Collections

Show several of your rentals together in one embeddable availability calendar.

Available onPlusPro

What it does

A collection is a named, ordered list of 2-25 of your existing rentals, shown together in one widget. Build one from the Rentals tab once you have at least two rentals. Each rental in a collection keeps its own iCal sources, pricing, and booking settings - a collection never changes or merges rental configuration, it only displays them together. The same rental can belong to more than one collection.

Availability views

View	What guests see
Combined (default)	One merged month view - a date is open when any rental in the collection is free, with the open-rental count shown
Timeline	One row per rental with each rental’s photo, columns for days, and per-day open counts
Tabs	Each rental’s own full calendar behind a tab, with its own look

The availability views are display only - they never show pricing or start a booking. That happens in the separate collection booking widget below.

Embedding the collection calendar

Open a collection from the Rentals tab and choose Install to copy a ready-made snippet, or set data-view yourself:

Script embed

HTML

<!-- 1. Load the script once, anywhere on the page -->
<script
  src="https://cdn.rentalbeam.com/v1/availability.js"
  async
></script>

<!-- 2. Place the collection div where you want it to appear -->
<div
  class="rentalbeam-calendar"
  data-collection-id="YOUR-COLLECTION-ID"
  data-view="timeline"
></div>

Iframe embed

HTML

<iframe
  src="https://rentalbeam.com/embed/collection/YOUR-COLLECTION-ID?view=timeline"
  width="100%"
  height="500"
  frameborder="0"
  style="border: none;"
></iframe>

data-view accepts combined, timeline, or tabs; anything else falls back to combined. Combined and timeline take their colors and background from the collection’s first rental; tabs always renders each rental’s own look.

Collection booking widget (Pro)

Install it from the dashboard: on the Bookings tab, a collection shows an Install button once at least one rental in it has bookings enabled - rentals without bookings are simply left out of the form until you enable them. Pick the guest flow - Dates first (one merged calendar, then the guest chooses among the rentals free for those dates) or Rental first(the guest picks a rental up front) - and copy the snippet. Either way the guest lands on exactly one rental’s real booking form: its own pricing, fees, custom fields, and payment, with every rental’s minimum stay and blocked nights enforced.

HTML

<!-- Collection booking widget - guests pick dates, then a rental.
     Omit data-picker for the default dates-first flow. -->
<script
  src="https://cdn.rentalbeam.com/v1/embed.js"
  async
></script>
<div
  class="rentalbeam-booking-form"
  data-collection-id="YOUR-COLLECTION-ID"
></div>

data-picker value	Behavior
omitted / dates-first (default)	Dates-first - after the guest picks dates, shows the rentals free for those dates as photo cards with real prices
cards	Rental-first photo tiles
dropdown	Rental-first compact select

The dashboard install offers the two main flows (Dates first and Rental first); dropdown is an advanced rental-first variant you can set by editing data-picker in the snippet by hand. If a rental in the collection later has bookings disabled, it simply drops out of the widget - the rest keep taking bookings.

On any guest flow you can also let a guest tick additional rentals for the same dates - turn on Let guests add other rentals in the install screen, or add data-multi-request="true" by hand. Each ticked rental becomes its own booking request with its own pricing and availability check - never one combined charge spanning rentals.

Plan requirements

Collections need at least two rentals, so they are available on plans with multiple rentals (Plus and Pro). The collection booking widget is part of Pro direct bookings; see plan pricing for details.