Vachr Short-Term Rental Reservations

The Vachr Short-Term Rental Reservations is the ultimate, all-in-one booking and management solution for WordPress, designed specifically for property owners and managers who need full control without complexity. It transforms your WordPress site into a professional rental platform for apartments, vacation homes, or rooms, offering everything you need for effortless property management in one place. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f38MZyG0TAE] Watch this video to see how to manage and use the system. This plugin is a complete powerhouse that handles everything from initial booking to guest registration. It features a highly flexible pricing engine for creating complex discounts and seasonal rates, fully customizable registration forms with custom fields, and the ability to offer additional services with their own pricing. The entire system is translatable and allows you to tailor the visual appearance of your forms to perfectly match your website's brand. This plugin is completely free to use. However, if you find it helpful and would like to support its further development, any small donation (even just a few Euros) is greatly appreciated. Your support will help me implement upcoming features like automated arrival reminders and many others. You can manage an unlimited number of apartments, everything is fully translatable, and it offers all the essential tools without limitations. I use it myself and can personally vouch for its reliability and effectiveness. Key Advantages

• Ultimate All-in-One Tool: Manage everything from bookings and pricing to guest registration and custom services in one intuitive interface.
• Flexible Discounts & Pricing: Create advanced seasonal pricing, weekend rates, and dynamic discounts based on stay duration or specific conditions.
• Custom Registration Forms: Build your own registration forms with custom fields to collect exactly the guest data you need.
• Custom Services with Pricing: Offer and manage additional services (like cleaning, breakfast, or bike rentals) with their own configurable prices.
• Total Visual Control: Easily customize the look and feel of your booking calendars and forms to match your site's design.
• Two-Way iCal Integration: Automatic synchronization with major travel agencies (Airbnb, Booking.com, VRBO) to eliminate the risk of overbooking.
• Fully Translatable: Ready for international guests with multi-language support and easy translation management.
• Lightweight & Fast: Optimized for performance to ensure your site remains quick for visitors.

1.4.6

• Fixed multi-month calendar grid rendering in frontend booking form/calendar.
• The grid shortcode attribute now consistently controls the number of month columns (e.g. grid="1" = one column).
• Reworked calendar month container layout to CSS Grid for predictable month alignment across breakpoints.

1.4.5

• Added booking edit mode in Bookings admin list.
• Internal bookings can now be edited fully (dates, guest/contact details, status, pricing fields, note, etc.).
• Imported iCal bookings are now protected and allow editing only of the internal note.
• Updating internal booking dates now safely rebuilds occupied-day locks and refreshes calendar cache.
• Added registration-to-booking linking for guest document registrations.
• Automatic booking pairing now runs on guest registration submit only when an exact 100% match is found.
• Added manual pairing/unpairing UI for registration groups in Guest Registrations.

1.4.4

• Minor changes

1.4.3

• Minor changes

1.4.2

• Reworked JavaScript output to follow WordPress enqueue best practices: removed inline <script> tags from PHP templates and moved logic to wp_add_inline_script() attached to enqueued plugin handles.
• Ensured admin assets are loaded not only on plugin submenu pages, but also on vstrb_unit edit/list screens (edit.php, post.php, post-new.php) where plugin JS is needed.
• Removed unnecessary load_plugin_textdomain() call for WordPress.org-hosted translation loading.
• Kept REST route permission_callback handling explicit and unchanged for intended public endpoints.
• Improved Plugin Check compatibility by normalizing line endings in core plugin files (includes/shortcodes.php, includes/db.php, includes/admin.php, includes/cpt.php).
• Refactored CPT POST array handling to use filter_input() helper access, reducing false-positive nonce warnings while keeping nonce validation in save_meta().
• Security hardening: replaced non-sanitizing request reads with explicit sanitization/validation in admin and CPT input helpers (get_param_*, request_param_int, post_array, checkbox handling, and meta save processing).
• Security hardening: strengthened REST payload validation for JSON shape, dates (YYYY-MM / YYYY-MM-DD), currency codes, scalar text fields, and email addresses before processing or storage.
• Security hardening: improved output escaping of generated markup in admin/shortcodes (wp_kses() with allowed markup map) and escaped conditional CSS class output in calendar rendering.
• Security hardening: sanitized inline assets before enqueue (wp_add_inline_script / wp_add_inline_style) to prevent unsafe tag injection.
• iCal export endpoint now returns a proper WP_REST_Response with calendar headers instead of direct echo output.
• Email notification hardening: validate recipient addresses with sanitize_email() + is_email() and sanitize dynamic summary/meta text values.
• Normalized line endings in additional files flagged by Plugin Check (includes/emails.php, includes/ical.php, includes/rest.php).
• Synced readme.txt Stable tag with plugin version header (1.4.2).

1.4.0

• Project renamed from name Free Short-Term Rental Booking to Vachr Short-Term Rental Reservations

1.3.5

• Guest Registrations admin table now groups multiple guests from the same stay into a single collapsible row. Click "Show guests" to expand and see individual guest details (name, date of birth, nationality, document, address).
• Added "Delete group" action to remove all guests belonging to the same registration group at once.
• If no booking reference is provided during guest registration, a unique internal reference is automatically generated (format: VSTRB-{unit}-{date}-{random}), ensuring guests submitted together are always correctly grouped.
• Fixed undefined array key warnings on fresh installations when visual settings have not been configured yet (cal_date_size, cal_date_color, cal_lbl_size, cal_lbl_color, cal_h_size, cal_h_color, cal_h_align, frm_h_size, frm_h_color).

1.3.4

• Added title attribute to [vstrb_guest_registration] shortcode — allows setting a custom heading above the form. Defaults to the apartment name.
• Added language attribute to [vstrb_guest_registration] shortcode — renders all form labels in the specified locale (e.g. cs_CZ, de_DE). Uses switch_to_locale() / restore_current_locale() so the rest of the page is unaffected.
• Updated Shortcode Guide in the Apartments admin list with documentation and an example for both new attributes.

1.3.3

• Replaced single "Permanent Address" field in guest registration form with three separate fields: Street, City, and Country.
• Added street, city, state columns to the guest registrations database table; existing installations are migrated automatically.
• Updated admin Guest Registrations table, notification emails, and all 11 language translations accordingly.

1.3.2

• Extended guest registration form: added Booking Source dropdown (Booking.com, Airbnb, VRBO, Expedia, Direct, Other) and Booking Reference number field.
• Form fields can be pre-filled via GET parameters (date_from, date_to, first_name, last_name, source, booking_ref) — useful for linking directly from booking confirmation emails.
• Source and booking reference are stored in the database, shown in the admin Guest Registrations table, and included in admin notification emails.

1.3.1

• Fixed guest registration form layout: corrected CSS container class, added vstrb-field flex styles and notice colours to frontend.css.
• Added full translations for guest registration feature in all 11 supported languages (cs_CZ, de_DE, es_ES, fr_FR, it_IT, ja, nl_NL, pl_PL, pt_PT, ru_RU, zh_CN).

1.3.0

• Added [vstrb_guest_registration unit="ID"] shortcode — a standalone registration form for guests who book through external channels (e.g. Booking.com). No WordPress account required.
• New database table wp_vstrb_guest_registrations stores: first name, last name, date of birth, permanent address, document type & number, nationality, accommodation dates, and email — linked to a specific apartment.
• Submitted registrations trigger automatic email notifications to both the admin and the guest.
• New admin page Bookings → Guest Registrations with a filterable table overview and per-record delete action.

1.2.2

• Added Available Languages setting in General Settings (comma-separated language codes).
• Service translation fields and Contact Fields language selectors now use only languages configured in General Settings.
• Improved language-list consistency between settings validation and admin forms.

1.2.1

• Added surcharge operations (Surcharge % and Surcharge $) in Rates & Discounts.
• Added a Single Night Only rule so you can target one-night stays precisely.
• Extended live price breakdown with a dedicated surcharge line.
• Improved live price breakdown for services: each selected service is now shown on its own line with quantity, unit price, and line total.
• Added support for unlimited validity on rates and discounts with a new “No end date” option.

1.2.0

• Added minimum-stay discount tiers (e.g., weekly discounts), with longer stays taking precedence.
• Added a real-time price breakdown to the booking form so guests can see the final total before submitting.

1.1.1

• Fixed iCal date handling by properly applying time zones for DTSTART/DTEND and ensuring existing UID-matched imports update both booking ranges and occupied-day locks to prevent one-day discrepancies in the calendar.
• Improved iCal sync cleanup to remove only stale future imported blocked reservations (including cancellations from source channels) while preserving historical bookings.
• Fixed checkout/checkin design
• Update nonce handling in admin forms for improved security
• Set the backend bookings list to default Date From to today, include ongoing/future reservations (date_to >= today), and sort by start date ascending by default.
• Fixed iCal provider normalization so Airbnb calendar URLs are consistently detected and stored as airbnb (not other), including automatic migration of legacy

1.1.0

• Initial release on WordPress.org.