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easyReservations

This powerful property and reservation management plugin allows you to receive, schedule and handle your bookings easily!

Active installs800+100+ tier
Downloads · 30d187▲ +21.4% vs prev. 30d
Rating3.7/562 reviews
Health score38/100At risk
All-time downloads222.6KSince Aug 2011
Support resolved—No recent threads
RequiresWP 5.4PHP 7.0+
Downloads · 7d42▲ +2.4% week over week
Our verdict

Consider an alternative

easyReservations shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 800+ sites, is rated 3.7/5 and was last updated 5 years ago, and scores 38/100 on our health check.

  • Small user base (800+ active installs)
  • No update in 4 years
  • Only tested up to WordPress 5.7 (latest is 7.1)

How does it stack up?

Side-by-side on installs, updates, ratings & support

Daily downloads

4914Jul 2Aug 15Sep 29
Yesterday8
Daily average (1y)4
Peak day19Sep 14, 2026
Last 12 months1.4K

Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.

Rankings

Where easyReservations stands today

WordPress.org search rankings

Live position in the plugin search, top 100
KeywordPositionCompeting pluginsCategory
booking >100 2,082 Best booking plugins →
calendar >100 2,460 Best calendar plugins →
Hotel >100 410 Best Hotel plugins →
reservation form >100 453 Best reservation form plugins →
reservations >100 691 Best reservations plugins →

Version adoption

Share of active sites per release.

  • 6.0-alpha47.2%
  • 3.517.0%
  • 5.014.6%
  • 4.010.6%
  • Other10.6%

Rating breakdown

★★★★★★★★★★ 3.7 from 62 reviews

  • 5★54.8%
  • 4★6.5%
  • 3★11.3%
  • 2★9.7%
  • 1★17.7%

About easyReservations

From the official readme · v6.0-alpha.23

Description

easyReservations is the perfect plugin for receiving, managing and handling bookings easily. It’s designed to be used for any reservable business like hotels, cars, events, B&Bs, appointments or conferences.
It’s very flexible and intuitive and has a huge amount of functions and possibilities. Of course it’s completely translatable.

Website

Features

  • Resource Catalog
  • Availability calendar
  • Unlimited customizable reservation forms
  • Property management
  • Half-hourly, hourly, daily, nightly and weekly billing
  • Flexible price filters, rates, discounts and availability
  • Live price calculation and error handling
  • And a lot more!

Documentation | Report bugs | Premium

Installation

Minimum Requirements

  • PHP 7.2 or greater is recommended
  • MySQL 5.6 or greater is recommended

Automatic installation

Automatic installation is the easiest option — WordPress will handles the file transfer, and you won’t need to leave your web browser. To do an automatic install of easyReservations, log in to your WordPress dashboard, navigate to the Plugins menu, and click “Add New.”

In the search field type easyReservations,” then click “Search Plugins.” Once you’ve found us, you can view details about it such as the point release, rating, and description. Most importantly of course, you can install it by! Click “Install Now,” and WordPress will take it from there.

Manual installation

Manual installation method requires downloading the easyReservations plugin and uploading it to your web server via your favorite FTP application. The WordPress codex contains instructions on how to do this here.

Updating

Automatic updates should work smoothly and does not delete any data, but we still recommend you back up your site.

If you encounter issues with the catalog/category pages after an update, flush the permalinks by going to WordPress > Settings > Permalinks and hitting “Save.” That should return things to normal.

Changelog

6.0 is a major update. Make a full site and database backup and update your theme and extensions before upgrading.

6.0-alpha.23 – 2021-11-28

  • Added – Calendar minDate attribute
  • Enhancement – Forms can contain any shortcode now
  • Enhancement – Calendar disable selecting next month if departure is impossible then
  • Fix – Calendar slots departure selection
  • Fix – User meta data
  • Fix – Reservation count in resources table
  • Fix – Paypal payment check uses amount due instead of total

6.0-alpha.22 – 2021-04-29

  • Enhancement – Keep name field when option to hide address fields is enabled
  • Fix – Calendar departure day
  • Fix – Receipt items of orders and reservations could be mixed if both had the same ID
  • Fix – Synchronization import
  • Fix – PayPal live mode sometimes redirected to sandbox

6.0-alpha.21 – 2021-04-14

  • Added – Upcoming category in reservation table
  • Added – Check to prevent double bookings when adding a reservation as admin
  • Added – [billing_unit] field in reservation name to to get half hour/hour/day/month
  • Enhancement – Updated and improved stripe gateway
  • Enhancement – Updated and improved invoices
  • Fix – Some reservations in resources with availability per person did not get displayed in timeline
  • Fix – Earliest possible departure for resources with a frequency of less than a day
  • Fix – Calendar availability display
  • Fix – Checkout without address fields
  • Fix – Reservation price in checkout
  • Fix – Billing units field in forms
  • Fix – Adding reservations to WooCommerce cart
  • Fix – Prices in WooCommerce cart
  • Fix – Filter submit

6.0-alpha.20 – 2021-03-25

  • Added – Apple Pay and Payment Request button with stripe
  • Added – Credit notes for refunds
  • Added – Option to not ask for address in checkout
  • Added – Check if new order mail got sent
  • Added – Dominican Republic and Guatemalan states
  • Enhancement – Updated and improved stripe gateway
  • Enhancement – Manually added reservations automatically recalculate at first update
  • Enhancement – Added date and time to status report
  • Tweak – Cleared up invoice settings
  • Tweak – Updated scripts to jQuery 3.0
  • Tweak – Save date of last order of customer
  • Tweak – Check selected country
  • Tweak – GB is not part of the EU VAT zone anymore
  • Tweak – Ensure statuses are correctly reassigned when restoring orders
  • Fix – Earliest possible departure when departure is on the same day as arrival
  • Fix – Reservations added through timeline now do have a price calculated
  • Fix – Invoices use latest settings when enabled
  • Fix – Invoices modern template
  • Dev – Added new actions and filters

6.0-alpha.19 – 2021-02-26

  • Enhancement – Setting order to processing or completed only possible if all reservations are approved
  • Enhancement – Added option to add a price display suffix in tax settings
  • Enhancement – Added option to edit the order note
  • Enhancement – Admin created reservations have a resource item with the correct price attached now
  • Enhancement – Display reservation status in admin order receipt
  • Enhancement – Updated filter time unit condition years
  • Enhancement – Custom fields default value get’s used as placeholder for text fields, text areas and number fields
  • Enhancement – Added email to privacy exports
  • Enhancement – New order action to approve all attached reservations
  • Fix – Reservations got instantly removed from cart on some setups
  • Fix – Without premium emails could be sent empty
  • Fix – Without premium the order status was not updated after submit and remained as draft
  • Fix – Newly added tax rates did not get applied
  • Fix – Order search
  • Fix – Deposit form does not get displayed for free orders
  • Fix – My account orders endpoint
  • Fix – Filter form unavailability part did not get hidden when switching to price filter
  • Fix – Filter names can have big letters and free spaces now
  • Fix – Stylesheet fixes for the themes twenty twenty and twenty twentyone
  • Fix – Stylesheet fixes for search
  • Fix – Error message when departure is too soon
  • Removed – Required permission option in resources settings
  • Removed – Option to display custom field when adding reservations

6.0-alpha.18 – 2021-01-28

  • Enhancement – Stylesheets for twenty twentyone wordpress theme
  • Enhancement – Improved automatic order notes for changes in reservation
  • Enhancement – New option to enforce difference in time between arrival and departure
  • Enhancement – Handling of multiply countries in checkout form
  • Enhancement – Improved translatability
  • Fix – Timeline display when changing resources menu order
  • Fix – Reservations in cart apply to calendar availability
  • Fix – Display of unavailable departure days in calendar
  • Fix – Selectability of arrival and departure time in calendar
  • Fix – Resource filters in price calculation
  • Fix – Resource archive
  • Fix – Miscellaneous stylesheet fixes

Full changelog on WordPress.org →

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FAQ

easyReservations: quick answers

Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.

Live data from WordPress.org · checked Sep 30, 2026

Is easyReservations free?

Yes. easyReservations is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.

Is easyReservations safe to use in 2026?

easyReservations shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 800+ sites, is rated 3.7/5 and was last updated 5 years ago, and scores 38/100 on our health check.

How many websites use easyReservations?

easyReservations is active on 800+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 222,573 times since it launched in August 2011. It was downloaded 187 times in the last 30 days.

Does easyReservations work with WordPress 7.1?

easyReservations is officially tested up to WordPress 5.7.19, while the latest release is 7.1.2. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.

What PHP version does easyReservations need?

easyReservations requires PHP 7.0 or higher. Most hosts run PHP 8.x today, so it works on any modern WordPress hosting.

When was easyReservations last updated?

The latest version, 6.0-alpha.23, was released on November 28, 2021 (5 years ago).

Who makes easyReservations?

easyReservations is developed and maintained by feryaz.

What are the best alternatives to easyReservations?

The most popular alternatives to easyReservations are Booking for Appointments an… (90K+ installs), Online Scheduling and Appoi… (60K+ installs) and Simply Schedule Appointments (50K+ installs).

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