Here Comes SP Booking: The Most Powerful Joomla Booking Component

Building a functional website for the travel industry on Joomla has long been a challenge. But not anymore. Today, we bring you SP Booking, the most advanced Joomla travel booking component for any kind of travel agency, tour operator, car hire, hotel booking, villa rental, transport booking, and all sorts of reservation websites.

The SP Booking extension is a full pack of all essential functionalities that a travel or rental booking website requires. From listing booking items to a smart searching system, offering packages to coupons and deals, categorizing services to reviews, everything! SP Booking can bring all-inclusive functionalities to the tour or travel website you are dreaming of.

Previously, we've released Travus, an exclusive  travel Joomla template which is powered by SP Booking. Travus is used to take the frontend screenshots in this post. Also, the extension's official demo is made of Travus.

SP Booking Core Features at a Glance

• All-in-one travel booking solution
• Accommodation management
• Room booking
• Package booking
• Transport booking
• Coupons and deals
• Payment method integration
• Present selective tourist spots
• Photo gallery
• Reviews and ratings
• Service categories
• Additional services
• Extensive search
• In-depth sorting for admins
• Dedicated modules

Now it’s time to have a detailed look. Here we go.

All-in-one Travel Booking Solution

SP Booking is the all-inclusive travel booking system for Joomla. The extension provides each and every feature necessary for travel booking and related websites.

• Easy to use service listing and display
• Rich presentation of the facilities with multimedia contents
• Centralized booking management
• Unified category and package management

Accommodation Management

SP Booking enables you to add detailed accommodation facilities to the travel websites you are developing. The extension has a robust mechanism to present every necessary information about an accommodation facility. You can add and display a whole lot of attributes along with media. Here is a list of the core stuff that you can show on an accommodation facility.  

• Present the property with amenities, address, map, contact details
• Show a slidable photo gallery for an appealing visual display
• Display the facility reviews, ratings, and certifications on board
• Offer a booking system straight on the property page
• Show the accommodation policy and customer comments on the detail page
• Filtering options on the sidebar and top of the listing page
• Show reviews and ratings to gain user trust

Room Booking

Add rooms under accommodation facilities like hotels, motels, resorts etc. The room adding interface offers a lot of options to go deeper with the details like the following (including but not limited to).

• The capacity of the room (by the boarders' age range)
• Rent amounts with custom daily pricing
• Special pricing for a specific period
• Detailed room amenities
• Room number, images, and gallery display
• Room size and other additional facility details

Offer Tour Packages

To offer tour packages to the potential customers, use SP Booking component which lets you add and showcase tour packages with multiple facilities inside.

• Offer tour packages with accommodation and other facilities
• Add a feature image and photo gallery to make it even more attractive
• Display price, discounts, ratings & more
• Present packages in both list and grid views
• Single-day tour packages for the providers to offer daily tours
• Filtering options on the sidebar and top of the listing page
• Show user reviews and ratings to increase credibility

Transportation Booking

The transportation booking feature in SP Booking extension makes it so easy to offer a relaxing and smooth travel experience to the customers.

• Enhance travel experience by offering transportation services
• Have the vehicles displayed on a dedicated page
• Create a photo gallery using its drag-and-drop system on the editing page
• Showcase cars and other vehicles with details like facilities, certifications, reviews etc.
• Provide a user-friendly booking system
• Filtering options on the top of the listing page
• Show user reviews and ratings to make it trustworthy

Coupons and Deals

Discounts are a great way to make some quick sales and increase revenue. SP Booking lets you give discounts and deals using a modern Coupon function.

• Create a coupon code and distribute to the visitors
• Set a discount in a percentage or a fixed amount
• Define a maximum waiver amount for a percentage discount if necessary
• Declare a specific date range for a coupon to be effective
• Segment deals in different categories

Payment Method Integration

One of the most important features of SP Booking is its payment method integration capability. As a site admin, you can add a payment system to the extension using its Global settings panel. Besides the instant payment method powered by PayPal, you can also add a ‘Pay Later’ option for the visitors.

Present Selective Tourist Spots

Let the prospects explore travel destinations in advance. Enable the visitors to have a virtual tour to the tourist spots via descriptions, photos, videos, reviews, and so on.

• Visually present travel spots to attract visitors
• Tell how the tourists can get the most out of the tour
• Show review and rating options for a better engagement
• Display the location information and contact details for the place
• Offer a feedback form on the place display page

Create Photo Galleries

Add feature image and other photos to the properties, rooms, packages, vehicles and so on to make them even more attractive and appealing to the potential clients.

Reviews and Ratings

If you (the admin) allow, the visitors/users can submit reviews to the services offered on an SP Booking powered website. As an admin, you can moderate these reviews from the extension’s backend. It’s a rich and extensive moderating interface that gives you every control over each review submitted on the site.

Service Categories

You can create and manage categories for the core booking services such as accommodations, transports, packages, and places. This helps get a more organized booking website in the least effort. Give a category name, choose the service type, add an icon (font icon/image), description and so on to create a new category any time.

Additional Services

A travel booking website offers a whole lot of services that amount to a really big list. To keep it as simple as possible, we’ve created an additional service section where you can create supplementary amenities and assign them to the core services like accommodations, rooms, or packages.

Extensive Search

This travel booking Joomla extension has an extraordinary searching mechanism that lets the visitors search and find their desired accommodation, transportation facility, tour package, and more in a flash.

• Advanced and quick search system
• Multiple search filters like time, place, number of travellers
• Narrow down the result by filtering price range, tags etc.
• Service-wise search for transport, hotels, packages, and so on

Dedicated Modules

SP Booking has a collection of dedicated modules to render the site contents in a professional way. These are:

• SP Booking Accommodations to show the accommodation facilities
• SP Booking Package to display tour packages on the frontend
• SP Booking Destination to render the places
• SP Booking Transports for showcasing the transport services
• SP Booking Search to bolster the component's search system on the frontend

In-depth Searching & Sorting for Admins

The backend sorting and search system of SP Booking is absolutely incredible. An admin can filter and search the entries (e.g. accommodations, rooms, vehicles, bookings, and so on) with lots of criteria at a time. For example, you could search the bookings by keywords, dates, status, service types, posting status etc. It will save a lot of time and effort while managing the whole booking system.

Even More

SP Booking is a solid tour and travel booking component with a focus to incredibly deep details. You can create an entry of a view type from another view without switching between them.

Besides these above-mentioned core features, you can also create tags for a better service representation and navigation, add new facilities as you need, drag and organize the internal facilities, control the visibility and so much more.

SP Booking component makes booking sites a breeze. With the tons of features inside, you can build a full-fledged travel and rental website easily. No matter the template you use, SP Booking component turns that into a fully functional travel and rental website. So, what are you waiting for? Build your dream booking website with the SP Booking component today. And, share your thoughts in the comments below.

See SP Booking Demo    Get SP Booking Extension Get Travus Template