There are a few different ways in which Availability can be set in Hospitable and sent to your listings:

You can manually edit the availability for particular dates in your calendar if you:

Availability set manually will be pushed to all listings in your property.

The calendar will prefer the manual edit over the availability set by any availability rules set on the property’s Availability settings page. You can read more about that page and those settings here.

Dates with manually edited availability can be reset on the backend so that they start following the availability rules on your property again. Please contact support for assistance with resetting this.

You can set availability rules which automatically open up and block dates in your calendar based on certain criteria.

To find your property’s availability rules, go to:

You can read more about this page and the settings available there, here.

The Availability window setting controls how far in advance your guests can make bookings. It can be found on the General page of the Availability tab.

Dates with manually edited availability can be reset on the backend so that they start following the Availability window on your property again. Please contact support for assistance with resetting this.

The Preparation time setting blocks dates before and after bookings to allow for easier turnover. The setting can be found on the Booking rules page of the Availability tab.

If you manually make a date available in your calendar, later, the date before or after that one gets booked, and you have a Preparation time of one or two days set in the property’s availability rules, the date you manually edited will remain available. It will not be blocked by the Preparation time rule because you previously opened it up manually.

The Advance notice setting determines the minimum lead time you need between when a booking is made and check-in. The setting can be found on the Booking rules page of the Availability tab.

You can choose from the following Advance notice options:

If you manually make a future date available in your calendar, later, when that date comes within reach of your Advance notice rule, the date will remain available. It will not be blocked by the Advance notice rule because you previously opened it up manually.

You can connect a number of external booking platforms using an iCal link from the calendar on that platform. To do this, you import the iCal link into your property on Hospitable. You can read more about this feature here.

The iCal links will only pull in reservations from the other platform. If you block your dates on the booking platform, that block will not be pulled in to Hospitable via the iCal link! Manual availability like that is not included in the iCal sync.

Hospitable also provides iCal links per property, which can be exported into an external software or booking platform.

Just like the imported iCal links, the Hospitable Property Reservation iCal links only export blocks made by reservations. The iCal link will not export blocks made in your Hospitable calendar, manually or by an availability rule.

When you connect your Airbnb listing to Hospitable on the Property Management Software scope (PMS scope), your calendar availability must be set and controlled on Hospitable.

Hospitable becomes the source of truth, which will control your availability on Airbnb. You will not have access to change your availability on Airbnb.

If you have connected your Airbnb listing on a limited connection, then Hospitable will not have any control over your Airbnb calendar. You will then need to set availability directly on Airbnb and not in the Hospitable calendar. Hospitable will not pull in that availability from your Airbnb listing and push to your other listings!

Similar to how Airbnb works, when you connect your Booking.com listing to Hospitable, Hospitable becomes the source of truth for your calendar availability.

Availability needs to be set on Hospitable, and Hospitable will push it to Booking.com.

Unlike Airbnb, it is not possible to connect Hospitable to Booking.com on a more limited connection, which could give you access to controlling availability on the Booking.com Extranet.

Hospitable only syncs with one rate plan on Booking.com per listing. We call that the Parent rate plan. Other rate plans (called Child rate plans) can be set up so that they take price and availability from the parent rate plan. However, you can also create multiple Parent rate plans on Booking.com. Hospitable will not be in control of those other parent rate plans (only one!), meaning you can manually control availability for those.

We do not recommend this sort of setup!

Read more about how to manage Parent and Child rate plans on Booking.com here.

Unlike Airbnb and Booking.com, Hospitable is not the ultimate source of truth for availability on Vrbo. This will change with the upgrade to Vrbo’s Official API, which is coming soon!

Hosts can freely change their availability directly on the Vrbo calendar. This availability will only be pulled into Hospitable if Vrbo is the Lead listing on the property. It will then be pushed to the other listings on the property if you have Availability sync enabled on your Hospitable account.

Because Hospitable is not the ultimate source of truth for your calendar availability on Vrbo, changes can be made to availability on Vrbo after Hospitable successfully pushes availability over to Vrbo.

This will cause discrepancies between Vrbo and Hospitable, which is why we recommend hosts only make availability changes on the Hospitable calendar and do not import iCal links into their Vrbo calendar other than the Hospitable Property Reservation iCal.

Availability changes made on a parent or child property do not propagate to the other properties in the relationship. Only reservations are blocked between properties in a Parent/Child relationship.

If you block dates on a parent property in the Hospitable calendar, those dates will not be blocked on the child property, and vice versa.

Just like with manual availability, availability set by availability rules are not pushed between properties!

When you have a Parent/Child relationship set up, and one of those properties gets booked, the "Preparation Time" rule for each property will be applied respectively.

For example, if the parent property has a preparation time of one day, and the child property has a preparation time of two days, their dates will be blocked one and two days before and after the reservation, respectively, when a reservation is booked on either one of them.