WP Travel utilities is an addon which consists of  basic but important features that will enhance the WP Travel plugin.  The plugin basically addresses the minimal but important feature that is not available in the free version of WP Travel plugin.

It lets you define your own custom trip code, enable/disable WP Travel “Powered By Branding” text or define your custom text. Likewise, it also has an option to send an email related to Trip Booking, Trip Payments and Trip Enquiry to your multiple recipients. WP Travel plugin must be installed and activated to use this addon.

Installing the wp-travel-utilities plugin is easy and convenient. Please follow below-given steps for the installation process.

1.  Download the plugin (.zip file).
2. In your Admin, go to menu Plugins > Add.
3. Select the tab “Upload”.
4. Upload the .zip file you just downloaded.
5. Activate the plugin.

1. Once you download the plugin, you will get zip folder.
2. Unzip the folder and Upload `WP Travel Utilities` folder to the `/wp- content/plugins/` directory.
3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

WP Travel Utilities is a bundle of some amazing features. The feature included here are in fact the most requested feature from the user of WP Travel plugin.

Here is the list of major features that WP Travel Utilities offers.

• Trip code customization.
• Enable/disable Powered by text in the email.
• Custom powered by text in the email.
• Email notification option.
• Custom tabs
• Inventory options.

Al of these features is explained in detail below.

Configurations:

After the activation of the required plugin you get the additional tab in of Utilities in Trips > Settings > utilities.

With WP travel Utilities you will be able to add three most important feature which is explained below.

• Go to individual trip edit screens. At the bottom left you can find the field to change the trip  code.

• Change the code and save the setting. 

Available options:

Screenshot: Enabling  “Powered By text” 

Screenshot: Disabling “Powered By text” 

Screenshot: Editing  “Powered By text” 

This is a brand new and exciting feature release with the WP Travel Utilities version (1.0.2).

With this feature, a user will be able to add the custom tabs globally or to the single trips. More importantly, a user will be able to add as many no of the tab as they wish.

After the activation of the required plugin the option to add the tab globally will be available in Trips > Settings > Tabs

As for the single trip you need to go to individual trip> tabs section. From here you will be able to add the new tabs clicking on the “Add New button”. 

This is the global setting. This setting will be applied to the individual trips only if they check the option “Use Global Tabs Layout” by going to Tabs section of the individual trips.

Available options:

• Sort the tabs: If you are not happy with the listing of the tabs at the frontend then you can sort it from here. You can rearrange the tabs where ever you like simply by dragging the tabs up and down.
• Rename the tabs: You can even rename the tabs if you like.

Display: In case if you did not want the particular tab to display then you can simply uncheck the “Display” option.

From here user will be able to manage single trip tab setting.  The setting here will be applied to the trip only after you disable the “Use Global Tabs Layout” option. If you enable this option then the setting that you have made from here will not be applied. All of the tabs settings will be from the Global setting which you can manage by going to Trips> Settings > Tabs. 

Available Options:

• Sort the tabs: If you are not happy with the listing of the tabs at the frontend then you can sort it from here. You can rearrange the tabs where ever you like simply by dragging the tabs up and down.
• Rename the tabs: You can even rename the tabs if you like.

Display: In case if you did not want the particular tab to display then you can simply uncheck the “Display” option.

The most demanded feature “Inventory option” is now added to the WP Travel Utilities plugin. After the activation fo the WP Travel Utilities version 1.0.3 a new tab “Inventory Options” will be added to individual trip. With this feature, you can show the inventory status of the trips. The fields available are explained below:

Available Options:

• Enable Trip Inventory: This option allows you to enable/disable the inventory feature for the trip.
• Status Column: Enabling inventory feature adds the status column under booking options so this option allows you to enable/disable the status column for the particular trip.
• Status Message Format: You can edit the format of displaying the status in status column of the trip.
• Pax Limit: There are two options available to set the pax limit.
  • Use Group Size value: If you chose this option then the trip uses the group size that is entered from the Date And Prices tab.
  • Custom Value: This option enables you to enter your custom value to set the no of pax.
    • Max Pax no: This option allows you to enter the max no of pax for the trip.
• Out Of Stock option: This is the most requested feature which is now available in the WP Travel Addon. If the trip is booked up to the max no of pax that you have defined then this feature will allow you to either add enquiry form or display the Sold out message.
  • • Display Enquiry:
    • Show “SOLD OUT” message:

Front-end:

Sold Out message:

Enquiry button:

You can enable/disable the inventory option even for the particular pricing by going to individual pricing option added from Dates And Prices tab.

Pricing:

Frontend:

Sold out message:

Enquiry Button:

Now user will be able to add the FAQs from Settings > FAQs. The FAQs added here will be available to all the trips but trips will display globally added fAQs only if the option “Use Global FAQs” is enabled from the single trip page.

Enabling the Global FAQsoption from the single trip edit screen.

To enable the global option go to tab FAQs and enable the option “Use Global FAQs”

• Force Cart / Checkout Process For Bookings: Enabling this option will make you go through the cart and checkout page even only for the booking process.
• Skip Cart Page ?: This option allows you to escape the cart page i.e it will directly take you checkout page from the single trip page.
• Price Unavailable Text: In the booking only option there will be no price so in place of the price a message could be displayed using this option.

• Checkout Information Label: This option allows you to add the label for checkout information:
• Checkout Information: This option allows you to add the information.

WP Travel Utilities version (1.1.6) is released with the exciting feature of adding the image in Itinerary section. With the addition of each day planning now, you will be able to add the image as well.

Backend: 

Front-end:

This is the brand new feature added from the version(1.2.1). If you wish to add the custom form or links instead of the traditional booking layout then this is the option to go for.

Go to Admin Panel > All Trips and to the individual. In the individual trip go to tab Dates and Tabs. Now chose the option “Custom Booking” in the “Pricing” Options

Within the custom booking, you will find the two option “Custom Links”  , “Custom Form“.  Please find the description below.

Custom Link:

If you want to add the custom link in the booking tab then you can choose this option. This option allows you to add links which will allow you to redirect to some other URL.

Available options:

• Link: This option allows you to add the custom link.
• Link Label: This option allows you to add the label of the link.
• Open link in new tab: This option allows you to either enable/disable the feature to make the link open in new tab.

Custom Form: 

If you want to add the custom form then chose this option. This option also allows you to add the shortcode as well.

Available options:

• Custom from HTML: This option allows you to add the custom HTML.

This is a brand new feature added to the WP Travel version (1.5.3).

From this version, the user will be redirected to the “Thank you” Page after completing the payment process.

Note: If you go through the payment processing for only one trip with only one pricing option is then you not be redirected to the “Thank you” page.