Escale helps independent holiday rental hosts (cottages, B&Bs, small apartments) take direct bookings. This plugin puts the Escale widgets on your WordPress site, without copying any code.

Four widgets, each available as a block (search for « Escale » in the block inserter) or as a shortcode:

Booking calendar: your calendar with the price of each night, the total of the stay (length of stay discount, cleaning, tourist tax if you enabled it) and the booking request. [escale_reservation slug="my-cottage"]
Availability only: free and booked nights over 1, 2, 3, 6 or 12 months, without prices, with a « Book » button. [escale_calendrier slug="my-cottage" mois="3"]
Rates: your seasons with the price per night, minimum stay, length of stay discounts and cleaning fee. [escale_tarifs slug="my-cottage"]
Search across all your places: the guest picks dates and number of guests, sees which of your places are free and the total price, and books. [escale_recherche hote="abcd2345efgh"]

Optional attributes on every shortcode: couleur="#2F7D5B" (accent colour, otherwise the one chosen in Escale) and langue="en" (fr, en, de or nl; otherwise the language of your site when Escale speaks it).

Each widget adjusts its height to its content. If a guest sends a booking request, it arrives in your Escale account: you accept it there, and card payments go to your own Stripe account.

What you need

An Escale account with a published booking page. The address of your page (the slug) and your search ID (the hote value) are shown in Escale, under « Add to your website ». Escale has a free plan; see escale.voyage/tarifs.

External services

This plugin is an interface to the Escale service (https://escale.voyage), run by Escale, France. It is needed to show your calendar, prices and booking form, which are stored in your Escale account.

What is loaded: each widget is a frame (iframe) loaded from https://escale.voyage when a visitor opens a page containing it. No script is loaded from Escale by the plugin; the small script that adjusts the frame height is included in the plugin.
What is sent: the visitor’s browser requests the widget page from escale.voyage, which receives the usual technical data of any web request (IP address, browser, the address of the page containing the frame as referrer). The widget sets no cookie and contains no tracking or advertising. If the visitor sends a booking request, the details they type in (name, email, phone, dates, number of guests) are sent to Escale and passed on to you, the host.
Nothing is sent by your WordPress server: the plugin makes no request of its own and stores no option.

Escale Reservation

What you need

External services