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How to Find Your iCal Link on Airbnb

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Every Airbnb listing publishes an Airbnb iCal link: a URL that ends in .ics and lists the dates that listing is booked. Paste it into Mangobeds and those dates are blocked on the matching unit, so the same room cannot be sold twice.

Where to find it

  1. Sign in to Airbnb and open Calendar.
  2. Select the listing you want to sync.
  3. Open Availability in the side panel.
  4. Under Connect calendars, choose Connect to another website. (Some accounts show this as Availability settings > Calendar sync > Export calendar.)
  5. Copy the calendar link Airbnb shows you. Each listing has its own.

One listing, one link. If an accommodation in Mangobeds maps to several Airbnb listings, add each listing’s link to its own unit.

Where to paste it in Mangobeds

  1. In Mangobeds, go to Apps > iCal.
  2. Pick the accommodation, then the unit this listing corresponds to.
  3. Click Add source, choose the source, and paste the link you copied.
  4. Save. Mangobeds pulls the calendar on a schedule and blocks those dates on the unit.

Syncing the other way works the same in reverse: copy the unit’s outbound iCal URL from Apps > iCal and import it on the other platform, so bookings taken in Mangobeds block the dates there too.

iCal or the channel manager?

iCal is the light option: Airbnb sends dates, and only every few hours. If you want rates and reservations to sync both ways in real time, connect Airbnb through the channel manager instead. Do not run both at once on the same unit.

More on how the two differ: Connect to external booking channels (OTAs) using iCal.