Syncing between Airbnb and homeaway, vrbo etc is pretty easy as we showed you above.īut syncing between your own calendar on your wordpress site with Airbnb and others can be a lot more challenging. How do I sync an Airbnb Calendar to my own wordpress site? This is important because you need both import and export links if you are going to keep everything synced up and running smoothly. The key is setting it up correctly in the beginning, before getting bookings.Īirbnb, VRBO, homeaway,, and most others allow you to both Import and Export an Ical link. Luckily, most platforms provide a way to automatically sync calendars, if you know how to set it up. One of the worst things that can happen as a host is to accidentally double book two guests for the same stay!Ī double booking means that one of the guests who booked is going to be very unhappy! But, you can prevent this. If you are listing your unit on multiple platforms (or channels as some may call them), then you have likely run into an issue of syncing your calendar. You might be able to set 'circular' references (VRBO>AirBNB>Flipkey>VRBO) and that might avoid having to add reservations, but the last time I tried that it was mayhem because computers kept adding days to the reservations.Syncing Airbnb, VRBO, Homeaway,, Flipkey and more I know its confusing, but if other hosts have figured out a better way to do this, I'd love to hear it. So in my example, when you block dates on AirBNB because of a VRBO guest, flipkey will automatically update. Once you fix the 'primary' calendar, it will automatically go on the other calendars. This means that if you take a VRBO reservation, you must immediately go in and block those dates on AirBNB. In other words, the Synch only goes from the primary calendar down, not from a secondary calendar up.ģ. The secondary calendars don't automatically 'upload' to your primary calendar.

So if AirBNB is your primary, set VRBO and flipkey to synch to AirBNB.Ģ.

You have to pick a 'primary' calendar, then have other platforms 'synch' to that primary calendar.

If you are listing on multiple platforms, there are some important steps to take with 'synching' your calendars.ġ.

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