Description

Yacht Booking System by MagePeople helps yacht owners, charter companies and marinas sell boat trips directly from their own WordPress website. Add your fleet and your rates, and guests can search, check availability, book and pay – without a middleman and without leaving your site.

Whether you rent out a single sailboat by the hour or run a fleet of luxury yachts with multi-day charters, the plugin gives you a complete booking engine that is simple to set up and easy for your guests to use.

The free plugin includes the full booking engine and four payment methods. An optional Pro add-on adds branded PDF tickets and invoices, quayside check-in, an email template editor and more.

Why choose Yacht Booking System?

Built for charters – six ready-made booking types, from hourly trips to multi-day voyages.
Guests book in seconds – a clean booking form with live pricing and a slide-in booking drawer.
Get paid your way – Offline, Stripe, PayPal and WooCommerce, with optional deposits.
Easy to manage – a friendly admin with a dashboard, calendar, guest list and bookings list.
No lock-in – your bookings and guest data stay in your own WordPress database.
Developer friendly – hooks, a REST API and JavaScript extension points for custom work.

Features

Fleet management

A searchable fleet listing and a detail page for every yacht.
A simple four-step yacht editor: Basic Info, Specs & Capacity, Pricing & Availability, and Review & Publish.
Photos and gallery, build year, capacity, cabins, crew size and length.
Departure point on a map – search for the marina or drop a pin.
Yacht classes and occasion tags to help guests find the right boat.
Frequently Asked Questions for each yacht.
Related yachts to keep guests browsing.
Import six demo yachts with one click so you can try everything out quickly.

Explore The Demo:

🌐 Live Demo

Flexible booking types and modes

Six booking types: hourly, half-day, morning slot, evening/sunset slot, full day and multi-day. Each has its own rate and time window.
Leave a rate empty and that booking type is simply not offered.
Full charter – guests book the whole yacht.
Shared charter – sell individual seats priced per guest. Seats can’t be oversold.
Both – offer full charter and shared seats on the same yacht.

Smart availability and pricing rules

Minimum notice (in hours) so you’re never booked at the last minute.
Buffer time between bookings (in minutes) for cleaning and turnaround.
Minimum and maximum duration for hourly charters.
Off-days and blocked date ranges.
Seasonal price adjustments.
Live price updates as the guest changes date, time, guests or extras.
The booking form automatically picks the first available slot that meets your rules.

Add-ons and extras

Sell optional extras such as catering, a skipper or water toys.
Offer each add-on only on the yachts you choose.

Deposits

Take a deposit as a percentage or a fixed amount.
Set one fleet-wide rule, give a single yacht its own deposit, or switch deposits off for that yacht.
Deposits work with Offline, Stripe and PayPal payments.

Coupons

Create percentage or fixed-amount discount codes.
Optional minimum spend, usage limit, start and expiry dates.
Limit a code to particular yachts, or switch it off without deleting it.
Guests see clear messages if a code isn’t valid.

A smooth guest experience

Booking drawer with a progress bar: Summary, Checkout, Confirmed.
Booking summary with a full price breakdown.
Confirmation screen with the booking reference and a ticket card.
A secure confirmation page that shows the amount paid, any balance due and the check-in code.
Confirmation emails sent to the guest, with a template you can customise for each yacht.
Responsive layout that works on phones, tablets and desktops.

Admin tools

Dashboard, Yachts, Bookings, Calendar, Guests, Add-ons, Coupons and Settings.
Built-in User Guide inside the admin.
New-booking alert emails to you and your team.
Email tags for personalised messages, such as guest name, yacht name, dates, totals and balance due.

Privacy and data control

Choose how many months to keep guest data before it is anonymised.
Optionally remove all plugin data when the plugin is uninstalled.

Accept payments online

Choose any mix of these payment methods under Yacht Booking Settings Payments:

Offline – guests pay later by bank transfer or at the marina. You mark the booking as paid. Deposits supported.
Stripe – a secure card form right inside the booking drawer. Payments are confirmed by Stripe webhook, and the confirmation page double-checks so guests never see a false “awaiting payment”. Deposits supported.
PayPal – guests pay on PayPal and return to your confirmation page. Sandbox and live modes. Deposits supported.
WooCommerce (optional) – use WooCommerce checkout inside the drawer with any WooCommerce payment gateway. WooCommerce always charges the full order total, so deposits don’t apply.

Shortcodes

Place the plugin anywhere on your site with simple shortcodes:

[mageyabo_yacht_list] – the fleet listing with class filters and a card grid. Add class="sailing-yacht" to start on a class tab, or occasion="sunset" to show only that occasion.
[mageyabo_yacht_search] – a search bar (day or hourly charter, location, dates, guests and price) with results below. The date filters by real availability, dropping yachts with no bookable slot that day; pre-fill it with date="today" (or date="YYYY-MM-DD") and use autoload="no" to wait for the guest to search before results appear.
[mageyabo_booking_form] – the booking form and drawer for a chosen yacht.
[mageyabo_booking_confirmation] – the page guests see after booking or paying.
[mageyabo_newsletter] – a simple email sign-up box.
A Gutenberg block for the booking form.

Three pages – Search Yacht, Yacht List and Booking Confirmation – are created for you when you activate the plugin. You can rename them freely.

Yacht Booking System Pro (optional add-on)

Want to go further? Yacht Booking System Pro is a separate add-on that works alongside the free plugin and adds:

Documents – a full-detail branded PDF ticket and invoice for every booking, plus booking exports to CSV or a printable PDF report. Guests can download them from the confirmation screen and page with no login.
Check-in – board guests at the quayside by scanning or typing their ticket code, see who is aboard now, and keep a filterable boarding history.
Emails – edit the wording of every email, add new-booking alerts for your team, payment receipts and cancellation notices, and keep a log of every email sent.
Coupons – Pro’s own coupon system, with the same options as the built-in one.

Built for developers

Yacht Booking System is designed to be extended:

Dozens of WordPress actions and filters for pricing, quotes, booking data, payments, emails and admin screens.
A REST API under mageyabo/v1 for yachts, availability, quotes, add-ons and bookings.
JavaScript registries to extend the booking form and the admin app.
A theme-overridable template: copy templates/single-yacht.php to yourtheme/magepeople-yacht-booking-system/single-yacht.php and edit your copy.

The Pro add-on uses only these public extension points, so your own add-on can do everything it does.

Perfect for

Yacht charter companies and boat rental businesses
Marinas and sailing clubs
Boat tour operators and day-trip providers
Party boat, sunset cruise and fishing charter businesses
Independent yacht owners who want to accept bookings online

External Services

This plugin can connect to third-party services when you turn them on. Nothing is sent to these services unless you enable the related feature.

Stripe

Used to take card payments inside the booking drawer when Stripe is enabled under Settings Payments. Payment details are sent directly to Stripe when a guest pays, and Stripe sends payment confirmations back to your site by webhook.

Service: Stripe
Terms of service: https://stripe.com/legal
Privacy policy: https://stripe.com/privacy

PayPal

Used to take payments when PayPal is enabled under Settings Payments. The guest is sent to PayPal to complete the payment and then returns to your Booking Confirmation page. Booking and payment details needed to process the payment are shared with PayPal.

Service: PayPal
Terms of service: https://www.paypal.com/legalhub
Privacy policy: https://www.paypal.com/privacy

Map and marina search

The yacht editor’s departure point search and map may load map data from an external mapping provider when you search for a marina or drop a pin. [Add your map provider name, terms and privacy policy links here.]

Appneck

This Plugin uses Appneck SDK to collect some telemetry data upon the user’s confirmation to troubleshoot problems faster & make product improvements.
Appneck SDK does not gather any data by default. The SDK only starts gathering basic telemetry data when a user allows it via the admin notice. We collect the data to ensure a great user experience for all our users. Integrating Appneck SDK DOES NOT IMMEDIATELY start gathering data, without confirmation from users in any case.
Learn more about how Appneck collects and uses this data.

Blocks

This plugin provides 1 block.

Yacht Booking Form

Installation

Requirements

WordPress 5.9 or later
PHP 8.0 or later
WooCommerce is optional

Install the plugin

Upload the plugin folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory, or install it from Plugins Add New.
Activate Yacht Booking System through the Plugins menu in WordPress.
Go to Yacht Booking Settings and set your currency, tax rate and payment methods.
Go to Yacht Booking Yachts and add your first yacht, or import the sample fleet to try things out.
Visit the Yacht List page on your site to see your fleet live.

Using Pro features

Install and activate Yacht Booking System Pro as well. It needs the free plugin to stay active.

FAQ

Do I need WooCommerce to use this plugin?: No. WooCommerce is optional. The plugin has its own booking engine and works with Offline, Stripe and PayPal payments on its own. If you prefer, you can turn on WooCommerce checkout and use any WooCommerce payment gateway.
Can I sell individual seats instead of the whole yacht?: Yes. Set the yacht’s Booking Mode to Shared or Both. Seats are priced per guest and can’t be oversold.
What booking types are available?: Hourly, half-day, morning slot, evening/sunset slot, full day and multi-day. Each has its own rate and time window. Leave a rate empty to not offer that type.
Can I take a deposit?: Yes, with Offline, Stripe and PayPal. Set a fleet-wide deposit under Settings Deposits & Extras, or give each yacht its own deposit or turn deposits off for it. WooCommerce checkout always charges the full order total, so deposits don’t apply there.
Can I stop two guests booking the same yacht at the same time?: Yes. The plugin checks for clashes with existing bookings, and you can add a buffer between bookings and a minimum notice period. Off-days and blocked date ranges are respected too.
Can I offer extras like catering or a skipper?: Yes. Create add-ons under Yacht Booking Add-ons and choose which yachts offer them.
Can I offer discount codes?: Yes. Create percentage or fixed-amount coupons under Yacht Booking Coupons. When Pro is active, its coupon system takes over so a booking is never discounted twice. With WooCommerce checkout switched on, discounts are handled by WooCommerce coupons.
How do guests find their booking after paying?: They land on the Booking Confirmation page, which shows their booking, amount paid, any balance due and their check-in code. The page link is also included in the confirmation email and carries a secret key, so it can’t be guessed.
Guests land on my home page after paying. What happened?: The Booking Confirmation page was probably deleted. Deactivate and reactivate the plugin to recreate it.
I see “This booking does not meet the minimum notice period”.: The chosen start time is sooner than the yacht’s Minimum Notice. Pick a later time, or lower the notice in the yacht’s Pricing & Availability step.
I see “This time is too close to another booking for this yacht”.: The slot falls inside the Buffer Between Bookings around another charter. Pick another time, or shorten the buffer.
I see “Please choose an available payment method”.: No payment method is enabled. Turn one on under Yacht Booking Settings Payments.
I see “The Composer autoloader is missing”.: The vendor folder didn’t upload. Re-upload the full plugin, or run composer install in the plugin folder.
Can I customise the confirmation email?: Yes. Edit the global email under Settings Email, or override it for a single yacht in the last step of the yacht editor using one of the presets (Classic, Celebration, Corporate, Short). Pro adds a full editor for every email.
Can I change how the yacht page looks?: Yes. Copy templates/single-yacht.php to yourtheme/magepeople-yacht-booking-system/single-yacht.php and edit your copy. Your changes stay safe when the plugin updates.
Is my data removed if I delete the plugin?: Only if you turn on Remove all plugin data when uninstalled under Settings Data & Privacy first. Otherwise your data is kept.
Can I limit how long guest data is stored?: Yes. Under Settings Data & Privacy you can choose how many months to keep guest data before it is anonymised.
Is the plugin available in my language?: The plugin is translation-ready, so you can translate it with any standard WordPress translation tool.
Does it work with any theme?: Yes. The plugin is designed to work with any properly coded WordPress theme.
Where can I get help?: Use the support forum on the plugin’s WordPress.org page, or check the built-in User Guide under Yacht Booking.

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Changelog

1.3.4

Fix: Updated the bundled Appneck SDK to the latest version.

1.3.3

New: Updated the bundled Appneck SDK to the latest version.

1.3.2

Fix: Corrected the Appneck privacy disclosure text in External Services to match the standard wording used across our plugins.

1.3.1

New: added the Appneck SDK for opt-in telemetry and update tracking. It does not collect any data by default; it only starts after you confirm via the admin notice. See External Services in this readme.

1.3.0

New: slide-in booking drawer. “Book Now” opens a drawer instead of a popup,
with the booking summary (yacht, date, charter, guests, extras, live price
breakdown) above the guest details, coupon and payment steps, and the total
and Confirm button pinned to the bottom. Focus is trapped while it is open
and handed back on close, and the drawer takes the page’s accent colour.
New: built-in coupon codes. Percentage or fixed discounts with a minimum
spend, usage limit, validity dates and a per-yacht restriction, managed on a
new Coupons screen and re-checked when the booking is created. Steps aside
when the Pro add-on provides its own coupon system. Adds a
mageyabo_discount_codes table and a coupon_code column on bookings
(database version 6 – upgraded automatically).
New: WooCommerce checkout inside the drawer. “Confirm Booking” adds the
charter to the cart over AJAX and loads the real checkout in an iframe on a
bare canvas, with the thank-you page staying in the drawer. Off-site
gateways break out of the frame through a one-time token, and add-to-cart
errors are shown in the drawer with a retry that replaces the earlier yacht
booking in the cart.
New: guest ticket and invoice download links on the booking success screen,
the confirmation page and the WooCommerce thank-you page, supplied by the
Pro add-on through the mageyabo_booking_guest_documents filter.
New: the booking form defaults the date to the first day that meets the
yacht’s notice period and moves to the next free slot when that one is
taken; the hours field starts at the yacht’s minimum and stops at its
maximum. Only booking types a yacht actually has a price for are offered.
New: the Dates field on [mageyabo_yacht_search] now filters by real
availability. Yachts with no bookable slot that day – off-days, a clashing
booking, an unmet notice period, a mode with no price – are dropped from the
results, and a malformed or past date is rejected instead of quietly
ignored. Pre-fill the field with date="today" (or date="YYYY-MM-DD"),
and use autoload="no" to show results only after the guest searches.
New: [mageyabo_yacht_list] accepts class="" to start on a class tab and
occasion=”” to scope the listing to one occasion.
Tweak: the yacht editor has a full-width header with Update/Publish, an FAQ
accordion, a selectable booking mode with price panels for that mode only,
a formatted review step, confirmation email presets and rounded fields.
Tweak: the sample fleet import now matches the demo fleet – full
descriptions, map pins, amenities, per-yacht FAQs, every rate and booking
rule, and any missing classes or occasions are created. Each sample yacht
also imports with its own five-photo gallery; photos are sideloaded once and
reused on a retry, and a failed import rolls back rather than leaving a
partial fleet.
Tweak: the admin sidebar no longer lists a locked row per Pro screen
(Check-in, Coupons, Emails, Documents). There is now a single “Pro Features”
item opening one page that describes everything the Pro add-on unlocks, and
it disappears once the add-on claims those screens.
Tweak: the admin app is centered at 80% of the window, the yacht wizard’s
step header has a modern card treatment, and the Featured Image picker sits
directly under the Publish box instead of at the bottom of the sidebar.
Tweak: responsive fixes for the yacht page, the yacht list and the booking
form; yacht length is shown in feet to match the admin field.
Docs: this readme has been rewritten, and the repo now carries an agent
guide plus product and operations maps under docs/map/.

1.2.0

Coupons, guest check-in and the email template editor have moved into the
separate Yacht Booking System Pro add-on. Nothing is deleted by the update:
existing coupons, email templates, the mail log and every check-in stamp stay
in the database, and come back as soon as the add-on is installed.
This plugin still sends the guest’s booking confirmation on its own. The
add-on is what makes its wording editable and adds the operator alert,
payment receipt, cancellation notice and send log.
New: add-ons can extend the booking form, the bookings list, the quote and
the mail pipeline through documented filters, instead of needing changes
here – including actions on a booking row, which the list and the details
panel render as buttons.
Fix: the booking details panel no longer shows check-in buttons when no
add-on provides check-in; they posted to a route that did not exist.
The booking details panel (the eye button on the Bookings list, and a click
on a booking row) has moved into the Pro add-on. Without it the eye button
is shown locked and leads to what the panel offers. No booking data changes:
internal notes and payment references stay on the booking.
The Check-in column on the Bookings list carries a Pro tag when the add-on is
not installed, linking to what check-in does, instead of a dash on every row.
Fix: the admin app now starts once the page has finished loading, so an
add-on’s screens are always registered before the first render – on a slow
connection a Pro screen could briefly show its locked teaser.

1.1.0

Fix: a WooCommerce coupon applied at checkout is now recorded on the booking.
The booking kept the pre-discount quote while the order charged less, so
dashboard revenue overstated every order a coupon had touched.
Fix: date and time fields no longer render with the calendar icon sitting on
top of the text, or greyed out as though disabled.
New: the Coupons screen says so when WooCommerce checkout is handling
payment, since WooCommerce applies its own coupons and codes created here
are never offered to a guest.
New: booking confirmation page. PayPal and Stripe now return guests to a real
confirmation instead of the site’s home page.
New: “new booking” alert email to the operator.
New: booking details panel in the admin, with the full price breakdown,
payment reference, add-on lines, timestamps and internal notes.
New: add-ons – a catalogue of optional extras, assignable per yacht and
selectable on the booking form.
New: coupon codes, with percentage or fixed discounts, minimum spend, usage
limits, validity dates and per-yacht restrictions.
New: deposits – take a percentage or fixed amount up front, with a per-yacht
override.
New: check-in and check-out, with a check-in code on every booking and a
dedicated boarding-desk screen – including a History tab logging every stamp,
filterable by guest, yacht, date range and whether they are still aboard,
and headline counts for who is aboard now and who is still to board today.
New: editable templates for all four automatic emails, plus a send log.
New: pricing rules can now be limited to particular days of the week and to a
single yacht from the admin – the engine already supported both.
Fix: switching email template, or leaving a screen holding a rich-text
editor, could crash that screen with “Failed to execute ‘removeChild’ on
‘Node’”. The classic editor now owns its own DOM subtree rather than
handing React’s node to TinyMCE.
New: Clear history on the check-in log, scoped to the filters on screen and
confirmed with a real count (and a warning when any of them are aboard).
Tweak: the bookings list’s Actions column uses icon buttons instead of text.
Tweak: the Pricing Rules screen is laid out properly – the rule form is
grouped instead of seven controls on one line, weekdays are toggle pills,
and the rule you are building is described in plain words before you save it.
Fix: the live quote on a yacht page now stacks its line items instead of
squeezing them onto one row, and the “Estimated total” label no longer
appears on unrelated notices such as the confirmation page’s status banner.
That label is now translatable.
Fix: bookings and guests now show the booking’s own reference (YB-000123)
instead of a bare dash. Only bookings taken through WooCommerce ever had an
order number, so every other booking looked like it was missing one.
Fix: changing a booking’s status now moves its payment status with it.
Marking an offline booking “Completed” used to leave it flagged unpaid, so
the guest’s confirmation, the check-in desk and the emails all kept showing a
balance due on a booking that was settled. Existing bookings are repaired on
upgrade.
Fix: a cancelled booking no longer shows as confirmed on the guest’s
confirmation page.

1.0.0

Initial release.

Description

Why choose Yacht Booking System?

Features

Explore The Demo:

Accept payments online

Shortcodes

Yacht Booking System Pro (optional add-on)

Built for developers

Perfect for

External Services

Stripe

PayPal

Map and marina search

Appneck

Blocks

Installation

Requirements

Install the plugin

Using Pro features

FAQ

Do I need WooCommerce to use this plugin?

Can I sell individual seats instead of the whole yacht?

What booking types are available?

Can I take a deposit?

Can I stop two guests booking the same yacht at the same time?

Can I offer extras like catering or a skipper?

Can I offer discount codes?

How do guests find their booking after paying?

Guests land on my home page after paying. What happened?

I see “This booking does not meet the minimum notice period”.

I see “This time is too close to another booking for this yacht”.

I see “Please choose an available payment method”.

I see “The Composer autoloader is missing”.

Can I customise the confirmation email?

Can I change how the yacht page looks?

Is my data removed if I delete the plugin?

Can I limit how long guest data is stored?

Is the plugin available in my language?

Does it work with any theme?

Where can I get help?