Step 6: Test Your Booking System

Before You Begin #

Before testing your booking system, make sure you have already created at least one trip.

If you haven’t created a trip yet, follow this guide first:

📖 How to Create a Trip Package
https://wptravel.io/how-to-create-a-trip/

Please follow the steps below to test your booking system using the WP Travel plugin:

Step 1: Choose a Trip #

Visit your Trips or Itinerary page where all published trips are displayed.

Browse the available trips and click on the trip you want to book.

Step 2: Click Book Now #

On the single trip page, click the Book Now button to begin the booking process.

Step 3: Select Your Travel Date #

After clicking Book Now, travelers must select a travel date before they can continue with the booking.

WP Travel supports two ways of selecting a departure date:

• – Date Listing (available only for Fixed Departure trips)
• – Calendar

The option displayed on the frontend depends on your Trip Date Listing setting.

Date Listing (Fixed Departure Only) #

The Date Listing view displays all available fixed departure dates in a list. Travelers can easily compare the available departures and choose the one that best fits their travel plans.

Each departure may display:

• – Departure date
• – Trip duration
• – Price
• – Available seats (if Inventory is enabled)
• – Book Now button

Enable Fixed Departure

The Date Listing view is only available for trips with Fixed Departure enabled.

To enable Fixed Departure:

• Go to Trips → Edit Trip → Prices & Dates → Dates.
• Enable Fixed Departure.
• Add one or more departure dates.
• Set the Trip Duration for each departure.
• Publish or update the trip.

Once Fixed Departure is enabled, all available departures will appear in the Date Listing on the trip page.

Note: If Fixed Departure is disabled, the Date Listing view will not be available.

Calendar #

The Calendar view provides a visual calendar where travelers can select an available departure date.

To enable the Calendar view, go to:

Admin Panel → WP Travel → Settings → Trip

Under Trip Date Listing, select Calendar instead of Date

After saving the settings, the trip page will display a calendar showing all available departure dates.

Travelers simply need to:

• – Open the calendar.
• – Click an available departure date.
• – Continue to the next step.

Only available dates can be selected.

Step 4: Select Travelers (Pax) #

After selecting a departure date, the Pax Selector appears.

Select the number of travelers (Pax) for each available pricing category.

Note: After selecting the number of travelers, you can also choose Trip Extras before proceeding.Trip Extras are optional and will only appear if they have been configured for the trip.
Learn more: https://wptravel.io/docs/wp-travel-user-documentation/tour-extras/

Step 5: Review the Total Price #

Once you’ve selected the travelers and any optional trip extras, the total booking price is automatically calculated and displayed at the bottom of the booking form.

Verify the total booking amount, then click Book Now to continue to checkout.

Click Book Now to proceed to checkout.

Step 6: Complete the Checkout Form #

After clicking Book Now, you’ll be redirected to the checkout page.

Complete the Traveler Information form by entering all required details.

Checkout Page Setup

To use the checkout page, create a WordPress page and insert the checkout shortcode provided in:

WP Travel → Settings → General → Checkout Page

Learn More: How to Set Up Checkout, Dashboard, and Thank You Pages in WP Travel?

Step 7: Review the Mini Cart #

The checkout page displays a Mini Cart summarizing your booking. Review your selected trip, travelers, extras, and pricing before continuing.

Step 8: Choose a Booking Option #

Choose one of the available booking methods:

• Booking Only: Reserve the trip without making a payment.
• Booking with Payment: Complete the booking and pay immediately using one of the enabled payment gateways.

Step 9: Select a Payment Mode #

If you selected Booking with Payment, choose one of the following payment modes:

• Full Payment — Pay the full booking amount.
• Partial Payment — Pay only the required deposit.

Available options are described below:

• Partial Payment: Regarding the Partial Payment Feature, please once refer to the given link.
• Full Payment: If you select Full Payment as payment mode during booking, the trip will be booked with complete payment.

Step 10: Complete the Booking #

After completion of the booking process, emails related to the booking as well as payment will automatically be sent to the admin and client as shown in the screenshot below.

Now that your booking system is working correctly, it’s time to improve the appearance of your website.

Continue to Step 7: Customize Your Website Design, where you’ll learn how to personalize your travel website with themes, colors, layouts, menus, and branding to create a professional booking experience.