MUST Hotel Booking self-updates

MUST Hotel Booking is a WordPress hotel-booking and operations plugin. It manages accommodations, availability, pricing, guest reservations, payments, refunds, staff workflows, email notifications, and optional Clock PMS synchronization from one plugin.

Project status

• Current working-tree release candidate: 0.4.92, based on commit b0380ad.
• Runtime: WordPress plugin; metadata declares PHP 7.4+ and active payment, email, portal, and quote paths use PHP 7.4-compatible helpers.
• Status: active development with substantial local, Stripe, PokPay, Clock PMS, admin, staff-portal, and Elementor functionality.
• Readiness: code-hardened, not production-certified. Local checks pass, but real WordPress/database upgrades, Clock account rights and response shapes, callbacks, cron, and payment/refund E2E still require approved environment acceptance. See Project Context and Operations.

Main capabilities

• Managed public booking, accommodation selection, checkout, confirmation, and guest cancellation flows.
• Local and Clock-backed availability, quoting, reservation, synchronization, and amendment workflows.
• Stripe Checkout, PokPay SDK checkout, opt-in Pay at Hotel, refunds, and Clock deposit-folio accounting.
• WordPress admin workspaces for reservations, payments, rooms, pricing, availability, guests, email, reports, settings, and diagnostics.
• Capability-gated staff portal at /staff with login at /staff-login.
• Elementor booking search, room list, and room text-grid widgets.
• GitHub release updater and release-package workflow.

Requirements

• WordPress 5.0 or later.
• PHP 7.4 or later; test the exact deployment runtime before release.
• Pretty permalinks for staff portal routes.
• Provider credentials and callback URLs only when the relevant integration is explicitly enabled.

The header/readme requirements are distribution metadata, not runtime certification. Treat the exact PHP runtime and WordPress versions newer than the recorded tested-through value as unverified until deployment compatibility tests pass.

Local installation

1. Place this directory at wp-content/plugins/must-hotel-booking, or install a canonical release ZIP.
2. Activate MUST Hotel Booking in WordPress.
3. Open MUST Hotel Booking → Settings and review hotel identity, booking rules, managed pages, payments, email, staff access, and provider mode.
4. Save permalinks if /staff or managed-page routing returns 404.
5. Test the full booking lifecycle in a non-production environment before enabling public traffic.

Activation installs or upgrades plugin tables, creates managed pages, synchronizes staff capabilities, schedules WP-Cron hooks, and flushes rewrite rules. Do not activate against an unsnapshotted production database as an informal test.

Safe development checks

Run from the plugin root:

git status --short
php -l path\to\changed-file.php
php tests\PaymentPublicCheckoutPolicyTest.php
php tests\ProviderDataSanitizerTest.php
git diff --check

The standalone tests vary in strength; some inspect source markers and do not prove concurrency or database behavior. The WordPress-loaded E2E harness and provider preflight tools have different side-effect boundaries. Read Operations before running them.

Documentation

• Start with the task router: docs/INDEX.md.
• Current architecture: docs/ARCHITECTURE.md.
• Booking and payment behavior: docs/DOMAIN_LIFECYCLES.md.
• Installation, diagnostics, deployment, and recovery: docs/OPERATIONS.md.
• Notable changes: CHANGELOG.md.

Production and provider warning

Do not run provider probes, callback tests, Clock sync, booking/payment/refund E2E, cleanup scripts, deployment, or production-data operations without explicit approval, a verified non-production target where applicable, and a current backup. Browser return data is not authoritative payment proof.

License

GPL-2.0-or-later. See the plugin header and readme.txt.