Your rate settings and booking requirements affect your availability, and how they’re set up could make it difficult for travellers to find and book your property. Having a good understanding of how to make these settings work best for your property could ensure that you don’t miss out on bookings.
Optimise your availability. Maximise your holiday rental bookings.
For partners who manage multiple holiday rental listings through our dashboard, we recommend following these best practices to stay booked consistently.
Increase bookings with a shorter minimum stay
If your calendar is flexible, you can shorten your minimum stay to show up in more traveller search results.* For example, if a traveller is searching for a three-night stay and your minimum stay is four nights, your property will not show up in that traveller’s search results. Shorten your minimum stay to earn more money and fill available nights in your calendar.
Setting check-in and check-out days
Another way to increase holiday rental bookings is through your check-in and check-out setting.* This setting lets you control which days of the week guests can check in and out of your property.
However, when you use these settings, it’s possible to accidentally block large portions of your calendar, which affects whether you show up in traveller searches. For example, if you set a check-in and check-out day as Saturday, your property will only show up if a traveller is searching for a Saturday-to-Saturday stay.
Managing multiple bookings by staying in sync
Our platform supports iCal*, a file format that you can use to import and sync calendars across multiple websites like Google Calendar, Booking.com and Airbnb. This can help you avoid double bookings, and provides you with a single view of all your reservations.
Reviewing calendar blocks
Regularly review your calendar to make sure that you have blocked the correct days or to make sure that a recent sync pulled in the correct block.* You can also test different search dates on your property to see if your calendar is showing the correct availability to travellers.
*This only applies to partners who use software to manage their listings
