Updating your availability calendar is a straightforward process.
Simply login to your user account on your VillaMastr hosted website.
Select Manage Availability.
Then enter bookings in to the Booking Form. Only checkin and checkout are mandatory fields. You can add additional optional information on the booking should you wish to use your VillaMastr hosted website calendar as a master record of your booking history.
If you want to view bookings in your calendar hover over the dates blocked out in the calendar and the details related to the booking will appear in a pop up box. Useful if you want to identify a number of bookings within your calendar. Move the mouse pointer along the dates in the calendar and each individual booking will pop up.
To edit bookings click on a date in the calendar. The booking form will pre-populate with the relevant booking. You can then change the dates or additional details and submit the booking to the calendar. You can also delete the booking by clicking on the delete booking link in the bottom right of the booking form.
Managing bookings in an availability calendar can be an onerous task if you have your property listed across several property rental websites. To help our owners and managers with this we offer sync calendar functionality. This allows you to identify your “golden source” calendar. You can then either sync your calendar with your calendar on another major site such as Homeaway, vrbo, airbnb and flipkey or you can sync your calendar on their site with your calendar on the VillaMastr hosted website.
To sync your calendar with another major website you need to get access to the location of your ical (.ics) file. Once you get that you login to your VillaMastr hosted website, navigate to Availability Calendar and you'll see a form on the bottom left of the page called Link Calendar. If you post the ics file location here and press submit Villa Mastr will then retreive the ics file (which contains all your bookings added to the other website), process the file and add all the bookings to your Villa Mastr calendar. We also update our database and following this first sync this process then happens nightly until you click Unlink Calendar. You might want to unlink in future should you cease to list with the other site.
To retrieve your .ics file location flow the guidelines below.
To retrieve your homeaway or vrbo calendar file location:
Your calendar ics URL should look like this:
http://www.homeaway.com/calendar/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/XXXXXX.ics
To retrieve your airbnb ics calendar file location:
Your calendar ics URL should look like this:
http://www.airbnb.com/calendar/ical/######.ics?s=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
To retrieve your Flipkey ics calendar file location:
You will need the location of your VillaMastr ics file url. This is simply http://[domain name of VillaMastr hosted website]/data/calendar/ics#.ics where # is your unique propertyid reference number on the site.
No. One calendar is the “golden source” calendar which you should keep up to date.