Hospedo now syncs in both directions with Booking.com
Direct bookings on Hospedo and reservations on Booking.com no longer collide — the bidirectional iCal sync is live.
If you run a small B&B or rural-stay property, you've probably had this moment: a guest pays direct on your own booking page for a room, and then the same dates get booked through Booking.com a few hours later. The owner ends up apologising and refunding, the guest is unhappy, and the trust you built up evaporates over one preventable double-booking.
Hospedo, our direct-booking product for hospitality owners in Spain, now syncs in both directions with Booking.com — closing that loop. When a guest books direct, Booking sees those dates as taken on the next refresh and won't accept new reservations for them. When Booking takes a reservation, Hospedo refuses any direct request that overlaps. The same mechanism extends to Airbnb, VRBO, and other OTAs that import iCal feeds. Every channel sees the same blocked dates.
For owners with multi-unit listings — say, two budget doubles listed as two separate Booking units — Hospedo tags each direct booking to the right unit, so blocking one doesn't accidentally take the other out of inventory. Owner-blocked maintenance days flow through too, with clear labels Booking surfaces in its calendar view ("CLOSED — Maintenance" vs "CLOSED — Direct booking" vs "CLOSED — Owner block").
Setup takes about five minutes per channel slot. Owners log into the Hospedo admin, open the "Salida" panel under Sincronización, copy the URL for the relevant feed, and paste it into Booking's channel-manager under Calendar → Sync calendars → Connect new calendar. Booking polls the URL every one to four hours; new bookings show up as blocked on the Booking calendar within that window. If a URL ever leaks, owners can rotate the token for one feed without breaking the others — useful in practice, because losing all your channel-manager connections at once because of one suspected leak is exactly the kind of friction that puts owners off self-managed sync. The headline pilot for this is Casa de Doña Concha in Ugíjar; the same workflow scales to every Hospedaje tenant from here.