[NEW] - October 2024: You can now block dates on your calendar!

Iā€™m so happy to share that you can now mark certain dates as unavailable on your calendar!

This was one of the features most requested by HomeExchangers and for years, weā€™ve been hearing and collecting your feebdback and my colleagues on the Product team have decided, after analyzing your requests and comments, as well as the relevance of the feature, to work on it!

How does it work?

My colleague @Benjamin.HomeExchange from the Product team, explains everything in detail below:

Up till now, you could mark your calendar in 3 different ways:

  • dates available for any type of exchange (in green)
  • dates available for a reciprocal exchange (in yellow)
  • dates available for non-reciprocal exchange, with GuestPoints (in blue)

A fourth option is now available:

  • dates when, for one reason or another, your home will be unavailable (orange).

Another little update: to make the calendar clearer, you can now find a clearer legend explaining what each color represents.

The result: dates marked as unavailable will appear as red on the calendar, like when an exchange is already finalized.

When you contact a member to request an exchange, the periods marked as unavailable will appear in gray on the calendar, and you will not be able to propose an exchange on these dates.

A clearer available or unavailable calendar

You already have the option to choose whether or not youā€™d like to be contacted outside the dates marked as available on your calendar (simply choose the desired option under your calendar).


To make things even clearer, from now on, this choice will be illustrated on the calendar, since if you have chosen not to be contacted outside your available dates, these dates will now appear in gray.

And there you have it! I hope everythingā€™s clear and that you like this update that Benjamin, our Product team and developers have been working hard on :blush:

Hi, We have done over 100 exchanges and will keep goingā€¦butā€¦
First, I was very happy with this new function as I do need it to block dates when I lend my house to my adult children or friends for example, on precise dates that I might be able to forget otherwiseā€¦

I had been asking for this for a long time.

But as I live in a highly requested place in Portugal with a pool, I thought I could keep the function of blocking the dates not available on my calendar too.

UNFORUNATELY, this is not possible, why?

Now if I block 1 week for example in orange. All the white zones become available, but they are not as we live in this house!

I tried to explain this on the French fb group but few people seemed to get it, do you or does Benjamim ?

Now, it all happens again, people are asking me on white dates which I cannot block anymoreā€¦

And if I used the old function of blocking the white zones, I cannot block the precise dates in orange when we or our family/friends stay here, so very disappointing in the end.

Why not being able to have both???

When I blocked my calendar, people used fake datesā€¦but if they are red or orange they will visualise that our house is occupied!

So do I need to color it all in orange? The calendar then looks very confusing to me indeedā€¦

I need both functions :pray: :pray: :pray: :pray: PLEASE.
Or I will be annoyed but have to send automatic NO answers all the timeā€¦

Thank you for answering me , please.
Kind regards,
Laura

Just to finish about this, what we need is just that members can only contact us on yellow, green or blue zones.
This means the 2 functions indeed
Laura

Thatā€™s great with the new option to block the calendar. Is there any chance that there will be a synchronising option with other calendars in future?