czeller on "[Plugin: WP Availability Calendar & Booking] Import bookings from airbnb"

WP availability calendar & bookings (v1.4.2) seems a promising plugin, though unfortunately we do not succeed in importing the booking calendar from airbnb. In the "settings" under "List of exteal upload links" we wrote down room>link. https://www.airbnb.nl/rooms/XXXXXXX. Under the "booings" tab one of our rooms is indeed notifying under "email" : "synced with exteal". On the website nothing happens. Did we forgot something or do something wrong?

https://wordpress.org/plugins/jm-avail-booking/

Hi,

You also need to start the synchronization. Go to WP Availability Calendar & Bookings tab, select Import & Export and click on the start button under the block Synchronisation with exteal Calender. This will do the synchronization (import from Airb&b) once. Select the option Run automatic sync to make the job recurrent.
To check if Airb&b gives a correct output copy the link to the browser and a file will be downloaded. Check the content with a text editor to see if it contains bookings. Sometimes Airb&b only generate a file with a header and footer but without content.
In the description see also my Remark on exteal calendars. Airb&b generates at each synchronization a different UID for the bookings. This will result in multiple (overlapping) bookings in the database.

Regards,

Jan

Dear Jan,

I managed to download the airbnb file by going through the "import & export" tab by clicking "export Ical". This text contains indeed headers, but is no reservation/booking information. From the part "Remarks on exteal calendars" in the description of the plugin I do understand that bookings cannot be imported automatically from airbnb ("For these exteal calendars the possible recurrent schedule of the download is not very useful."). Is this correct? If so, are there other sites that do not generate a new UID each time? How about booking.com for example?

Regards,

Vu

Hi Vu,

I know about bedandbreakfast.nl but I have no information for booking.com Goolge agenda for example keeps the UID for each agenda item unique.

The UID is something like a social security number. When bo an agenda item gets its UID and that should never be changed. In this way agenda items may travel from agenda to agenda and will always be recognized to avoid duplication of the same agenda item.

As airb&b each time generates a new UID duplication in the Availability Calendar cannot be avoided.

One of my users which uses multiple bookings sites like airb&b and bedandbreakfast.nl solved this issue by making the Availability Calendar the master agenda. Doing here all the changes on the bookings and upload (automatic synchronization) to the other bookings sites. This user is very happy with this way of working.

Regards,

Jan

Thank you Jan, this way works. importing to airbnb, hope the other way around will do in the near future

This plugin has seemed to disappear from the repo, is it still supported?