Your rate settings and booking requirements affect your availability, and how they’re set up could make it difficult for travelers to find and book your property. Having a good understanding of how to make these settings work best for your property could ensure you don’t miss out on bookings.
Optimize your availability. Maximize your vacation rental bookings.
For partners who manage multiple vacation rental listings through our dashboard, we recommend following these best practices to stay booked consistently.
Increasing bookings with a shorter minimum stay
If your calendar is flexible, you can shorten your minimum stay to show up in more traveler search results.* For example, if a traveler is searching for a three-night stay and your minimum stay is four nights, your property will not show up in that traveler's search results. Shorten your minimum stay to earn more money and fill available nights in your calendar.
Setting check-in and checkout days
Another way to increase vacation rental bookings is through your check-in and checkout 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 traveler searches. For example, if you set a check-in and checkout day as Saturday, your property will only show up if a traveler is searching for a Saturday-to-Saturday stay.
Managing multiple bookings by staying in sync
Our platform supports iCal,* a file format 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.
Learn how to sync your calendars
Only available for partners who use the Vrbo platform
Reviewing calendar blocks
Regularly review your calendar to make sure you have blocked the correct days or to make sure 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 travelers.
*This only applies to partners who use software to manage their listings
