Difference between revisions of "ICal import"
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Revision as of 18:15, 12 August 2014
Importing Bookings or Blocking dates using an external iCal or google calendar
Capabilities
Beds24.com can import bookings from up to 3 iCal calendars per room.
Select if the end date of an event is the last night of the booking or the checkout day.
Each full day or multi day event in your iCal calendar will be imported as a booking.
Changes to event dates will be imported.
If an event that was previously imported is missing from a future import, the booking status will be changed to Cancelled.
The event summary is imported as the guest name.
The event description is imported as the guest comment.
The full event information from the iCal is stored in the api message field of the booking.
A new import will occur approximately once per hour.
Many holiday rental sites support Ical more Information
Limitations
The iCal calendar must be available on the internet for Beds24 to poll and must be set for public access. Some calendars like google allow public access (sharing) to be set on an event basis and only public events can be imported.
Bookings must be defined as full day events on the days you want to block.
Only the information specified in the Capabilities section above can be imported from the iCal.
iCal is a one way information exchange, import and export to the same external calendar is not supported and will most likely create duplicate events.
What you will need
The URL of the iCal calendar to import from.
Setup
Check (tick) the Booking checkbox and enter the calendar URL you want to import and click save.
