About this plugin
SteadyDevs Venue Booking lets your customers reserve anything you rent by time — sports courts and simulator bays, studios and treatment rooms, restaurant tables, equipment rental, salon chairs, meeting rooms and more. You define the resources, prices and hours; customers book online; you stay in control by approving every reservation.
Nothing is confirmed until you say so, and the same slot can never be sold twice.
What you get
- Live multi-step booking — a clean 3-step flow (date & time → resource & group → confirm) with real-time availability, so the same slot can’t be grabbed twice.
- Admin approval workflow — every booking arrives as Pending. Approve, reject, or cancel from your dashboard.
- Double-booking protection — approving a resource, date and time that already has an approved booking is blocked automatically.
- Automatic customer emails — customers are notified the moment you approve or reject their booking, with editable HTML templates and a live preview.
- Unlimited bookable resources — add as many bays, courts, rooms or tables as your venue has.
- Theming without code — colour presets, layout controls (summary position, width, corner style), background style and an animation toggle, all with a live preview of the real form.
- Reports — utilization, revenue and booking counts over any period, on screen.
- Configurable booking rules — currency, coaching add-on, peak pricing, and a limited or unlimited booking window.
- Shortcode — drop the form on any page with [steadybook].
- Built to extend — actions and filters at every point in the booking lifecycle (see the FAQ).
Who it’s for
Driving ranges and indoor golf simulators, sports and racket clubs, wellness studios, salons and barbers, co-working and meeting rooms, equipment hire, and any business that books resources by time slot.
Privacy and external services
SteadyDevs Venue Booking stores bookings in your own WordPress database and sends email through WordPress itself. It makes no external connections: no third-party services, no analytics, no phoning home, no account required. Nothing leaves your server.
SteadyDevs Venue Booking Pro
The free plugin above is complete and unlimited — every feature it has is fully working, nothing is capped, there is no trial and nothing expires. SteadyDevs Venue Booking Pro is a separate plugin, downloaded from our site, that adds features this one does not contain:
For any venue taking bookings
- Online payments — take a deposit or full payment at the time of booking, so a no-show costs the customer, not you
- Automatic reminder emails before a booking
- A front-desk staff role, so a receptionist can manage the day without an administrator account
- WhatsApp enquiry button
- Custom brand colours with live preview, beyond the built-in presets
- CSV export from Reports
For venues running classes and courses
- Class Portal — recurring classes and programmes sold as prepaid credits, with levels and per-level pricing
- A member login portal for self-service booking, cancellation and account management
- Credit packages, orders, and a running credit ledger per member
- Waitlists with timed seat offers, and a printable class register
- A public timetable shortcode
Installing Pro keeps everything you already have: it reads the same data, so every booking, resource and setting carries over.