Synchronization of Airbnb calendar changes is essential for ensuring that information about your bed and breakfast businesses is always accurate. This week might be the best week to sync your calendars too, if you haven’t already.Having your Airbnb property listed on multiple sites increases your chances of getting a booking, but also can be a headache. I’m disappointed it took me so long to get around to syncing my calendars when it is so simple, but that is what these articles are about, real life vacation rentals, warts and all. The good news is that iCal is another ‘Barrier to entry’ and if you use knowledge like this article to implement the change to iCal syncing, you are ahead of your competitors. That is why those simple Youtube videos above are so valuable.įundamentally it’s the old story, it is a small mental barrier to do something new. The OTAs have been slow to document the steps to set up iCal between themselves and other OTAs, and some of their documentation has been poor and even outdated.

It doesn’t provide you with your own calendar on your own website, nor your own online booking facility, nor an update of rates – for these features you are best placed with a Channel manager like Update247 described in a previous post.

It can take up to several hours for all the calendars to update each other, typically an hour delay for Airbnb.The youtube videos make it easy to set up.you can allow instant bookings with very low risk of double bookings.With all your calendars syncing automatically, it is less work for you: Homeaway diagram showing how sync worksĪs the diagram shows, you can also sync with a Google calendar, handy to share with your cleaner and easy to check on your smartphone. This diagram from the Homeaway clip shows how the synced calendars link up with each other. If you have Airbnb, Homeaway and calendars, then by setting up synch for Airbnb/ Homeaway and Airbnb/, then Homeaway/ will automatically sync too. Sync Airbnb and calendars, 2 mins – watch it here. This clip from Homeaway is one of the best explanations and easiest to follow. Sync Airbnb and Homeaway calendars, 3 mins – watch it here.

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