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How to Find Your iCal Link on Vrbo

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Every Vrbo property publishes a Vrbo iCal link: a URL that lists the dates that property 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 your Vrbo Owner Dashboard.
  2. If you manage more than one property, open the listing you want to sync.
  3. In the menu, select Calendar.
  4. In Settings, open the Availability tab.
  5. Under Calendar sync, select Connect calendars, then Export calendar, then Copy URL.

Copy the calendar link, not the address of the page you are on. The right one contains icalendar. You can also tick Include tentative bookings if you want held dates blocked too.

Vrbo in Mangobeds

Vrbo has no calendar tile in Mangobeds, because Vrbo connects through the channel manager with a full sync: go to Apps > Channel Manager, click Connect and pick VRBO.

Only want Vrbo to see the dates you have booked in Mangobeds? In Connect, click Any other site, copy each unit’s Mangobeds link and import it in Vrbo’s Calendar sync. To have the Vrbo link you copied above block dates in Mangobeds, click Write to us on the same screen and we set it up with you.

iCal or the channel manager?

iCal is the light option: Vrbo sends dates, and only every 30 minutes or so. If you want rates and reservations to sync both ways, connect Vrbo 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.