Synchronization issue on canceled/moved reservations on Airbnb

[greshyme]

Hello.

We have noticed an issue, when a reservation is canceled on Airbnb, the reserved dates are still marked as blocked.

This topic seems to have been opened in May 2023:

Sync Calendar Issue Cancelled Bookings Still Showing as Blocked in the Listing

I have a system that integrates with Airbnb and different platforms. The booking from Airbnb is correctly blocking the relevant dates in our system. However, when the same reservation is canceled, the .ics file is updated and comes to our system, but the dates in the relevant reservation continue to appear as Blocked. This causes some confusion and inefficient use of available time slots, as these slots are technically blocked for new bookings after the original booking is canceled. When a boo…

Does the problem still exist?

Thanks in advance.

[andrii]

Hi,

Sorry if there was a misunderstanding. Yes, currently there’s an import feature, if you set an external ICS link, then HivePress imports events (bookings) from this external calendar and makes these dates unavailable in the website calendar.

There’s no opposite process at the moment, HivePress doesn’t check if the imported event disappeared in the external calendar and deletes it automatically.

We plan to release this update according to the RoadMap.

[a2cowmilk]

is there a workaround ?
can we press some button and have the import repeated everyday, or a chron is possible ?
also will bookings made here reflect on Airbnb

[andrii]

Hi,

Unfortunately, there is no easy solution for this, but we plan to improve it in future updates.