Understand the importance of keeping your calendar up-to-date, and read all about the manual and automatic solutions of the availability settings.
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Understand the importance of keeping your calendar up-to-date, and read all about the manual and automatic solutions of the availability settings.
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There is nothing worse from a potential tenant’s point of view than when they make a reservation request for a property that appears as available – but then the landlord declines it because it’s actually unavailable. This is the reason for rejection that we do not tolerate at Flatio, as it affects the credibility of both landlords and the Flatio service itself. Therefore, it falls into the so-called unauthorized rejections, which we count into the 3 Rejections Rule. That's why we offer several ways to keep your availability up-to-date so you can avoid unnecessary rejections.
If you also advertise your property on Airbnb, Booking, or other platforms that use iCal calendar format, this solution will be useful for you. Simply export a Flatio calendar for each of your listings and insert it into those platforms, and then import their calendar into Flatio. The import ensures that any bookings from the other platforms will be automatically entered into our system and your property will be shown as "unavailable" during those dates. On the other hand, exporting a Flatio calendar and importing it into other services ensures that when you approve a reservation request in our system, it will be automatically shared with the other platforms you use and your property will show as unavailable there.
Below you can find out how to handle the automatic availability updates of your properties via the My Rentals web application.
For us to be able to get the availability of your listing shared on another platform, it is necessary to import the listing's availability calendar from the platform into Flatio.
NOTE: The calendar of each platform you use to rent out the listing must be imported separately.
To pass on the information about your listing's availability on Flatio to other platforms, make sure you export your Flatio calendar and import it into the used platforms.
NOTE: The Flatio calendar needs to be exported (and inserted) into all platforms that you use to rent out the listing and for which a calendar import has already been done.
To make it easier to perform these tasks, we also enclose instructions for synchronizing calendars in the most frequently used rental services:
Don't have an iCal calendar and so can’t use the system above? No problem! You can also make manual updates to your calendar. This option is also suitable if you like to experiment with booking dates.
Note: The red-tinted field in the calendar means it's unavailable, while green means it's available. When you create a new property listing, it's always shown on our system as completely available until you change it.