A free channel manager
for holiday lets.

Ours is, on iCal, for unlimited listings, with no credit card and no trial clock. It keeps Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo and any other site that publishes a calendar feed in step, and gives you one calendar across all of them plus a commission-free booking page. What it does not do is move prices or land instantly, those are the trade, and the section above is about whether that trade matters for your property.

As many as you have. There is no listing cap, no cap that appears at property four, and no card required at any point. The limit on the free plan is the sync method, not the size of your portfolio.

Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo, plus anything else that publishes an iCal feed, Riparide, Luxury Escapes, regional holiday-let sites and so on. That is genuinely a longer list than the direct connection reaches, because a feed needs no integration on either side.

It depends on one thing: whether two guests could realistically book the same night inside the refresh window. On a property with gaps between stays, that window has nothing to act on. On one that sells out peak weekends, it does. We have put guards behind the free route, nothing is cancelled on a single missed read, and a feed that drops a lot of events at once is treated as suspect rather than believed, but guards make iCal survivable, not instant.

Yes, one for every listing, and we take 0% of what it earns. It lives at hostport.co with your own listing address, we do not do custom domains, and would rather say so here than have you find out after moving your marketing across.

No. The inbox is on the free plan, and enquiries and messages from your own booking page arrive in it. What the paid connection adds is Airbnb and Booking.com conversations landing in the same place instead of in each app.

Yes. There is no seat limit and no per-person charge on either plan. A cleaner login sees the calendar and the notes with every dollar figure hidden, which is usually exactly what you want them to have.

Yes, and for a seasonal property it is often the right way to run it. The paid connection is billed per listing per month and you can turn it on and off, so a summer let can pay for the months that are actually contested and sit on free sync the rest of the year.

Both publish a calendar feed and both can subscribe to one. Add each channel’s link here, then give each channel the feed we publish back, and the two stay in step without either of them talking to the other directly. The order matters more than anything else: close your already-booked nights before you connect, or the first thing the sync does is advertise dates you have already sold.

For one property on one channel, no. The moment there are two channels, something has to keep them honest, and doing that by hand is fine right up until the evening you forget. That is the job free iCal does well: it is not fast, but it never forgets.

That iCal carries dates and nothing else, and each platform refreshes on its own timetable. That is the whole catch. We make money when someone chooses to upgrade a listing because its calendar got busy, not by putting a clock on the free plan.

Not for what the free plan does. Upgrading is a thing you choose per listing, not something that happens to you when a trial quietly ends.

Nothing. Your listings, bookings, calendar history and messages stay yours and stay readable, with no export fee and no read-only mode. Plenty of hosts run the free plan indefinitely, which is the intended use rather than a loophole.