You can use iCal feature to sync the booking with third party service such as Air BnB, VRBO other any other services that support iCal feature.

***Please note that this method only available when you have only one room in ‘Room amount’ setting. If you have more than one room, this feature is not available.

You can import multiple iCal by enter to the new line and fill new iCal url.

Setting Syncing Time Period

You can set the refresh interval for iCal as specific minutes in Room Settings > General Settings > iCal Cache Time(Mins) (Scroll down to the bottom)

However, please note that we can only refresh the imported iCal(i.e. from Air BnB) but note that on Air BnB and VRBO side, they will refresh their imported iCal(i.e. our iCal or other services) about every one hour so there will be a period of time that might occur the duplicate booking. This is nothing we can do about it too.(This problem is not our problem, it’s about how they set the refresh interval.)

Setting Old Data Period in iCal file

You can set the specific months to allow iCal to keep old data. For example, if you set it as ‘2’, all iCal data that’s older than two months will be removed. This feature is used for minimizing the iCal file size.

Syncing iCal with Air BnB

Syncing iCal with VRBO

Syncing iCal with HomeAway

Syncing iCal With iCloud Calendar(Apple)

You can use the benefit of iCal to view your booking in calendar view and also be able to perform the manual booking or manual blocking the room.

1. Open single room edit page and copy iCal url of your website.

2. Open Calendar app from your Mac, on the top menu, clic on ‘File > New Calendar Subscription…’ and enter the url from 1.) then you can set the ‘Auto-refresh’ time as you want.

3. Create a new calendar and make it public.

4. Click to share the calendar and select ‘Message’. At this point, you will get the full url. Change the ‘Webcal://’ at the front of url to ‘http://’ and put the whole url in single room edit page in iCal Sync URL box.

We will go to: Tour Order > Export to CSV

After downloading the CSV complete, please open the Excel > Data > From Text/CSV.

Select the correct character if your language isn’t Latin character.

Click on Close & Load and get the data available in your Excel.

The result:

The ical in the Room:

When you add booking from your calendar that sync iCal with the theme. From theme side, it will only block the booking from that date. It won’t add a new booking record, this is not possible.(Even other service like Airbnb can’t do this as well. They all only block booking date.)

If you place the ical url to Google Calendars, it’ll show which day the tour is booked on the calendar.

Airbnb iCal

The iCal also blocks rooms on Airbnb as well. However, make sure that you set it up properly. https://www.airbnb.com.sg/help/article/99

You have to set the iCal in both direction, so sync Abnb ical to your site and also put your site’s iCal in Abnb as well. Also note that there will be a delay as Abnb only do the calendar refresh every 3 hours : https://take.ms/oxyHj so you may need to manually check for the conflict from time to time and there’s nothing we can do about this.

1. Install & activate the Travel Tour child theme

2. Within cPanel file manager, copy the code below and paste into public_html > wp-content > themes > traveltour-child > functions.php. Add the code after the existing code on teh file but before ‘/// END ENQUEUE PARENT ACTION’

3. Go to the WordPress website and settings > permalinks and select ‘Plain’ and save.

4. Now select ‘custom structure’, paste in /blog/%postname%/ and save.

5. You may need to refresh but it should work.

// Custom URL Blog
function create_tour_post_type() {
    register_post_type('tour',
        array(
            'labels' => array(
                'name' => __('Tours'),
                'singular_name' => __('Tour')
            ),
            'public' => true,
            'has_archive' => true,
            'rewrite' => array('slug' => 'tour', 'with_front' => false),
            'supports' => array('title', 'editor', 'author', 'thumbnail', 'excerpt', 'comments')
        )
    );
}
add_action('init', 'create_tour_post_type');
function create_destinations_post_type() {
    register_post_type('portfolio',
        array(
            'labels' => array(
                'name' => __('Destinations'),
                'singular_name' => __('Destination')
            ),
            'public' => true,
            'has_archive' => true,
            'rewrite' => array('slug' => 'destinations', 'with_front' => false),
            'supports' => array('title', 'editor', 'author', 'thumbnail', 'excerpt', 'comments')
        )
    );
}
add_action('init', 'create_destinations_post_type');

function create_personnel_post_type() {
    register_post_type('personnel',
        array(
            'labels' => array(
                'name' => __('Personnel'),
                'singular_name' => __('Person')
            ),
            'public' => true,
            'has_archive' => true,
            'rewrite' => array('slug' => 'personnel', 'with_front' => false),
            'supports' => array('title', 'editor', 'author', 'thumbnail', 'excerpt', 'comments')
        )
    );
}
add_action('init', 'create_personnel_post_type');
function create_room_post_type() {
    register_post_type('room',
        array(
            'labels' => array(
                'name' => __('Rooms'),
                'singular_name' => __('Room')
            ),
            'public' => true,
            'has_archive' => true,
            'rewrite' => array('slug' => 'room', 'with_front' => false),
            'supports' => array('title', 'editor', 'thumbnail', 'excerpt', 'comments')
        )
    );
}
add_action('init', 'create_room_post_type');

You can’t publish your tour post when you facing this problem.

To fix it, please change the PHP configuration from “Dedicated FPM application served by Apache” to “FPM application served by Apache” and reverted ‘show_in_rest’ to ‘true’ and then check your website again.

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Footer 3 : place this at text widget in “Appearance > Widget” area

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