Calendar sync in practice
Calendar sync makes several calendars always show the same commitments. Whether a booking comes in by phone, through your website or from an outside platform, that date shows as taken everywhere. It works through an integration between the systems, which exchange events automatically.
For anyone who takes bookings the main risk is a double booking: two clients at the same time, or two guests in the same house on the same night. Updating several calendars by hand works until you miss one, and that one time costs you dearly in trust and reviews.
A real case is Federica Prestige Stay, the holiday home website in Rome and Naples that we built: it has a direct booking engine and its calendar is synced with Airbnb and Booking.com, so there are no double bookings. The owner manages prices and dates herself.
Things to know: some shared calendars refresh at intervals rather than instantly, so there may be a short delay to allow for. Decide which calendar is the main source, so that changes don't overwrite each other. Finally, a synced calendar is the foundation for sending accurate automatic reminders.
