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What Actually Happens to Your Calendars, Reviews and Owner Data When You Switch Vacation Rental Software?

  • Jitender Saini
  • 16 min read
  • 6-week plan · 9 FAQs

Summary

Calendars, reviews and owner data each behave differently when you switch vacation rental software - calendars can double book if channels are reconnected carelessly, reviews generally stay with the listing on each channel so listings should be reconnected instead of recreated, and owner accounting needs a clean month-start cutover. Plan on about five weeks to cutover and a month to the first close.

Read the plan →
~3 hrs
between Airbnb iCal calendar refreshes during a switch
Double-booking window
0 reviews
carry over to the new listing - they start from scratch
Recreated Airbnb listing
8 steps
in week 5, from the final export to the last owner check
Cutover day
10 questions
on listings, bookings, owner balances and cards
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