Charter Booker

Charter Booker gives charter businesses a complete booking workflow inside WordPress, from trip setup to customer confirmation. Create trip types, assign captains and boats, control capacity, and publish bookable trips on your website with simple shortcodes. Customers can browse availability and submit booking requests in a clean frontend flow, while your team manages schedules, statuses, and notifications from wp-admin. Whether you run inshore, offshore, private group, or specialty trips, Charter Booker is designed to help you:

• Capture more direct bookings from your own website.
• Reduce back-and-forth scheduling and manual admin work.
• Keep bookings, trip data, and communication organized in one place.

Core features include:

• Custom post types for captains, boats, trips, and bookings.
• Admin dashboards and list tables for operations.
• Trip scheduling with availability checks.
• Calendar-based booking form departure selection with available dates and times.
• Capacity controls and overbooking settings.
• Booking status and payment tracking.
• Email templates for customer and admin notifications.
• Optional compatibility with a separately distributed Charter Booker Pro plugin.

Premium features include:

• Calendar view for booked trips and trip, captain, and boat blackout periods.
• Stripe checkout integration with test/live mode and connection checks.
• PayPal checkout integration with sandbox/live mode and connection checks.
• Per-trip deposit controls (fixed amount or percentage) and "must pay in full" options.
• Advanced pricing support for time-based rules and manual price overrides.
• Trip-level max party size overrides for finer capacity control.
• Monthly sales and bookings dashboard panels for quick performance insights.

The WordPress.org package is fully functional for all features included in this plugin and does not require a license key to use those included features.

1.3.0 (2026-05-02)

• Add calendar-based departure selection to the booking form for free and Pro users.
• Add available time buttons and automatic single-time selection after choosing a departure date.
• Add columns support to [chbk_trip_search] for 1 to 4 column trip listing layouts.
• Fix trip listing starting prices to use seat pricing and per-person pricing fallbacks.
• Refactor trip listing cards to use a column flex layout with bottom-aligned actions.
• Refactor booking form layout into separate details and departure columns with top-aligned fields.
• Document trip listing column shortcode examples in the readme and admin shortcode help.

1.2.0 (2026-04-26)

• Add Pro calendar for booked trips and trip, captain, and boat blackout periods.
• Add calendar month navigation, event filters, monthly counts, and upcoming booking summaries.
• Add modern Pro calendar styling with top-aligned bookings and bottom-aligned blackout periods.
• Fix trip max party size override checkbox saving when unchecked.
• Fix Pro checkbox save handling for sanitized unchecked values.
• Fix free and Pro release version metadata for 1.2.0.

1.1.2 (2026-04-26)

• Remove captain/boat quota restrictions from core for WordPress.org trialware compliance.
• Add Freemius is_org_compliant configuration flag.
• Fix release boundaries for more reliable WordPress.org compliance.

1.1.1 (2026-04-26)

• Fix wp.org checker issues for escaping and request-method sanitization.
• Refactor booking form nonce-first POST handling flow.

1.1.0 (2026-04-26)

• Fix WordPress.org compliance and security hardening issues.
• Fix release compatibility for separate free and pro distributions.
• Fix admin/frontend enqueue and UI compatibility issues.

1.0.0 (2026-04-26)

• Add initial public release of Charter Booker.