Hi envatobox,

What you wish can be achieved with Icalendar option. It will sync booked dates from the theme with other calendards from other platforms like AIrbnb or booking.com

This is our help article: https://help.wprentals.org/article/icalendar-import-export/

I hope this helps,

Thank you

Hi MasonDad,

Thank you for your message.

Pre-purchase question. How do the owners get paid for the rentals? The process is not clear. -> In the theme the payments to owner need to be handled outside the theme. Only payments to admin are supported in the theme. https://help.wprentals.org/article/1-20-how-to-work-with-deposit-fee-and-service-fee/

I’m thinking setting up a subscription site so the property owner pays me the membership fee. I would not get any part of the booking fee. I don’t see anything in the support docs how the renter pays the owner? -> In the theme you can set a subscription for property submission. You can create packages with a certain number of properties included. To be able to submit properties, the user will need to purchase a package.

Thank you,

Hi MasonDad,

Thank you again for writing. I will copy again the answer to be easier to read.

Pre-purchase question. How do the owners get paid for the rentals? The process is not clear.

—> The theme doesn’t have payment to owner in the theme.

You have 2 options, but keep in mind that admin always gets the money for booking confirmations

1. Admin gets the deposit which covers only his service fee for each booking and lets user/owner manage the remaining balance outside the theme.

2. Admin gets allo money and wants to transfer owner payment.

At this point you must work with a 3rd party add-on to send payment to the owner, a service we offer with RentalsClub assistance.

The add-on is in Beta version now, works ONLY for payments done through PayPal – and it’s free for the time being. It may become paid in the future (there is no immediate plan for this direction).

With the add-on activated (activation is done through RentalsClub – an API system) – you will get access to your Rentals Club account to see payments received and make payments to the owner.

Here you have some screenshots of the interface to understand how it works https://www.rentalsclub.org/how-payments-management-extension-works/

In this situation, with RentalsClub, the owner will type their PayPal address in this Profile field:

I’m thinking setting up a subscription site so the property owner pays me the membership fee. I would not get any part of the booking fee. I don’t see anything in the support docs how the renter pays the owner?

—> Property Owner cannot pay a membership for booking. He can pay a membership for adding listings on your site.And listings stay active while the membership package is active.

Thank you

Thanks for the quick reply.

Seems pretty risky to be handling rental fees and having paying owner from that? If lender files a complaint via PayPal and gets refund/reversal I’m out the money with little chance to get back from owner.

If I take deposits seems it would labor intensive to have to manage refunds?

I’d rather have an owner pay a subscription fee for listings and have the lender/owner work direct for payment.

1) Can a booking request be made w/o a deposit or booking fee? Obviously they need to register to send booking request. I’m thinking more about revenue from subscription and feature “upgrades” rather than from booking fee/deposits.

2) RENTALSCLUB.ORG “After official release we will ask for a monthly fee to continue using these extra options.” You stated there “It may become paid in the future (there is no immediate plan for this direction).” Not knowing what the charge will be makes it difficult to plan/determine fees to charge. If a fee is added later it renders the software worthless w/o paying whatever fee you decide on. Kind of scary position for your customers.

3) Text messages – seems like a paid Tillio account is required – 3/4 cent per message? And there may be a RENTALSCLUB.ORG fee for the sms ext also?

4) Are there are plans to make this a PWA? While it seems very mobile friendly a PWA would take it to the next level.

Sorry for all the questions – just trying to understand all the cost and payment variables. I have read the documents but didn’t find it very clear. A nice chart might be helpful of payment options and what combos can be done.

Thanks!

Hi MasonDad

Bookings can be sent and confirmed without a deposit required. Admin sets the value of deposit and you can put 0 as well.

There is no immediate plan to make that paid and rentals club stays a 3rd party, free in beta version. If there will be any change all clients will be notified by rentals club.

The Twilio system has its own system and payment is required to use their service. It’s not in our power or rentals club power to offer a SMS service built in, without any costs.

Thank you

Hi Elle

There are 2 ways:

1. You can limit submission to your own account so people register but see only save favorites and their bookings

https://help.wprentals.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/admin.png https://help.wprentals.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/help.png

Help https://help.wprentals.org/article/how-to-allow-only-certain-users-to-submit-properties-in-front-end/

2. You hide the save favorites from the card, but I need to know what unit you use to help

card 1 https://main.wprentals.org/properties-list-property-card-type-1/

card 2 https://main.wprentals.org/properties-list-sidebar-right/

or card 3 https://main.wprentals.org/properties-list-property-card-type-3/

Thank you

Thanks so much for coming back to me so quickly.

Number one method sounds great and I had already got that set.

Method two sounds even better though. I’m using Listing Card design type 3.

Thanks again.

Elle x

You can ow ignore #3 – I’ve deleted them out and inputting manually.

E x

Also – I see that a message appears in the “Inbox” of the owner panel each time a booking is added. Is there a way to delete what’s in there easily – rather than individually. I’ve just added 980+ bookings. I did start deleting but I still have 840+ messages still in that Inbox. It’s not a huge issue of you can’t offer a fix – I’ll just do it over time instead. xx

I’ve now found where I can bulk-delete those messages… so that’s not needed now either.

Don’t worry about #1 – as I’m just going to do them manually today instead.

Re: #2 – I’ve just removed the price slider from the form – so don’t worry about that either. I’ll come back to you if I need to replace it.

So – the only thing I need answering now is #4. I’ll report back if I find the answer in the meantime.

Thanks so much!

Elle x

Hi reparde

4. Is there a way to edit a manually added booking as Admin? Or does it just have to be deleted and then re-added? -> Bookings cannot be deleted or edited from admin. All actions need to be made from the front end. You need to delete the booking and add it again.

Thank you,

4 now sorted. You can mark this thread as resolved. I do have more questions… but I’ll start a new thread as they’re unrelated to the above. xx

Hi team! Please take a look at https://www.luxuryvillaslanzarote.com/properties/vista-lobos-38/ and scroll down to the calendar at the bottom.

It’s built with Listing Template Type 3

Underneath it – it says “Past”, “Today” and “Booked” – where can I edit the colours for those please?

Is it possible to add “Available” to that list too? And then remove “Today”? If not – don’t worry.

E xx

Hi Ellen,

The site looks really well. Congratulations.

I can help change past for example https://prnt.sc/p1qt1f as it’s easier.

Add this css for the legend color

.calendar-legend-past { background: #edf6f6; }

And use this help to change label from “past” to “available” as it easier this way https://help.wprentals.org/article/how-to-modify-theme-text-in-english-with-poedit/

The colors sync with main colors

To add specific colors your need to add several css lines. I am not able to tell all here.

I hope this helps, was done in preview

.all-front-calendars .end_reservation { background: -moz-linear-gradient(-45deg, #000000 0%, #000000 49%, #edf6f6 50%, #edf6f6 100%); background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, right bottom, color-stop(0%,#f8f8a7), color-stop(49%,#f8f8a7), color-stop(50%,#edf6f6), color-stop(100%,#ffffff)); background: -webkit-linear-gradient(-45deg, #f8f8a7 0%,#f8f8a7 49%,#edf6f6 50%,#edf6f6 100%); background: -o-linear-gradient(-45deg, #000000 0%,#000000 49%,#edf6f6 50%,#edf6f6 100%); background: -ms-linear-gradient(-45deg, #000000 0%,#000000 49%,#edf6f6 50%,#edf6f6 100%); background: linear-gradient(135deg, #f8f8a7 0%,#f8f8a7 49%,#edf6f6 50%,#edf6f6 100%); }

.all-front-calendars .calendar-reserved.start_reservation { background: -webkit-gradient(linear, right bottom, left top, color-stop(50%,#f8f8a7), color-stop(50%,#edf6f6))!important; background: #fff9f9; background: -moz-linear-gradient(-45deg, #edf6f6 0%, #edf6f6 50%, #000000 51%, #000000 100%); background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, right bottom, color-stop(0%,#edf6f6), color-stop(50%,#edf6f6), color-stop(51%,#f8f8a7), color-stop(100%,#f8f8a7)); background: -webkit-linear-gradient(-45deg, #edf6f6 0%,#edf6f6 50%,#f8f8a7 51%,#f8f8a7 100%); background: -o-linear-gradient(-45deg, #edf6f6 0%,#edf6f6 50%,#000000 51%,#000000 100%); background: -ms-linear-gradient(-45deg, #edf6f6 0%,#edf6f6 50%,#000000 51%,#000000 100%); background: linear-gradient(135deg, #edf6f6 0%,#edf6f6 50%,#f8f8a7 51%,#f8f8a7 100%); }

td.calendar-reserved { background-color: #f8f8a7!important; }

The above css allows you to add a different color then the main color you set in admin

https://prnt.sc/p1rcwc

But if you need further help changing these colors please write in client support http://support.wpestate.org

Thank you

Thanks – it’s getting there. Just tying up final loose ends now.

I shall take a look at your reply in detail and come back to you if I have any questions. Thanks for your help.

Sure, Thank you for the follow up!

Okay – I’ve dropped your custom CSS in and actually I’m quite happy with that. I may tweak the colours later but I’m already pleased with what it’s done.

Just one teeny thing – if it is possible. Is there a line or two of CSS that I can drop in that will hide the “Past – Today – Booked” notice from underneath the calendar? Then I can drop in some hook content or a widget that will avoid me having to use poedit. I hate poedit because I usually end up breaking something. Plus “Past” isn’t the same function as “Available” which may confuse people if I merely change the word and not what it relates to.

I know I’m being an awkward woman (sorry!) – but your theme is so good and does so many things beautifully, that I just need those final little tweaks to be 100% happy. Then I’ll be heading off to try to sell more Holiday Rental websites to clients… meaning more money for you too.

Elle xx

Hi reparde

Thank you for the comment. I am confused by the comment.

You want to move a domain from websiteold.com to ebsitenew.com with all its data and content (database). Is that correct? You can do a full switch (of the database) and so all content including bookings move correctly. Please see this wordpress guidelines https://wordpress.org/support/article/moving-wordpress/#changing-your-domain-name-and-urls

RSS feed has nothing to do with such a process. So I am not sure what you want to do with the RSS feed.

Thank you

No – I’ve confused you. Sorry about that.

I have an existing website which currently has thousands of bookings on it. This was not built using your theme.

I have built a new website using your theme. I have used iCal feeds on the new website to pull all the bookings from the existing website. They display nicely in the calendars against each property on the new website. So far so good.

But – when I point the domain to the new website… the old website will cease to exist… so all those iCal feeds will die and the calendars will empty on the new website.

Despite the calendars on the new website showing dates – there are no “Bookings” showing in the “Bookings” tab on the back end of the new website. If there were- then I could export those from the database and drop them back in after the domain is pointed to the new website.

What I need to achieve is for my calendars to still show those times as booked on the new website when I point the domain – and to be editable.

I have 3200+ bookings – so adding them individually is not an option.

I’m sorry – I should have said iCal feeds… not RSS feeds. I’ll hang my head in shame. I’m just getting very panicky now as the new site is supposed to be launching tomorrow.

Hi Reparde,

I understand now. The ical feed imports data from the 3rd party website. If the 3rd party website ceased to exist, the bookings in ical don’t exist.

I think (i am not sure) you can use Google Calendar as a transition system.

1. Export the feed from your site (with the 3rd party site) to google and create a new calendar based on the feed to show the calendar and those bookings in the google calendar https://prnt.sc/oznae7

2. Import the feed ical from google to theme.

This way the bookings exist in google calendar.

And the ical syncs the bookings from google (allowing you to delete the 3rd party website and switch to rentals)

Thank you

Thanks so much. I shall look at that next if the info I am about to tell you doesn’t work.

It looks like I may have found a solution. I’m currently testing using “WP All Export Pro” to export all the bookings as a CSV from the existing website. I’ve exported all applicable fields and information – and am now mapping the fields to fit in the new website that uses your theme. The only field I’m struggling to find is the Property ID… but to be fair I’ve only just started looking for that. Fingers crossed!

I do have some odd error messages coming up on the back end – but I have a few things to try with that first and will start a new thread later on if I’m still stuck.

Thanks for coming back to me so quickly – I’m in major panic zone as with any looming launch… so your speed has been very much appreciated.

E xx