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Syncing with Airbnb and Booking.com
Rent out on Airbnb, Booking.com or Vrbo as well as on your own website? Sync the calendars, so a booking on one platform blocks the dates everywhere else. This works with iCal feeds: links to a calendar that other platforms read regularly.
You need the Availability plan or higher.
1. Import the other platform's calendar
In the other platform, copy the calendar's iCal export link:
Then in Bookingmood:
Open the unit and go to Synchronization.
Click Import iCal feed and paste the link.
Bookingmood reads the feed every 5 minutes. Bookings from the other platform now block those dates in Bookingmood.
2. Export Bookingmood's calendar
In the unit's Synchronization tab, click Export iCal feed and copy the link.
Paste it into the calendar import of the other platform, see the Vrbo instructions for example.
The other platform now blocks dates booked in Bookingmood. How often it reads the feed is up to the platform: some check every hour, others a few times a day.
3. Repeat for each platform
Import the feed of every platform into Bookingmood, and give every platform Bookingmood's feed. Don't pass one platform's bookings on to another through Bookingmood: sync each platform with Bookingmood directly.
Avoid double bookings
Platforms read feeds with a delay, so a stay can occasionally be booked on two platforms at once. Keep the time between syncs short where the platform allows it.
On Booking.com, don't change availability directly in its calendar: that overrides the imported availability.
Check the Synchronization tab now and then. A feed that keeps failing is deactivated, and you get a Calendar import failures notification.
See iCal synchronization for all options.