Migrating my Tours Website from FareHarbor to WordPress

  • Hi everyone,

    I’m looking to migrate from FareHarbor to WordPress. I’ve been really happy with the features on FareHarbor, but I’d like more control over the overall design and user experience of my website.

    For those who have made a similar switch, I’d love to hear your experience!

    Here are my main questions:

    • What’s the best approach to migrate my existing bookings and customer data? Are there any recommended plugins or tools that can help with this process?
    • Are there any WordPress plugins that offer similar functionality to FareHarbor? Ideally, I’d like to find a plugin that allows for online booking, managing appointments, and integrating with payment gateways.

    It would also be great to know if anyone has successfully integrated FareHarbor directly with WordPress. While I’m leaning towards a standalone plugin for more control, any insights on using FareHarbor within WordPress would be appreciated.

    Thanks in advance for your help!

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    I don’t know anything about FareHarbor, but I do know a lot about WP. The best way to get your current booking data into WP is to find a suitable WP booking plugin and learn what sort of data schema that plugin uses to manage booking data. You will want your existing data to somehow be made to fit that schema. The schema is likely custom post types and post meta data, but some plugins may use custom tables. You’ll likely need a bespoke conversion tool to accomplish this. The WP user data schema is well known, but I’m still skeptical there’s an existing import tool available.

    I know there are numerous booking plugins, but I’m unsure if they’ll do exactly what you want. You may need to piece together functionality from a few plugins and maybe some custom coding as well to tie it all together.

    Having done something similar years back, what you should do, is keep the design etc on your WordPress site and then use the fareharbor API to keep the booking and customer data, etc. on fareharbor and consume it on your site / view via the API connection.

    What I just described is a HIGH LEVEL explanation of what I did before if you really wanted to import the data and keep everything on your database, then you could do that via Fareharbor API as well.

    Thread Starter harrycawood94

    (@harrycawood94)

    Having done something similar years back, what you should do, is keep the design etc on your WordPress site and then use the fareharbor API to keep the booking and customer data, etc. on fareharbor and consume it on your site / view via the API connection. What I just described is a HIGH LEVEL explanation of what I did before if you really wanted to import the data and keep everything on your database, then you could do that via Fareharbor API as well.

    Since my website is hosted on FareHarbor servers, what do you suggest I should do to keep everything intact and migrate to my own WordPress server? Is the migration process very technical? Will I need assistance from WordPress developers as well as someone who understands the FareHarbor API?

    Thanks for your response.

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