The Booking Addon transforms Listdom into a booking platform. It allows listing owners to define bookable items (such as rooms, appointments, or seats) and lets users submit booking requests for specific dates. The addon handles availability calendars, booking statuses, and can integrate with WooCommerce for online payments.
Listdom’s built-in payment engine can handle booking charges without WooCommerce. Follow the Listdom Payments documentation and Listdom Payments Settings documentation to configure the internal checkout, gateways, and invoices before enabling paid bookings. Once set up, booking payments will flow through Listdom’s Orders and Recurring Payments tools just like other monetization features.
Listdom > Bookings) to view all booking requests.The Booking Addon tracks three separate states for each request:
Keeping these values separate lets a site approve a request independently from payment and control when limited inventory becomes unavailable to other customers.
Open Listdom → Settings → Add-ons → Booking and configure the following behavior.
When online payment is disabled, Auto-approve after payment is not applicable and Listdom uses manual approval behavior.
Enable Payable Per Bookable when individual items need different payable rules. Enable Auto Order Complete when the related order should complete automatically after successful checkout.
For temporary holds, set Hold Duration in minutes or hours to a value of at least 1. Expired holds are released automatically. If online payment is disabled, payment-dependent reservation modes are not applicable and Listdom reserves availability immediately after the request.
Enable Person In Charge when listing owners need to assign a responsible user. Owners can review the assignment and use Change PIC when that action is valid.
Listdom records total, payable, paid, and remaining amounts and the payment or order reference separately.
Approval reserves inventory. Rejection or cancellation releases it. Failed, refunded, or canceled payment also releases availability. When valid, Release frees a held or reserved item without performing another lifecycle action.
Event bookables also validate slot quantity. Availability is checked again before a resumed payment so a customer cannot silently pay for inventory already taken.
When a booking has an eligible pending Listdom order, Pay Now returns the customer to checkout after verifying order access and current availability. If inventory is no longer available when payment completes, Listdom marks the booking expired, records payment as failed, releases availability, and preserves amount data for follow-up.
Open Bookings in the frontend Dashboard and use:
Search and filters can cover booking item, booking status, payment status, and reservation status.
Listing owners can review booking date, item, customer, From and To dates, payment amounts and status, Person in Charge, and available order or booking actions. Summary cards cover total bookings, pending review, waiting for payment, and approved bookings, with comparison to the previous 30 days.
Actions appear only when valid and can include Approve, Change PIC, Release, Mark as paid, Mark as Refunded, Cancel, Reject, Trash, and View Order. State-changing and destructive actions require confirmation.
Customers can review booking date and status, item, From and To dates, payable, paid, remaining, and total amounts, payment and availability state, and Pay Now when checkout can resume.
Available actions can include Book again, View Details, Contact Owner, Invoice, View Order, Cancel, and Request a Refund. Exact actions depend on ownership, state, timing, payment data, and addon configuration.
A booking invoice can show invoice number, issue date, booking status, booking and listing details, check-in and checkout dates, customer contact information, booked items, price, online payable amount, and payment status. It includes Print; a booking linked to a Listdom order can also expose View Order.
A refund request records the customer’s intent but does not guarantee that the gateway returned funds. Authorized owners or administrators can use Mark as paid or Mark as Refunded when valid. These actions update Listdom’s booking state; gateway-side refunds must still follow the provider’s required process.
Lifecycle notification events include Booking Waiting for Payment, Booking Payment Received, Booking Payment Failed, Booking Hold Created, Booking Hold Extended, Booking Hold Expired, Booking Expired, and Booking Refunded. Templates can use paid amount, remaining amount, availability status, payment link, and hold expiry values.
In WordPress administration, booking lists and details expose booking, payment, and availability separately, along with paid and remaining amounts, order reference, and hold expiry. Bulk actions include Mark Paid and Mark Refunded.
The Booking Addon can filter listing results by booking dates and guest capacity. Supported listing skins can also show the available bookable items that matched the search. Each matched item includes booking details and a Book this option action that opens the single-listing booking form with the valid item, dates, and guest values carried forward.
Use this workflow when one listing can offer several rooms, rental units, appointment types, tours, event ticket types, or service packages.
Listdom limits the results to listings with bookable items that satisfy the submitted availability and capacity criteria.
The option is available in the List, Grid, List + Grid, Half Map, and Masonry skins. Matched cards appear only when the Booking Addon is active, the search targets that result block, a complete date range is supplied for date-based availability, and at least one item matches the submitted criteria.
A matched bookable can show its title, description, selected date and time, availability or remaining slots, capacity, calculated price for the selected period, and Book this option. Property items can show separate adult and child limits. Event items use their configured start and end values and show remaining capacity when a limit exists.
When the visitor selects Book this option, Listdom:
Only available items are offered. Expired events are skipped, and event matching follows Listdom → Settings → Add-ons → Booking → Event Availability. When nothing matches, the booking area distinguishes between no items for the selected dates and no items for the selected filters. If booking availability notifications are configured, Listdom shows the notification form; otherwise, it prompts the visitor to contact the listing owner.
Vacation Rental Booking
A host lists an apartment with two bookable items: “Entire Apartment” and “Guest Room.” A traveler selects the Guest Room, chooses dates, and pays a 20% deposit online. The host approves the request, and the traveler receives a confirmation.
Appointment Scheduling
A consultant lists a “Career Consulting Session” with a single bookable item priced at $50. Clients pick an available date and time, pay the full amount at checkout, and the booking is automatically approved and confirmed via email.
Event Ticketing
An event organizer lists a workshop with two ticket types: “General Admission” and “VIP Admission.” A user books 2 VIP tickets. The organizer, who set payment to “after approval, ” manually approves the request, which triggers a payment-due email. Once the user pays, the booking is finalized and VIP ticket availability is updated.