Yatra – Travel Booking & Tour Management

✈️ Yatra is the WordPress travel booking plugin built for tour operators, activity providers, travel agencies and adventure businesses that need real trip inventory — not a generic shop. The free version is a full booking office: trips, availability, checkout, customer records, transactional emails and a customer account area. Yatra Pro unlocks premium payment gateways plus a suite of 20 Pro modules you switch on as your business grows — from Channel Manager (Viator + GetYourGuide) to AI Assistant, White Label and WhatsApp Notifications.

Official site: 🌐 wpyatra.com · 📖 docs.wpyatra.com · 💳 Pricing · ✨ All features · 🎯 Live demo · 💬 Support forum

🎬 See Yatra in action

🎥 Watch the Yatra walkthrough on YouTube — trips, bookings, checkout, and traveler accounts in under five minutes. More tutorials on the MantraBrain YouTube channel.

✈️ Why tour operators pick Yatra

• 🗺️ Travel-first data model — Departures, capacity, traveler types and itineraries match how tours are actually sold, not how an e-commerce shop sells products.
• 🧭 One admin workspace — Modern Yatra dashboard inside wp-admin; less tab-hopping than bolting travel onto a generic commerce stack.
• ⚖️ Honest Free vs Pro — Core booking, CRM-style records, reviews and PayPal / Pay Later are in the free plugin. Card gateways and advanced modules are in Pro — no surprise paywalls on basics.
• 🔒 Your site, your data — Bookings and customer data stay in your WordPress database; payments go through the gateways you configure. No proxy, no markup, no per-booking fee.
• ⭐ 700+ active installs · ★ 4.6 / 5 on WordPress.org — Active development since 2018, weekly updates.

🎁 What you get in the free Yatra plugin

Trips and catalog (11 free features)

• Trips & Itineraries — unlimited trips with rich descriptions, gallery, difficulty, duration, meeting points, included / excluded lists, day-by-day itinerary builder, per-trip FAQs and custom attributes
• Departures & Availability — scheduled departures, capacity, recurring availability rules
• Customer Accounts — booking history, payments, profile, and document access (invoices, vouchers, itineraries)
• Reviews & Ratings — moderation and trip-level display
• Sales Reports — admin reports for bookings, revenue, and trends
• Discounts & Coupons — sale and regular pricing, traveler-based pricing, coupon engine
• Enquiries Inbox — capture pre-booking questions per trip
• PDF Documents — generated invoices, vouchers, traveler itineraries
• Transactional Emails — booking confirmation, payment receipt, cancellation, reminder

Free payment gateways

• PayPal — cards, PayPal balance, Pay-in-4
• Pay Later — book now, confirm or pay offline (ideal for bank transfer, cash on arrival, invoice workflows)

Front-end + extensibility

• Templates for trip listings, single trip, booking flow, checkout, and account
• 4 Gutenberg blocks + 6 shortcodes to place trips, search, login and account on any page
• Compatible with most well-coded block themes, classic themes and major page builders
• PHP 7.4 or newer, structured codebase, hooks and filters, template overrides
• REST-oriented flows for booking and account experiences

💎 Yatra Pro — 20 modules across 3 tiers

Compare plans and buy Yatra Pro — three plans (Starter · Growth · Scale), each available yearly or lifetime.

Starter — $99/yr (sale, regular $149) · 1 site license · everything below included

• Dynamic Pricing — seasonality, demand, early bird, last-minute, inventory rules
• Flexible Payments — deposits and partial payments
• Scheduled Payments — instalment plans
• Advanced Discount — group-style discounts alongside coupons
• Additional Services — sell extras with the trip
• Email Automation — multi-step sequences, audience filters, per-send delivery logs
• Abandoned Booking Recovery — recover incomplete bookings
• Mailchimp Integration — sync travelers + bookings to lists
• Facebook Pixel — server-side + browser events
• Google Analytics 4 Enhanced — booking funnel + revenue events
• Google Calendar sync — departures and bookings into Google Calendar
• Custom Landing Pages — per-trip conversion-focused landing pages
• Dynamic Form Field — drag-and-drop custom booking questions
• Trip Consent — digital waivers and signatures
• Premium payment gateways: Stripe · Razorpay · Mollie · Paystack · Square · Authorize.Net · Bank Transfer

Growth — $149/yr (sale, regular $199) · 1 site license · everything in Starter, plus

• AI Assistant — generate itineraries, draft descriptions, suggest replies (bring your own OpenAI or Anthropic key)
• WhatsApp Notifications — booking confirmations, payment receipts and departure reminders over WhatsApp (Meta Cloud API)

Scale — from $349/yr (sale) · 1-site $349/yr (regular $449) or 15-site $599/yr (regular $749) · everything in Growth, plus

• Channel Manager — sell on Viator + GetYourGuide from one WordPress dashboard. Signed webhooks, anti-overbooking locks, real-time inventory sync.
• White Label — rebrand the admin, emails, PDFs and frontend. Full agency theming.
• Team & Access — granular roles + capability-based access for multi-staff agencies. 8 built-in roles, custom role builder, magic-link invitations, time-windowed access for contractors, scope filtering (per-destination / per-trip), append-only audit log. Defense-in-depth: every action gated on the server, UI mirrors via cap-aware controls.
• Webhooks — outbound HTTP delivery on booking / payment / customer events. HMAC-signed payloads, retry queue with exponential backoff, dead-letter queue, certificate pinning. Wire Yatra into Zapier, Make, n8n, or your own internal systems.

Lifetime plans also available: Starter $499 · Growth $699 · Scale $1,299 (1 site) / $1,999 (15 sites) — pay once, own it forever.

See full plan comparison and pricing →

🥊 How Yatra compares

Considering Yatra against a SaaS booking platform or another WordPress travel plugin? We’ve written honest, side-by-side comparisons against each major alternative:

• 🔄 Yatra vs Rezdy — Sell on Viator + GetYourGuide without the $99–$499 / month Rezdy SaaS bill. Lifetime license · GPL · your data, your gateway.
• 🔄 Yatra vs Bokun — Skip the per-OTA-booking fee Bokun charges (typically 2.5% per booking). Independent open-source alternative to Tripadvisor-owned Bokun.
• 🔄 Yatra vs WP Travel Engine — Same WordPress philosophy, modern architecture, broader Pro modules. Custom database tables for performance vs. WP Travel Engine’s custom post types.

Each page covers the feature matrix, pricing math, migration steps and FAQ — written without overpromising. Read the verdict, then try Yatra Pro free before you commit.

🌐 Native integrations

Yatra ships with bring-your-own-credential integrations — no proxy, no markup, no per-event fees. Full directory: All integrations on wpyatra.com.

• Payments: PayPal · Pay Later · Stripe · Razorpay · Mollie · Paystack · Square · Authorize.Net · Bank Transfer
• OTAs: Viator · GetYourGuide · Other OTAs (by request)
• Email & Messaging: Mailchimp · WhatsApp Cloud API
• Analytics & Marketing: Google Analytics 4 · Meta / Facebook Pixel
• Calendars & Scheduling: Google Calendar
• AI Providers: OpenAI · Anthropic Claude
• WordPress Ecosystem: Gutenberg blocks (4 native) · Elementor (via Shortcode) · WooCommerce (coexistence) · Loco Translate

🧩 Blocks and shortcodes

Use the block editor or classic shortcodes to drop catalog widgets, search and account UI into any page.

Blocks (search the inserter for “Yatra” or the block name):

• Trip — block name yatra/tour (trip grid; the registered name stays yatra/tour for backward compatibility, but the inserter title and UI now read Trip). Trip Settings (layout, Featured Priority — restrict to Featured, New, or Limited Time picked on the trip form’s Categorization → Featured Priority) and Filters: each taxonomy (destinations, activities, trip categories, difficulty / fitness level) supports Listing scope — either All published (no ID filter saved) or Only selected, with search plus checkboxes to pick numeric classification IDs.
• Activity — yatra/activity: same taxonomy picker pattern (All published vs search + IDs) in the sidebar; matches [yatra_activity] ID rules.
• Destination — yatra/destination: same pattern; matches [yatra_destination] ID rules.
• Trip categories — yatra/trip-category (same card layout as destinations; links use your trip category base from Settings).

Shortcodes (all accept string values as in the plugin defaults — use yes / no or 0 / 1 where noted):

• [yatra_trip] — Trip listing. Alias: [yatra_tour]. Filters: destination, activity, category accept comma-separated classification IDs. Optional: order, featured_priority (featured / new / limited), per_page, difficulty, price_min, price_max, duration_min, duration_max, search, columns, show_pagination, title. Pagination: trip_page. Examples: [yatra_trip], [yatra_trip destination="44" activity="12"], [yatra_trip featured_priority="new" per_page="6"].
• [yatra_activity] — Activity listing cards.
• [yatra_destination] — Destination showcase.
• [yatra_trip_category] — Trip category cards.
• [yatra_search] — Advanced trip search form. Per-field visibility attributes — keyword, destination, activities, duration, budget — each yes / no. Omit one to inherit its Settings → Search & Listing toggle; pass a value to force it on/off for that placement. Example: [yatra_search budget="no" duration="no"]. (The built-in listing page sets these automatically from your settings.)
• [yatra_login] — Customer login form.
• [yatra_my_account] — Account dashboard for logged-in users.
• [yatra_discount_and_deals] — Discounted trips.

Empty-term filtering (hide_empty): [yatra_destination], [yatra_activity] and [yatra_trip_category] accept hide_empty="yes" to skip taxonomy terms that have zero published trips. Opt-in (default no).

Note: If you’re migrating from an older build, [yatra_cart], [yatra_checkout] and [yatra_mini_cart] are no longer registered — checkout and the booking flow now use Yatra’s own front-end routes and templates. See docs.wpyatra.com for full shortcode reference, URLs and page setup.

🎨 Compatible WordPress travel themes

Yatra works with most well-coded block themes, classic themes and major page builders. Recommended themes (optional — Yatra works with any theme):

• 🧳 Resa — the official Yatra travel theme — Lighthouse-fast, mobile-first, Gutenberg + WooCommerce ready, free on the WordPress.org theme directory. Trip card grid, departure widgets, traveler-account dashboard all pre-styled for Yatra.
• 🧱 Blocksy — modern block theme
• ⚡ Kadence — fast, flexible theme

🔗 Quick links

• 🏠 wpyatra.com — official site
• 💳 Pricing — Starter · Growth · Scale · Lifetime plans
• ✨ All features — full Free + Pro capability list
• 🌐 Integrations — every native partner
• 🥊 Yatra vs alternatives — head-to-head comparisons
• 🎨 WordPress travel theme (Resa) — recommended pairing
• 📖 Documentation — installation, blocks, shortcodes, operations
• 🎯 Live demo — see Yatra on a real WordPress demo
• 🆘 Support / contact — help and commercial support routing

💙 Join the community

• ⭐ Rate Yatra five stars — helps other tour operators find the plugin
• 💬 Facebook community — connect with other Yatra users
• 📧 Email support — direct email for product questions
• 🐛 GitHub — issues & contributions — bug reports and pull requests

🚀 Try Yatra risk-free

• 🧪 Try the free Yatra plugin in WordPress Playground — spin up a temporary WordPress site with the free Yatra plugin pre-installed. No local setup, no signup, no credit card.
• 🎁 Try Yatra Pro free — full Pro trial environment with every module enabled. No credit card required.
• 💰 14-day refund on every paid Yatra Pro plan — see the pricing page for the refund window terms.

Additional Information

Privacy

Booking and customer data are stored in your WordPress database. Payment processing is performed by the gateways you enable; review each provider’s privacy and PCI documentation. Yatra does not ship customer data to an external SaaS.

Credits

Yatra is developed by MantraBrain. Third-party libraries include components such as React (admin UI), Vite, TanStack Query, and others as shipped in the plugin package.

Contributing

Issues and contributions: GitHub — Yatra

If Yatra helps your business, a ⭐ five-star review on WordPress.org and considering 💎 Yatra Pro when you need paid features both help sustain development. Thank you for using Yatra.