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How to Find Your iCal Link on Flatio

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Every Flatio listing publishes a Flatio iCal link: a URL that 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 rented twice. Flatio is built for mid-term stays of one to twelve months, which makes a double booking there a costly one.

Where to find your Flatio iCal link

  1. Sign in to your Flatio account as a landlord.
  2. Go to Listings and open the listing you want to sync.
  3. Open the Availability section and find Calendar synchronization.
  4. Under Export, copy the calendar URL shown there.

Renting rooms separately? Flatio does not sync an apartment and its rooms together. Each room has its own calendar, so copy one link per room and match each to its own unit in Mangobeds.

Where to paste it in Mangobeds

  1. In Mangobeds, go to Apps > Channel Manager and click Connect.
  2. Pick the Flatio tile and click Continue. You see one row per unit.
  3. Paste the link you copied in the Flatio’s link, for us column, next to the unit this listing or room corresponds to.
  4. Click Save. Mangobeds reads the calendar straight away, then again on a schedule, and blocks those dates on the unit.

Send your Mangobeds calendar to Flatio

Syncing the other way matters just as much on Flatio. On the same Mangobeds screen, click Copy in the Your link, for Flatio column for the unit (or use Copy all my links on the Flatio card in your channel list), then in Flatio go back to Calendar synchronization, choose to import a calendar, and paste it. Bookings taken in Mangobeds or on your other channels then block the dates on Flatio too.

Flatio counts it against your listing when you have to decline a request because the dates were already taken, and that lowers where your listing appears. Keeping both directions connected is what prevents it.

What iCal syncs, and what it does not

iCal only carries dates. A booking made on Flatio arrives in Mangobeds as blocked dates, not as a reservation with the tenant’s name, price or payment, and prices you change in Mangobeds are not sent to Flatio. For long stays from other marketplaces, see how Coliving.com connects with Mangobeds.

More on how iCal works across platforms: Connect to external booking channels (OTAs) using iCal.