgets plugin to the theme package.
- Added the Hotel Booking & Elementor Integration plugin to the theme package.
= 1.3.3, Aug 10 2021 =
- Hotel Booking plugin updated to version 3.9.10.
- New feature: added the option to display information about tax and fee charges additionally to the base property rate on the frontend.
- New feature: the revenue chart (beta version).
- Added a new payment status Canceled.
- Added the ability to enable a two-step booking cancelation process that requires users to confirm their booking cancelation request on the external page.
- Added the ability to disable booking rules when adding bookings on the backend manually.
- Added a new color for the external bookings in the Bookings calendar.
- Improved the user experience with the calendar datepicker on mobile devices.
- Fixed an issue with displaying the number of bookings for secondary language versions in the WPML plugin.
- Added the ability to sort accommodations by price in the accommodations listing.
- Minor bugfixes and improvements.
= 1.3.2, Mar 12 2021 =
- Added ability to make header sticky.
- Hotel Booking plugin updated to version 3.9.5.
- Added the ability to set the Booking Buffer option.
- Added the ability to set Advance Reservation: the minimum number of days allowed before booking and the maximum number of days available for future bookings.
- Added the ability to resend the confirmation email for a booking.
- Added the ability to create internal notes for a booking visible for site admins only.
- Added the ability to edit existing bookings: you can now update check-in and check-out dates, rates, services, etc., as well as add, replace, or remove accommodations in the original bookings.
- Added the ability to set the number of days prior to the check-in date applicable for applying deposits.
- Stripe API updated to version 7.72.0.
- Improved compatibility with the image lazy-loading feature.
- Bug fix: fixed an issue that may cause errors in Sucuri and WP Mail SMTP plugins.
- Bug fix: fixed an issue with payments via Stripe when amount of transaction was not calculated properly.
- Bug fix: fixed an issue when an accommodation became unavailable for assignment to its accommodation type after renaming.
- Minor bugfixes and improvements.
= 1.3.1, Aug 31 2020 =
- Added theme support for Stratum plugin – collection of 20+ advanced Elementor widgets with extensive functionality.
= 1.3.0, Nov 19 2019 =
- Minor bugfixes and improvements.
- Hotel Booking plugin updated to version 3.7.1.
- Improved blocks compatibility with the new versions of the Gutenberg editor.
- Added customer email address to the Stripe payment details.
- Fixed an issue where the price breakdown was not displayed in the new booking emails.
- Fixed an issue at checkout when coupon discount was not applied to the total price at the bottom of the page.
- Fixed a bug concerning impossibility to complete Stripe payment after applying the coupon code.
- Fixed an issue where the type of the coupon code was changed after its use.
- Improved the "Booking Confirmed" page with regard to displaying information on client’s booking and payment in case the booking is paid online. Follow the prompts to update the content of the "Booking Confirmed" page automatically or apply the changes manually.
- Added the new email tag, which allows guests to visit their booking details page directly from the email. Important: you need to update your email templates to start using this functionality.
- New actions and filters were added for developers.
- Fixed the issue at checkout when a variable price was not applied if capacity is disabled in plugin settings.
- Added Direct Bank Transfer as a new payment gateway.
- Added the ability to delete ical synchronization logs automatically.
- Added new intervals for importing bookings through the ical "Quarter an Hour" and "Half an Hour".
- The user information is no longer required while creating a booking in the admin panel. You can enable it again in the settings.
- Added new tags for email templates: Price Breakdown, Country, State, City, Postcode, Address, Full Guest Name.
- Added the ability to select the accommodation type while duplicating rates.
- Improvement: now if the accommodation type size is not set, the field will not be displayed on the website.
- Implemented bookings synchronization with Expedia travel booking website.
- Updated PayPal and Stripe payment integrations to comply with PSD2 and the SCA requirements.
- Added the ability to receive payments through Bancontact, iDEAL, Giropay, SEPA Direct Debit and SOFORT payment gateways via the updated Stripe API.
= 1.2.2, Jul 10 2019 =
- Hotel Booking plugin updated to version 3.5.1.
- Major improvements on booking synchronization with online channels via iCal interface.
- Added the ability to export bookings data in the CSV format.
- Minor bugfixes and improvements.
= 1.2.1, Apr 11 2019 =
- Hotel Booking plugin updated to version 3.3.0.
- Improved compatibility with WPML plugin.
- Fixed the bug appeared while calculating the subtotal amount in Price Breakdown when a discount code is applied.
- Added Hotel Booking Extensions page. Developers may opt-out of displaying this page via "mphb_show_extension_links" filter.
- Booking Calendar improvements:
- Tooltip extended with the customer data: full name, email, phone, guests number, imported bookings info.
- Added a popup option to display the detailed booking information.
- Bookings table improvements:
- Added a column with booked accommodations.
- Added the ability to filter bookings by accommodation type.
- Added the ability to search bookings by First Name, Last Name, Check-in Date, Check-out Date, Phone, Price, etc.
- Added a Service option that enables to specify the number of times guest would like to order this service.
= 1.2.0, Feb 13 2019 =
- Hotel Booking plugin updated to version 3.1.0.
- Added new blocks to Gutenberg.
- Added option to switch to the new block editor for Accommodation Types and Services in plugin settings.
- Added option to set the Price Breakdown to be unfolded by default.
- Improved design of Accommodation titles in Price Breakdown for better user experience.
- Added the ability to change theme primary colors.
- Added the ability to change copyright text in footer.
- Added styles for Hotel Booking Reviews addon.
- AlpenHouse Engine plugin updated to version 0.1.3
= 1.1.0, Sep 18 2018 =
- Hotel Booking plugin updated to version 3.0.0:
- Introducing attributes. By using the attributes you are able to define extra accommodation data such as location and type and use these attributes in the search availability form as advanced search filters.
- Improved the way to display the booking rules in the availability calendar.
- Added the new payment method to pay on arrival.
- Added the ability to create fixed amount coupon codes.
- Added the availability to send multiple emails to notify the administrator and other staff about new booking.
- Fixed the bug appeared in the Braintree payment method if a few plugins for making payment are set up.
- Added the ability to set the default country on the checkout page.
= 1.0.0, Aug 2 2018 =
- Hotel Booking plugin updated to version 2.7.6:
- A new way to display available/unavailable dates in a calendar using a diagonal line (half-booked day). This will properly show your guests that they are able to use the same date as check in/out one.
- Disabled predefined parameters for Adults and Children on the checkout page to let guests have more perceived control over options they choose.
- Fixed the issue with booking rules and WPML. Now all translations of accommodations are not displayed in a list and the booking rules are applied to all translations.
- Fixed the issue with Stripe when creating a booking from the backend.
- Fixed the issue with the booking rules not applying while checking an accommodation availability with the "Skip search results" enabled.
- Added a new feature "Guest Management". It is currently in beta and applied only to the frontend. Here are the main options of this feature:
- Hide "adults" and "children" fields within search availability forms.
- Disable "children" option for the website (hide "children" field and use Guests label instead).
- Disable "adults" and "children" options.
- Replaced "Per adult" label with a more catch-all term "per guest" for Services.
- Increased the number of digits after comma for setting a per-night price. This will help you set accurate prices for weekly, monthly and custom rates.
- Improved the way to display a rate pricing on the checkout page: the price is updated automatically based on the number of guests if there are any per-guest price variables.
- Added the Availability Calendar shortcode.
- Added sorting parameters to shortcodes.
- Added all missing currencies to the list of currencies.
- Added the ability to hide WooCommerce cart in header.
= 0.1.2, Jun 21 2018 =
- Hotel Booking plugin updated to version 2.7.3.
= 0.1.1, 19 Jun 2018 =
- Minor bugfixes and improvements.
= 0.1.0, Jun 18 2018 =
- Initial release.
