Some property managers use this dilemma as a reason to not expand onto new channels, but the truth is that the more channels you’re on, the more revenue you'll bring in. What sort of mechanism do you have in place, to ensure that both travelers don’t book the same property for the same date? And what happens if you’re juggling five or six or twenty properties across a variety of channels?

Imagine there’s a traveler viewing one of your vacation rental listings on Vrbo while another traveler is viewing the same property on Airbnb. One example of where you should have automation in place is your booking calendar. The more properties you manage across multiple listings, the more necessity there is for you to automate certain processes, so that nothing falls through the cracks. As a bonus, notifications would also be nice.If you’re managing a vacation rental property and want to grow your side hustle into a professional short-term rental business, there are some steps you’ll need to take to successfully scale. What I want is a proper booking calendar which takes reservations from multiple sources and does so smoothly so I don’t have to worry about double booking. Jon Johny 1/20/17-1/22/17 Jon Johny 1/23/17-1/24/17.Īt the moment my system is working at %65 capacity but I’m scared of double booking so I spend a lot of time double checking my calendars not to forget about the extra stress that causes.

On some occasions the ical blocks arrive as 2 separate reservations i.e. Often times -yes its inconsistent - an ical block shows up and the check in date is one day early and the the check out date is one day early. if a guest is checking out at 11AM there’s no reason why a whole day should be blocked off. Reservations arriving through iCal links, arrive as ‘blocks’ not as real reservations - this is problematic because: A) blocks do not trigger notifications so I must manually switch the block to a reservation to receive notificationsī) Most importantly, a reservation arriving as a block, blocks the whole day, that is an issue for days of check in and check out. I use iCal links to sync all the calenders I book primarily with Airbnb, secondary sites are VRBO and Streamline VRS (which provides a booking link on my company website).

Airbnb sync calendar