First of all, just like in iOS 6, you can rotate your iPhone onto its side, and the landscape calendar will give you a week view of sorts (assuming you don't have your device's orientation locked).
There are a couple of tricks to use the app more effectively, though. On the iPad, it's all right there's still a month view that's similar to the one we had before, but on the iPhone, I feel as if I'm having to take more time to glean information than I'd like. I'm having difficulty getting used to iOS 7's Calendar app on my iPhone. You can add both listings to ET, sync them with Extended iCal and smoothly migrate to a new listings without a risk of overbooking.OK, I admit it. If you have old listing with any OTA and want to migrate to the new one it’s always a headache but not with ET. – Accounting and Financial audit Migrating between listings
Needless to say, that we also have a rich PMS API which you can use, in case if you feel that you need it. Just few startup ideas where Extended iCal is more than enough and a full-fledged API is not required. With extended iCal you can pull/push all the most important information between your app and Effective Tours with just few lines of code. Same time the API integration is not so easy. Unfortunately, all big channel managers are not interested in a small startups. You have to create an API integration with at least one of them to be competitive on the market. Channel manager is always a core of that systems as it allows to manage hotel rates & availability across all of the distribution channels. Hospitality business is on the rise and there is a lot of new players coming to the place daily. With the support of Effective Tours payment gateway, owner can receive advance payment to secure the bookings. Agent (You) sync Owners property via Extended iCal and then start marketing his own way in all OTA he wants. Owner selling on Airbnb, doing all the marketing for his listing. Each time you are generating a new booking - it will block the dates on the original property and vice versa. Now you can create a Booking & Expedia listings for this property and even create a new Airbnb Listing for it and start promoting it your way. As soon as it’s done, you will get a new property in your own Effective Tours account, fully synced with original property. With Extended iCal you can create a separate account for that property, link it to Airbnb and then create your own account with the same property on it linked to the original one via Extended iCal. More of that, they don’t marketing their property and a results having occupancy between less than 50%. Plenty of owners feel comfortable with Airbnb only and don’t want to deal with any other OTA. Use cases Property management companyĪirbnb is no doubts number one OTA for home, villa and apartment rentals. We will add encryption of the data to provide maximum security for the sensitive information. Detailed specification and workflow you will find in Extended Ical documentation.Įxtended iCal is in beta stage now. To activate Extended iCal feature please contact our support team.
#HOW TO USE ICAL EFFECTIVELY FULL#
We do have our own PMS API and of course it’s hard to compare the full PMS API functionality with Extended iCal but there is still plenty of scopes for this solution. Now you can build your own PMS and hospitality solutions without building complicated API integration. It’s hard to overestimate the impact of this small addition. SUMMARY:All Villa / All Villa (12 guests) We create pack all guests and reservations details in a base64 encoded string and add it to iCal DESCRIPTION BEGIN:VCALENDAR What we did is quite obvious and predictable and we are wonder why nobody did that before.
#HOW TO USE ICAL EFFECTIVELY SOFTWARE#
We decide to change it and happy to announce Extended Ical.Įxtended iCal based on the same standards and specifications as the original one you can use it with any software with iCal support. One of the main disadvantage of ical is lack of information about the reservation and the guests. Booking, Tripadvisor and many others are using it. ICal is a very popular format within many OTA to sync reservation information with others.
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