Administration - Calendars

The result of this is the default availability. By doing this you set availability for the entire calendar.

The result of this is the custom availability. By doing this you have set availability only for the days you selected.

You have now set custom availability for hours on the selected days.

After you press submit, every day will have the hour availability you created:

This is the result of the current process.

Creating a new availability for hours that are already reserved will overwrite the availability.

Rules, extras, discounts, fees, coupons and forms need to previously be created in order to be selected.

You can find out more about SMTP here.

If the email are sent in the spam folder you need to contact the server that has the SMTP.

To receive and send SMS notifications via Cickatell you need to use a Central type Clickatell account.

All the SMS notifications are disabled by default because you need credits to send SMS with Clickatell.

Make sure you are using the correct API and that you have credits when you send SMS notifications.

Successfully sending and receiving emails depends on multiple factors. There are two basic methods for sending emails: your Server or SMTP.

The easiest way to make sure your email arrive to their destination is to use your own emailing server and sending emails from an email that is registered on that domain.

If you don't have an email address you can create one or just make sure you add a fictional one in the admin sender field (not in the reply to field). It has to be from your domain. (for example: [email protected])

If you want to receive emails to your Gmail, Yahoo or Outlook account and you don't want to have them redirected from your domain email you will need to do a few more things.

The email sender field is there to help you create a filter in your preferred email client.

If your admin notification emails always end up in the Spam folder, please follow the instructions explained below.

When you want to send emails from an email that is different from your domain emails, we recommend using SMTP.

If the emails are blocked and don't even end up as Spam, you need to check your server email settings.

You can read more about SPF and DMARC. Please contact your host provider to help you implement them.

If your booking notifications are marked as spam in Gmail, please try this.

We added this because you wouldn't be able to create filters if the emails are from clients (even if it's via your own mail server).

Reservations from Google calendar will be synched. Any new reservation created in the Pinpoint calendar or Google calendar will reflect in both calendars after you refresh. The pinpoint calendar is gonna sync every time you load the calendar or you create a new reservation (to check if another reservation wasn't already made in the Google calendar).

Please use different calendars for each calendar type. If you try to sync days in a calendar that has only hours, it won't work. You will be able to see the reservation but it won't have any impact on the availability.

You need the credentials for each calendar but you must do the google calendar authorisation only once and it will create a token that will work on all your calendars.

At this moment, only one Google account can make the synchronization.

The first time you sync the calendar, it ignores the Sync time and does it instantly. When you load the calendar, you can already see the bookings from the imported calendar. After the initial sync, it will sync with the frequency you set it to.

In the reservation tab, you will see that all the bookings from Airbnb or Google have a corresponding reservation in PBS.

No matter what Sync time you set, when your clients will try to make a booking we will sync the calendar before sending the booking. This will make overbooking impossible. Example: Your client sees 3 rd December available and decides to book, and, at the same time another client already booked that day on Airbnb. When a client clicks Book Now in Pinpoint Booking System he will receive a message that the period selected is no longer available and he needs to select another date. This affects only reservations with instant approval. Reservations that need to be approved by the admin will still go in the reservation tab but you won't be able to approve them until you clear the reservation that has the same time period in Airbnb or Google calendar.

When a reservation is being exported it will have a standard information (status, calendar name and reservation number)

Please use calendars that are the same type: sync days calendars with days calendars; hour calendars with hour calendars. Example: an Airbnb calendar should be synced only with a PBS calendar that has only days and morning check-out enabled. Don't try to sync an Airbnb calendar with a PBS calendar that has only hours - it won't work!

We added an encryption as a security layer for the iCal file. You need to copy the new iCal link and sync it again in Airbnb and Google Calendar. Old links won't work.

• Sync "all day events" only in the calendar with days in PBS. If the calendar will also have hours it won't work.
• Sync only hour bookings to a PBS calendar where you configured the hours.

• Create a calendar and enable hours.
• If you specifically create the calendar to sync it with Google please create the same type of calendar (if you have bookings from 14:15 to 15:30 you should create a calendar where you declare hours from 15 to 15 minutes). It won't work otherwise.
• Create availability before you enable the sync.
• Set the time zone the same as in Google calendar before you sync the calendars.

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