Increase Bookings with Up-To-Date Calendars

Booking websites have become an important source of bookings. For some hotels or properties even the most important source. Using several sites usually means increased visibility and revenue. The downside to this strategy used to be the management effort involved.

Manually keeping multiple calendars up to date is tedious and time consuming. The solution to this are automated updates using a channel manager. This not only frees up time but also reduces the risk of double bookings.

Synchronising Calendars which Support iCal
Many booking sites, especially in the holiday rental market support the industry standard iCal. iCal (or iCalendar) is a file format designed to transmit calendar data. Information can be exported from one calendar and imported into another. This also works for calendar apps on your smartphone or Google’s calendar. iCal can be used to import calendar information from a booking source or export bookings into another calendar.

Which calendars can Beds24 synchronise?
Specially constructed connections keep Airbnb, Homeaway, FewoDirekt, Wimdu, FlipKey, Housetrip, 9flats and HolidayLettings calendars synchronised with your own web site.

What can you do with Beds24´s iCal sync?
You can use the Beds24 iCal Sync for automatic updates for example with ebab, Homewaway/VBRO/FewoDirekt,  Only-Apartments and many more.

Two Way Channel Management
While iCal can only transport calendar information XML allows transmission of more than just calendar events. The Beds24 channel manager lets accommodation providers manage availability and rates across multiple online booking sites from a single easy-to-use web page. Connections include Booking.com, Expedia, Agoda, Hostelworld, Laterooms and many more. Visit our website for a complete list.