Sync your calendars with Airbnb, Booking.com and other platforms

If you list the same seasonal rental on several platforms (Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo…) and on SmartLife Properties, a booking made in one place must block the same dates everywhere, otherwise you risk a double booking.

Synchronisation uses the standard iCal format (.ics file), understood by every platform. It works both ways:

• to the platforms: each unit has a calendar address to add in Airbnb, Booking.com…;
• from the platforms: you save the address of their calendar; their busy dates block your unit here.

Included from the Starter plan (Starter, Standard and Premium). On the Free plan, the button explains how to get it: see The plans. It only applies to units in seasonal rental.

Open the page of a seasonal-rental unit, then click Synchronise calendars in the unit header. The window has two parts: your unit's calendar (to give to the platforms) and the platforms' calendars (to import).

1. In 1. This unit's calendar, click Copy to copy the address.
2. In the platform, find the feature to import or sync a calendar (sometimes called “Import calendar”, “Add external calendar” or “Sync with another calendar”) and paste the address.
3. Repeat for every platform where the unit is listed.

What the calendar contains: only the dates of your bookings, marked “Réservé”. No traveller name, email or phone number is shared. Cancelled bookings are removed, and dates imported from another platform are not sent back (so they never loop between platforms).

Keep this address private: anyone who has it can read the booked dates. If it was shared by mistake, click Generate a new address: the old one stops working immediately and you must paste the new one in each platform.

1. In the platform, get your unit's iCal export link:
   • Airbnb: Calendar → Availability → Sync calendars → Export calendar;
   • Booking.com: Rates & availability → Sync calendars → Export calendar;
   • Vrbo, Google Calendar and others: look for “export” or “iCal / .ics address”.
2. In 2. Other platforms' calendars, choose the platform, paste the link and click Add this calendar.
3. A first synchronisation runs right away: the status shows how many busy periods were imported, or why it failed.

Only https:// addresses are accepted. You can save up to 8 calendars per unit. To remove a calendar, click the bin: the dates it was blocking are released.

• In the unit's calendar: periods busy on another platform are shown as striped grey with a padlock and the platform name (year, month and week views). They cannot be edited here: manage them in the platform. They count in the occupancy rate.
• When adding or editing a stay: a booking that overlaps dates busy on a platform is refused.
• On the unit's public page: the availability calendar shows them as unavailable, without saying which platform they come from.

A stay's departure day stays available for a new arrival, as elsewhere in the calendar.