WP Hotel Booking by ThimPress stores rooms as hb_room and bookings as hb_booking custom post types, with order line items, pricing plans, extras, and coupon usage in plugin tables and postmeta. The default admin shows a usable list per CPT, but cross-cutting questions — "this weekend's arrivals across all room types, sorted by check-in time" — require either the calendar view (great for visual overview, slow for bulk edits) or per-booking clicking.

SleekView pivots guest name, room, check-in, check-out, total, payment status, and coupon code into one filterable table. The check-in and check-out date metas (_hb_check_in_date, _hb_check_out_date) become proper date-range columns with calendar pickers, so "April departures" or "this weekend's arrivals" are saved filters rather than calendar-scrolling exercises.

Inline status updates use wp_update_post and the plugin's update hooks, so the calendar view reflects changes immediately and any connected coupon/statistic add-ons fire normally. Bulk confirmation of pending bookings — the front-desk task that happens every shift change — collapses from a per-booking click into a row-multiselect-and-update operation.

Hotel booking plugins lean heavily on calendar views, which are great for visualizing occupancy and conflict-free scheduling but bad for the operational tasks the front desk runs every day. A calendar shows shape and density; it doesn't show "every pending booking that needs confirmation in the next 48 hours" or "every guest arriving today, sorted by check-in time, with special-request notes visible." Those are list questions, and they need a list answer. WP Hotel Booking ships the data — guest name, room, dates, status, total, coupon, extras — and stores it in queryable structures (CPTs and plugin tables).

The gap is the surface. The plugin's bookings list is a generic posts-style table that doesn't pivot the relevant meta into columns, so front-desk staff end up working in the calendar (slow for bulk edits) or opening individual bookings (slow for any review). A flat, filterable, inline-editable table next to the calendar fills that gap.

Both views point at the same data; the team picks the right tool for the task.