Connect Airbnb and Booking.com to your own calendar with iCal

iCal imports occupied dates from external calendars into Homadu, identified by the name you give each source. This helps you see which channel accounts for each occupied period when planning. Manage reservation details and follow-up through the original booking on Airbnb or Booking.com. You review requests from your own Homadu website yourself: accept or decline them, and the guest receives the corresponding confirmation email.

Start with a simple record of which listing on each channel belongs to which property in Homadu. Then collect the external iCal export links and the Homadu export link you intend to use. Choose the calendar for the specific rental unit so a booking for house A does not block house B. Check especially carefully when you have several listings or have changed one. Treat calendar links as private: someone with the link may be able to retrieve calendar information. Do not post them publicly, in a blog, on social media or in an unprotected screenshot. Keep only the information you need somewhere with appropriate access controls.

Import brings an external calendar into Homadu; export shares your selected Homadu calendar with the platform. Set up both directions for every channel listing the same property.

Homadu offers an export of its own bookings and blocks, along with options for a full calendar or selected external sources. Choose what to share with each receiving channel. To pass an imported Airbnb period on to Booking.com, include the Airbnb source in that export. Leave the Booking.com source out of the export back to Booking.com so that blocks retain a clear origin. Draw the connections if helpful, and check source selections before linking several calendars together.

Calendars retrieve each other’s feeds periodically. Homadu schedules external imports every quarter of an hour; platforms retrieve calendar information on their own schedules. Queues and source availability affect processing. An Airbnb booking first appears in its source feed, is then imported into Homadu and can subsequently be retrieved by Booking.com through your chosen export. For a recent booking or urgent request, also check the original channel calendar. This helps you base the decision on the latest available information.

Use a small, recognisable test block on dates you deliberately keep clear for testing. Check one direction first, then the other. A block from Friday until departure on Monday should make Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights unavailable; Monday is not an extra overnight stay. Check the result in Homadu and on the receiving platform, including neighbouring dates. Remove the test once you understand how it is processed, then also check that the nights become free again. Repeat the test for every property to check its individual links and source selections.

First identify where the difference starts: is the booking in the source calendar, does Homadu show the correct period, and has the receiving channel retrieved it? Check the last successful import and any error status. Verify that the source link still belongs to the correct active listing and whether it has changed. If an import fails, Homadu retains previously imported availability. Compare the latest changes directly with the source. If availability is immediately in doubt, manually block the relevant nights where necessary while resolving the cause. Check how changing or removing a source affects occupied periods before taking that step.

Check your connections again after adding a listing, changing a calendar link or adjusting export sources. The connection saves data entry, and the central overview helps you handle requests, changes and confirmations. Build a regular routine with the steps in a practical workflow to prevent double bookings.