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If you list your place on Houfy and other websites, you can prevent multiple guests from booking the same dates by syncing your Houfy calendar with your other calendars.

Calendar sync is a way to integrate your calendar with other calendars to update all or some of the calendar data automatically.

Frequently asked questions about calendars

To export your reservation calendar from Vrbo, follow these steps:

The proper way to synchronize takes 2 steps: Export your Airbnb calendar, import into Houfy and Export your Houfy calendar and import into Airbnb.

Houfy is programmed to synchronize every 3 hours. This means Houfy pulls in new data from other calendars every 3 hours.

A "hard" or "manual" sync is performed when you want to sync your calendar before the regular interval time.

You can do a hard sync when you get a booking. It's up to Airbnb or VRBO to pull in Houfy's new calendar info. So you should find out how often Airbnb or VRBO "syncs" with other sites. It is our understanding Airbnb syncs every 2 hrs and VRBO up to 6 hrs.

Please review the instructions below:

Calendar pricing removes the need to edit the beginning/end dates of each season. By using calendar pricing, you can leave the seasonal rates alone, and just override any rates/minimum night stays.

Sometimes you'd like to offer a last minute discount on specific dates, or a special rate for a repeat guest. Maybe you just want to provide a quote. You can easily do this by sending the person a special offer.

Please select menu > Manage Listings. Select the listing you want to remove the co-host, and then click Edit. Click Calendar from the left menu and click on any dates.

If you have a last minute opening or cancellation, share a discount offer such as 10% off the nightly rate. Or, use the feature to send returning guests a discount. Ex: 5% off next visit.

Yes. Please review the instructions below:

On Desktop/laptop: Please select menu > Manage Listings Select the listing you want to change, and then click Calendar. Click on any date or the date you want to change the minimum stay.

Yes this is possible. Please follow the instructions below:

This post explains how to not allow same day booking on Houfy

A booking cut-off date is the furthest date in the future that you want to accept bookings

The booking cut-off date prevents travelers from booking your property after a specific date. This is helpful for those who may not want bookings far in advance, or for those who haven't set next year's rates yet.

You can easily change the booking cut off date by going to:

What does “blocking dates” mean? A blocked date is a date, or period, that you have set to prevent a guest to book dates.

Houfy offers two import options: Reservations Only and Everything EX: if you block dates on XXXX platform, but want them to remain bookable on Houfy, select to import "Only Reservations" instead of "Everything."

Go to edit listing and select Calendar. Select a date where your calendar is blocked and click on the colored bar. Review the source on the left side.

If the calendar block was created on Houfy and not an imported block by calendar sync then follow these steps:

To remove blocked dates or added booking on Houfy follow the below steps:

Most travel sites export current and future reservations in the export link, to export all past reservations on Houfy follow the below article.

Please make sure you have your Houfy calendar synced into VRBO

Please make sure you have VRBO synced into Houfy.

Please make sure you have your Airbnb calendar synced into Houfy.

Go to Listings and click the listing you want to change Click Calendar from the left menu and click Clear pricing Click on Clear Pricing again to confirm the removal of prices.