Building a travel booking website will often mean juggling separate systems that don’t always communicate. For instance, you’ll need one solution for hotel reservations, another for tour bookings, and yet another for car rentals. This Tourfic discovery will show you a plugin that combines all of these aspects into one system, without the individual learning curves of each.

Let’s waste no time – let’s take a look at what I’ve discovered about Tourfic’s approach to building a travel website.

How Tourfic Addresses Travel Booking Complexity

Your travel business might face unique challenges that generic booking plugins can’t handle. For example, hotels need room inventory management with seasonal pricing. Tour operators require itinerary builders with group booking capabilities. Car rental companies need fleet management with duration-based pricing. Apartment owners want amenity showcases with house rules management.

The Tourfic plugin acts as a specialized travel booking system that integrates with WooCommerce. This means you can leverage WooCommerce’s payment processing and gain access to travel-specific booking functionality too. The plugin handles real-time availability checking, inventory management, and customer communication direct from your WordPress dashboard.

The plugin’s multi-vendor functionality can help you in a few ways. For instance, multiple property owners or service providers can list their offerings while you manage commissions and customer relationships. The approach works whether you operate a single hotel or want to build a comprehensive travel platform.

Tourfic Discovery: How the Plugin Will Power Your Travel Bookings

Central to the whole process is the booking engine. This can handle complex scenarios that you’ll encounter all the time. I’m confident that there are two areas that funnel everything else the plugin offers:

• Room reservations work with availability calendars that prevent overbooking while managing different room types and pricing tiers.
• Tour bookings accommodate fixed-date events and continuous availability with per-person or group pricing options.

In addition, you get automatic inventory management across all booking types. So, when there’s a hotel room or tour slot reservation, the system will update almost immediately. This way, you can prevent overbooking and keep your reputation intact, while keeping your information accurate for other potential customers.

You have other functionality on offer too that is no less valuable and helpful:

• The itinerary builder creates visual tour plans with maps and detailed descriptions. This lets you showcase day-by-day activities, include photos, and manage add-on services such as airport transfers.
• You’re able to use property management to showcase amenities, upload photo galleries, set house rules, and manage cancellation policies. Tourfic will handle security deposits, cleaning fees, and extra charges while giving guests clear terms and expectations.
• The customer is kept in the loop too, with booking histories, communication tools, and account management all available. As such, a customer can view and manage their preferences from a unified account that works across all booking types.

Finally, the payment processing means you can accept any payment method WooCommerce supports. You could even implement a ‘book now, pay later’ setup or partial payment options.

Tourfic Discovery: Pricing and Value

Tourfic uses a freemium model, which means there’s a free version that provides basic functionality. It supports as many hotels and tours as you need but limits rooms to five per hotel.

Still, this gives you enough functionality to evaluate the plugin and build a basic travel website without any upfront investment.

When you feel as though you need more, you can upgrade to a premium package:

• Starter. This costs $129 on annual billing and gives you the full feature set for one site.
• Business. At $199 per year, this covers you for five websites – again, you get all of the available functionality.
• Ultimate. This plan gives you as many website licenses as you need and full functionality for $299 per year, which is an excellent deal.

If you know you’ll stick with Tourfic over the long term, lifetime licensing is going to give you an even greater saving. However, it looks like Tourfic offers regular sales, so waiting for the best deal can also be a good option.

Regardless of sale price, the Starter plan is good value in my opinion, and will likely be all you need for a small hotel or tour operation. Both the Business and Ultimate tiers are more for agencies or developers, although it’s of course going to be ideal if you have an extensive property portfolio.

A Quick Look at Tourfic’s Support and Documentation

Quite often when writing a review or discovery, I find that accessing support is often not as optimal as I’d like. The Tourfic ticketing system is a touch better than many other plugins (for starters) because it’s accessible on the website.

Something I’m a fan of is the level of detail about what support you’ll get. You can find out where the team are based, their operating hours, and a few more details. This is excellent, and if I were a paying customer, I’d feel ‘in the loop’ when it comes to managing my expectations.

For the Tourfic documentation, you get plenty of self-help across a whole host of guides and tutorials. It covers installation, configuration, and using the functionality with step-by-step instructions. You can also find video tutorials supplementing the written documentation, and there are plenty of screenshots. It could be that I’d never need to contact the support team given the quality of the documentation!

My Thoughts on This Tourfic Discovery

I’m convinced Tourfic will address real problems for your WordPress travel website through its professional booking functionality. It leverages and builds on top of WooCommerce functionality to give you a solution that other booking plugins can’t touch with ease. What’s more, the pricing is great value, especially the higher plans.

Will this Tourfic discovery post give you cause to seek it out for your own travel website? I’d love to hear your opinions in the comments section below!