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Quick start

Go from an iCal URL to a live availability calendar on your website in about two minutes.

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An iCal link is a web address your Airbnb, Vrbo, or Booking.com listing publishes that lists its booked dates. RentalBeam reads it on a schedule.

  1. 1Create a RentalBeam account and add your first rental in the dashboard Rentals tab.
  2. 2Open the rental from the Rentals tab, go to Calendar sync, and paste your Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, or other iCal export URL as a source. This keeps availability accurate automatically. You can skip it and add it later.
  3. 3In the rental's side menu, choose Calendar under Widgets and copy the embed code (script or iframe) from the Embed code section.
  4. 4Paste the snippet into your website's HTML, or your site builder's embed/custom-code block.
  5. 5Reload your site. The calendar renders your real availability, matching whatever you connected in step 2.

The minimal embed

Every rental gets a script embed like this one. Swap in your own rental ID, the long code with letters and numbers that sits in the embed code in the rental's Calendar section:

HTML
<script
  src="https://cdn.rentalbeam.com/v1/embed.js"
  async
></script>

<div
  class="rentalbeam-calendar"
  data-rental-id="YOUR-RENTAL-ID"
></div>
Using a website builder? The exact steps for pasting a script differ by platform. See the site builder guides for WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, Weebly, GoDaddy, Framer, Google Sites, Hostinger, Carrd, Jimdo, Duda, Strikingly, Webnode, IONOS, SITE123, Zoho Sites, Webador, one.com, Square Online, Yola, and Mozello. For the full attribute reference, see the embed guide.

Adding more rentals

Once one rental is set up the way you like, open it from the Rentals tab and press Duplicate in the More menu beside View as guest. A new rental appears with the same settings: booking setup, pricing and fees, policies, custom fields, payment and email settings, and the widget look. It opens on Details so you can give it a name; paste its own calendar feeds in Calendar sync. A copy counts as one more rental on your plan.

What never travels: iCal feeds and export URLs, blocked dates, the photo, the location and its nearby highlights, bookings, coupon codes, collection membership, and view stats. Those belong to one place. A notification address you have not verified under Account is left off the copy as well; add it again on the copy's Emails section.

Want direct bookings too?

The availability calendar is free. Accepting requests or payments directly on your site (instead of just showing dates) needs the separate booking widget, which is a Pro feature. See embedding the booking widget.

Next steps