About this plugin
Formix Charter is a booking and reservation plugin built for boat charters, yacht rentals, and marine tour operators. Create unlimited charter tours, offer flexible pricing (per person, flat group rate, or hourly charter rate), manage your fleet with boat-level availability, and take bookings with Pay on Arrival or PayPal — without needing WooCommerce or any other e-commerce plugin.
Key Features
- Unlimited charter tours with a rich admin editor: gallery, highlights, inclusions, exclusions, and stops
- Flexible package pricing per tour: Per Person, Whole Group (flat rate), or Per Hour (hourly charter with a configurable minimum booking length)
- Fleet management with capacity-aware time slots — assign multiple boats per tour and track availability per boat, per date, per time slot
- Frontend boat filter on the tour listing so customers can browse by which vessel they want
- Reusable, global time-slot catalog shared across tours and packages
- Pickup location management with customer-facing selection at checkout
- Built-in checkout flow with Pay on Arrival and full PayPal Checkout integration (Sandbox and Live modes)
- Automatic double-booking protection with database-level locking
- Bookings management dashboard with status workflow, filtering, and a full calendar view
- Two-way Google Calendar sync to keep manually-created bookings from over-booking your online capacity
- Fully customizable transactional emails with a built-in Email Log to verify delivery
- One-click JSON import/export of tours, packages, boats, time slots, pickup locations, and bookings
- Branding controls: colors, corner radius, fonts, and button text
- Fully responsive frontend and admin screens
Shortcodes
- [fmx_charter_tours] — tour listing grid with a boat filter bar
- [fmx_charter_tours_no_filter] — same grid, filter bar always off (e.g. for a homepage)
- [fmx_charter_checkout] — the checkout form
External services
This plugin connects to the following third-party services. Both are entirely optional — the plugin is fully functional with neither configured, using its built-in “Pay on Arrival” flow and manual booking calendar instead.
PayPal — used only if you enable PayPal as a payment method under Formix Charter → Settings → PayPal, and only at the moment a customer completes checkout using PayPal.
- What is sent: the booking amount, currency, and a PayPal order/capture ID exchanged directly between the customer’s browser / this site’s server and PayPal’s API, to process the payment.
- When: only when a site owner has explicitly enabled PayPal and entered their own PayPal API credentials, and only when a customer chooses to pay with PayPal at checkout.
- Terms of Service: https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/ua/useragreement-full
- Privacy Policy: https://www.paypal.com/us/legalhub/privacy-full
Google Calendar — used only if a site owner explicitly connects a Google account under Formix Charter → Settings → Google Calendar.
- What is sent: booking date/time, guest count, and customer name are sent to the Google Calendar API to create/update/read calendar events, and calendar event data is read back to detect externally-created bookings (e.g. walk-ins) that should block online availability.
- When: only after a site owner has explicitly authorized this plugin’s access to their own Google account via OAuth, and periodically thereafter (scheduled sync) or when calendar-affecting actions occur.
- Terms of Service: https://developers.google.com/terms
- Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy