Hi all,
We home exchange our second home when it’s not booked through Airbnb or VRBO. I’d love a way to sync our Home Exchange calendar with our PMS, Hospitable, or even directly with Airbnb. I’ve searched and can’t find a way to sync the HE calendar with anything. Has anyone found a way? Or even a way to import a calendar of blocked dates? Any suggestions? Thank you.
I am curious about this as well. It would be very helpful to be able to sync the calendars with other services.
Me too. Exactly the same situation. Need to coordinate my Google calendar and my Airbnb calendar with my HE calendar.
I know how to sync the AIRBnB calendar with my Google.
Hello. It’s not possible Indeed.
Why not? Any plans to make it possible?
Cause it’s not a priority. 80% of homes are primary and not rented on STR platforms. So it’s not a lot of members. For what I know as an ambassador, it’s not planned on the tech staff roadmap.
“With over 150,000 members in 145 countries” 20% that do STR would be about 30,000 members. That actually seems like a substantial enough portion of the membership to support calendar syncing. We would be one of those members supporting that initiative. This would improve not just the experience of STR members, but non-STR members looking for a place as well, because more listings would show as available when searching for specific dates. We prefer to not have to update a second calendar every time someone books our place as a STR, so we just ask members to see our Airbnb calendar, but I’m sure that limits how many people see our listing on Homeexchange.
No in fact those numbers are out of date, it’s now 190,000 members and 160 countries. But even on those 20%, a lot of people are not renting their second place. And you shouln’t Ask people to look at your Airbnb listing, that’s not allowed at all.
Bonjour Etienne ,
Real case.
A GP exchange was concluded for a place abroad next summer. Great! Thanks HE.
BUT when i went on a famous rental website, MY dates are opened with a automatic reservation.
I told it to the host and he replied that now my dates on rental websites are closed.
I checked on the rental plateform (the one i saw the problem) and guess what?
MY dates are opened.
It means that if the landlord gets a reservation, he will cancel mine because there is 100$ penalties + others problems when you cancel on this website.
It is a country with a few HE listings so a cancellation a few days or weeks before arrival would be a big problem for me.
This is a really important feature that should be created ASAP!
I have noticed many hosts having the proprieties listed also on other sites.
And, even without taking that into consideration, having a way to sync and export the calendar allows hosts to have HE availability visible on google calendar for example, so they can easily update it or understand if there is need to change anything.
I have requested this feature in the forum area for suggestions.
You can vote for it so that it will get more visibility:
@Nathalie1 , @Skigri-La , @Ian , and @gkoeka - please go vote for the calendar sync feature that @cyclorbit requested! Calendar synchronization feature - #2 by Panhandler
Hi Panhandler
Vote done.