Sync bookings with iCal feeds

You can list your vacation rental on multiple websites, like Airbnb, Booking, VRBO, TripAdvisor, and on your own vacation rental website. To avoid double bookings, the booking calendars should display the same availability on every website. To do this, you need to synchronize all calendars. Bookingmood can help with that.

What is syncing?

Syncing bookings means making sure that all the bookings of your vacation rental are the same across different websites and applications. This means that, when you get a booking from one site, like Airbnb, it automatically shows up in all the other websites where your vacation rental is listed on. Syncing bookings is an automated process. You don't have to do this manually. To sync your bookings, iCal feeds are being used.

What is an iCal feed?

An iCal feed is a link that lets you share your calendar bookings with other websites or applications. It contains details about the bookings, like dates and descriptions. The data is structured, so every website or application reads and interprets the iCal feed in the same way. Whenever you get a new booking, or update or delete one, the iCal feed is updated. When the other websites and applications read the iCal feed again, they will process the changes immediately.

How often a website or application reads the iCal feed differs. This means that it might take a short while before a booking reflects on all other websites and applications. Bookingmood supports importing and exporting iCal feeds.

Why is syncing important?

It's important to sync bookings because it avoid double bookings. When you get a booking via your own vacation rental website, you want to block the calendar on Airbnb and VRBO. Double bookings can be a big hassle to deal with. It can cost you time, money and damage to your reputation. You'll want to avoid that!

Syncing bookings also gives you overview. It helps you keeping everything organized and stay on top. When you import bookings from other websites and applications into Bookingmood, you'll see everything in a nice, clear overview. You'll see where bookings come from. You can even add your own details and information to imported bookings. Bookingmood can function as a central hub for all your bookings, accross different websites and applications.

Sync Bookingmood with websites and applications

Almost every Online Travel Agency supports iCal syncing. There are also a lot of applications that support this, like Google Calendar and your calendar on your iPhone. To sync bookings accross these different places, you need to link them with iCal feeds. Learn how to sync Bookingmood with other websites and applications.

Learn more about the world of iCal feeds and synchronization in our blog.

Supported websites and pplications

Bookingmood can sync with all websites and applications that support iCal feeds. To name a few:

• 9Flat s
• Airnb
• Booking
• Calendar by Apple
• Cloudbeds
• Expedia
• Google Calendar
• Hotelbeds
• Nature House
• TripAdvisor
• VRBO
• And many more!