Connect Micazu to your own calendar
Is your holiday home listed on Micazu, the Dutch holiday rental platform, and do you also want to take bookings directly on your own website? An iCal connection keeps both calendars in step, without entering everything twice.
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Micazu and your own site in one calendar
Micazu is a Dutch platform where owners list their holiday homes themselves. Many of them also have their own website, or advertise on Airbnb or Booking.com as well. The more channels you use, the greater the risk of the same week being let twice.
Micazu supports calendar syncing via iCal. You add Micazu’s export link to Bookedin and Bookedin’s export link to Micazu. Bookedin reads the calendar every fifteen minutes, so a booking made through Micazu soon shows in your own calendar. That keeps double bookings away without you keeping several diaries up to date.
Micazu bookings in your calendar
Weeks booked through Micazu appear as busy in Bookedin automatically.
Your own bookings on Micazu
What comes in through your website goes to Micazu via the export link, so the right weeks are closed there as well.
All channels together
Connect Airbnb and Booking.com to the same calendar too. Each platform gets its own import.
Linking Micazu and Bookedin
Work from a computer; the Micazu owner environment is clearest there.
Copy the link from Micazu
Log in to your owner environment on Micazu, go to the section for iCal calendars and choose the option to export your calendar. Copy the link that appears. The Micazu user manual walks you through it.
Import it into Bookedin
In Bookedin open Plugins, Synchronisation and import, and click Import new calendar. Choose the calendar of your holiday home, paste the link and give the import a recognisable name, such as Micazu.
Add Bookedin to Micazu
Copy the export link of the same calendar in Bookedin and add it in Micazu as an iCal calendar to import. See also switching between .ics and .ical if a platform asks for a particular format.
What to watch out for
Common mistakes
- closePasting a normal Micazu page address instead of the iCal link
- closeLinking the link of one house to the calendar of another
- closeImporting only, so Micazu never sees your own bookings
- closeExpecting prices to come along: they do not
How to get it right
- checkCheck that the link contains .ics or ical
- checkName each import after the house and the platform
- checkAlways connect in both directions
- checkManage your rates per channel separately
What it gives you
No double-booked weeks
Every booking, whichever channel it comes from, closes the week in all linked calendars.
Less manual work
After a booking you no longer have to block weeks in three diaries.
Your own site alongside
Guests who found you on Micazu can book directly next time through your own booking system.
Direct payments
With a direct booking the guest pays straight away by iDEAL, Bancontact or credit card.
No commission on your own site
For bookings through your own website you pay Bookedin a fixed monthly amount, not a percentage.
Personal support
If it does not work, we will help you from Dwingeloo in the Netherlands. Get in touch.
Want to see a linked calendar first?
Have a look at a working calendar or book a demo, and we will connect your first platform together.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Micazu works with iCal links. In your owner environment you will find an export link for your calendar, and you can also add an iCal calendar from another system there.
Bookedin fetches the Micazu calendar every fifteen minutes. How often Micazu reads your Bookedin link is up to Micazu.
Yes. A calendar in Bookedin can have several imports. Add one import per platform so all bookings end up in the same calendar. For Booking.com, see connecting Booking.com.
No. iCal only carries booked and free dates. Prices, guest names and messages stay on the platform where the booking was made.
Syncing is included in every plan. See the pricing page for current prices; you can try it free for fourteen days.
Any other questions? You can always email us at info@bookedin.nl.
