Description

Birlo Reservations Lite lets small accommodations accept direct bookings from WordPress and manage the essential day-to-day reservation workflow.

Features include:

Room types and physical room management.
Direct bookings with no time limit or booking quota.
Seasonal pricing and rate rules.
Optional extras and packages.
Public availability search and booking form.
Reservation and guest data management.
Visual planning calendar.
Manual payment tracking.
Booking rules, taxes, email templates, branding colors, and property settings.
Guest area for viewing and managing a reservation.

Birlo Reservations Lite is designed to work as a complete free plugin on its own. Birlo Reservations Pro is a separate commercial product with additional advanced features such as online payments, channel synchronization, invoicing, housekeeping, CRM, advanced communications, and automations.

Screenshots

Booking dashboard with occupancy and revenue indicators.

Public availability search and booking form. — Booking dashboard with occupancy and revenue indicators.

Installation

Upload the birlo-reservations-lite folder to /wp-content/plugins/, or install the ZIP file from Plugins > Add New.
Deactivate Birlo Reservations Pro if it is active. Lite and Pro should not run at the same time.
Activate Birlo Reservations Lite.
Open Birlo Reservations in the WordPress admin area and complete the setup wizard.
Add room types and rooms, then publish or verify the booking page created by the setup wizard.

Always make a backup before changing booking software on a production website.

FAQ

Does the Lite edition expire or limit the number of bookings?: No. Birlo Reservations Lite has no time limit and no booking quota.
Does Lite include online card payments?: Lite supports manual payment tracking. Online payment gateways are not included in this edition.
Can guests manage their reservation?: Yes. The plugin includes a guest area where guests can access their booking using the reservation reference and booking email.
Can I use extras and packages?: Yes. Extras and packages are included in Birlo Reservations Lite.

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Contributors & Developers

“Birlo Reservations Lite” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

1.1.8

Hardened public request validation, nonce handling and sanitization after WordPress.org manual review.
Removed inactive online-payment code from the Lite edition.

1.1.7

Prepared the plugin for WordPress.org review requirements.
Changed the base plugin description to English.
Updated internal prefixes to use a unique plugin-specific prefix.
Removed bundled custom translation packs and custom output buffering.
Removed deprecated WordPress API usage.
Reworked inline scripts and styles to use WordPress enqueue APIs.
Improved request validation, output escaping, and review compliance.

1.1.6

Removed booking, time, room, guest, season, history, and manager-user quotas.
Lite is differentiated from Pro by advanced features rather than usage limits.
Extras and packages are included in Lite.
Removed the automatic public credit link.
Updated the WordPress.org description.

1.1.5

Improved safe counting in the setup wizard for empty installations.

1.1.4

Prevented PHP notices when counting room types and rooms with empty post states.

1.1.3

Prepared distribution through WordPress.org.
Updated the translation domain to match the plugin slug.

1.1.2

Improved Lite notices when unavailable functionality is requested.

1.1.1

Improved booking search compatibility with WordPress themes.
Restored the basic guest reservation area.

1.1.0

First functional separation of the Lite edition.

1.0.1

Initial inventory and multi-room booking improvements.

1.0.0

First public version of Birlo Reservations Lite.