GDA Kraft Booking – Vacation Rental Calendar & iCal Sync

GDA Kraft Booking (public beta) adds a booking calendar and a booking engine to WordPress for holiday homes, vacation rentals, guest houses, B&Bs (chambres d'hôtes), villas and small hotels. Turn your WordPress site into a vacation rental website that takes direct bookings, and keep your availability in sync with Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo through iCal. Every feature below works without an account, a subscription or a "Pro" version. Languages: available in 6 languages: English (source language), French, Spanish, Italian, German and Brazilian Portuguese. German uses the informal "du"; sites set to German (formal) get a formal "Sie" version. Translations are bundled with the plugin and follow the site language automatically; the admin screens follow each user's own profile language. Regional variants (for example fr_CA, es_MX, de_CH) use the closest bundled translation, and translations from translate.wordpress.org take priority when available. Guest e-mails are sent in the language of the booking. Any text shown to visitors can also be renamed in Texts and labels. Features

• Accommodations and units: photos, property types, amenities, adults / children capacity per unit.
• Rates: nightly price, seasons and rate rules, weekend prices, minimum stay, length-of-stay discounts, coupons, extra services and cleaning fees.
• Tourist tax: per person and per night, with child exemption and a cap on nights.
• Availability calendar: closed days, arrival / departure days, buffers between stays.
• Airbnb calendar sync (iCal): one export URL per unit, import of external calendars (Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo or any iCal channel), refreshed every 15 minutes.
• Bookings: manual bookings and booking requests: the guest sends a request, you confirm it and collect the payment offline (bank transfer, on site).
• Guest side: search form, results, booking form, price breakdown, guest portal with messages and documents.
• Emails: confirmation, request received, reminders before arrival, review requests.
• Texts and labels: rename any text (for example "Guests" to "Persons") without code.

Who is it for

• Owners of one or a few holiday rentals who want a direct booking site.
• Guest houses, B&Bs and small hotels that want guest house booking or B&B booking on their own site, with several rooms or units.
• Web designers building accommodation sites with Divi 5, Elementor or the block editor.

Why direct bookings Listing sites bring visibility, but each booking made through them is subject to their fees and rules. A direct booking page on your own site lets returning guests book you directly, under your own conditions. iCal keeps your calendar in sync with the listing sites you keep, so the same dates are not sold twice. Divi 5, block editor and Elementor The same booking components are available as Divi 5 modules, blocks for the block editor (Gutenberg) and Elementor widgets. Bricks support is coming. Website templates (optional) Kraft Booking › Templates shows the Kraft GDA website templates (holiday rentals, agencies and platforms, appointments) for the block editor, Divi 5 and Elementor, right inside WordPress: click "See the templates" to browse them, filter by sector and builder, open a demo in a new tab. To install one, create a free Kraft GDA account or sign in without leaving WordPress (a 6-digit code is sent by email), or connect with the browser. Free templates install directly; paid templates (19,90 €, VAT not applicable, art. 293 B of the French CGI) are bought in a Stripe Checkout window and the installation starts as soon as the purchase is confirmed. A step-by-step wizard then installs the template: free themes and plugins it needs from WordPress.org, a new site or pages added without overwriting yours, then one-click removal of the demo content. Templates are data only: no code is downloaded (see External services). Your data stays in WordPress Bookings, guests and prices are stored in your own database. Nothing is sent anywhere unless you connect a Kraft GDA account. Kraft GDA (free account) unlocks An optional free Kraft GDA account gives access to the separate GDA Kraft Booking Connect add-on (downloaded from your Kraft GDA account, not from WordPress.org): online payments with Kraft Pay (Stripe), deposits and automatic balance collection, a front-end management dashboard, design modules, custom fields, a multilingual switcher and an AI assistant. These hosted features are services run by Kraft GDA (SaaS): they require a Kraft GDA account and the Connect add-on. The plugin and the account are free. Online payments made through Kraft Pay carry a service fee paid by the traveler: 0.45 % until 30 June 2027, then 0.9 %. The fee applies only to online payments; offline payments and booking requests are never charged. Beta This is a public beta (0.x versions). Please report any issue in the support forum.

0.3.0 (beta)

• New: Templates screen (Kraft Booking › Templates) with a step-by-step installation wizard for the Kraft GDA website templates (block editor, Divi 5, Elementor). Templates are data only, described by a signed manifest and checked file by file; required free themes and plugins come from WordPress.org.
• New: template shop inside the wizard. "See the templates" shows the public catalogue (sector and builder filters, free or 19,90 €, demo in a new tab) without connecting first; nothing is requested before that click. "Install" on a site that is not connected opens an inline panel to create a free Kraft GDA account or sign in with a 6-digit code sent by email (terms of use to accept, new code after 60 seconds), or with the browser. Paid templates are bought in a Stripe Checkout window; the wizard starts the installation as soon as the purchase is confirmed.
• New: "Install a template in 4 steps" guide at the top of the plugin's screens only (full on the Kraft Booking dashboard, Templates and Getting started screens, compact elsewhere and in the installation wizard), collapsible per user, with a "What's new" slide shown once per version. Accessible carousel (pause button, keyboard, reduced motion), local images only, no external request, no tracking. It replaces the templates notice.
• Fix: on narrow phones (360 to 390 px), booking widgets, calendars, the date and guest pickers and appointment cards no longer overflow the screen, including with themes that keep buttons on one line (for example Hello Elementor).
• Translations: Brazilian Portuguese added. German now uses the informal "du"; the formal "Sie" version is kept for German (formal). French, Spanish and Italian updated for the new texts.

0.2.2 (beta)

• Fix: Divi 5 presets now apply to the Availability calendar, Coupon and Reviews modules (their default design values no longer override the preset).
• Fix: on block themes (for example Twenty Twenty-Five), accommodation pages use the theme's own template instead of the legacy WordPress header and footer.
• Guest portal: the accent color follows the module setting, or the theme's accent color, instead of a fixed indigo.
• Readme: new screenshots, clearer description of Airbnb calendar sync, direct booking and guest house / B&B use.

0.2.1 (beta)

• Fix: the Kraft Booking blocks did not appear in the block editor. All blocks can be inserted again (search, results, booking form, availability calendar, guest portal).
• Fix: guests now see a translated booking status (for example "Request awaiting approval") instead of an internal code, in the guest portal, on the confirmation page and in e-mails.
• Readme: the plugin is available in 5 languages (English, French, Spanish, Italian, German).

0.2.0 (beta)

• Translations: English source strings; French, Spanish, Italian and German included; admin follows each user's language.
• Regional variants (for example fr_BE, fr_CA, es_MX, de_AT, de_CH, it_CH) use the bundled French, Spanish, German or Italian translation. Translations from translate.wordpress.org take priority when available.
• Guest e-mails are sent in the language of the booking.

0.1.2 (beta)

• New: "Getting started" screen, opened once after the first activation (never on bulk or network activation).
• New: one dismissible notice, only on the plugin's screens. No request to Kraft GDA before you click Connect.

0.1.1 (beta)

• Fix: an automatic balance charge could be attempted after the balance was settled offline or partly paid.

0.1.0 (beta)

• Initial public beta.