If you receive bookings via your website as well as other booking platforms or use an external reservation system, you can export your Lodgify bookings to an external calendar, or, at the reverse, import reservations and blocked periods into Lodgify via iCal. ICals will allow you to share availabilities and some booking information from a platform to another.
Please note that when importing reservations from Airbnb via iCal, no guest details will be imported! You can also use the iCal link to block individual rooms in your calendar whenever you have a booking for the entire property, to do so please get in touch with us.
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Import an external calendar to Lodgify
Importing will allow you to automatically keep your Lodgify calendar up to date with external calendars that support the .ics format.
Example of an iCal URL: https://www.airbnb.com/calendar/ical/2790429.ics?s=850a104a80c6c87f19cb5c0e35a97628.
This involves copying the iCal links from the platform and adding them to Lodgify. Calendars that support the iCal format include Airbnb, VRBO, OnlyApartments and House Trip.
💡 Note: The imported information will be visible in the Calendar in light gray. No information will be imported into your Reservations.
You can paste the platforms' links from the Settings section of your Lodgify account. The calendar auto-refreshes every 2h, but you can also manually import immediately.
💡 Notes:
- Please note that VRBO/FeWO Ical update ONCE EVERY 24 HOURS
- Only current and future bookings will be imported into your calendar. No bookings that lie in the past will be shown
Export your Lodgify calendar
This involves copying the iCal links from Lodgify and adding them to the platforms. It can be done from the Settings section of your account.
You can choose 3 types of links depending on the information they will send. You can choose a link to export only Lodgify reservations, to export all reservations, or to only add them to your personal calendar.
Then, paste these links to the platform's calendars like Airbnb, VRBO, Booking.com etc.
Export Lodgify calendar into Google calendar
If you want to have the reservations from your Lodgify calendar synchronizing into your Google calendar, you just have to go to your Google calendar. In the Google calendar's settings, you can add a new calendar from URL.
Your reservations will then be exported to your Google calendar.