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1) Import existing bookings from Booking.com
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2) Make sure your inventory is correct in Beds24, it will be sent to . Check existing bookings in Booking.com. Block any imported and dates which blocked by other sources are unavailable blocked in Beds24. Dates can be blocked by either by entering a booking manually into Beds24 for those dates or using the inventory and override functions on the control panel calendarfor those dates. Failure to do this could allow new bookings on dates you are not available. All available dates in Beds24 will be sent to Booking.com as available for new bookings.
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3) Enable the connection in Beds24 by ticking "Inventory and Rates" for each mapped room and saving. The "Bookings"checkbox should already be ticked but tick it as well if it is not ticked and bookings should be imported.
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4)When all the set up in Beds24 is correct you will need to can make the final step to enable the connection (go live) from the bookingBooking.com extranet.
5) '''When you go live your rates and inventory will be deleted from bookingBooking.com and a full reload will occur from your Beds24Inventory.''' You can use the "Update" button on each room to speed this up. Your bookings will not be deleted from Booking.com but make sure the dates are blocked in Beds24 before going live so they will not be reopened.
6) Once updated, check all your values in the bookingBooking.com extranet for correctness and if required make any adjustments to the settings to fix.
7) New bookings made after XML is enabled will import to Beds24 automatically.
==Common Errors==