Question 1

🎉 Product updates

Accepted Answer

August 2022

Send the embed instructions to a colleague, nephew, an agency or whoever is building your website!
plus The pricing table is now included on the public page, if you added prices.

July 2022

The user interface got a nice update to make it even more clear and efficient.
You can now also change the first day of the week for yourself under the Profile tab.
Give feedback, add ideas, comment and vote! Check out the Feedback tab in the admin panel!
plus Custom fonts for widgets are here! The 50 most popular Google Fonts can now be selected.
premium New smart availability rule: Cooldown time: minimum time after a booking.
premium Add flexible prices per booking, guest or night to your booking form! Learn more.

June 2022

There's a new theme for the Timeline widget, called Classic.
plus You can now choose to include or exclude booking details in the iCal feeds.
premium The dashboard looks cleaner. Booking enquiries are on a seperate page now.
premium You can now build your own booking form! Go to Settings >

Question 2

Migrate from AvailabilityCalendar.com to Bookingmood

Accepted Answer

As a customer of AvailabilityCalendar.com, you can export your calendars and users and import them into Bookingmood.

Step 1: Get the AvailabilityCalendar.com export token

Log in to your dashboard at https://www.availabilitycalendar.com/login/
Click on the menu item Help
Click on the button Generate export token and copy the export token

Step 2: Importing in Bookingmood

Log in to your dashboard
Click on Settings > Migrate from AvailabilityCalendar.com
Paste the export token and follow the steps.

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Question 3

Creating a widget and embed code

Accepted Answer

Create a widget to embed one or more calendar on your website or share them using a hyperlink.

Create a widget

Go to Widgets
Click on + Widget

You will see a few options to choose from

Calendar: A single calendar of a rental
Overview: An overview that shows the calendars of multiple rentals
Inventory: A single calendar that shows the number of available rooms or spots that are left
Search & Book: A search bar that can be used to find and book available rentals

Get the embed code

Click on the tab Embed
Choose the desired lay-out
Click on the button Get the embed code OR copy the so called oEmbed link
Copy and paste the embed code into your website

Add the embed code to your website

Add the embed code in the HTML code of your website. This might sound complex, but it's very easy! We created step-by-step tutorials to learn how to add a Bookingmood widget to your website.

Go to the tutorials

Question 4

Rule-sets

Accepted Answer

|| Rule-sets are only available in the Premium plan

You can use rule-sets to let visitors only check-in and check-out on certain days (example of an availability rule-set), increase prices during certain periods (example of a pricing rule-set), and much more!

Types of rule-sets

Availability

Rent duration: The shortest and longest time-period that people are allowed to book
Time between booking and start of rent: Avoid short notice bookings or limit how far in advance people can book a date (highest limit is 730 nights, or 2 years)
Check-in and checkout days allowed on: Select the weekdays on which people are allowed to check in and check out
Cooldown time: Specify the time to reserve after a booking. For example to handle cleaning

Pricing

Nightly price: Adjust the price per night by a fixed percentage
Long-rent price: Adjust your nightly price when guests rent for longer time periods
Early-bird price: Adjust your nightly price when people book further in advance
Last-minute price: Adjust your nightly price when the check-in date gets closer

How to apply rule-sets

You can apply rule-sets in 3 ways:

1. Default for an organization

This rule-set is applies to all rentals at all times.

Go to Settings > Rule-sets
Click on the dots next to the rule-set
Click on Set as default rule-set

2. Default for a rental

This rule-set applies to this rental at all times.

Go to Settings > Rentals

Question 5

Import a calendar (iCal feed)

Accepted Answer

You can import external calendars into Bookingmood using iCal (.ics) feeds.

Import a new calendar

Go to Settings > Rentals > Click on a rental > Synchronization
Click on + Calendar in the Imported calendars section

Field Name: Enter the name of the external calendar, for example, 'Airbnb'
Field: Calendar URL (iCal): Enter the iCal feed

Click on Test connection
Click on Save

FAQ

How often is the imported iCal feed updated? plus every 5 minutes premium every 60 seconds

I imported a feed, but I don't see any bookings? Make sure your iCal feed contains bookings.

Manuals

Learn how to export calendars from other websites so you can import them into Bookingmood

Question 6

Export a calendar (iCal feed)

Accepted Answer

You can export a calendar from Bookingmood to another website with an iCal (.ics) feed.

Export a calendar

Go to Settings > Rentals > Click on a rental > Synchronization
Choose what bookings the iCal feed should contain in the Calendar export section

This rental and all child rentals: This iCal feed contains all the bookings of the rental and its child rentals (if you rent a room within an accommodation, that room can be added as a child rental of that accommodation in Bookingmood)
This rental only: This iCal feed only contains the bookings of the rental itself

Copy the iCal feed and use it in the external website

FAQ

How often is the iCal feed updated? The iCal feed is always up to date. Once you add a booking in Bookingmood, the iCal feed of Bookingmood will be updated immediately.

I updated my Bookingmood calendar but the availability on the other website is not updated? This means the other website has not refreshed its calendar yet. How often the other websites refreshes the calendar is up to them. Some websites refresh their calendars every hour, some once per day. It differs per website.

Manuals

Learn how to import calendars into other websites

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