Introduction

Booking, Booking & Reservations

Solidres is an online booking engine for Joomla! hotels, guest houses, B&B, apartments, villas, hostels and camp sites. The Solidres core is free: download it, install it and use it on as many sites as you like. It is built on Joomla's own MVC framework, so every screen can be changed with Joomla template overrides and extended with plugins and modules.


Solidres was first released in 2012 and has been listed in the JED since 2014. The current version, Solidres 4.7.0 (November 2026), runs on Joomla 6 and PHP 8.3 or later.

New in Solidres 4.7.0

  • Booking emails you word yourself: a new Emails screen gives each email a subject and a message per property and per language, with the booking's values, a preview and a test sent to you. All emails share one design that reads well on a phone, with the property's logo, your template's colour, dark mode and right-to-left languages.
  • New reservation screens: quick filters (Arrivals today, Departures today, In-house), status badges and date ranges on the reservations list, which stays fast however many bookings it shows, and a summary at the top of each booking.
  • Your guests' bookings: signed-in guests see their bookings under Upcoming, Past and Cancelled, and each booking reads like a receipt, with the balance due, the voucher and the invoice.
  • Cookie consent: a cookie banner of its own, translated, in your template's colours, with Google's consent signals.
  • Customers list export to CSV, site name and meta description in Solidres Options, Solidres news in the back end, and lighter pages without jQuery UI.
  • Security fixes from our security review: we recommend updating.

Recent releases

  • 4.6.0: the property screen rebuilt in plain words (seven tabs, help on every setting), tours booked with the stay (Experience add-on) and a public booking API.
  • 4.5.0: Reports (occupancy, ADR, RevPAR, revenue and booking sources, counted night by night), a booking site beside the website you already have, a free booking form to paste into WordPress, Wix or Squarespace, and a Solidres dashboard that opens on today.
  • 4.4.0: tourist taxes rebuilt: several per property, dated rates, rules for children, night caps and a report for the municipal return.
  • 4.3.0: add-ons ship as Joomla packages that install, update and uninstall as one.
  • 4.2.0: 25 languages at full parity, a new range date picker and dark mode.
  • 4.0: rewritten for the latest Joomla API, with native Joomla 6 support and a REST API.

Features

Booking

  • Booking per night or per day
  • Private rooms, shared rooms (dormitory), and apartments booked as a whole or room by room
  • Three room selection layouts and an apartment layout on the property page
  • One-page booking form that is easy to follow on any device: guests who find a booking form hard to understand leave before they book
  • Range date picker with availability, on desktop and phone
  • Flexible tariff configuration
  • Coupons
  • Taxes, inclusive or exclusive, with tax exemption
  • Tourist taxes per person or per room, per night or per stay, or per booking
  • Deposits: a percentage of the total, a fixed amount or the cost of the first nights
  • Extras, mandatory or optional, charged per booking or per room
  • Single use supplement
  • Built-in payment methods: Pay Later and Bank Wire, with a surcharge or discount per method
  • Bookings that need your approval
  • An inquiry form instead of online booking
  • Spam protection through any Joomla captcha plugin
  • Multiple currencies, with a module that lets guests switch
  • Warning before the guest's session runs out
  • Run Solidres as a full website, or as a booking site beside the website the property already has

Your guests

  • Booking emails with one phone-friendly design, worded per property and per language from the Emails screen
  • Customer dashboard: bookings under Upcoming, Past and Cancelled, voucher download, guest cancellation
  • Tracking page: guests without an account check or cancel their booking with its code and their email address
  • Wishlist
  • Summary module showing the booking in progress

Back office

  • Solidres in Joomla's administrator menu and a dashboard with today's arrivals, departures and in-house guests
  • Reservations list with quick filters, status badges and date ranges, export to CSV
  • Create or change bookings in the back end
  • Configurable reservation and payment statuses, with a payment history for each booking
  • Reports: Performance (occupancy, ADR, RevPAR), Revenue and Booking sources, with charts, comparison with the period before and export to CSV
  • Customers list with export to CSV
  • Availability calendar, also on the site with fully and partially booked dates
  • Property screen in plain words, with a line of help under every setting
  • Media manager: upload many files at once, drag and drop ordering, thumbnails in sizes you choose
  • Live count of unread reservations
  • Reservation notifications to several email addresses
  • System page: file integrity check, database Fix schema and template override check list

Your site

  • Responsive layouts that follow your template's light or dark mode
  • Hotel and VacationRental structured data (JSON-LD), canonical URLs and Open Graph tags
  • Google Maps or OpenStreetMap
  • Cookie consent banner
  • Joomla template overrides for every view
  • Menu items for a single property or a single room type
  • 25 languages; multilingual sites with Speedy Translate, whose Lite edition is free
  • Joomla Privacy suite support

For developers

  • REST API on Joomla's Web Services, described in OpenAPI
  • Public booking API, off until you switch it on, for other websites, apps and AI assistants to find, price and book a room
  • Plugin events and modules to extend every step

Add-ons

Add-ons, available with a Solidres subscription, add a multi-property marketplace (Hub), tours and activities (Experience), a channel manager, invoices, guest reviews, iCal sync, rate plans, a front desk, discounts, more payment gateways and more.

For all features, screenshots and documentation, visit our website. To report a bug, request a feature or ask a question, contact us through our website.

Functionality
The most stable booking engine for Joomla users, offer a very good feature set for free, and it can be extended using extra plugins
Ease of use
UI / UX is good, the developers have taken a good care of their products
Support
They do care about their users, response is good enough even for free users
Documentation
Well balanced, but more docs is better with updated screenshot of the latest versions
I used this to: I am a long time J users, building a lot of hotels, apartment booking, resort websites with Joomla, and Solidres is the heart of all sites
Functionality
We use Solidres for all kind of booking requirements from hotels, motels, apartments and camps, it works great and easy to customize
Ease of use
Solides is one of the few Joomla extensions that always fit very nicely into Joomla UI/UX system, thanks to their deep Joomla integration
Support
The team is nice and polite, they always try their best to resolve our questions
Documentation
Good resource, although some of the docs need to be updated to keep up with the changes in the functionality
I used this to: Hotels, motels, camps, apartment and tours, it is our one for all booking needs
Functionality
This extension works fine in PHP 8.2 and Joomla 5 with B/C plugin, very well maintained and supported
Ease of use
Best in this niche market, no comparable ones. Both for installation and configuration.
Support
Documentation
I used this to: Our agency uses Joomla CMS and Solidres to build many website for boutique hotels and B&B businesses owners
Functionality
They show a great commitment by always support latest Joomla and PHP version, they don't leave you behind!
Ease of use
The most easy to use booking component for Joomla that we've ever used
Support
Documentation
I used this to: Building Joomla website for many hotels owners, Solidres uses Bootstrap 5 and it fits perfectly into Bootstrap 5 Joomla templates!
Functionality
Functionality is well developed, Solidres developers is one of the most proficient Joomla developer that we know for a long time
Ease of use
Solidres now integrates with the Joomla inline help feature, make it super easy for user to toggle the field description to learn easier
Support
Documentation
I used this to: We've been using Solidres for more than 5 years, from Joomla 3 to Joomla 4 and we are sure we will continue with them when Joomla 5 gets out. Solidres is a solution that we can trust and build our site on!
Functionality
The core version has all the fundamental functionality for any hoteliers and web developers, fully integrated and compatible with Joomla 4
Ease of use
The installation in our J4 was smooth and fast, the core package size is lightweight compared to its functionality and code base
Support
They offers public forum support and private support ticket (for paid subscribers), for us the forum was sufficient
Documentation
I used this to: Developing booking engine for Joomla CMS, from a boutique hotel to booking portal
Functionality
We've been a Solidres user since Joomla 3.0, we went through 3.1 => 3.9 flawlessly. The team assisted us well during the Joomla 4 migration!
Ease of use
Solidres is a native Joomla extension, actively developed and very easy to handle. The UI is very thoughtful
Support
Joomla 4 upgrade was a challenge for us and the support team did well to resolve all upgrade issues, kudos to the team, thank you!
Documentation
I used this to: We use Solidres for building an online booking system for various resorts and hotels
Functionality
Solidres is actively developed and it is fully compatible with Joomla 4 and PHP 8.1, new features and bug fixes are added/updated frequently
Ease of use
The UI is based on Bootstrap 5 which matches the default Joomla styling, we had no problems using it
Support
This team is fast and responsive with bug reports and questions, they are very helpful for starters like us
Documentation
good, but some parts need to be updated to catch with the latest development
I used this to: we built software for travel agencies and hotels, Solidres offers everything we need for a complete solution
Functionality
I installed the free version was really impressed with it so i was going to get the paid version however their website is no longer active?
Ease of use
Excellent - can solidres please reenable their website so we can download the component
I used this to: Bed and Breakfast Booking of individual rooms - was planning to use the stripe payment plugin
Owner's reply: Hi,

Thank you, our website had a DNS issue which should be resolved, it is accessible now.
Functionality
The only Reservation / Tour Bookings system for Joomla configurable precisely to our requirements & multiple variables. Highly recommended
Ease of use
Choose an option with their sample data pre-installed then simply substitute it for your own data, I'm amateur but soon got the hang of it
Support
Between their ticket system and forum, Solidres provides the best support it has been my pleasure to experience. Truly first class.
Documentation
More than adequate, sufficient and written in layman's terms wherever possible. Much of it is in the area of the site where pertinent
I used this to: Booking our motorcycle tours for periods over 8 - 23 days duration, including Rider/Pillion rates, bike upgrades etc, plus extra nights' accommodation before / after the tour using Solidres to suit our guests' requirements.
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Solidres

Version:
4.7.0
Developer:
Solid Labs
Last updated:
Nov 05 2026
4 days ago
Date added:
Nov 19 2014
License:
GPLv2 or later
Type:
Free download
Related extension :
Experience (Tour & Activities) for Solidres
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c m p
Compatibility:
J6
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