# Epic Hotel Booking

**Status:** Prepared for storefront owner review only. Do not publish automatically.

**Version audited:** 0.3.0 (build 20260616.2)

**Product card pricing:** Pricing pending owner review.

## Buyer-facing headline

Turn a WordPress site into an owner-reviewed lodging availability and reservation request workflow.

## Short description

Epic Hotel Booking is a request-first lodging booking foundation for small hospitality operators and WordPress implementers. It tracks unit inventory, seasonal/manual rates, blockout dates, availability filtering, frontend reservation requests, and admin reservation status workflows without enabling payment capture in this owner-review build.

## Best for

Small hotels, cabins, inns, B&Bs, vacation-rental operators, lodging agencies, and WordPress implementers that need structured availability requests before a full payment/OTA integration.

## Buyer outcomes

- Replace scattered lodging inquiry forms with structured availability requests.
- Give property staff one WordPress admin area for units, rates, blockouts, and reservation statuses.
- Keep checkout and payment decisions separate until owner approval and fulfillment validation are complete.

## Feature list

- Unit inventory with room/property type, capacity, base rate, and active/inactive status controls.
- Seasonal/manual rate records with date ranges and minimum-night validation.
- Availability filtering that excludes overlapping pending/confirmed bookings and maintenance blockouts.
- Frontend `[epic_hotel_booking_search]` request flow for guest dates, party size, unit selection, and contact details.
- Admin reservation status workflow for pending, confirmed, cancelled, and owner-reviewed booking requests.
- Request-only posture: payment capture is intentionally out of scope for this owner-review build.
- License & Updates screen with broker-ready handlers, native update transient hooks, plugin information, and auto-update gates.

## Evidence snapshot

- Plugin header: `Epic Hotel Booking`, version `0.3.0`, build `20260616.2`.
- Core source creates `ew_hotel_units`, `ew_hotel_rates`, `ew_hotel_bookings`, and `ew_hotel_blockouts` tables.
- Core source registers `[epic_hotel_booking_search]` and admin reservation/unit/rate actions.
- SDK source includes license state, broker request handlers, plugin information, update transient, and auto-update gating.
- Owner-review package: `D:/EpicWorks/Plugins/builds/epic-hotel-booking-0.3.0-build-20260616.2-owner-review.zip`.

## Publication guardrails

Owner review is required before public publication, checkout enablement, sale-ready classification, or production promotion. Prices remain pending until owner-approved pricing is recorded.