Bookyt Rental Software

Rental software for WordPress

Bookyt Rental Software connects your WordPress website to your existing Bookyt account. Show rental items, availability, locations, news, and the Bookyt online booking experience directly on your website.

The plugin is designed for rental businesses that manage vehicles, trailers, bicycles, e-bikes, tools, equipment, machines, or other rental items with Bookyt. A Bookyt account with API access is required.

What can you add to your website?

• Rental categories with images and descriptions
• Detail pages with equipment, photos, and additional information
• An interactive availability calendar with rental period, pickup location, and category selection
• A compact availability check for a selected date
• A direct booking button for landing pages and offer pages
• A curated selection of featured rental offers
• The complete Bookyt online booking interface embedded in a WordPress page
• An occupancy plan with day, week, and month views
• Rental locations with contact details and opening hours
• News and current information from Bookyt

Connect Bookyt once

After activating the plugin, open Settings → Bookyt in WordPress. Enter your Bookyt account name, access token, and preferred language there.

The language can be selected manually or set to Automatic. Automatic mode follows the WordPress language and uses English when the selected WordPress language is not supported.

Once the settings are saved, short shortcodes are enough:

[bookyt call="calendar"]

[bookyt call="category"]

Account and token attributes in a shortcode are optional overrides for special configurations, such as websites that use more than one Bookyt account. Keeping them in Settings → Bookyt is recommended for normal use.

Available calls

The call parameter determines which content from Bookyt Rental Software appears on the page. If no call is specified, the plugin uses category.

Rental categories: category

Displays available rental categories with image, name, and description. Visitors can open an item to see its details.

[bookyt call="category"]

Single rental item: item

Displays one rental item with its description, equipment, and images. Pass the Bookyt category ID with category_id.

[bookyt call="item" category_id="4"]

The category overview also opens item details automatically when a visitor selects an offer.

Featured rental offers: featured

Displays selected rental categories as a compact offer grid. Pass comma-separated Bookyt category IDs with category_id. Without an explicit selection, the first three categories are displayed.

[bookyt call="featured" category_id="4,7,12"]

Availability calendar: calendar

Lets visitors select a rental period, pickup location, and category and then check the availability calendar.

[bookyt call="calendar"]

A pickup location can be preselected:

[bookyt call="calendar" station_id="1"]

Compact availability check: availability

Lets visitors select a rental period, pickup location, category, and start date and then checks that date using Bookyt’s live availability data.

[bookyt call="availability"]

A location and category can be preselected:

[bookyt call="availability" station_id="1" category_id="4"]

Embedded online booking: embed

Embeds the complete Bookyt booking frontend in the WordPress page. A valid Bookyt account is required, but this call does not require an access token.

[bookyt call="embed"]

The account can come from Settings → Bookyt or be supplied as an override:

[bookyt call="embed" account="youraccount"]

Direct booking button: booking_button

Displays a compact button that opens the Bookyt booking flow. This call does not require an access token. A location and category can be passed to preselect the booking context.

[bookyt call="booking_button" station_id="1" category_id="4"]

Occupancy plan: belegungsplan

Displays the occupancy of rental items. Locations and categories can be filtered, and the initial view can be set to day, week, or month.

[bookyt call="belegungsplan" station_id="1,2" category_id="4,5" view="month"]

The station_id and category_id attributes accept comma-separated IDs. If a filter is omitted, all available entries are displayed. Supported views are day, week, and month.

Rental locations: locations

Displays rental locations with the information maintained in Bookyt.

[bookyt call="locations"]

News: news

Displays news and current information maintained in Bookyt.

[bookyt call="news"]

Shortcode parameters

• call selects the Bookyt view.
• account overrides the centrally configured Bookyt account.
• token overrides the centrally configured access token.
• station_id filters or preselects one or more rental locations.
• category_id filters categories or selects a single rental item.
• view selects the day, week, or month occupancy-plan view.

Supported languages

The plugin supports German, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Greek, and Turkish. The selected language is used for plugin labels and is sent to Bookyt for the requested content.

External Bookyt service

This plugin is a connector for the externally hosted Bookyt Rental Software service. When a page containing a Bookyt shortcode is displayed, the plugin requests the required content from the configured Bookyt account at *.bookyt.de. Depending on the call, the request includes the configured account, access token, language, and selected location or category filters.

The embed and booking_button calls load the Bookyt booking frontend from *.bookyt.de. Visitors may therefore interact directly with the Bookyt service. No Bookyt content can be displayed without connecting the plugin to a Bookyt account.

Please review the Bookyt privacy policy and make sure your website privacy information covers the embedded service where required.

More about Bookyt Rental Software

Learn more about Bookyt Rental Software and PHCOM GmbH.