Keep booking sites in step over iCal
Publish your occupancy as an iCal feed booking sites can subscribe to, and read their feeds back to close rooms they have sold. Feeds are polled on their own and a failing one says so.
Distribution feeds · Room 3 Garden
In short
Distribution feeds work in both directions: an export feed publishes your occupancy as Reserved or Blocked events at a private link, and an import feed reads a booking site's calendar and closes those rooms. Imports are polled every few minutes, and each feed shows its health and last success.
The problem it solves
A room sold on a booking site at midnight is still free on your desk in the morning, and the double booking is found when two guests arrive for it.
How it works
4 steps, start to finish
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1
Add feed
Choose Export, publish our occupancy, or Import, read theirs and close the room.
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2
Pick the scope
One room, a room type or the whole property.
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3
Connect the site
Reveal subscribe URL for an export, or paste the site's iCal link for an import.
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4
Watch its health
Each feed shows Health and Last success, with Poll now, Pause and Resume.
In detail
What OTA calendar sync does for you
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Export
Your occupancy as Reserved or Blocked, with no guest names.
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Import
Each event from the site becomes a block on the room, never a booking.
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Private link
The subscribe link carries a long token you can rotate.
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Polled for you
Imports are checked every few minutes, at most every ten per feed.
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Fails loudly
Failures back off, and a feed pauses after six in a row.
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No. It closes the room for those nights as a block. The booking itself stays with the site that sold it.
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No. The export shows nights as Reserved or Blocked, with no guest details.
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Rotate token issues a new subscribe link and the old one stops working.
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Imports are polled every few minutes, and each feed at most every ten. Poll now fetches one straight away.
OTA calendar sync · Free to start
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